Jan
4
2011
Processing the Signal (1989) is a documentary directed by Marcello Dantas about Video art covering many aspects of the medium: technology, the process, presentation, reception and audience, as well as the narrative aspects.
The film features some of the leading artists of video and media art like Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Kit Fitzgerald, John Sanborn, Paul Garrin, Zbigniew Rybczinski, to name a few.
Bill Viola: The Messenger (c)
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Jul
1
2010
Here is an excerpt from Nam June Paik’s TV program called ‘Good Morning Mr. Orwell’ (1984) featuring choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham. Cunningham dances with satellite-delayed images of himself, overlaid with crawling text about George Orwell’s time in Spain.
Video still from Good Morning Mr. Orwell by Nam June Paik (c)
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Feb
17
2010
Contemporary Dance in Videospace is a dance and video installation staged in Berlin in June 2007 at the studio 103. Dancer P. Park and Flavio Degen / Kosei Takasaki from kokomono collective mixed live contemporary dance and video art together…
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Apr
26
2009
Two Italian media artists – Lemeh42, joined their forces in 2005 with an aim to create video art and performance related multimedia artworkz / installations.
Lemeh42 create at the edges of all above mentioned media techniques within their visual procédé combining animation with regular video art meta-narration.
Video still: Lemeh42 (c)
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Mar
15
2009
I saw Maria Kheirkhah‘s artwork ‘Dancing in the Village’ (a part of the ‘Portraits of a belly dancer’ explorations) two days ago at the exhibition L(..)king at Others in Art pavilion.
It’s a two channel video, actually a documentation of her performance from 2006 when she was listening on her iPod belly dance music performing belly dance in front of the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.
Still from Dancing in the Village by M. Kheirkhah (c)
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