Video Art Quiz

1.) Name an early artist mentioned in the article for Conceptual work performing in front of the camera. Describe a work.

--Klaus Vom Bruch (1937) His work: Duracell Tape is a repetitious video that combines a duracell commercial and war immages. There is a repeating sound and the work emminates subliminal advertising.

2.) Name an artist mentioned who deals with personal narrative. Describe a work.

--Peter Campus' Three Transitions: the first part shows him ripping into a piece of paper and climbing through. The second part shows him painting his face with another immage of his face. The third part is an immage of Campus holding a "living" picture of himself as it burns.

3.) Describe the piece you were most interested in viewing after reading this article, look the work up on the links page, and expand on Rush's comments.

--The piece that I was most interested in viewing was TV Buddah by: Nam June Paik. This piece was simple enough, with a Buddah statue being filmed and shown on a small tv screen. The theme concerned time. The instantanious immagery produced by the camera helped him depict this theme. This helped to detach the viewer from "reality". This is a very interesting thing to play with...making time and reality the art form.

4.) What do you better understand now about video art?

--I learned that art videos originated from two types of video practice: activist driven documentaries linked with alternative news reports and so-called art videos. The origins help to better explain the original intended meaning behind these types of videos.

5.) Based on Rush and this article, what makes video art vs. an "artful video"?

--It embraces both high and low budget and themes are personal or indevidualistic in nature.