Video art is an art form that uses video technology as a visual and audiovisual medium. It emerged as a distinct artistic practice in the mid-1960s, when portable video-recording equipment such as the Portapak became available on the consumer market, allowing artists to work outside professional television studios.
Facts
MediumVideo technology as a visual and audiovisual medium 1 Signature TechniqueMulti-channel video installation across several monitors 1 Place of Origin Notable ExampleNam June Paik's 1965 Sony Portapak footage of Pope Paul VI's procession 1 Connections
Associated With
Digital Art, Art Forms Digital Art and Video Art both employ electronic and computational tools, and the two practices substantially overlap in contemporary new-media exhibition.
Film, Art Forms Video art grew directly out of the moving-image tradition of film, adapting its techniques to gallery and installation contexts using video technology instead of celluloid.
Sources
1. Video Art (Wikipedia)
WikipediaVideo art, lead section
Video art is an art form that uses video technology as a visual and audiovisual medium.
Video art, Early history section
Video art is often said to have begun when Paik used his new Sony Portapak to shoot footage of Pope Paul VI's procession through New York City in the autumn of 1965 Later that same day, across town in a Greenwich Village cafe, Paik played the tapes and video art was born.
Video art, In the 1970s section
Much video art in the United States was produced in New York City, with The Kitchen, founded in 1972 by Steina and Woody Vasulka (and assisted by video director Dimitri Devyatkin and Shridhar Bapat), serving as a nexus for many young artists.
Video art, In the 1970s section, Wipe Cycle sentence
An early multi-channel video artwork (using several monitors or screens) was Wipe Cycle by Ira Schneider and Frank Gillette.
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