ARHI 30481 - Art After Video

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

Art History

Description:

The introduction of video as an artistic medium in the late 1960s revolutionized the ways in which artists could address their audience. It also brought a newly literal dimension to artists' relationship with their own projected images. Much of the early literature in artists' video references its self-reflexive element: the "feedback loop" that was initially intrinsic to the medium itself. This course examines video art as it expands from these beginnings. The objects of its inquiry are not strictly bounded by definitions of medium; rather, this course will consider video in addition to other durational media, such as TV and film, which were influenced by artists' video practices. Artists working in video posed a series of thought-provoking questions in the medium's first decades: what is the relationship between performance and document? How is the mediated nature of video inflected by the art market's emphasis on luxury commodities? How do the qualities of a medium affect its content in a postmodernist period? This course will address such questions by drawing upon aesthetic theories of temporality, site-specificity, identity, performance, and institutional critique - as well as by screening numerous artists' videos dating from 1967 until recent times. It has a substantial reading and writing component.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

Prerequisites:

Corequisites:

Exclusions:

Level:

Instructional Type:

Lecture

Notes:

Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

The Course Profile information is provided and updated by third parties including the respective institutions. While the institutions are able to update their information at any time, the information is not independently validated, and no party associated with this website can accept responsibility for its accuracy.