Video art challenges notions of screen, space, and realism by using technology to create visual art outside of traditional film narratives. It allows viewers to see in new ways, like Bill Viola's Emergence which uses extreme slow motion to reveal details invisible to the naked eye. This document discusses the history and goals of video art, key artists who experimented with the medium, and how viewing Viola's slow motion work influenced the creator to make their own videos exploring slow motion effects.

1. Video Art

2. So what is video art?
The relationship between video and art-
•Video installation art is a collaboration of sound, image and space with a close relationship to art and music rather than cinema

3. •This challenges notions of screen, space and realism
•Artists using technology to interrogate potential of the technology and art combined, outside of the ideas of video and television narratives.

4. •Abstract film making becomes a direct carrier of visual information as it’s no longer seen as a medium for reproducing an external reality.
•Artists are less interested in narrative than extending their aesthetic and abstract studies to add to the new medium which is video technology, allowing them to create video art and installations.
•“The solution to this problem is to disrupt the pattern, which Viola has done, and this prompts reflection and hence the fresh recognition of a familiar phenomenon.” Tate Modern Research

5. Video artists commented on cultural wars surrounding TV and its prevalence in the 20th century household.
They were responding to being unhappy with the quality of programmes, lack of diverse content and the same routine visual sameness of it.

6. •Lillian Schwartz - Pixilation(video produced abstract images)
•Mann Ray – experimenting and exploring boundaries of art and video
•Richard Serra- criticising how the television affects us as viewers (television delivers people)
•Nam Jun Paik- altered live broadcast tv transmission (video walls)
•Bruce Nauman- Perimeter of the square- examining how people act/move when a camera is on them by how they see themselves through the camera.
•Les Levine- Iris- interested in tv environments with movement of information within physical and temporal limits
•Dieter Froese- Not a model for Big Brothers spy cycle- spans reality and pretence, authentic object and model.
•Bill Viola- 210 frames per second- using technology to invite the viewer to see the world differently
Video Artists

7. Research Question.
How does video art help us see art differently?

8. Bill Viola’s Emergence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTPf6mHKYD0
Bill Viola (born January 25, 1951) is a contemporary video artist. He is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in new Media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects of consciousness

9. Video art allows us to see a different dimension to art, space and screen.
“One way to do so would be to perform the production of organizational space in slow motion, similar to how the American video-artist Bill Viola crafts slow motion video- projects” Timon Beyes (2012)
Bill viola’s emergence allows the audience to see the in- between ‘time’ with his use of slow motion. Giving the viewers a chance to see something that moves too fast for the human eyes.

10. The extreme slow motion enables the viewer to share privileged information about the complexity of the simplest gestures, catching details that would normally escape the naked eye.

11. This notion influenced me to create my own slow motion video created by a camera and editing software on a computer and also one filmed and edited by in iPhone.
Video 1- camera and computer software https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv9ukRQbaZE&feature=youtu.be Video 2- iPhone and app editing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8WLlG8rwhM&list=UUK3YjAAn9oBMl6Vl0mvG-pQ&index=1 Slowed down to 500 frames per second

12. Reflection
•If it was only one big project with a practical piece I would have used more expensive, better equipment and software both on my phone and computer.
•After getting the footage for my videos I realised that I should have chosen a better subject rather than an egg as sometimes you can see this with your eyes without the slow motion.
•If I could do this project again I would try to be more experimental with the slow motion and lighting as I think it would have been a different approach to the subject.

13. Bibliography
Bill Viola’s Emergence- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTPf6mHKYD0
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/the-sublime/rina-arya-bill-viola-and-the- sublime-r1141441
Lovejoy, M. 1990, Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media, Steven Foster.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/13/hito-steyerl-video-installations-ica- london (last accessed on 25.10.14)
Spacing organization: non-representational theory and performing organizational space- online journal http://org.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/03/18/1350508411401946.abstract
MY Videos –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv9ukRQbaZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8WLlG8rwhM