Category Archives: Blog 05

Elwes’s article shares a very interesting standpoint on how young people the death of the art object. Art has transitioned with technology with new form of creativity flourishing and more and more every decade. Video art became a platform for people who like to express a visual idea rather then building a sculpture or painting. […]

In this reading, the author talks a lot about how people started creating videos to make a difference in the society. They were expressing their political views, per se, through the video. They made videos the way they would want to see the world. As people didn’t have access to the expensive cameras most of […]

“For neither the first nor the last time, young voices rose up and announced that art was dead.” I think this statement is really interesting because in art, people are always looking to expand their horizons. While there are periods of time where people feel easel art is obsolete, it will never truly go away. […]

“Video has the ability to travel across space and time as well as offering a short-term, anti-ageing aid to vanity. It can also bring space and time together.” With the clear differences in video technology from the past and today, it is distinguish the time difference as seen on the quality of the videos. However, […]

Elwes brings up an interesting point when he mentions how video was revered for its ability to capture the truth when it first came out. Elwes says that the authenticity of video was later questioned when more technologically-advanced methods of video-making was invented and video artists such as Vito Acconci featured this concept in their […]

In Elwes’ Introduction he speaks about an American artist named Vito Acconci. Acconci used video art to twist and bend the audience’s perception and sense of time and space. By doing so he activates our fight of flight response causing some of his audience to run away. This is a pretty interesting way to use […]

Willoughby Sharp brought up an Interesting point when he said-“video helped to fill the gaps left by the slow, but inexorable eviction of painting and sculpture from their dominant position in contemporary art.” Since video is a combination of performances, sounds, visuals, and durations; almost inevitably video is capable of grabbing the attention of larger […]

“Since the medium was invented (video), it has been difficult to tell the difference between a pre-recorded tape and an image relayed live from another space.” This is so true. I mean radio is the same way. I remember hearing about a prank done on radio that had people thinking that a natural disaster or […]

The specificities of the medium: live relay. In this short passage we discuss the different abilities of live relay. In the 1960’s there were technologies that had the power to play live motion pictures that artists have created to the viewers. It is interesting to me because we live in a present day where we […]

I was most captivated by the passage “The Time Frame.” In this passage, Elwes says “In the context of live relay, video is as ephemeral as performance. But a pre-recorded tape aspires to the condition of permanence.” This reminds me of the John Keats poem, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” in which Keats makes an allusion to the […]