video art
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Read More: Video DadaI drove out to UC Irvine with the kids to catch the Video Dada show (“dealing with intersections of video, art, and the internet.”) Martha Gever, the show’s curator, was…
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Read More: “The Camera is the Problem”: Boring Paranormal Camcorder CinemaA YouTube hand-held jump-cut DIY sensibility masks cine-gimmicks as old as Melies and ever so much more tired given their age: doors that open and close on their own (creepy!),…
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Read More: A Steady GrindVictoria Kerszi kindly sent along to me her recent documentary, A Steady Grind, a portrait of her grandmother Eloyse, a fiery fighter keeping her family’s junkyard afloat, despite tax debt,…
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Read More: I make nouveau art video on YouTube: Mommy’s Marriage
I have been criticizing YouTube for a few years now. Easy enough to do given its perplexing gaps in capability—all the things it won’t let you do: find things, surround…
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Read More: Dear Gabe: My Old Video Art
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Read More: Loving the Archive; Controlling the Archive
The archivist brings work to visibility by seeing it, knowing it in her way, and connecting it to other video and viewers that will frame and hold it: giving context,…
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Read More: Video Art: Does Access Matter?“The promise held by video, that it could create ‘personal media,’ that normal people could control the production of video imagery and bypass the tightly controlled corporate structure of commercial…
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Read More: Looking for Video ArtistsPerhaps the easiest way to find (established) video art on YouTube is to search the site using the name of an already famous video artist. What you will find, then,…
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Read More: Video Art(ists) of the YouTube Archive“The many types of video art have been made with a variety of intentions, ideas, working styles, and structures. Some address pure aesthetic concerns, where others prioritize content in less…
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Read More: Everything off YouTube is Video ArtI recently refuted Virgina Heffernan’s euphoric claim about YouTube’s aesthetic gold (everything is…). Even more recently I speculated that: “(Traditional) video art carries assumptions about method, form, and audience. The…