TRM 151 Lecture Notes - Lisa Steele, Video Art, Portapak
1 Feb 2014
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Tom sherman-transmedia dept head on nine lives of video art. 1981 invention of telephone, a. g. bell first film, lumiere first kodaik camera first radio broadcast commonplace uses of photography first tv broadcast. Tv is a phenomena computers color tv second wave feminist movement first pc (and mtv: video: the visual component of tv, television: an artifice of social conformity. Instant replay: video signals are sent at real time; feedback: cinema: staged, unlike instantaneous video; 24p, audio: what video is to image, audio is to sound. Portapak: 1960s, a one-man, battery powered, self- contained, film camera. Semantics of video; global access leads to downfall: cisco systems, inc. : server markets. Transmedia 151 susannah sayler: video documents behavior. Narrative structure: aesthetics: what distinguishes art; study of the nature of beauty. Intimacy, video art is a one-man show. Video can communicate, but doesn"t have to: post-media conditioning. Multi-roles one from the sixties, one from present day.
