Krystof Wodicko is known for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural structures and monuments. He has created more than seventy large-scale slide and video projections of politically related images on built structures and monuments worldwide. By using buildings as his backdrop, Wodiczko focuses attention on ways in which architecture and monuments reflect collective memory and history. This is an original approach due his approach of taking something already built, and making it his own.
Nam June Paik was one of the earliest pioneers of video installation art. Paik made sculptures of televisions with video on the screen. I remember learning about him in ADP II two years ago. A piece that he made I still remember from a lecture was his installation of a television with video and a Buddha in front of the TV. This contradiction of zen inside the self with the absorbance in the TV and media is ironic and comedic but thought-provoking at the same time. Paik uses video installation as an art form by bringing video into surrounding space as opposed to having the viewer sucked into the TV only. His installations make the audience more aware of media and pushes the audience to stand outside the TV.
I thought Bill Viola's artwork was especially interesting. Unlike anything ive seen before, his artwork has a dark eerie tone to it, giving the viewer an extremely vague idea of what is going on. I love that the images in which he uses have sort of a bright luminescent glow. His fills are sort of still but have extremely flawy movement at the same time. His instillations are more of an art form that television show because of the work, effort and MOOD he tries so hard to convey in the video. The film tells a story without dialogue or words. the slow motion really helps capture the moment and forces the audience to notice every detail.
The video Installation work of BIll Viola displays the interesting fusion between art and technology. Viola incorporates his artwork into physical settings (rooms, outdoor arenas...) by the use of a video screen or projection. In many of his pieces of art he projects an image or artwork onto another, larger, physical object. The combination of the actual structure and his projection come to represent a creative piece of artwork or commentary. His work is clearly along the lines of video installation because of the materials used and the focus that is put on the technological aspect of his artwork.
The video Installation work of BIll Viola displays the interesting fusion between art and technology. Viola incorporates his artwork into physical settings (rooms, outdoor arenas...) by the use of a video screen or projection. In many of his pieces of art he projects an image or artwork onto another, larger, physical object. The combination of the actual structure and his projection come to represent a creative piece of artwork or commentary. His work is clearly along the lines of video installation because of the materials used and the focus that is put on the technological aspect of his artwork.
Pipilotti Rist's piece 'Pour Your Body Out' is a beautiful example of video installation. Displayed at the Moma in 2009, she created a work that completely enveloped the viewers. Projected onto twenty five foot high walls, Rist filmed incredible shots of flowers and herself gardening. The movement of the video was slow and the colors were vibrant. By placing the camera beneath the flowers, the audience felt as if they were as small as ants gazing up at the beauty of the flora above. Her work had a sort of kaleidoscope effect as the walls projected the same image but in mirrored directions. All these different techniques proved her skill in video installation as it completely changed the environment and allowed the viewers to enter this alternate fantastical space within the museum.
Bill Viola's work is so inspiring, I cannot believe how moved I was by his work, some of which I looked up later on after the lecture. He has such powerful site specific installations that really take from their environment, making the place you are in even more of an intense experience than it would have been before. His art truly adds to the space, interacting with the connotations already surrounding it, but then moving beyond them to invent something new. The aesthetic beauty of his work truly lies in his ability to abstract the figures using water and color manipulation. However, the overall works have so much more depth to them than just that. Truly I think I've found a new inspiration within this realm of art, it allows you to push new boundaries and use technology in a way that is beautiful instead of mundane.
I really responded to Bill Viola's work, specifically "The Ascension." In "The Ascension," Viola uses video to depict a man breaking through the water and rising, Christ-like, slowly. Viola uses an untraditional medium to subvert the very classical artistic medium, painting. The drama and magnitude of "The Ascension" envelope the viewer, which as an installation, affects their perception of their surrounding. Viola could have only created this piece using video because of the properties that other media don't have. Specifically, his ability to put a real event in slow motion really contributes to the surreal, spiritual nature of the piece. Because of the slow motion, it seems as the figure is able to stay under water for an impossible amount of time. The piece is also very beautiful in its contrast and symmetry, which it likely utilizes in the video to rival a classical painting. The way the water expands over the figure's head is stunning.
I though Bill Viola's work was very interesting. His videos are very surreal yet realistic, which are qualities that I find interesting together. He uses video installation in his work when he sets up these films on very large screens for the audience. This provides his work to have more of an impact and helps to convey his powerful, surrealist themes. His work reminds of the large frescos seen in the renaissance period. They convey the same themes and have the same mood, but are modernized because it is a film.
Pipilorri Rist's work was video projected installation. Her piece was a series of rooms the viewer went through, experiencing something slightly different each time. The main 'rooms' we saw were the entrance of MOMA with large scale projections of her video pieces. The second room was a series of screens with her projections on them that the audience would walk through. I chose to describe this because it was the most memorable of the pieces. For some reason, it seemed brighter, more engaging, and almost cheery. She uses installation as an art form through creating a new feeling to an already established space. Instead of allowing the viewer to simply look at the piece from on angle, they are completely surrounded and enveloped in the pieces by sitting in the middle, or moving throughout each work. It is also is a great example of time-based work, because it allows for the progression of time through the video, difference experience each time the viewer goes through it and almost removing the traditional sense of time and completely engaging the audience.
Video installation art is a medium that I have a desire to explore in the future. Yesterdays lecture taught me what a wonderful method video installation is for conveying a message to a large audience. Video installations can also be projected on objects or buildings, bringing them closer to every day life. This way the installation can be viewed with out necessarily going to a gallery or museum. Wodzicko's work is a great example of video projection and how it can transform a space and convey a message of great importance. Wodzicko's work spoke to me however it was the work of Pipilotti Risk that really got me excited. Her use of bright colors and desire to project happiness upon the viewers is inspirational to me. It is very rare for an artist to have a desire to convey happiness, perhaps because people do not find it a valid means for artistic expresion. It is refreshing to see someone wanting to make others happy through her work. I also liked the dream like quality of her work. The multiple surface projects along with vebrant flowers and other colorful images did indeed bring a smile to my face.
Bill Viola Viola's work is often based off of well-known, classical paintings. Other times he creates his own portraits, actions, or scenes. The video he takes is often short sequences with actors, captured with an extremely high-quality video- and sound-recording equipment. In editing, he slows a clip of only a few seconds way down, sometimes to 10 minutes, and in doing so, creates an absorbing image that seems imperceptibly to change. The images have painterly qualities, as if the slowly moving figures, colors, cloths, and objects were animated with brush strokes. Viola projects these images from frames, large and small, imitating even further the idea of a painting or photograph (rather than video), by placing them in their familiar home: the frame. This makes the video installation unique as an art form, and much more powerful than it would be just as a video, because the images, in reference to paintings, trick the viewer's mind into seeing something with other qualities other than a video. Just as a video, Viola's pieces are intriguing still, but lack the same unusual quality as being viewed as movement in rows. I chose this work because I find the concept of second-guessing what one sees intriguing, the visual detail of slow-motion absorbing, and the idea of imitating painting with video and sound fascinating. Since I first heard about Viola's work, it has stuck with me as an unusual and new way of looking at the video medium.
When I went to the national museum of contemporary art, Korea, I have seen many of Nam June Paik's video arts. It was a memorial exhibition for commemorating one year after his death. I think it was in 2007. In 2007, I went to high school and I just started to find interests in the arts. And his works especially played a significant role. We all had to do presentations for ADP I about one of our favorite artists, and I did one on Nam June Paik. When I introduced him, not many people seemed to know about him, but they all thought that his video installations were very new and interesting. Therefore, I believe that he uses video installation as an art form very creatively. One of my favorite is "Da Da Ik Sun" which is very well known piece. It is a stack of multiple televisions, which looks like a tower. I like this piece and all other his installations basically because he created his own arts with the materials that other artists normally would not use.
I thought that Bill Viola's work was really interesting.His work is definitely video installation because of the materials he uses and the way he displays them. the different displays of the mix between technology and art. He uses his work in physical settings by projecting them on walls and other structural things. In a lot of his pieces he incorporates what is being projected on as another artist element and the art work interacts together. The blend of the structure and his artwork creates an interesting dynamic between what is psychically there and what is being projected.
From the lecture, my favorite installation artist was Kryzsztof Wodiczko. Although I am not a huge buff on video art and am still figuring out my taste for certain styles in the medium. However, I really enjoyed Wodiczko's "The Tijuana Project" in which he projected the faces through a fish eye type lens onto the Centro du Cultural de Tijuana. This work stood out to me more than any of the other work because of the content of the work. There are obvious implications of video projection that do not exist when speaking of only video, and I think those implications come into play when considering "The Tijuana Project." The conceptual transformation that happens when you project a human face onto a giant building, revealing and accentuating all of the emotions, facial features, and imperfections of the face has a powerful visual quality. Wodiczko uses this quality to define the different emotions Mexicans have about making the transition from a more "feudal, farming lifestyle," to the industrialized workforce, moving from "one hell to another hell." I believe "The Tijuana Project" is very successful at visually describing this concept.
Michal Rovner left me with the strongest impression. She uses videos/footages that she shoot and saved back in time and edited them together in different layers. It is interesting that her works are described as "using video like a 'sketchbook.'" In her installation piece "Current," the video edited from different layers of footages, such as the crowds of people moving towards different directions, the stretched fire, the abstract mining scene, etc. I appreciate its various layers of footages combined together abstractly and harmoniously in an artistic way.
Pipilotti Rist is an amazing video instillation designer. Her piece called Pour Your Body Out has its own distinct feature. Not only is the piece massive, taking up several feet of the walls, it encompasses a unique design. The projected images are casted on to several walls in one room and it is one entire piece on its own. Each walls is a section of one whole video so that when they run, you can turn around and see the piece entirely. Better said, its like splitting the view into four parts and attaching each part to a wall. She used genuine emotions and things that we can relate to in order to grab viewer and keep them interested. For the most part, its very impressive cause of the scale and quality.
Nam June Paik uses real television sets to create his pieces. He stacks them in specific ways and sometimes with other objects. He makes his own displays to play on the TV screens. I chose his work because he was the most interesting character of all of the people we saw, but also because I just liked his work. The way he stacks the TV's is really skilled, one of the pieces looked like it wasn't even possible to be stacked the way it was. He uses video installation in one of the most interesting ways. He doesn't project it, he shows it directly from the screens.
Michal Rovner is an Israeli artist who used video installation in order to transform an old coal factory. She filmed the movement of flames in a fire and then edited this video in order to create an interesting filmic texture. She then projected this texture along the walls of the factory. She also filmed video of people gathering and moving about a plaza from above. She edited this video so that the people appeared just as shadowy black shapes. She projected this video over top of the film of the flames. What made these visuals even more interesting were the walls onto which they were projected, which were peeling and turning different colors in their old age. The enormous height of these walls made the projected video feel grand and omnipresent. Her work was meant to emphasis the enormity and monstrous quality of the factory itself. I found her work to be both beautiful and moving.
Nam Jun Paik is a Korean video artist who inspire a new generation of artist on late twentieth century. He worked with variety of media, and brought a sensation at the time. He uses small televisions and usually stack them in a way that they form an object. I have been to his exhibition when I was a kid, and I remember that I was surprised at the size of his works and the creativeness. It was very interesting because the small televisions formed something that are so bizarre and unique, and there are even video playing on the screen! I really like his installations, and appreciate his creativeness in making video as an art form with a variety of media.
I particularly enjoyed Michal Rovner's work. She is an Israeli artist who creates her work editing series of videos she takes herself. "Current" is a piece she created taking a video from an old coal factory. This piece has a certain flow to it as the shadowed figures move amongst the walls alongside the coking of the coal. A stretched image of fire is also added to the piece, adding even more movement. The piece also gives the audience a three-dimensional feel as the camera zooms in and out of the walls.
Krystof Wodicko is known for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural structures and monuments. He has created more than seventy large-scale slide and video projections of politically related images on built structures and monuments worldwide. By using buildings as his backdrop, Wodiczko focuses attention on ways in which architecture and monuments reflect collective memory and history. This is an original approach due his approach of taking something already built, and making it his own.
ReplyDeleteNam June Paik was one of the earliest pioneers of video installation art. Paik made sculptures of televisions with video on the screen. I remember learning about him in ADP II two years ago. A piece that he made I still remember from a lecture was his installation of a television with video and a Buddha in front of the TV. This contradiction of zen inside the self with the absorbance in the TV and media is ironic and comedic but thought-provoking at the same time. Paik uses video installation as an art form by bringing video into surrounding space as opposed to having the viewer sucked into the TV only. His installations make the audience more aware of media and pushes the audience to stand outside the TV.
ReplyDeleteI thought Bill Viola's artwork was especially interesting. Unlike anything ive seen before, his artwork has a dark eerie tone to it, giving the viewer an extremely vague idea of what is going on. I love that the images in which he uses have sort of a bright luminescent glow. His fills are sort of still but have extremely flawy movement at the same time. His instillations are more of an art form that television show because of the work, effort and MOOD he tries so hard to convey in the video. The film tells a story without dialogue or words. the slow motion really helps capture the moment and forces the audience to notice every detail.
ReplyDeleteThe video Installation work of BIll Viola displays the interesting fusion between art and technology. Viola incorporates his artwork into physical settings (rooms, outdoor arenas...) by the use of a video screen or projection. In many of his pieces of art he projects an image or artwork onto another, larger, physical object. The combination of the actual structure and his projection come to represent a creative piece of artwork or commentary. His work is clearly along the lines of video installation because of the materials used and the focus that is put on the technological aspect of his artwork.
ReplyDeleteThe video Installation work of BIll Viola displays the interesting fusion between art and technology. Viola incorporates his artwork into physical settings (rooms, outdoor arenas...) by the use of a video screen or projection. In many of his pieces of art he projects an image or artwork onto another, larger, physical object. The combination of the actual structure and his projection come to represent a creative piece of artwork or commentary. His work is clearly along the lines of video installation because of the materials used and the focus that is put on the technological aspect of his artwork.
ReplyDeletePipilotti Rist's piece 'Pour Your Body Out' is a beautiful example of video installation. Displayed at the Moma in 2009, she created a work that completely enveloped the viewers. Projected onto twenty five foot high walls, Rist filmed incredible shots of flowers and herself gardening. The movement of the video was slow and the colors were vibrant. By placing the camera beneath the flowers, the audience felt as if they were as small as ants gazing up at the beauty of the flora above. Her work had a sort of kaleidoscope effect as the walls projected the same image but in mirrored directions. All these different techniques proved her skill in video installation as it completely changed the environment and allowed the viewers to enter this alternate fantastical space within the museum.
ReplyDeleteBill Viola's work is so inspiring, I cannot believe how moved I was by his work, some of which I looked up later on after the lecture. He has such powerful site specific installations that really take from their environment, making the place you are in even more of an intense experience than it would have been before. His art truly adds to the space, interacting with the connotations already surrounding it, but then moving beyond them to invent something new. The aesthetic beauty of his work truly lies in his ability to abstract the figures using water and color manipulation. However, the overall works have so much more depth to them than just that. Truly I think I've found a new inspiration within this realm of art, it allows you to push new boundaries and use technology in a way that is beautiful instead of mundane.
ReplyDeleteI really responded to Bill Viola's work, specifically "The Ascension." In "The Ascension," Viola uses video to depict a man breaking through the water and rising, Christ-like, slowly. Viola uses an untraditional medium to subvert the very classical artistic medium, painting. The drama and magnitude of "The Ascension" envelope the viewer, which as an installation, affects their perception of their surrounding. Viola could have only created this piece using video because of the properties that other media don't have. Specifically, his ability to put a real event in slow motion really contributes to the surreal, spiritual nature of the piece. Because of the slow motion, it seems as the figure is able to stay under water for an impossible amount of time. The piece is also very beautiful in its contrast and symmetry, which it likely utilizes in the video to rival a classical painting. The way the water expands over the figure's head is stunning.
ReplyDeleteI though Bill Viola's work was very interesting. His videos are very surreal yet realistic, which are qualities that I find interesting together. He uses video installation in his work when he sets up these films on very large screens for the audience. This provides his work to have more of an impact and helps to convey his powerful, surrealist themes. His work reminds of the large frescos seen in the renaissance period. They convey the same themes and have the same mood, but are modernized because it is a film.
ReplyDeletePipilorri Rist's work was video projected installation. Her piece was a series of rooms the viewer went through, experiencing something slightly different each time. The main 'rooms' we saw were the entrance of MOMA with large scale projections of her video pieces. The second room was a series of screens with her projections on them that the audience would walk through. I chose to describe this because it was the most memorable of the pieces. For some reason, it seemed brighter, more engaging, and almost cheery. She uses installation as an art form through creating a new feeling to an already established space. Instead of allowing the viewer to simply look at the piece from on angle, they are completely surrounded and enveloped in the pieces by sitting in the middle, or moving throughout each work. It is also is a great example of time-based work, because it allows for the progression of time through the video, difference experience each time the viewer goes through it and almost removing the traditional sense of time and completely engaging the audience.
ReplyDeleteVideo installation art is a medium that I have a desire to explore in the future. Yesterdays lecture taught me what a wonderful method video installation is for conveying a message to a large audience. Video installations can also be projected on objects or buildings, bringing them closer to every day life. This way the installation can be viewed with out necessarily going to a gallery or museum. Wodzicko's work is a great example of video projection and how it can transform a space and convey a message of great importance. Wodzicko's work spoke to me however it was the work of Pipilotti Risk that really got me excited. Her use of bright colors and desire to project happiness upon the viewers is inspirational to me. It is very rare for an artist to have a desire to convey happiness, perhaps because people do not find it a valid means for artistic expresion. It is refreshing to see someone wanting to make others happy through her work. I also liked the dream like quality of her work. The multiple surface projects along with vebrant flowers and other colorful images did indeed bring a smile to my face.
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ReplyDeleteViola's work is often based off of well-known, classical paintings. Other times he creates his own portraits, actions, or scenes. The video he takes is often short sequences with actors, captured with an extremely high-quality video- and sound-recording equipment. In editing, he slows a clip of only a few seconds way down, sometimes to 10 minutes, and in doing so, creates an absorbing image that seems imperceptibly to change. The images have painterly qualities, as if the slowly moving figures, colors, cloths, and objects were animated with brush strokes. Viola projects these images from frames, large and small, imitating even further the idea of a painting or photograph (rather than video), by placing them in their familiar home: the frame. This makes the video installation unique as an art form, and much more powerful than it would be just as a video, because the images, in reference to paintings, trick the viewer's mind into seeing something with other qualities other than a video. Just as a video, Viola's pieces are intriguing still, but lack the same unusual quality as being viewed as movement in rows. I chose this work because I find the concept of second-guessing what one sees intriguing, the visual detail of slow-motion absorbing, and the idea of imitating painting with video and sound fascinating. Since I first heard about Viola's work, it has stuck with me as an unusual and new way of looking at the video medium.
Zoe Allen-Wickler
When I went to the national museum of contemporary art, Korea, I have seen many of Nam June Paik's video arts. It was a memorial exhibition for commemorating one year after his death. I think it was in 2007. In 2007, I went to high school and I just started to find interests in the arts. And his works especially played a significant role. We all had to do presentations for ADP I about one of our favorite artists, and I did one on Nam June Paik. When I introduced him, not many people seemed to know about him, but they all thought that his video installations were very new and interesting. Therefore, I believe that he uses video installation as an art form very creatively. One of my favorite is "Da Da Ik Sun" which is very well known piece. It is a stack of multiple televisions, which looks like a tower. I like this piece and all other his installations basically because he created his own arts with the materials that other artists normally would not use.
ReplyDeleteI thought that Bill Viola's work was really interesting.His work is definitely video installation because of the materials he uses and the way he displays them. the different displays of the mix between technology and art. He uses his work in physical settings by projecting them on walls and other structural things. In a lot of his pieces he incorporates what is being projected on as another artist element and the art work interacts together. The blend of the structure and his artwork creates an interesting dynamic between what is psychically there and what is being projected.
ReplyDeleteFrom the lecture, my favorite installation artist was Kryzsztof Wodiczko. Although I am not a huge buff on video art and am still figuring out my taste for certain styles in the medium. However, I really enjoyed Wodiczko's "The Tijuana Project" in which he projected the faces through a fish eye type lens onto the Centro du Cultural de Tijuana. This work stood out to me more than any of the other work because of the content of the work. There are obvious implications of video projection that do not exist when speaking of only video, and I think those implications come into play when considering "The Tijuana Project." The conceptual transformation that happens when you project a human face onto a giant building, revealing and accentuating all of the emotions, facial features, and imperfections of the face has a powerful visual quality. Wodiczko uses this quality to define the different emotions Mexicans have about making the transition from a more "feudal, farming lifestyle," to the industrialized workforce, moving from "one hell to another hell." I believe "The Tijuana Project" is very successful at visually describing this concept.
ReplyDeleteMichal Rovner left me with the strongest impression. She uses videos/footages that she shoot and saved back in time and edited them together in different layers. It is interesting that her works are described as "using video like a 'sketchbook.'" In her installation piece "Current," the video edited from different layers of footages, such as the crowds of people moving towards different directions, the stretched fire, the abstract mining scene, etc. I appreciate its various layers of footages combined together abstractly and harmoniously in an artistic way.
ReplyDeletePipilotti Rist is an amazing video instillation designer. Her piece called Pour Your Body Out has its own distinct feature. Not only is the piece massive, taking up several feet of the walls, it encompasses a unique design. The projected images are casted on to several walls in one room and it is one entire piece on its own. Each walls is a section of one whole video so that when they run, you can turn around and see the piece entirely. Better said, its like splitting the view into four parts and attaching each part to a wall. She used genuine emotions and things that we can relate to in order to grab viewer and keep them interested. For the most part, its very impressive cause of the scale and quality.
ReplyDeleteNam June Paik uses real television sets to create his pieces. He stacks them in specific ways and sometimes with other objects. He makes his own displays to play on the TV screens. I chose his work because he was the most interesting character of all of the people we saw, but also because I just liked his work. The way he stacks the TV's is really skilled, one of the pieces looked like it wasn't even possible to be stacked the way it was. He uses video installation in one of the most interesting ways. He doesn't project it, he shows it directly from the screens.
ReplyDeleteMichal Rovner is an Israeli artist who used video installation in order to transform an old coal factory. She filmed the movement of flames in a fire and then edited this video in order to create an interesting filmic texture. She then projected this texture along the walls of the factory. She also filmed video of people gathering and moving about a plaza from above. She edited this video so that the people appeared just as shadowy black shapes. She projected this video over top of the film of the flames. What made these visuals even more interesting were the walls onto which they were projected, which were peeling and turning different colors in their old age. The enormous height of these walls made the projected video feel grand and omnipresent. Her work was meant to emphasis the enormity and monstrous quality of the factory itself. I found her work to be both beautiful and moving.
ReplyDeleteNam Jun Paik is a Korean video artist who inspire a new generation of artist on late twentieth century. He worked with variety of media, and brought a sensation at the time. He uses small televisions and usually stack them in a way that they form an object. I have been to his exhibition when I was a kid, and I remember that I was surprised at the size of his works and the creativeness. It was very interesting because the small televisions formed something that are so bizarre and unique, and there are even video playing on the screen! I really like his installations, and appreciate his creativeness in making video as an art form with a variety of media.
ReplyDeleteI particularly enjoyed Michal Rovner's work. She is an Israeli artist who creates her work editing series of videos she takes herself. "Current" is a piece she created taking a video from an old coal factory. This piece has a certain flow to it as the shadowed figures move amongst the walls alongside the coking of the coal. A stretched image of fire is also added to the piece, adding even more movement. The piece also gives the audience a three-dimensional feel as the camera zooms in and out of the walls.
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