ART 3180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Steina And Woody Vasulka, Tehching Hsieh, Video Art
5 Dec 2016
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Audiences would visit in the caged area and show the limitations of the piece. How time is artificially structured and how they go along in the universe. Whenever he punched the clock, a camera would take a photo of him. He shaved his hair and it grew back (represents time) Wore la(cid:271)our like (cid:272)lothes, to represe(cid:374)t the (cid:862)pu(cid:374)(cid:272)hi(cid:374)g i(cid:374) of work(cid:863) for every hourly taken photo. One-year outdoor piece, commitment to living outdoors for one year. Had money, could get food, but he had to be homeless. Did admit to being inside for 43 minutes for a court case. Radio guarded as the father of video art. Worked with an engineer, mixed 7 channels into one. Various kinds of mixing, various mixings of it. Thought of display, most video in the 70s stimulated a response, thought of sculpture, video, etc. A place for early video practitioners to get together and to experiment in a place to display work.
