Moving Pictures- Video Art

Notes:

• video differs from film and television: in one essential point it directly translates the audio-visual material into analogue or digital code ergo recording and storage take place synchronously
• video is a means of preservation that retains the recorded material in a state of permanent availability and manipulability
• film is a sequence of individual images visible on the celluloid to the naked eye, and only the mechanical movement of the length of film during projection produces the movement
• 1960s:  video was now marked by a fascination with the expanding field of television, the electrotechnical affliction to which fostered the new medium's beginning
• technology and image: video depends on upon the current state of technological develpment more that any other artistic medium
• 25 pictures per second were sent directly to a monitor or for storage on magnetic tape
• by the end of the 1990s audio visual material on magnetic tapes was largely replaced by numerical storage in data sets.  Now image productions finally broke away completely from everyday reality and entered the field of simulation 
• images started being translated into binary code- code based on only 2 numbers
• video picture is a procedural, non discrete image type; the image is permanently in the process of forming or dissipating and doesn't show the film -reel's static single image
• the 1970s: demonstrate an aesthetic quality that was conditioned by the technical possibilities  of that time. the tapes displayed streaky, coarse-grained, and occasionally flickering images.
• body and performance:  the technical medium of video now became a structural element in their actions
• video is explicitly a time-based artistic medium
• the 1980s:  advanced to vein sole means of expression.  camera was now much more of an instrument for visualizing complex narratives and fictions and artists view things as holistic perspective.