Octavia Ewart Video Art Assignment

                                                                                                                       Octavia Ewart

16 April 2015

Video Art Assignment

Moving Pictures

- What is the difference between Film & Video? (Answer on Page 6)

- How did the communication scientist Vilém Flusser define  the video phenomenon in 1991? 

(Answer on Page 7)

- What became the tool that bridged “great distances and reach a mass audience”? Answer on 

Page 7)

The 1960s

- Describe one of Paik’s television structures in his showroom? (Answer on Page 8)

In 1963, Nam June Paik installed twelve television sets, together with four pianos, record players, and tape recorders for his fourteen-day exhibition in Wuppertal "Exposition of Music - Electronic Television." (Francesca Gallo)

-       Who founded the public service broadcaster Sender Freies Berlin?  (Answer on Page 9)

-        How did the German artist Christian Jankowski set himself apart from others in his work Telemistica? (Answer on Page 9)

Technology and image

-       What two devices created a portable unit on the video device market? (Answer on Page 10)

-       What kind of camera was introduced to the American market in 1997? (Answer on Page 11)

-       Name the exhibition where Paik used magnets to distort the television image. (Answer on Page 11)

The 1970s

-       Name at least two fine art that incorporated video as an interdisciplinary medium? (Answer on Page 12)

-       What kind of effect does blurriness produce? (Answer on Page 12)

-       Videotape does not equal what? (Answer on Page 13)

Body and Performance

-       What effect does tape-recordings and live transmissions do what to the human body? (Answer on Page 13)

-       The media image functioned as what? (Answer on Page 13)

-       Pipilorrti  Rist and Diana Thater’s approached aimed to? (Answer on Page17)

Time codes

-       What’s the job of the technical apparatus? (Answer on Page 17)

-       By the 1970’s what was the new feature of the camera? (Answer on Page 20)

-       What features did MTV establish that ultimately set them apart from other media mediums? (Answer on Page 20)

Movie Video

-       What does the Dogma promote? (Answer on Page 20)

-       What are some features of video installations? (Answer on Page 21)

-       What is the effect of having films projected onto a large screen in a darkened room? (Answer on Page 21)

The 1990s

-       What has the performative approach produced in media culture? (Answer on Page 23)

-       What can subjective camera work be useless in analyzing? (Answer on Page 23)

-       There has been a significant increase in the use of video because it produces what kind of aura? (Answer on Page 24)

In-Between: documentary format and word views

-       What kind of modification methods are used to create commentary on “isolated pieces of reality”? (Answer on Page 24)

-       The artist works between what two zones with their cameras? (Answer on Page 25)

-       What does the video installation Dream Time reveal? (Answer on Page 25)