Video is being invented
Arts Magazine, Jan. 1973, v. 47, no. 3, pp. 37-44
A brief history of video as art from Nam June Paik's earliest experiments in 1956 to the video collectives emerging in 1973. The author provides detailed analysis of tapes by a selection early video artists, commending video's ability to produce tactile, spatial and colorization effects seen neither in art nor nature. The ability of video to introduce a dialogue between live and taped acts because of its simultaneity also interests the author. The author is hopeful about the future of video art on cable access television, as well as intrigued by the forays of video artists and groups into political lampoons of popular culture. He identifies three categories of video: video by artists, video environments by artists, and video documentaries by recent inductees into video making.
ITEM 1973.024 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Video Synthesizer – Nam June Paik
Video Chair – Nam June Paik
Television Bra – Nam June Paik
T.V. Chair – Nam June Paik
TV In TV Out – Keith Sonnier
Noise – Linda Benglis
Home Tape – Linda Benglis
On Screen – Linda Benglis
Mirror Check – Joan Jonas
Left Side Right Side – Joan Jonas
Vertical Roll – Joan Jonas
Locating #2 – Nancy Holt
Rage and Depression – William Wegman
Milk on Floor – William Wegman
Stomach Stone – William Wegman
Born Without A Mouth – William Wegman
Three Breakfasts – Michael Snow
What's Wrong With Your Eye (Ventriloquism) – William Wegman
Generations – George Bolling
De La – Michael Snow
The Central Region – Michael Snow
Live Taped Video Corridor – Bruce Nauman
Recycle – Video Freex
Lesbian Mothers – Queer Blue Light Gay Revolution Video Project
Lesbian Mothers – David Sasser