Category Archives: Blog 01

The piece by Peter Campus named “Three Transitions” tries to mess with your perception o space. He projects the video of himself going through the projection screen and it creates this weird feeling of disorientation while watching it. You can clearly tell that he’s moving through the screen and it’s a video on the paper, […]

“I am making art” can be interpreted in many ways. One interpretation of this video is that the artist intends to show that art can be produced in any way or form. The artist is saying that labeling something as art is what makes it art. Although open-ended, it makes sense in the way that […]

Bruce Nauman’s Pinch Neck used the senses to invite the viewer stimulate the sensatory feelings the subject created in the video. Chris Burden Shoot was similar in that his piece was to recreate a past event so his viewers could feel it happen through his piece. Pinch Neck, while more difficult to understand the piece’s […]

Bonita Ng Miranda July’s “Getting Stronger Every Day” features a verbal narrative combining two stories of boys with the same name: Steven. The first Steven was kidnapped and raped/molested until he was sixteen; he escaped after witnessing his abuser kidnap another young boy and saved the boy as well. The second Steven ventured out into […]

I had no idea what the song was about but it was super interesting to see how a music video looked like back in the day. I a music artist myself immediately gravitated towards this video due to the fact I wanted to study the past and see how far we grew as artist and […]

For this analysis, I decided to choose the videos I liked the most and the video I liked the least. The first video, “2 into 1” was my personal favorite. The children were very well dressed whereas the mother was dressed in more casual clothing which seemed like a bit of a role reversal to […]

During the 70’s video recording was fairly new to the scene. It was the beginning of Video Art introduced to the Art world. It was also a time for social change and new technology. Mostly displayed on TV were ads that portrayed women in their stereotypical role of a “housewife”, maid and broadcasting lies to […]

Christian Marclay’s Telephones is a compilation of different telephone scenes from different movies/shows from different eras. Marclay was able to show the audience the emotions that each character portray with just a simple telephone scene. The video is divided into multiple segments. The first 2 minutes comprise of clips of people dialing the telephone. The […]

I found Hilary Gary’s Black-White-Text and Peter Campus’s Three Transitions to be the most interesting of the 50 great works of video art. The difference between the videos are visible in the sense that they both are visually very distinctive. Black-White-Text from my interpretation is a play with the idea of repetition and how our […]

Watching through the 50 works of Video arts I chose to discuss the work by Gillian Wearing “2 into 1” and a videotape by John Baldessari “I am making art”. I found the “2 into 1” video kind of disturbing at first. When I first started watching it I thought that it was a woman […]