Bandung artists attract market enthusiasm Jun 8, 2008
Their works include video art, installation art and the most conventional art form: painting. Among the works on display, the digital photographs of Fajar Abadi RDP titled Pij. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Go ahead, touch it Jun 8, 2008
I was genuinely surprised that they could relate to video art a relatively modern and conceptual media. That said, children do relate better to realistic images. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
World's Largest Art Fair Opens in Switzerland Jun 5, 2008
On view are all forms of artistic expression, ranging from paintings, drawings and sculptures to installations, performances and video art. Big names include several who fetched new record prices at a Sotheby's auction in New York last month, when a triptych by Francis Bacon sold for $86. (Time.com)
Maxim Prime, 'whacked-out' wonderland May 30, 2008
Of course, there is the gratuitous video art display, this one a desert-and-rock scene with something that looks like a melted down R2 D2 in the middle of it. I'll be the first to admit I don't get it, even when I turn my head sideways. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Remembering Rauschenberg May 15, 2008
It would take me another 10 pages to begin to describe everything else that Rauschenberg came up with: the combines (painter-ish, sculpture-ish assemblies of found materials), photo-transfer drawings, sets and costumes for Merce Cunningham's dance company, and the famous "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering" of 1966, a wildly experimental performance festival that Rauschenberg put together with an engineer from Bell Labs named Billy Kluver, and which, with only a little stretching, can be seen... (Slate)
The Basement Bar Apr 15, 2008
One minute it's playing what looks like weird experimental video art with a dwarf dressed in a Star Wars-style hooded robe like Obi-Wan Kenobi. Next minute it's Led Zeppelin and later U2 live in concert, which seems an odd soundtrack for a jazz venue. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
"Never Forever" Apr 12, 2008
A Korean-American director with a critic's-darling reputation, a background in feminist video art and virtually no public profile, Kim cites such relatively highbrow influences as Jane Campion, Krzysztof Kieslowski and Luis Bu;uel. But "Never Forever" (which premiered last year at Sundance and then at Cannes) is in no way a cold-blooded intellectual exercise. (Salon)
CHINA NOW launches nationwide art trail Apr 11, 2008
Revealing the depth and diversity of contemporary Chinese art nationwide, the art trail includes sound installations, neon signs, video art, sculptures, paintings, drawings and digital multimedia. The works being produced in China now reflect the amazing changes that have taken place in this country over the past five decades. (Xinhuanet, China)
Noise and numbers, clocks and codes Apr 3, 2008
Internationally known video artist Nelson Henricks wrestles with the divide between the mechanical and the human ... In the world of Montreal video artist Nelson Henricks, the everyday is surrounded by mechanical codes ... It's this contradiction, between mechanical order and our visceral response, that runs throughout the retrospective of his work screening tomorrow at the Images Festival of film and video art in Toronto. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
China's hot young artists well schooled in market savvy Apr 1, 2008
It offers majors in design and architecture and abundant courses in digital and video art, and some of its graduates are making millions. In the old days, Zhu said, students had a passion for art. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Stan Douglas scoops Bell Award in Video Art Mar 20, 2008
Toronto Vancouver's Stan Douglas has won this year's $10,000 Bell Award in Video Art, honouring artists advancing the art form and developing new video practices. He won over finalists Tim Folkmann, Richard Fung and Serge Murphy. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Disturbing videos tinged with humor Mar 3, 2008
The video artists Stanya Kahn, left, and Harry Dodge at their home in Los Angeles ... The video artists Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn had invited friends and collaborators to their home in the Highland Park neighborhood to see the final cut of their new work, "All Together Now," which makes its official debut on March 17 in New York ... More recently their goal has been to bring some of that electricity the energy of live, intimate and improvised performance into video art, offering an alternative... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Best Reading Gifts for Spring Feb 28, 2008
Settle in for quiet, soothing time to enjoy audio and video art with your favorite child. Sheen's music has been featured both in Korea, and, in New York, at Carnegie Hall. (Suite101.com)
Arts community pays tribute Feb 23, 2008
Vera Frenkel is an internationally recognized mixed-media artist and arts activist from Toronto whose honours, among others, include the 1999 Bell Canada Award for outstanding achievement in video art and a 2006 Governor-General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. Val Ross, mentor and fellow conspirator, had a gift for seeing and encouraging the best in people. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Developing an appetite for nontraditional dining rooms Feb 21, 2008
In the adjacent living room, she hung a flat-screen television, on which she plays a DVD by an artist who restages classic paintings as video art. DeTemple's old dining-room table stands in the corner, ready for use. (Boston Globe)
Dave Stewart Joins New Nokia Entertainment & Communities Group Feb 7, 2008
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Video: Art Theft's Odd Couple Feb 2, 2008
February 1, 2008 An ex-art smuggler and the former head of Scotland Yard's Art and Antiquities Squad have joined forces to expose illegal trade in ancient treasures. Get our news delivered directly to your desktop free. (National Geographic)
New World Symphony and City of Miami Beach Break Ground On Frank Gehry- designed City Center Jan 26, 2008
Performances, master classes, video art and films may be viewed from the public park, also designed by Gehry. (PRNewsFoto/New World Symphony) MIAMI BEACH, FL UNITED STATES. (PR Newswire)
Showcasing avant-garde art Dec 18, 2007
Having served as consulting curator for the Chicago show, Pijnappel is an authority on Indian video art. His contributions serve to push the book in the avant-garde direction. (Hindu)
Screen tests Nov 24, 2007
BATTLE-SCARRED veterans of the 1970s art world harbour disturbing memories of video art marathons: video feedback loops that resemble the opening titles of the old Dr Who or perhaps a documentation of a performance art piece in which a naked performer doesn't move for a very long time. As someone who went to art school in the early 1980s, I accept that this perception of video art was mostly true for its day but things have changed ... The accusation that video art is boring is sometimes true -... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Artsy hotels: Sleep with Picasso and Schnabel Nov 20, 2007
You willvia in-room originals, and video art running a continuous loop in the corridors. Among the 200 pieces that include sculptures and prints is Young British Art by notables like Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Coppola calls on Czech mates Nov 19, 2007
During the 1960s Vit Komrzy was studying to be an architect and mucking about with video art and animation as a hobby. Then came the Prague Spring, and Komrzy, like so many Czechs, decided to change the direction of his life. (Variety)
In Atlanta, art where'd you least expect it Nov 14, 2007
Petrirena said the bus art has sparked discussions among artists about wrapping entire buses with art, and placing video art in MARTA trains. "I'm excited about the possibilities," he said. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Elias Rose allows audience into captured moments of uneasiness Nov 6, 2007
At the beginning of the show, the master of ceremonies confided to the audience the project had emerged from frustration at seeing the staleness of Indonesia's video artworks, especially its rigid forms of presentation ... This is what ERFP had to offer: a multimedia project that broke down barriers, even the ones usually present between the audience and the artist, and an alternative in video art presentation that is worthwhile studying. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Asian Artists Paint the Color Of Money Nov 3, 2007
"There's this misconception that art from Asia is static, that it's the same old boring stuff," says Eloisa Haudenschild, an Argentine-born collector who with her husband owns one of the most significant private collections of Chinese contemporary photography and video art. "But this is a place going through such upheaval, and the art reflects this very vibrantly.". (Time.com)
Not Quite Art Oct 30, 2007
The video art in the urinal was definitely my favourite. an error occurred while processing this directive. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The 50 sexiest places to be fed Oct 21, 2007
From eating Pierre Gagnaire's food in the opulence of the Lecture Room or surrounded by video art in the Gallery, to the head-trip that is the Swarovski crystal-coated toilets complete with tinkling music box soundtrack, Sketch is one of a kind. Chef Chris Galvin, of Galvin at Windows, says 'At Sketch, you're spoilt with great food, music and surroundings that are pure fantasy. (Guardian Unlimited)
Crowds the key to museum's funding push Oct 18, 2007
The museum in San Diego will stage a reciprocal exhibition of Australian video art drawn from the Sydney museum's collection. So far only the Sydney performance artists the Kingpins have been confirmed for the show but the director of the San Diego MCA, Hugh Davies, is also looking at work from artists such as TV Moore and Shaun Gladwell. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Hemispheric inversion Oct 18, 2007
A composer and musician who is a seminal figure in Australian video art, John Gillies explores his country's history of colonization and relationship to the land in "Divide," about which he says, "The cultural layering and ambiguity in the work speaks of the foundations of Australia, its current fears and neuroses and the intruder as both destroyer and powerful witness.". Denis Beaubois, a member of the performance ensemble Gravity Feed, addresses the suppression of identity by such means as... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Expo in Ahmadinejad's Iran showcases avant-garde art Oct 15, 2007
The exhibition, entitled "Manifestations of Contemporary Art in Iran," shows paintings, sculpture, photography, video art, performance and installations, garnering an enthusiastic reaction from visitors. "We are looking for different meanings of art, and the avant-garde is one of them. Culture encompasses a larger domain and it is much more elevated than politics," the head of visual arts at the ministry of culture and the museum director Habibollah Sadeghi told AFP.. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
A vibrant new L.A. scene makes art a team sport Sep 29, 2007
" The Schoolhouse, like the salons Haeg organized for six years prior, takes place in his own home, a geodesic dome in Mount Washington. Now in its second year, it assembles a small group of people from varying backgrounds to meet every Sunday for 12 weeks, 12 hours a day, to pursue a loose course of study revolving around a broad theme (this year it's "Planet of the Humans"), with a rotating assortment of teachers. Each day begins with a period of nonverbal movement (yoga, dance, etc.),... (Los Angeles Times)
Roberto Cavalli's Belle Époque and Antonio Marras's Art Nouveau Sep 27, 2007
"Romantic," said Marras backstage, adding that Bill Viola's shadow-and-light video art was an inspiration, as were pre-Raphaelite artists like Millais, Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The result was a show that steered a course between historicism and modernity, tucking flat pleats across the body and creating dresses that went from fitted to square cut. (International Herald Tribune)
Slow moves in Bondi aid artist's fast ride to success Sep 19, 2007
All in a day's work Shaun Gladwell's combination of riding skills and video art impressed the critics in Venice ... OTHERS call it the City of Bridges, but to the 35-year-old video artist Shaun Gladwell Venice is "skateboarders' hell" ... While Gladwell was scouring Venice for a long street without cobblestones, Storm Sequence became the first digital video artwork to be auctioned in Australia. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Beef suits, Japanese voyeurs overtake Columbia U. area Sep 8, 2007
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, opening this weekend at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, makes serious, socially conscious video art that isn't hard to swallow. His well-known piece, the deceptively whimsical film "Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas: Battle of Easel Point," in which two scuba divers race to complete underwater portraits, is part of the larger Memorial Project, which takes on the Vietnam War. (U-Wire.com)
Looking for another film-festival option? Just wait a minute Sep 8, 2007
The films are programmed by a jury of notable Canadian filmmakers, video artists and curators, including filmmaker John Greyson and recent Bell Canada Award in Video Art winner Steve Reinke, along with Jon Davies, programmer at the film and video collective Pleasure Dome. "We're open to whatever the good people of Toronto have given us," said Mr. Davies. (Globe and Mail)
Digital art excites students Sep 4, 2007
It is a medium that leaves many cold, but for the students of Fairfield High School, video art is far more interesting than any microscopic masterpiece reproduced in a textbook. The school's head of art, Kathleen Hannigan, screened a series of digital works in her classroom as part of the pilot program Move: Video Art in Schools ... "Normally we see canvases by old artists from the Renaissance or the Baroque, but [the video art] was different and new. We all use technology a lot, so this was... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Prairie home abandon Aug 31, 2007
In-room plasma televisions, which show a three-hour loop of video art, win points for edginess. But it's the down-to-earth staff, with their refreshing lack of design-hotel attitude, that had us at hello. (CNN -- Travel)
The contemporary picture Aug 27, 2007
The exhibition also includes his more recent forays into video art, such as Citizen, a mesmerizing short work documenting a squeegee kid seated in a traffic island, shot in hypnotic slow motion from the vantage point of a moving automobile. A panel to be convened on Oct. 20 to discuss Arden's work will include senior Vancouver artists Jeff Wall and Ian Wallace and London-based Canadian Mark Lewis, and will be followed, that evening, with a lecture by French critic Jean Fran. (Globe and Mail)
'Cultural Fusion' takes an artistic look at multicultural blending in the region Aug 23, 2007
Including artists from San Diego, Riverside and Imperial counties, as well as from Tecate and Tijuana, the exhibit reflects a combination of European, Asian, Mexican and American Indian influences within its paintings, sculptural pieces, mixed media and video art. In a city whose population is now nearly half non-Anglo, it is not surprising that most of the art represented is largely so as well. (North County Times)
Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait Aug 17, 2007
Currently on display at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the piece is at once an unconventional presentation of a soccer game, a rumination upon the individual behind the image and a compelling example of video art. Filmed with 17 cameras, the film follows Zidane - and Zidane alone - during the course of an entire 90-minute soccer game between Villareal and Real Madrid. (Suite101.com)
Cutting-edge art questions image vs. substance Aug 13, 2007
Fetish also presents photographs, video art and a variety of other media that reveal the unconscious workings of the mind -- our dark thoughts, secret fantasies and fears that we keep hidden from others in our waking lives. The exhibit thus posits the question as to our own personal fetishes and what they reveal about who we really are. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Photography as art comes into its own in China Aug 7, 2007
Instead, they exhibited their work internationally, saved their money and, in June of this year, opened the Three Shadows Photography Art Center, the first contemporary art center in China devoted to photography and video art. "Six or seven years ago there was absolutely no market for photography in China - people did not consider it art," explained Rong Rong. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Dig this digital art Jul 25, 2007
Many think of all new media vaguely as the video art that originated in the 1960s and still know very little about multimedia digital art that arose in the 1980s ... As one of the first generation of artists to incorporate digital technologies into art pieces, Du finds that the modern art world hasn't made major improvements since the 1980s when video art flourished in its most creative period. (Xinhuanet, China)
John Waters Stays True To His Roots Jul 23, 2007
"So this is for the collector that wants a video room, but they don't really like video art, because there is no room, you just bang into it," he said. He's already sold two of his works of art. (CBS News)
Propaganda III Widget Raises Money for Nonprofit Center for the Study of Political Graphics Jul 3, 2007
Since its inception, Start SOMA has featured the work of hundreds of emerging artists from around the world, and showcased several thousand original works of art - from painting, sculpture, and photography to interactive installations, video art, and new media pieces. Most recently, Start SOMA created the acclaimed painted rooms series of art shows in San Francisco's H0tel des Arts. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
The Art Life Jun 11, 2007
Frost also turns his attention to photographs and video art, such as the remarkable swirling pictures by Merilyn Fairskye, who films in airport terminals, which to her fertile mind are alluring places filled with emotions, where hundreds of people gather and then simply disappear. This is a lovely series, in which beauty is in the eyes of beholders such as photographer Glenn Sloggett, who is fascinated by drains and weeds and peeling paint. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
From blog to screen Jun 8, 2007
" "Every anxiety you ever had over (your work) being good or bad is amplified a million times by being on telly," Frost says. Frost, who has studied and produced video art, is a writer and journalist who has contributed to local and foreign magazines, including Art in Australia, Australian Art Collector, Runway and Contemporary. He came to be on TV after he was approached by ABC producers who liked the blog. "(In Britain) there was a bunch of low-budget documentaries about aspects of modern art... (The Age)
* Moving right along Jun 8, 2007
Their mini-concert will feature video art on a specially constructed screen along with the group's usual on-stage theatrics. NT$400 entry includes one free drink. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
More of this story May 19, 2007
The exhibit ends on a high note, however, with a 7:30 p.m. screening of one of the most well known pieces of early video art from Japan, Radical Communication: Japanese Video Art, 1968-1988. This 74-minute video features a poignant, exchange of video letters between poet Tanikawa Shuntar and playwright and filmmaker Terayama Shji, in the months leading up to Terayama's death. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Exhibit at Jewish Museum captures Israel’s pulse May 11, 2007
They also serve as benchmarks for a powerful and disquieting exhibit called Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art. It s at The Jewish Museum through Aug. 5. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Call for Artists:2007 International Juried Competition May 5, 2007
Gabriel Ritter Curatorial Assistant, MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art His interest in art and technology is exemplified by his curation of "Out of the Ordinary: New Video from Japan" concurrently screening at the Getty Center and MOCA. This collaboration between the Getty Research Institute and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, combines a survey of the early history of video art in Japan (1968-1988) with presentations of contemporary Japanese video art. Two programs at the Getty Center... (AbsoluteArts.com)
A magazine's new way to cover new media Apr 22, 2007
Video art has been difficult to access. It's easy to reproduce, but the art market trades on rarity. (Boston Globe)
The $400 Haircut: Apr 20, 2007
Timothy Noah a video art installation that used pre-roll feeds. Christopher Beam is a Slate editorial assistant. (Slate)
Pushy Questions Apr 18, 2007
WED 4/18: "Radical Communication: Japanese Video Art" showcases techniques applied by the first three generations of Japanese video artists in an 80-minute film program, Harold M. Williams Auditorium. Free, reservations required, 8 p.m.. (Variety)
Q&A with George Fifield Apr 15, 2007
What "fascinates" Fifield, he said, "is what happens when a creative mind finds a new technology, and there's this moment of explosion." Whether through WGBH's New Television Workshop, which was seminal for the growth of video art in the 1970s, or MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies, which from the late '60s to the present day has fostered digital art, Boston, in Fifield's view, has had a unique role in bringing art and technology togther for creative interplay. Still, with regard to... (Boston Globe)
Invites audience to shoot hordes of 'homicidal Jesus' figures Apr 15, 2007
" Digital and video artist Eric Medine describes his work a video game linked to projectors and TV monitors as the "ultimate arbitration between politics and Christianity," notes bloggers and . The game landscape "is filled with Googled images of Christian propaganda posters, religious shrines such as St. Peter's in Rome, and clichd representations of Christ who constantly mumbles messages of tolerance and compassion," says a news release. "The audience is invited to participate in the carnage... (WorldNetDaily)
The Dark Side of Van Gogh: Apr 4, 2007
The best places to find video art online. Mia Finemanposted March 21, 2007. (Slate)
MFA Students Show Artwork Apr 2, 2007
One of the most popular exhibitions of the evening was the video art submitted by John O'Donnell. His submission featured a variety of surveillance cameras, projectors and televisions, used to showcase the movements of various props including toy carrots, globes and stuffed animals. (The Daily Campus, CT)
For Gehry, an oddly tame design Mar 24, 2007
Its back wall is dominated by a 36-metre-long video wall, which will project video art or abstract colour compositions. A sinuous maple bench snakes its way around one end of the room. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
YouTube for Artists: Mar 22, 2007
Why is it so hard to find video art online ... The best places to find video art online ... Love it or hate it, most video art is slow, ponderous, even excessively long. (Consider, for example, Douglas Gordon's 24 Hour Psycho, which slows the Hitchcock film to a glacial pace, or Stan Douglas' Rashomon-style, avant-garde Western, , which runs continuously for 69 hours. (Slate)
Europe's big art show at 20 Mar 15, 2007
The show was ringed by six other New York outings in February, including Scope at Damrosch Park, Pulse on Lexington Avenue, and DiVA, a digital and video art fair at Battery Park. Switzerland's Art Basel, with some 300 dealers in comparison to 219 at Maastricht, is to open its 38th edition in June near the time of the opening of the Venice Biennale. (CNN -- Travel)
* Throw away fashion i| Mar 11, 2007
The display also showcases video art, domestic kitsch in the form of matching paper plates and napkins and the work of other designers such as John Galliano, Hussein Chalayan, Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo of Comme Des Garcons. "The paper dress constituted a real craze in the United States, with hundreds of thousands of products released," said exhibit organizer Vassilis Zidianakis. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
SPREADING OUT: Growing arteamricas tries to maintain its 'boutique' flavor Mar 11, 2007
There are more references to conceptual art, multimedia, digital and video art. . (The Miami Herald)
New 'Ironclad Revolution' brings to ... (Sonja Barisic) Mar 9, 2007
-- A red signal lantern appears and disappears in the distance until, as one survivor aboard an iconic ironclad lost at sea during the Civil War would write to his wife, "The Monitor was no more." That lantern bobs on the waves in the unusual introductory "video art installation" at a new wing of the Mariners' Museum that houses more than 1,200 artifacts from the Union ship, from silverware and sconces to the engine and revolutionary gun turret. The $30 million center opens today -- the 145th... (Washington Times, DC)
Moscow biennale pokes fun at consumers and politicians Mar 9, 2007
People watching part of the exhibition "American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium" at the Moscow biennale ... A nondescript white door opens to a huge concrete hall full of dozens of screens showing continuous American video art in a cacophony of images and sounds ... The American video art program comes as Russia and the United States are holding celebrations this year to mark 200 years of diplomatic relations. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
