Video installation is a a form of contemporary art that connects video technology and installation art, making use of all the aspect surrounding the environment in order affect the audience.
Marsia Alexander Clarke
Marsia makes her art from small cropper video cells that she calls marks which resembles the idea of marks on painting or in drawings. She quoted, " I am very interested in creating compositions with marks which are imbedded with a feeling refernce to the outer world..." she has a solo exibition that features a series on her work done on stretched canvas. Her work can be viewd at the California Museum of photography.
NB: Above are images of her work.
Bill Viola was born in Queens, New York, USA on January 25th 1951.He is a contemporary video artist. His art work explores mainly around the theme of 'dualism', conveying the idea that one can not understand what they look like until they've seen its opposite. For example, you can't fully understand the complete purpose of life until you've faced loss (death). With light comes darkness and with consciousness also comes the unconsciousness. His work focuses mainly around human experience, such as death, birth and the aspect of consciousness. His work can be categorized into three different themes; visual, conceptual and a unique combination of the two. Viola's work usually sinks the audience into the mindset of the images created in order to connect to the meaning behind it all by using ultra-slow motion videos.
Bill Viola's Acceptance video arts tells a story, from the heading you can tell it's about one accepting who they are. At first, we are seeing a woman figure come into sight rather out of focus. We watch as the subject emerges form out of the dark and into the light, and the passage through what seems to be water. Water being the representation of a 'barrier' an obstacle that has to be defeated, and there is no substitute path to get around it.. The juxtaposition of light and darkness, with light being acceptance and darkness being non-acceptance. Before the subject can move out of the darkness and into the light, she must go through some sort of a struggle. Then finally she emerges into light, with both the relief and the realization that the milestone has been reached.
Matthew Barney is an American artist who works in sculpture, photography, filming and drawing. He is most famous for his CREMASTER cycle sculpture video arts. The cremaster cycle consist of five feature length films. It was made over a period of 8 years, starting from 1994-2002. His work has caused a lot of controversy, gaining both negative and positive feedback mainly because of the contents in which he portrayed them.
Cremation focuses on the process of creation. Barney uses video in terms of positioning, lighting, size and so on forth on his subject.
Overall, I've gained in depth knowledge about video installations and the controversy it faces in society. The creation of video installation varies, seeing as it could very well be anything as long as it is clear what the idea is. It can be humorous, tense, scary, confusing etc.
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