- Video sculpture
Video sculptures, a type of
video installation , involve one or more video screens that spectators move among or stand in front of. Video sculptures formed of more than one screen may broadcast a single program or may simultaneously broadcast different interconnected sequences on several channels. The screens of which the sculpture is comprised can be arranged in many different ways. For example, they can be suspended from a ceiling, aligned and stacked to make avideo wall or even randomly stacked on top of each other. In some cases only atelevision cabinet is displayed or a cabinet is emptied of its contents and displayed with something else inside. Video sculpture is a medium that offersperforming artist s a chance to have a more permanent artistic forum.History
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, artists
Wolf Vostell andEdward Kienholz began experimenting with TVs by using them in theirhappenings and assemblages respectively. In March 1963,Nam June Paik 's debuted his video sculpture entitled "Music/Electronic Television" at the Parnass Gallery in Wupertal, which used 13 doctored televisions. In May of the same year, Vostell's "TV-dé-coll/age" at the Smolin Gallery in New York utilized six televisions, each with an anomaly.cite web |url= http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/leonardo/v034/34.1dictionary.html |title= Dictionary Terms—Part II: Video |accessdate=2008-08-06 |publisher=Project Muse]Shigeko Kubota was also an innovator in the use of video in sculptural form. Her "Duchampiana: Nude Descending a Staircase" was the first video sculpture acquired by theMuseum of Modern Art . This work is a reference toMarcel Duchamp 's "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 " (1912)cite web|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hVzPI1mvf1cC&pg=RA1-PA193&lpg=RA1-PA193&dq=%22video+sculpture%22&source=web&ots=Kuc-thLswe&sig=JZjwFGfnl2OWAhEU5Skv_pNR8YU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=13&ct=result#PRA1-PA193,M1|title=Into Performance|accessdate=2008-08-11|publisher=Rutgers University Press/google books|author=Yoshimoto, Midori|page=191–3] Video sculpturist are becoming influential among early 21st century artists. [cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/04/arts/design/04voge.html?|title=Finalists Named for Hugo Boss Prize |accessdate=2008-08-11|date=2008-01-04|publisher=The New York Times Company |work=The New York Times |author=Vogel, Carol] One of Paik's video sculptures in which the six windows of a 1936Chrysler Airstream were replaced with video monitors sold for $75,000 in 2002. [cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E5DB153CF937A15757C0A9649C8B63|title=ACQUISITIONS; Whether Turtle or Motherwell, There's More Than Meets the Eye|accessdate=2008-08-11|date=2008-01-04|publisher=The New York Times Company |work=The New York Times |author=Ivry, Sara]Charlotte Moorman was a notable subject of video sculptures as a renowned toplesscellist . [cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945209-3,00.html|title=The Decline and Fall of the Avant-Garde (page 3)|work=Time|publisher=Time, Inc. |author=Hughes, Robert|date=1972-12-18]References
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Video painting
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