I found a video called "Cut Copy Lights and Music". It is a video of paint being put on a young women, but in reverse. It's interesting to watch if you feel like watching it (I don't know how to provide links it's on Youtube).
By: Tiffany Harnden So I decided to take a different spin on this. I wanted to show how other people view documentaries. This artist, Tpindell, is a youtube artist who made what is his version of a documentary of "thug life". Aiming on humor instead of informing, it plays to the entertainment of the viewers. What makes this video interesting though, to me, (and why I chose it) is that it is two fold; this video shows what he thinks/what his perception is, of a documentary, and he also unknowingly documented his life in the end by cutting the film to show him and his family as they really are, talking how they really talk. Showing the face that he puts on for others and his real self is what made this so interesting to me and why I chose it. Enjoy. There is a whole page on vimeo about documentary video art, and as I watched all of them I came to realize that documentary art is in the eye of the beholder because all of them had a great difference in meaning. I never really researched documentary art before and I came to find out that this art form is one that tells a story through a constant string of images and I actually came to love this idea. It's beautiful without saying words, and the music that goes along with all of them are phenomenal. They all flow so well and in the end have a story to tell. This one in particular I liked a lot due to the fact that it's about a place I've never been and probably will never go. You get to experience an irregularity through the eyes of the person behind the camera. This video also reminds me of stop animation in a way. There's just an elegance in documentary video art that you can't really find anywhere else. -Kara French Documentary Video Art on VimeoMiranda July is an artist who has explored video, acting, audio and multimedia. Her art work has been seen and heared of all around the states. Miranda's pieces continue to surprise people once they come in contact with it. I chose her because she doesn't just have one background, she has many backgrounds ranging all over.
-Julia The artist I did was Sam Spreckly from Scotland and this video is untitled but it explores sound and vision and how the work together. I decided to do this piece because I thought it was really interesting and the sounds she uses work very well, I think it also adds a bit of humor too. She usually experiments with the sound and visual aspect of the art and how to change the visual take based on the sounds she adds. -Dana Morton This week I chose a documentary written by Richard Dawkins. It is a 3 part documentary. The first part explains the basics of natural selection and how Charles Darwin came up with the theory. The second episode identifies some of the "social and philosophical ramifications" that came to be as a result of his theory. While the third and final episode explains better why the theory is is so controversial. I have always been very interested in the whole idea of natural selection especially when dealing with animals and their survival in the wild.The documentary itself is pretty long, part 1 is 48 minutes alone. But from what I've seen so far it's pretty interesting if you have the slightest ingest in that kind of stuff. by Ariel Nichols
Vito Acconci is a landscape architect, installation artist, and video/performance artist from New York. He has also done video art like the above, Theme Song. In this video, Acconci faces the camera and talks to the viewer intimately, at times using music he plays as cues. He is verbally documenting a turbulant relationship and his thoughts on these things, much like a modern day video blog. However, there is a tension in the way he speaks to the viewer, who he calls "you" which has always really unsettled me. Peter Campus is an American artist, born in 1937 in New York. He is very well known for his interactive and single channel video work. However, he also has many photographic and digital video works. His work runs from the 1970's to present day. Campus' works are collected by major museums/galleries, which include the MoMa in New York, the Guggenheim Museum, Tate Modern, the Whitney Museum, the Renia Sofia and the Centre Pompidou. He received critical acclaim for his video works which explored identity, reality, and the relationship/interaction between viewer and artwork. The works I am presenting to you are Double Vision (1971) and Three Transitions (1973), which are considered to be very influential in our world of Art. For Double Vision he used two cameras and the technique of superimposition. His usage of these two things are the beginnings of more experimentation with the medium. All his works have to do with self image/transformation, identity, reality, and so on. Campus' works show his interest in questioning reality, which is a theme he plays with in his videos. I couldn't find the video of Double Vision on youtube, so I posted the pictures instead. If you want to see the video, here is the link: http://found0bjects.blogspot.com/2010/11/peter-campus-double-vision-1971.html in Three Transitions Campus transforms his image in three different ways. In this video he experiments with blue screen technology, superimposition once again (in this case superimposing one image of himself upon another image). In the video it appears as if he is climbing throughout his own body or rather "breaking through the image of himself." This could possibly be symbolic of self-discovery. I really like his work because it questions and explores a question we as human beings all have: "Who are we" and sometimes "Are we experiencing reality?" In this world, we all are trying to discover ourselves. It's almost always about self-image. I have no doubt that every human being at some point in there life asked these questions and really pondered on them. Thus, I believe that Peter Campus has definitely chosen a theme that includes the issues and interest of every human being. -Amena Kamel Double Vision still
The Forgotten Film Gallery is a documentary video art installation that catalogs old video clips that interpret the forgotten and attempts to bring them back to the "indefinite time period during and after the present". Its goal is to make sure that, in a day and age where old things are so often ignored or discarded without thought, we respect and enjoy and see that even parts of the past are still relevant in the future. It addresses the issue of not being able to connect with piece of history that are arguably vital to us. The surreal experience is performed in a desert area with TVs that play these clips. My opinion of this is that its a very elaborate concept that can't quite be contained or conveyed easily, although installing this documentary video art in different places seems to help with the concept of not only change but also that the age of the landscape is sort of eternal and doesn't fit under the past/present labels as easily as people; therefore, it creates a perfect environment in which to view these clips. I enjoyed watching the clips they used for this project, most of them being short films that I've never heard of (probably because of their age, which is the point of this documentary video art). The names of the films for this particular highlight video can be found in the description on the Vimeo video page.
Johann Parathoner is an artist that works in three dimensions. the idea of three dimensional art is my no means a new field, but in recent years a great deal of progress has been made, and while Johann still prefers to work with books it makes his art no less amazing. This video is a summary of her work (this is
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