Video artists have brought a whole new definition to conceptual and performance arts. Their works have ceaselessly inspired art-lovers all over the world. Here are some of the biggest names in video art industry.
Peter Campus. He is one of the most known artists in the field of interactive art whose single channel video work in 1970 has lived up to this day and displayed in famous museums and galleries such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Tate Modern in England, and the Pompidou Centre in France. “The Transitions” and “Third Tape” are two of his most unforgettable artworks while he was still experimenting on video art and the blue screen technology.
Joan Jonas, one of the best female sculptors was also well-known for her works in performance arts, mostly depicting the complex feminine image. Organic Honey is one of her best creations in the early 1970s. Other interesting pieces followed such as “The Juniper Tree” and “Lines in the Sand”. In 1994, she made an installation of her artworks in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Her works have greatly influenced conceptual arts of today.
Bill Viola is also one of the leading video artists whose superb use of modern media has led him to create his greatest visual work “Nantes Triptych”. His creations have common themes expressing the importance of major events in life such as birth, love, and death. Moreover, his works also shows the relationship between the human experience and awareness, with Christian Mysticism, Islamic Sufism, and Zen Buddhism as his inspirations.
Other leading figures in video art making include Jenny Holzer whose works became popular because of her expertise in adding texts to her video works, Domingo Sarrey who was the first to create a multi-vision video art, and Gary Hill who was well-recognized for his interesting video narratives.
Nowadays, the use of the Internet has facilitated the easy sharing of artistic works such as video arts. This is particularly helpful for those who dream of making his own video art.
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