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video art

video art

1 4.1
Art that uses moving pictures and often sound shown on screens
  • noun
  • /ˈvɪdioʊ ɑrt/
translation icon : videoarte
  • Wagner views early video art not as electronic narcissism but as a politicized engagement with media, showing that, as McLuhan maintains, video "is the medium that shapes and controls the scale and form of human association and action."
  • medium of video art

So that's when I started my undergraduate degree in in fine art media, which was basically more kind of video art, performance art, sound as well.

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Examples

  • The exhibit featured stunning examples of video art that captivated the audience with their dynamic imagery.

  • Although a few major dealers, such as Leo Castelli, began to promote video art in the 1970s, it was not until the 1990s that most galleries started to pay attention.

    Blog text (28)
  • I hope in the new year to develop more video art for posting.

    Blog text (3)
  • Thus, the Video Sector was developed with the organization of courses, discussions, and exhibitions dedicated exclusively to video art.

    Academic text (2014)
  • And both of these works brought video art into a theatrical context with contemporary classical music in pioneering ways.

  • I happened to bump into Simpson last night at the third night of the four-week video art retrospective currently going on at The Power Station.

    Blog text (16)
  • She has given numerous gallery talks at the AIC and has lectured extensively on contemporary art, new media, technology, and the preservation of film and video art.

    Blog text (20)
  • In her article "Performance, Video and the Rhetoric of Presence," she argues that video art, particularly in its formative stage, sought to examine and expose how "art's summoning of selfhood is compromised by what we might call a 'media effect.'"

    Academic text (2013)
  • Derek Jarman's The Angelic Conversation, for example, is a gay film that sets hypnotic, stop-motion video art to Judi Dench's reading of the sonnets.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • During the festival, artists showcased their latest video art projects that blended visuals with music.

Synonyms

artwork
vsvideo art
81 3.0

A painting or sculpture that shows an artist's idea

features moving images and sound shown on screens or electronic devices

How Artistic

video art
1 4.1
installation
39 4.0
home movie
34 2.8

Surface Forms

video art singular
video arts plural

Morphology

video + art

The meaning 'a form of artistic expression using moving images' is directly derivable from combining 'video' (moving-image recordings) with 'art' (artistic creation). This noun-noun composition is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

Video art comes from artists using video tools like cameras and TV screens as their art canvas to make 'moving images' and 'sound'. That's why video art now means art made with 'moving images' and 'sound' instead of paint or sculpture.