Class Video art

Understand the contextualization of Video Art in the panorama of Contemporary Art.

Acquire theoretical and practical knowledge around the 'language' of video.

Develop works that can generate reflection on the potential of interactivity, complexity and hybridization of this medium.

DEFINITION
- What is video art?
- Video as a political and social response of the counterculture.

EXAMPLES OF THE FIRST USES OF VIDEO IN ART
- The Fluxus videos.
- The Fluxus philosophy: music, happening and humour.
- Registration of actions: documentary function / artistic function.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MEDIUM
- Dialectic between the work and the viewer.
- The video in the art market.
- Video and cinema.
- Experimentalism.
- Point of View: Anthology of the Moving Image.

PRACTICAL PROJECT
- Viewing and analysis of works of artists.
- Development of projects.
- Presentation and reflection on the results.

Resource on transdisciplinary methodologies, the current contextualisation of the understanding of 'transdisciplinarity' as a new studio model, with an expanded structure, specific to contemporary artistic practice; the updating of the distinction between 'transdisciplinarity' and 'interdisciplinarity'; the confrontation and relationship between the use of the internet as a 'studio' and the simultaneous need for this as a physical space. the simultaneous need for it as a physical space... if artists and designers continue to require a studio, do they not continue to require a studio, should not the way in which they mobilise it mobilise it be a reason to analyse their practice?

'Transdisciplinarity' as a new kind of 'intelligence' reflecting a harmony between mind, affect and body and its influence on the need for a 'reform of the University'; the definition of disciplinary boundaries and the nature of the possibilities of their transgression.

PARFAIT, Françoise. Video: un art contemporain, Editions du Regard, Paris, 2001.

BAIGORRI, Loura. Vídeo: primeira etapa (el vídeo en el contexto socialn y artístico de los años 60/70), Brumaria, Madrid, 2005.

MEIGH-ANDREWS, Chris. A history of Video Art: the development of form and function, Berg, Oxford, New York, 2006.

SPIELMANN, Yvonne, Video: The Reflexive Medium, The MIT Press, Leonardo Books, Cambridge, 2008.

REES, A.L. A History of Experimental Film and Video, British Film Institute, London, 2008.