Video Art Lecture

Un Chien Analou

• By Director Louis Bunuel and Written by Bunuel and Salvador Dali

• Silent Surrealist Film• No Plot• Based on two dreams had by Bunuel• “the pure and correct line of ‘conduct’ of a

human who pursues love through wretched humanitarian, patriotic ideals and the other miserable workings of reality.”

Bill Viola

• Video Artist• Human Consciousness – Birth Life

Death • “Visual Songs”• Emotional States• Most work done “in camera”

Martha Rosler

• Feminist Artist – Video, Photo Collage, and Photo-text

• Work about the “everyday” through the perspective of a woman

• Often Focuses of Media and War – Contrasting daily life with War

• Semiotics of the Kitchen – Anti Julia Child approach

Tony Oursler

• Works Installation with projections • Found Objects- Furniture or

“scarecrow” like structures • Plays with viewers levels of empathy• Inanimate/Animate Objects• Aims to make the Physiological Real

Matthew Barney

• Cremaster Cycles• “The project is filled with anatomical allusions to

the position of the reproductive organs during the embryonic process of sexual differentiation: Cremaster 1 represents the most "ascended" or undifferentiated state, Cremaster 5 the most "descended" or differentiated.”

• 5 Films total – Longest being cremaster 3 which is 3 hours

• Formally married to Bjork, directed many of her music videos

Shana Molton

• Works in an “alter ego state”• Green screen• “with appropriated new-age

marginalia, prescription drugs, and beauty products assembled into a whimsical scene of feminine anxiety” – wiki

• Alter Ego named Cynthia , Her physical aliments seem to live only in her mind

Ryan Trecartin

• Some say the most important up and coming contemporary artist of “our time”

• Solo shows at Lacma and PS1• Anti Traditionalist• “Trecartin’s work becomes an uncanny

reflection of youth culture, presenting a Gen Y zeitgeist of commodity anxiety, spiritual nihilism, and community value. “ 1

• RISD ‘04

Other Video Artists

• Bjorn Melhus • Pipiloti Rist• Nam June Paik• Doug Aitken • Christian Maclay• Peter Sarkisian• Miranda July

• Mindy Faber• Dara Birnbaum• Mika Rottenberg• Mindy Faber• Malena Barnhart

Performance Artists who work in Video Sometimes

• Vito Acconci• Eleanor Antin• Chris Burden• Valie Export (Feminist Artist My New Fave)• Yoko Ono