Defining a medium, defining a field -- Early practitioners -- Multimedia: video, performance, and music -- Video takes center stage -- Narrativity -- The rise of installation -- Media art diversifies -- Media art, globalism, and identity politics -- Facing the future.
Summary:
The curator who founded MoMA's video program recounts the artists and events that defined the medium's first 50 years. Since the introduction of portable consumer electronics nearly a half century ago, artists throughout the world have adapted their latest technologies to art-making. In this book, curator Barbara London traces the history of video art as it transformed into the broader field of media art - from analog to digital, small TV monitors to wall-scale projections, and clunky hardware to user-friendly software. In doing so, she reveals how video evolved from fringe status to be seen as one of the foremost art forms of today.
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