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Video art


  • Works of art that employ video technology.
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    • Video art
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    • found: Art & architecture thesaurus online, December 13, 2016(video art; variants: art, video; note: Works of art that employ video technology, especially videotapes. For the study and practice of the art of producing such works, use "video." Works of art that employ video technology, especially videotapes. For the study and practice of the art of producing such works, use "video.")
    • found: LCSH, December 13, 2016(Video art; UF Electronic art; Experimental television; BT Art, Modern-20th century; Art, Modern-21th century; Performance; Television; RT Experimental films; NT Video installations (Art))
    • found: The concise Oxford dictionary of art terms, Oxford reference, viewed December 13, 2016(Video made by visual artists; it originated in 1965 when the Korean Fluxus artist Nam June Paik made his first tapes on the newly available Sony portable video camera and showed them a few hours later at the CafĂ© a Go Go in Greenwich Village, New York. Video is a medium, not a style, and embraces an extremely wide range of activity and level of achievement.)
    • notfound: Thesaurus for graphic materials, December 13, 2016
  • General Notes

    • Works of art that employ video technology.
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  • Change Notes

    • 2017-11-13: new
    • 2018-02-20: revised
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