Why Don't They Tell Stories like They Used To?

Video art is a hybrid adapting and sharing the aesthetics, content, and history of the visual arts, literature, music, film, and-most recently-the computer. It brings together ideas about how to construct a story and how to structure experience, fragmentation, disjunction, and chance based on avant-...

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Published in:Art journal (New York. 1960) 1985-09, Vol.45 (3), p.204-212
Main Author: Wooster, Ann-Sargent
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Avant garde
Avant garde music
Colors
Film music
Movies
Musical rhythm
Sculpture
Television broadcasting
Video editing
Visual arts
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Summary:Video art is a hybrid adapting and sharing the aesthetics, content, and history of the visual arts, literature, music, film, and-most recently-the computer. It brings together ideas about how to construct a story and how to structure experience, fragmentation, disjunction, and chance based on avant-garde ideas developed over the last 100 years. Yet for all its historical precedents and for all the varieties of criticism to which it is open, video art has proved opaque not only to its critics but also to its practitioners, who frequently do not understand the origins of the structures they share. In reply to a statement by Frank Gillette at the 1974 Open Circuits Conference, Robert Pincus-Witten said: "It is not a medium to which the humankind you are so conscious of has access; it's an exceptionally inaccessible medium." More than ten years have passed since that time, but a critical model for video has not yet been constructed.
ISSN:0004-3249
2325-5307
DOI:10.1080/00043249.1985.10792299