Week 6 - iMovie

Video art began in the 1960s with artists such as Andrew Pike and the Fluxus Movement. His first video art was of the pope's visit that he subsequently screened at a local cafe. Used to document performances of performance and body artists as well as installation. He also used magnets to distort his images. 

YouTube has many such films:

In Zen for Film, he uses a mostly white screen with the occasional blotch.

Bruce Nauman, 1967 - Walking in an exaggerated Manner...

Pipilotti Rist, 2001 - Open My Glade - a feminist performance artist. Images of her smearing her face against an invisible surface. Screened on a billboard in Times Square to say something about the way women trap themselves with the way media portray themselves.

Mathew Barney, Cremaster - filmic techniques and costumes...symbolism, goo and lots of money!

Video art relies upon concepts and aesthetics.