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In Writing Holly Rogers's video art primer August 2013 Artists 4AD Lucas Abela Jan Anderzén Arrington de Dionyso Asian Dub Current Issue 383 Foundation January 2016 Scott Snibbe Atom On the cover: 2015 Autechre Rewind: The Wire’s The musician and author curates a primer for The Bass Clef review of the last 12 months in Portal, ahead of her talk on the history of video art at RobertContributors Beatty underground music David Bedford September’s edition of The Wire Salon. and audio culture, BelburyJennifer PolyLucy Allan with charts, essays Robert Whitman, Two Holes of Water—3 (1966) Benge Knut Aufermann and reflections from At first, video didn’t constitute a genre on its own, but William Bennett critics and Andy Battaglia was included in the work of artists and musicians Caroline Bergvall musicians guiding Ed Baxter already working with other media. Whitman’s piece was Natalie Beridze you through the Chris Bohn part of electrical engineer Billy Klüver’s series of events, Kevin Blechdom releases, trends Marcus Boon and debates of Nine Evenings: Theater and Engineering, held at an Olivia Block Philip Clark 2015. Plus: French empty Armoury in New York. Klüver wanted to bring Céleste Boursier-Julian Cowley collage artist Marc together artists and musicians with engineers and invited BruceMougenot Davies Baron; film maker Whitman, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, David EricJon BrooksDawson Lawrence Lek; a Tudor and Merce Cunningham to host performances. GeetaGavin BryarsDayal Global Ear report from Zagreb; an Whitman’s piece has become famous as the first PeterTom Bugs Doolan Invisible Jukebox performance art to include a video camera. It was a MayaWilliam Dunietz S Burroughs with Gnod; Stewart pretty mad night that used a brand new miniature fibre- Josh Feola John Butcher Smith on cosmic optic video camera, alongside film and live performance Mark Fisher jazz; Abi Bliss on John Cage relayed via closed-circuit television. It also made use of Phil Freeman music outside the Chris Carter seven cars to create the feeling of a movie theatre. The Ellen Fullman metropolis; Frances Carter Tutti sounds were also taken from the performance space Paul Gilroy Morgan on women Carlos Casas and combined with the recorded voice of Bertrand Susanna Glaser writing about music, Maria Chavez plus hundreds of Russell. Someone has to recreate this event. You can Kenneth GoldsmithCindytalk albums and tracks, see a short clip and lots of pictures of the event at this FrancisOrnette GoodingColeman books, films and link. LouiseMatthew Gray Collins more reviewed. SteveComus Gunn Subscribe | Vito Acconci, Theme Song (1973) AndyJulian Hamilton Cope Buy Vito Acconci was important to early video art for so many DanDalglish Hancox reasons. He constantly combined video with process art, OwenDJ /Rupture Hatherley events and music, although he hated the word StefanDJ Nate Helmreich “performance” because it “had a place and that place by RichardBenedict Drew tradition was a theatre”; an “enclosure” that could DutchHenderson Bubbling provide only “abstractions of the world and not the KodwoJulian Henriques Eshun messy world itself.” His early engagement with poetry RuthKen Hollings Ewan developed into an interest in the combination of sound Ex-EasterStewart Home Island and image and lots of his single-channel videos show PieterHead Hugo him singing to himself or to the camera. In this video, we MatthewExcepter Ingram see a close-up of his face as he listens to Bob Dylan, the EricCosey Isaacson Fanni Tutti Doors, Van Morrison and others while directing a Alexander Keefe Patrick Farmer persuasive monologue straight out the camera to us. DavidEmail Keenan Updates What will i receive? Morton Feldman EliSign Keszler up Get removed You’ll be glad you can turn this off whenever you want…! Mark Fell MarkEmail Kluzek Address Go Simon Fisher Brandon LaBelle Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman, Concerto Turner Wayne Marshall for TV Cello (1971) Luke Fowler Robin McGinley This is my favourite video piece, I just love it. Paik Fugazi Keith Moliné trained as an experimental composer and made music Stefan the starting point for most of his video works. During the GoldmannAngélica Negrón 1960s, he hooked up with avant garde cellist Charlotte GoodiepalDaniel Neilson Moorman and they collaborated on lots of outrageous HelenaAlex Neilson Gough Andrew video performances (they were both arrested in 1967 Graveyards Nosnitsky Grouper when Moorman stripped off during a performance of David Novak Steve Gunn Opera Sextronique). For this project, Paik made a cello Ergo Phizmiz Mats Gustafsson out of three TV monitors and strung them with a string Mark Pilkington Mary Halvorson (the later version had several strings). The screens Nina Power Hamilton Yarns showed a live, closed circuit feed of Moorman playing Simon Reynolds Roy Harper and people listening, combined with pre-recorded Nick Richardson Emma Hart footage from different events. When the Moorman Jack Sargeant Helena Hauff played the instrument, electronic “TV Cello Sounds” Yusef Sayed Alexander morphed and warped the images so that she could HawkinsBrian Shimkovitz literally play her own image, like an early form of VJing. HeatsickRuss Slater There’s hardly any footage of the cello being played, but CatherineDaniel Spicer this is a little clip of a later performance in 1976. JosephChrister StannardHennix JamesHolly Herndon Steina Vasulka, Strange music for Nam June Paik HieroglyphicSteintrager and Violin Power (2013) GregBeing Sullivan Jenny Hval Vasulka is another video artist who trained in music (she The Bug TheIain ForsythLake & was initially a violinist in the Icelandic Symphony Jane Pollard Cathi Unsworth Orchestra): “My background is in music. For me, it is the Isnaj Dui Michael Veal sound that leads me into the image. Every image has its IX Tab Salomé Voegelin own sound and in it I attempt to capture something Jandek Derek Walmsley flowing and living. I apply the same principle to art as to Philip Jeck Dan Wilson playing the violin: with the same attitude of continuous Jon Jon Mueller Keiko Yoshida practice, the same concept of composition. Since my art Rolf Julius Rob Young schooling was in music, I do not think of images as stills, Yan Jun but always as motion.” In the 1970s, she developed a Kemper Norton violin that could play video images taken from the Eli Keszler performance space in a piece called Violin Power King Tubby (1978). In the 90s, she updated the violin to make a Konono No. 1 MIDI instrument, which she uses to perform a tribute to Konx-Om-Pax Paik in this clip from 2013. Biba Kopf Felix Kubin Bill Viola and Nine Inch Nails Linder Like Paik and Vasulka above, Viola has a long history as Little Annie a musician. As a result of his participation in David Loki Tudor’s avant garde performance troop, Composer's Lucky Dragons Inside Electronics during the 70s, Viola learned to Matt Lyne consider “all the senses as being unified. I do not Steve Mackay consider sound as separate from image. We usually Mattin Rob Mazurek think of the camera as an eye and the microphone as an Bruce McClure ear, but all the senses exist simultaneously in our Claudia Molitor bodies, interwoven into one system”. Lots of his video Momus installations use sound in immersive ways, but he has Moon Wiring also completed several projects where music comes Club first. In 1994 he visualised Edgard Varèse’s Déserts and Andy Moor in 2004 he collaborated with director Peter Sellars in a Thurston Moore new production of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde. Here is a Charlotte clip of Viola talking about his collaboration with Nine Inch Moorman Nails for their 1999-2000 Fragility tour. It’s very beautiful. Mordant Music My Cat Is An Scott Snibbe Alien Scott Snibbe is a wonderful interactive media artist who Conlon Nancarrow is keeping the ideas behind early video art-music alive Paal Nilssen- by creating participatory, site-specific and musical works Love that can exist in public spaces or on your mobile phone. Alexis O'Hara He collaborated with Björk on her Biophilia project (2011) Jim O'Rourke and with Philip Glass on his Rework album (2012). His Daphne Oram website has some great clips of his different projects and Nam June Paik gives a good sense of his interactive, audiovisual Harry Partch aesthetic. Ashley Paul Tristan Perich The Hive Collective Susan Philipsz The Hive Collective is a Liverpool based audiovisual Ergo Phizmiz community who initiate interactive and participatory Michael Pisaro events throughout the city. They’ve put on events in Seth Price shopping centres, music venues and art galleries and Eliane Radigue Ian Rawes are very cool indeed. If you are in Liverpool, look out for Featured their next event. Reinhold Friedl Nam June Paik Rhodri Davies Holly Rogers is interviewed in The Wire 354. She will Charlotte Moorman Hannah Rickards present her talk, Visual Music And Sonic Images: Nam Alasdair Roberts Contributors June Paik, Charlotte Moorman And Early Video Art- Steve Roden Paul Rooney Music, at The Wire Salon at London’s Cafe Oto on 2 Nam June Paik September. 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