1. Video Art, part 3

2. Video & Performance Art in the 60s & 70s

3. Video & Performance Art
Performance art was born in New York in the 60s as the
result of cross fertilization between theater, dance, film,
video and visual art.
Some well known artists who worked in this medium:
Joan Jonas
Nam June Paik
Vito Acconci
Chris Burden
Bruce Nauman

4. Bruce Nauman – Video Artist
American artist born December 6, 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana
His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking and performance.

5. Bruce Nauman - Performance Art
Walking in an Exaggerated Manner by Bruce Nauman

6. Bruce Nauman - Performance Art
Art 21, Bruce Nauman

7. What is Installation Art?
An artistic genre of site-specific,
three-dimensional works designed to
transform the perception of a space.

8. Examples of Installation Art
Zero1 Garage Exhibit, San Jose, 2012

9. Video Installation Art
Is a type of installation art in which
video is an integral component.
Zero1 Garage Exhibit, San Jose, 2012

10. TV Buddha, Nam June Paik, 1974, video installation

11. Vito Acconci (b. 1940) A New York-based visual artist
Began his career in late 60s as a poet & writer
Transformed himself into a performance and video artist by using his own body as a subject for photography, video, etc.

12. Vito Acconci (b. 1940)
Theme Song, 1973

13. Vito Acconci (b. 1940)

14. Chris Burden (b. 1946) Born in Boston
An American artist who specializes in sculpture, video and performance art
In the 70s made a series of controversial performa-nces in which the idea of personal danger as artistic expression was central
Provocative, radical work

15. “Trans-Fixed” Performance, 1974
Chris Burden (b. 1946)
“Trans-Fixed” Performance, 1974

16. Chris Burden (b. 1946)
“Shoot” Performance, 1971

17. Chris Burden (b. 1946)

18. Reenactment of Shoot Reenactment of Chris Burden’s performance “Shoot”
in Second Life by Eva and Franco Mattes, 2007

19. Video: The New Wave