Yes there has been some excellent use of video for more 'artistic'
purposes. It (video) is perhaps at its best when it foregrounds its
'videoness' and does not try to hide within those 'film-grain' plug-ins
(FilmFX, Cinelook, etc.). I am thinking of the recent(ish) film
'Derrida' that foregrounded it videoness (a reflexive cutting together
and apart of video formats) and also going back the work of Derek
Jarman (The Garden) and Peter Greenaway (video effects as in 'Prospero's
Books').
Every metropolitan museum of course has an installation of video work
and this is almost always to do with questionings of identity where in
opposition film perhaps serves to re-affirm and stabilise these (yes I
know that is sweeping and opens those debates). Of course Godard himself
has moved long-since into video which of course exhibits questions of
'alterity' and film (economic, presence-questioning, etc.)
Sean Cubitt wrote a very good book in the 90's on video called
'Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture' which rehabilitates video
and points to its positive uses and is worth a look in this regard....
Tony Richards
University of Lincoln
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Subject: Re: chromakey + cullberg
chroma key? wow. video...the untapped fount of genius.
they say video is ugly and unwieldy. but they are looking at it the
wrong way. it is simply...NOT...film!
i remeber when iwent fropm a watcher of television to a student of
video. i am still fascinated by the possibilities of chroma key. digita
processing bypasses so many steps in the name of 'prgress" -- things
that have noteven been explored!
i'm happy to see that there is someone who does n;t snottilydismiss
video as a backfall for those who can't get film equipment. i wish you
onlyand all thebest, even the best of teh worst. video...is like a lot
of old technologies, not obsolete if you aren';t in a hurry to be
trendily "up to speck."
mikal x
--- Barbara Keating <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello list,
> I'm a video/installation/web artist who began her video career using
> chromakey thirteen years ago.
> I'm looking for any leads on a Swedish choreographer who either
> directed and/or choreographed a work using chromakey called "red wine
> green glasses", her name is Birgit Cullberg. I am researching uses of
> chromakey for an upcoming residency in a media lab in a university.
> thank you.
> Barbara
> ps .Pls be generous as this is my first posting ;-) B
>
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