"THE HAIR CONUNDRUM" directed by Clarisse Rodriguez produced by Javi Molina DoP and Camera Carlos Nieves
The hair conundrum has already been shot, all went very well during the shooting even though we had our difficulties before. All for the sake of Video Designing. Pictures and more coming soon... We are excited!
‘Peripetics or The installation of an irreversible axis on a dynamic timeline’
Zeitguised made a piece in six acts for the opening exhibition at the Zirkel Gallery. It entails six imaginations of disoriented systems that take a catastrophic turn, including the evolution of educational plant-body-machine models and liquid building materials.
Length: 5000F/ 3min 20s Sound Design: Zeitguised with Michael Fakesch
We are getting ready for our installation. Still in the preproduction process and doing good. Later on this subject; for now I leave here a very good website where they show a lot of great video art pieces. It's broadcasting 24/7 SOUVENIRSFROMEARTH.TV
This other one uses a similar concept: the projections are composted beforehand using the facade of the building and the aligned with the real building...new media, art, installations and architecture. Both works made in 2009
and another one..
Most of these pieces are based on the 3D mapping that can be done with a program like modul8:
this australian guys used snow:
Installation by Pablo Balbuena:
...this one instead, doesn't seem to be using projection but the lights inside every room in the building to create a led-pixel-like screen
Here is a group called "Video Installations" on Vimeo. A cool websie to share audiovisual content and be part of online communities and social networks involving our interests in Visual Installations and Video Design in general.
"Performance art is a term usually reserved to refer to a kind of usually avant-garde or conceptual art which grew out of the visual arts"
The avant-garde artists of the 1970´s wanted to explore new ways of expressing their views of reality and their points of view relative to the political and socio-economical times surrounding them. Experimenting with the limits of art and using the body as the main subject or main support for the artworks. People like Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, amongst others did some of this kind of work. But it wasn´t untill Nam June Paik started using video for his performances and installations, that the term Video Art began to be used. Clearly the portability of video and sound recording devices launched this art tendencies. Nam June Paik, the author of the phrase "Information Superhighway", is considered by some the father of video art. Other performance video artists are Peter Campus, pioneer in the video art field, Bruce Nauman and Marina Abramović Alex Grey, one of my favourite painters started making performance art and happenings back in the 70´s and I just found that now days he still does it. Here is one called World Spirit and a detailed list of his performances throughout the years.
The Lyrical Video Art.
"I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression" Bill Viola
The lyrical artists tend to use metaphorical and poetic references in their concepts. Some video artists with allegoric works are the pioneer Gary Hill, Bill Viola who "is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic sound and image technology"; Stan Brakhage and Michael Snow among many others. Though, it is difficult to categorize the work of these and other artists, who have worked a number of different topics, styles and intentions.
“ In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. ” —Sol LeWitt
When learning about concept art we find ourselves with the word Installation which is a key word in our business here.
....TO BE CONTINUED. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finally, and because there would not be video art without a video, here is the first part of a documentary on the subject. A good way of getting to know some important artists, artworks and see what all this fuzz is about.
So we started classes and the first class was called ¨Instalación Visual¨ with Isabel Rocamora our new mentor in this and other subjects. We (Javier, Clarisse and Carlos) are very excited about this new course... and very keen to learning everything we can! Hopefully our good friend Javi will be a master in English after this year :) Back into the video art, the video installation issues...and some of what we have learnt so far:
"The Portapak would seem to have been invented specifically for use by artists. Just when pure formalism had run its course; just when it became politically embarrassing to make objects, but ludicrous to make nothing" Hermine Freed, 'Where do we come from? Where are we? Where are we going?' in Ira Schneider and Beryl Korot (eds.) Video Art: An Anthology, 1976
talking about what is Video Art would be as hard as talking about what Art is... we know video art started around the 1960's during the post (Vietnam) war era and during times when different political, as well as sexual, ideas and perspectives where trying to emerge and diffuse through their righteous speech. Experimental art and new media like TV where rising and people like Jean-Luc Godard with the Nouvelle Vague and Chantal Ackerman with the feminist and anti-illusionist ideas where trying to express their new points of view through film. Other artists like Stan Brakhage did a very important work in experimenting with techniques and manipulation of films, editing and camera work, Exploring non-narrative ways of approaching themes like birth, mortality and sexuality; and also giving television sets a different use than the usually adopted. Video art became specially spread internationally with the introduction of portable audio and video recording devices like the Portapak Classifying video art would be a difficult task but it is easier to try and group most pieces into some main orientations: (not meaning this is the ultimate classification for all video art) 1. The performative 2. The lyrical 3. The conceptual 4. The socio-political 5. The Neo-narrative
