Types

Of Video Art
• As technology and editing techniques have evolved since the emergence of video
as an art form, artists have been able to experiment more with video art without
using any of their own content.

• As Marco Brambilla's "Civilization" (2008) shows this technique. Brambilla

attempts to make a video version of a collage, or a "video mural" by combining
almost 400 clips from movies, and editing them to portray heaven and hell.
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Types Of Video Art
• Today there are two varieties:
• single-channel and installation.

Single-channel
Single-channel works are much closer to the conventional idea of television: a video
is shown as a single image.
Single-channel video is video art work using a single electronic source and
presented and exhibited from one playback device. Electronic sources can be any
format of video tape, DVDs or computer-generated moving images utilizing the
applicable playback device (such as a VCR, DVD player or computer) and exhibited
using a television monitor, projection or other screen-based device.
The Fourth Wall is a single channel video,
The video is self-performative, broken down frame by frame.
The audio is re-scored Swan Lake, Act II, Scene 3 made by the
artist @ The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Installation/ Multi channel video:
Historically, video art was limited to unedited video tape footage displayed on a
television monitor in a gallery and was contrasted with both broadcast television and
film projections in theatres. As technology advanced, the ability to edit and display
video art provided more variations and multi-channel video works became possible as
did multi-channel and multi-layered video installations. However, single-channel video
works continue to be produced for a variety of aesthetic and conceptual reasons and
the term usually now refers to a single image on a monitor or projection, regardless of
image source or production.

Installation video art works involve either an environment, several distinct pieces of
video presented separately, or any combination of video with traditional media such
as sculpture. Installation video is the most common form of video art today.
Sometimes it is combined with other media and is often subsumed by the greater
whole of an installation or performance.
Today this work is digital. The very powerful video editing and effects tools available to
everyone open many doors. One trend is entirely digitally created environments by
programs such as Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. Many of these videos use no
camera. Some video is programmed to respond to the movements of the viewer or
other elements in the environment. The Internet is naturally an important player in
today’s video art. Internet controlled video files can interact with other people
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Real video art
Real video art is based on real life, personalities, events or facts viewed through
camera. It’s not a secret that there’s a huge number of tools available for correction
and amplification of video we get. But nevertheless, it’s realistic and simple to
perceive. We feel common sense of reality.
Virtual video art
Virtual video art uses virtual 3D computer generated imagery (CGI) animation
drawings as a base. This type of video art differs from the real type thanks to plenty of
unreal or fairy tale details and funky physical laws, special space with some kind of
simulated reality. The top of virtual video art skill is a masterpiece that copies reality
with no difference for the human eye.
Machinima
Machinima is a new level of virtual immersion. Nowadays, top video games choose the
cinematographic reality with maximum level of gamer involvement. We can drown in
those worlds based on new instruments of graphics and technologies. This “cinema
killer” type can communicate with you in real-time. While you’re in machinima reality,
you see a totally real picture with items, avatars and theirs shadows, movements, etc.
Machinima is very complicated virtual video art with the most realistic effect.
Difference Between
Performance art and Video art
Video art as a medium can also be combined with other forms of artistic expression
such as Performance art. This combination can also be refereed to as "media and
performance art" when artists "break the mold of video and film and broaden the
boundaries of art". With increased ability for artists to obtain video cameras,
performance art started being documented and shared across large amounts of
audiences. Artists such as Marina Abramovic and Ulay experimented with video taping
their performances in the 1970s and the 1980s. In a piece titled “Rest energy” (1980)
both Ulay and Marina suspended their weight so that they pulled back a bow and
arrow aimed at her heart, Ulay held the arrow, and Marina the bow. The piece was
4:10 which Marina described as being “a performance about complete and total trust”.
Other artists who combined Video art with Performance art used the camera as the
audience. Kate Gilmore experimented with the positioning of the camera. In her video
“Anything” (2006) she films her performance piece as she is constantly trying the reach the
camera which is staring down at her. As the 13-minute video goes on, she continues to tie
together pieces of furniture while constantly attempting to reach the camera. Gilmore
added an element of struggle to her art which is sometimes self-imposed, in her video
“My love is an anchor” (2004) she lets her foot dry in cement before attempting to break
free on camera.

Gilmore has said to have mimicked expression styles from the 1960s and 1970s with
inspirations like Marina Abramovic as she adds extremism and struggle to her work.

Some artists experimented with space when combining Video art and Performance art.
Ragnar Kjartannson, an Icelandic artist, filmed an entire music video with 9 different
artists, including himself, being filmed in different rooms. All the artists could hear each
other through a pair of headphones so that they could play the song together, the piece
was titled "The visitors" (2012).
Movies and Video Art
If a person, that makes ‘moving pictures’ in one way or another. How does his work
separates from the work of, say, movie directors who, as well, are creating ‘moving
pictures’?
The biggest difference between video art and movies is the disrespect of the above-
mentioned one to all of the latter’s conventions and rules. Usually, there’s got to
exist at least one of three following things in a motion picture:
story, actors and screenplay.
Video art is not interested in that, but rather in exploring the maximum possibilities
of the media, and/or to challenge viewer’s ideas about the world that surrounds
him/her. It usually has many forms – broadcasted recordings, projections,
performances with TV sets, online streams, but today, installation is the most
common form of video art. Installation could be seen at museums and galleries, but
it is often a part of some wider work, associated with design, sculpture and
architecture.
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