Electronic Color in Experimental Video Art
Pleasure Dome, 2008, pp. 192 - 211
Toronto: Pleasure Dome, 2008
From the recent Pleasure Dome publication (Cinematic Folds: The Furling and Unfurling of Images) Carolyn Lee Kane generates an in-depth look into the use of colour in Experimental Video Art with her essay: Electronic Color in Experimental Video Art. By providing the reader with an articulate history of aesthetics, along with a contextualization of examples (namely the work of: Steina and Wood Vasulka), Kane provides an interesting investigation on how experimental video artist's have utilized colour as a means of communicating both the technical nature of excessive abstraction - and order, and the intoxication of the Dionysian rausch (high); that new meanings may be given with the "proper" approach.
ITEM 2008.114 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Studies, 1970-71 – Steina Vasulka
Studies, 1970-71 – Woody Vasulka
Discs, 1970 – Steina Vasulka
Discs, 1970 – Woody Vasulka
Descends, 1970 – Steina Vasulka
Descends, 1970 – Woody Vasulka
Decay 1, 1970 – Steina Vasulka
Decay 1, 1970 – Woody Vasulka
Decay 2, 1970 – Steina Vasulka
Decay 2, 1970 – Woody Vasulka
Flux, 1977 – Steina Vasulka
Flux, 1977 – Woody Vasulka
Binary Lives, 1997 – Steina Vasulka
Binary Lives, 1997 – Woody Vasulka
Test Tube, 1979 – General Idea
Shut the Fuck Up, 1984 – General Idea
Mistakes, 1988 – Pipilotti Rist
Ever is Over All, 1997 – Pipilotti Rist