Video Art Movies

The term hysteresis soberly describes a processual behaviour where the previous history affects the result as much as new changes. Robert Seidel...

American cartoons are the starting point for Martin Arnold's new work. Sequences of short films form the basis of a process of fragmentation,...

From his photo-text canvases in the 1960s to his video works in the 1970s to his installations in the 1980s, John Baldessari’s (b.1931) varied...

In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the...

Arbitrary Logic, an interactive audio-visual synthesiser was first presented under the working title Osnabruk at the Osnabruk festival of 1987 and...

In Discs, originally made as installation for a set of monitors, the creators experiment with the phenomenon of horizontal drift trhough the...

"Plasforms" is above all a visual composition, the relevance of the camera's absence, continuing in its time the plastic tradition of seeing. It is...

In Warp, Steina makes use of her two favourite features of the Image/ine software, written by Tom Demeyer. The first feature –...

Real time development of a video feedback, processed and controlled through a video keyer. Sound results from video signals, interfaced with audio...

A snub to technological hegemony in the arts, particularly in the world of contemporary music. In the most trivial representation of the computer...

The innovative and influential British filmmaker Derek Jarman was invited to direct the Pet Shop Boys' 1989 tour. This film is a series of...

Köner uses sequences of images from webcams as raw material. People and their vehicles appear acoustically, but not visually. The shift from day...

Four Afro-American women drive around the deserted streets of the abandoned city. The palpable tension in the Chrysler reflects the disturbing...

Using one half of a convex mirror mounted within a glass cylinder, Steina trains the video camera eye dead center as she records the space...

Religions are like cactus. They look like flowers, but with bare blades.