The Nine Lives of Video Art
Author: Tom Sherman (2005, ed. 2008)
"In this article, Tom Sherman defines his position why video art is still a healthy and vivid medium, despite its assaults and threats over its short history of 40 years. The digital revolution transformed analog to digital, linear to non linear, distribution, exhibition and transmission. Today, Video as a vernacular medium has become a people?s medium, a decentralized communication tool for the masses, but, among Sherman, there remains still a gap between artists and non artists: aesthetics. As Sherman calls his article the Nine Lives of Video Art he concludes it with the statement that the video artist has to worry about different challenges and provocations, but not about the death of video art." (GAMA - Gateway to Archives of Media Art)
Read the full text. Language: English.
Lecture held during the conference 'Video Vortex - Responses to YouTube', Amsterdam, 18 January 2008.