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Name: Ryan Lee

Student no: n4321073

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DOB: 18th June 1980

Occupation: Student (2nd year, 2nd semester, Queensland University of Technology - Bachelor of Creative Industries- Art & Visual Culture, Television, Digital Media).


--Ryan Lee 13:37, 26 Jul 2004 (EST) Back to Main Page


Contents

New Media Art: The Video Art of Nam June Paik

Research Project Proposal

Video Art

Research Project Subtopics

Nam June Paik

Global groove

Participation TV

TV Buddha

TV cello

Magnet TV

--Ryan Lee 00:30, 10 Sep 2004 (EST)




Annotated Bibliography

Birringer, J. (1998) Media & performance: Along the border, London: The John Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0801858526.

This book critically assesses the position of performance and video art in relation to the new media technologies, and draws on the author’s personal experience as a choreographer to build a framework of understanding- integrating the issues of expressionism, aesthetics etc.- around this emerging culture. While video has traditionally been associated with the socially and culturally constrained category of the ‘mass media’, Birringer explores how convergence of technologies has resulted in a more democratic space, allowing video to be accepted as a medium of ‘high art’. The relevance of this pertains to the increasing role of video as an instrument ‘of critical and analytical reflection on our work in different locations’ (p. xxi). Accordingly, this book provides a foundation for one exploring issues pertaining to art in the new media, familiarising its readers with the significant parties involved in the development of video art, such as Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell etc.


Cubitt, S. (1991) Timeshift: On video culture, London: Routledge, ISBN 0415055482.

This book explores the potential merits of video as a medium, and accordingly demonstrates the drawbacks of film and television in terms of democratic media. In exploring the emerging cultural practices around video, this book analyses the ways this new media technology might work towards building a new media culture. An interesting way this is undertaken is covered in a chapter specific to understanding and approaching video art- which explores video as both a process as well as an apparatus (p.106). Also, this book evaluates various approaches towards the deconstruction of the emerging role of video and the new uses of media technology and their potential implications for society, while working towards providing the foundations for a balanced understanding of video and related new media technologies.


Hanhardt, J. (2000) The worlds of Nam June Paik, New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, ISBN 0810969254.

This publication showcases the achievements of pioneering video artist Nam June Paik, and traces his journey from his early experiments with electronic media and moving images to his current status as a key figure in video and performance art. Apart from acknowledging the ways new media- such as video, multimedia, the Internet etc.- have impacted on the presentation of artistic expression, this volume also presents a visual history of video art as documented in the work of Nam June Paik, for the exhibition The Worlds of Nam June Paik for the Guggenheim Museum. This illustration of technological evolution and the ways it is socio-culturally implicated also serves to provide a visual framework for understanding the ways images communicate meaning, as well as the way the characteristics of video as a medium facilitates this. In short, this volume catalogues Nam June Paik’s work, which ‘give[s] expression to the dynamic dialogue between art and technology that is at the heart of Paik’s contribution to art and culture’ (p.13).


Howard, D. (Director) (1987), Nam June Paik: Avante garde video [video recording], San Francisco: Visual Studies.

This video documents the works and practice of pioneering video artist Nam June Paik, and provides insight directly from him in an informative interview. Nam June Paik is widely hailed as one of the key figures in the development of video as a media for expression and performance. This video explores issues pertaining to new media and the avant-garde, and identifies relevant socio-cultural issues. More significantly, viewers are provided with insight into the artistic process involved when dealing with new media, its intentions, and the achieved outcomes. Also, being a video, this video provides rich examples in the form they were originally intended, i.e. moving pictures/video, as opposed to colour plates in other catalogues.


Mellencamp, P. (1995) ‘The old and the new: Nam June Paik’, Art Journal; vol.54, no.4, p.41. [Online] Available: Proquest database, Proquest document ID: 9132882, ISSN 00043249 [Accessed 10 Aug. 2004]

This article explores aspects of society around the time Nam June Paik embarked on his work with video, and highlights the incidental circumstances which proved to be conducive to the characteristic uniqueness video as a medium had to offer. These circumstances included the rise of the avant-garde as well as the trend away from the Conceptual, towards the critique of traditional institution and the freedom of expression. It illustrates the zeitgeist of the era where involved parties ‘extolled sci-fi principles derived from information theory and cybernetics’. The article captures the mood of the avant-garde, politically active, and Fluxus movements, which were eager to move beyond post-war stagnation by implicating technology in expression. This article highlights the way Nam June Paik manages to pay tribute to the past while simultaneously commenting on the present while setting the direction for the future.


Perrée, R. (1988) Into video art: The characteristics of a medium, Amsterdam: Con Rumore, ISBN 9071641023.

This book charts the historical development of video as a medium for the expression of artistic concepts, and identifies the characteristics unique to video which have aided its growth, allowing it to surpass film and television as an outlet for such expression. Accordingly, this book investigates the view that the relatively contemporary phenomena of video art is based in the ‘growing need for democracy’ as exhibited in political and social unrest in the developed world. This book also investigates the move away from the restrictive, constrained structure of Conceptual Art towards a more autonomous and democratised realm of art and expressionism, and accordingly deconstructs the semiotics which govern expression within the medium. Being structured around a historical timeline, this book also sets out a clear overview of the development of video art and the manner in which it achieved the popularity which regards it today. This timeline showcases, amongst others, the works of notable video artists such as Bill Viola, Pink, Nan Hoover and Nam June Paik.


Rush, M. (1999) New media in late 20th century art, New York: Thames & Hudson, ISBN 0500203296.

This book provides a detailed overview of new media in the art world, and investigates the trend seeming to move away from the use of traditional techniques, materials and media, towards the avant-garde, exhibited in the popular adoption of ‘film-making, video, digitally manipulated photography, virtual reality, installation and performance’. Investigated within are the conceptual, intellectual as well as practical justifications for such a focus shift, and their implications. The book also presents a historical overview of new media art, and documents the pioneering works of artists such as ‘Nam June Paik, Vito Acconci, Marina Abramowic, Pipilotti Rist, and Bill Viola’. This book also provides an useful point of reference, richly illustrated with full-colour plates of various instances of art in the new media.


Slessor, C. (2002) ‘Creative interaction’, The architectural review; Nov, vol.212, no.1269, p.76. [Online] Available: Proquest database, Proquest document ID: 266729131, ISSN 0003861X [Accessed 10 Aug. 2004]

This article documents plans for the development of Eyebeam’s Museum of Art and Technology (2006), which aims to provide an exhibition space for new media art. The significance of this news is in that the new media is being recognised and official infrastructure is being constructed in recognition of its importance. Also, the unconventional design of the museum represents a parallel between forward-thinking artistic expression and a society not averse to embracing the future. However, as this facility is being constructed new, it can also be suggested that the new media is not a replacement for traditional artistic practice, but an addition to the means available to the artist.


Thompson, S. (2003) ‘Artists working in new media’, Afterimage; Nov/Dec, vol.31, no.3, p.12. [Online] Available: Proquest database, Proquest document ID: 502811681, ISSN 03007472 [Accessed 10 Aug. 2004]

This article looks at the work of three artists, Marc Amerika, Tony Dove, and Rice Dixon, who use computer-based new media in their artistic practice. Going beyond video, these artists embrace the interactivity offered by computer-based multimedia presentation. This step is the next logical progression beyond the somewhat mono-directional communication offered by video (which arguably is losing its avant-garde status). This is an important juxtaposition because it illustrates the direction new media (including video) is taking. As pointed out within the article, ‘viewers create their own narrative from within the structure that the artist has created’.


Wilken, E. (1998) ‘Video conferencing adds human touch’, Graphic arts monthly; vol.70, no.6, p.83. [Online] Available: Proquest database, Proquest document ID: 30485355, ISSN 10479325 [Accessed 10 Aug. 2004]

This article outlines developments in video conferencing technology, which sees the development of CubicVideoComm’s Video-Mail software, which allows users to send embedded video and sound in traditional emails. This serves as a milestone marker to illustrate the development of the video/visual aspect of new media technology. It also serves to provide a point to juxtapose current technology, thus allowing one to gauge the rate of development of Internet video. While in current usage, video has not yet found itself prevalent among most people who use email (particularly the vast proportion on dial-up connections), it can be seen that the direction of development has been set, even if creating the facility for popular adoption is experiencing slow development.

--Ryan Lee 03:23, 13 Aug 2004 (EST)

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