1. VIDEO ART ¸ MA. Vesna Srni ć (Bill Violla: I do not know what it is I am like)

2. Contents Television as an artistic medium Difference between TV and video: Video art as a new economy of seeing Usage of Video in Art Themes and features of Video – art Several famous Video artists

3. Television as an artistic medium Television and Video appears in 1960`s, processed through the same system: audio- visual information is teleported as “the music of electrons” In 1969`s first experiments on TV and Video: Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, Otto Piene, Terry Riley i Phil Makana (electromagnetic distorsions ) Video statics: Zero degree of medium expression (simultanity) Video dynamics: in- processness and montage Dinko Cepak: TV sequence

4. Difference between TV and Video: Video art as “a new economy of seeing” Video has specific graffic potential and creative synthesis of thinking ( cybernetic art) Video uses “electronic processed figuration”, namely hardware and software Creating transnational video consciousness, artist becomes ecologicaly responsible By semantic shifting existential supportings become obvious as overmastering the media, antropologicaly humanising the technology and generating a New Reality “NEW ECONOMY OF SEEING” (Marina Gržinić/Aina Šmid) Jeremy Welsh: “Labyrinth”,1987

5. Usage of Video in Art From Video experiments, through Video instalations to Video Art Dalibor Martinis: “Kameni vrt” (Stone garden), 1986 “Maltese falcon”, instalation, 2002

6. Themes and features of Video – art Video-artists explore: everyday life, society, culture, nature, phenomena (love, identity, feminism) Personal appearance of artist in his work of art “Sincere” sexuality Subversivness Blending of mental and projective (electronic) picture through particular “iconic thinking”, on a symbolic level, fantasms and certain autoeroticism Sanja Iveković: ”Make up-Make down”, 1976

7. Several famous Video artists Nam June Paik: “Zen for TV”, 1965 Dalibor Martinis: “Otvoreni kolut” (Open Reel), 1976 Dara Birnbaum: “Damnation of Faust”, 1985 Bill Seaman: “ Telling motions”, 1986 Bill Viola: “I do not know what it is I am like”, 1986 Sanja Iveković: “Maja”, 1986 Jeremy Welsh: “Labyrinth”, 1987 Breda Beban/Hrvoje Horvatic: “All our secrets are contained in an Image” Gary Hill: “Incidence of catastrophy”, 1988

8. Bill Viola, I do not know what it is I am like, 1986 Breda Beban/Hrvoje Horvati ć : Sve naše tajne nastaju iz jedne slike, 1987