- "Video installation is a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art, making use of all aspects of the surrounding environment to affect the audience."
This subfield uses video projections or screens as a primary element in installations, often exploring narrative or poetic themes.
Conceptual Art: An art movement that prioritizes the idea or concept behind the artwork itself.
Installation Art: A type of sculpture that is designed for a specific place or space with the aim of creating a captivating experience for the viewer.
Video Art: A type of art that uses video technology as the primary medium to express its artistic intent.
Experimental Film: A genre of film that emphasizes on non-linear storytelling, unconventional techniques, and employs experimental or non-traditional editing techniques.
Performance Art: An art form that combines various elements of different disciplines, such as theatre, dance, and visual arts, to create a live performance.
Digital Art: Is an art genre that involves the use of digital technology to create images, sounds, video and animations.
Projection Mapping: An innovative technique that involves projecting video onto different surfaces, resulting in a 3D illusion that is designed to be viewed by a specific audience.
Interactive Art: A genre of art that requires the participation of the viewer or audience to complete the artwork.
Sound Art: A type of artwork that uses sound as the primary medium for artistic expression.
Multimedia Art: A type of art that combines different media, such as video, sound, text and interactive elements to express its artistic intent.
Site-specific Art: A type of sculpture that is designed to be placed in a particular location or site and is intended to relate to its environment.
Contemporary Art: Is a genre of art that highlights the most recent artistic practices that reflect current social, cultural and political climate.
Curatorial Practice: The creation, development and organization of exhibitions of contemporary art.
Aesthetics: The philosophy of art that examines the nature of art, beauty, and taste.
Video Editing: The process of manipulating and rearranging video shots to create a new work of art.
Single-Channel Video Installation: This type of video installation art involves a projector, television, or computer monitor that displays a single video on loop.
Multi-Channel Video Installation: This type of video installation art involves multiple screens that display multiple videos simultaneously.
Interactive Video Installation: In this type of video installation art, the viewer can interact with the video installation, and their actions may change the video's display.
Video Mapping: This type of video installation art involves projecting images onto three-dimensional objects or buildings to create the illusion of movement and depth.
Virtual Reality (VR) Video Installation: This type of video installation art involves creating a virtual reality environment for the viewer to explore, usually through VR headsets.
Augmented Reality (AR) Video Installation: This type of video installation art involves overlaying digital images or videos onto real-world environments, usually through a smartphone or tablet.
Sound and Video Installation: This type of video installation art combines video with music, sound effects, or spoken words to create a multisensory experience.
Kinetic Video Installation: In this type of video installation art, video or images are displayed on moving or rotating objects, creating a dynamic and engaging display.
Live Performance Video Installation: This type of video installation art involves a live performance that is recorded and displayed on screens or projections in real-time.
Immersive Video Installation: This type of video installation art involves creating a complete environment where the viewer is surrounded by video projections or screens, often creating an illusion of entering a different world.
- "Tracing its origins to the birth of video art in the 1970s..."
- "...it has increased in popularity as digital video production technology has become more readily accessible."
- "...from galleries and museums to an expanded field that includes site-specific work in urban or industrial landscapes."
- "Popular formats include monitor work, projection, and performance."
- "The only requirements are electricity and darkness."
- "One of the main strategies used by video-installation artists is the incorporation of the space as a key element in the narrative structure."
- "...the well-known linear cinematic narrative is spread throughout the space creating an immersive ambient."
- "The viewer plays an active role as he/she creates the narrative sequence by evolving in the space."
- "Sometimes, the idea of a participatory audience is stretched further in interactive video installation."
- "A pioneer of video installation was Korean/American Nam June Paik..." - "Wolf Vostell is another pioneer of video installation."
- "Other Americans include Bill Viola, Gary Hill, and Tony Oursler."
- "His 1997 Survey at the Whitney Museum in NY, along with the 1994-95 Gary Hill survey created by the Henry Art Gallery... amounted to a watershed mark in the history of video installation art marking both a period on the sentence of the first generation and a beginning of the next."
- "Gary Hill, another master of the medium, has created quite complex and innovative video installations using combinations of stripped down monitors, projections, and a range of technologies."
- "For instance, in the 1992 piece Tall Ships, commissioned by Jan Hoet for Documenta 9, the audience enters a dark hall-like space where ghostly images of seated figures are projected onto a wall."
- "Tony Oursler's work exploited the technology developed in the early 1990s of very small video projectors that could be built into sculptures and structures."
- "David Hall and Tony Sinden exhibited the first multi-screen installation in Britain, 60 TV Sets, at Gallery House, London in 1972."
- "Subsequently, British video installation developed a distinctive pattern following the seminal international Video Show at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1975..."
- "Sam Taylor-Wood's early installation pieces are good examples where specially filmed elements are shown as a series of serial projections."
- "Iranian born Shirin Neshat combines cinematic sensibility to her video installations."