Category Archives: Blog 02

Krauss speaks about how the early works of video art are narcissistic in nature. They revolve around the artists and their bodies and the way they move in front of the camera. They shoot themselves, direct themselves, and make art about themselves. This also relates back to art before video where there are artists that […]

This article discusses the types of information we receive and how some could provide us with a whole lot of info like photography and how some force us to go further to find more information like a telephone. The sources that provide with very little information are referred to as “Cold Media”, and the one’s […]

The examples of hot media: radio, movie, lecture, photography Cold media: tv, cartoon, telephone. Krausses discusses three different tactics of shooting the video, my favourite one i think it would be really the most annoying one is the Boomerang. It’s when a person has a headset on her had and she speaks and it returns […]

Vectors, or the camera’s point-of-view, will be important in my piece as I want my audience to feel a sense of closeness to my subject, Kitty, as if they are there with her. This will be the foundation of my piece as the next emotion I want to evoke is a sense of loss by […]

In their writing, both Krauss and Mcluahn have different positions when speaking on the subject of video and art. Krauss examines video art as narcissistic and it being all in the artist’s head instead of their bodies. Her idea is that video creations are a more psychological than physical representation of what the artists wants […]

In “Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism,” Krauss talked about different examples of video arts and their different “aesthetics.” Aesthetics, in this text, concern the strategies pre- and post-production.  Although I find Rosalind Krauss’ writing overly theoretical and difficult to comprehend, I still think that he brought up points that I can definitely put to action in my future […]

The strategies that I found most interesting in Krauss’ essay was reflection, reflexivity and the Vertical roll. Within mirror-reflection, I intend to use the object in my video as a reflection of me and my occasional experiences. The reflexivity is also interesting because it separates the object in my video with its surrounding, so much […]

Krauss discusses self-encapsulation, in which the “object” is surrounded by his/ her own consciousness and isolated from all other external stimuli. She also mentions how self-encapsulation is part of mirror-reflection, in which the object and the reflection is so similar that the boundaries between them is hard to realize. This method would be especially useful […]

Krauss mentioned the video art Now by Bengli where the artist is performing next to a recording of herself. The artist moves in-synced with her recorded version creating an illusion of which is ‘live’ or which is ‘taped’. I think this technique is a great way for me to mess with the idea of time […]

Krauss discusses different video strategies and my personal three favorites, or rather the techniques that I would love to use would be mirroring (Boomerang), maybe in both an auditory and visual sense because I feel like it’s a sure fire way to get a lot of emotion into a scene. Another strategy he discusses is […]