The most complete and up-to-date overview available of an art form born some forty years ago and now ubiquitous internationally. Video art has moved from brief showings on tiny screens in alternative art spaces to dominance in international exhibitions and artistic events, in which vast video installations sometimes occupy factory-sized buildings or video projections take over the walls of an e…
Presents an overview of the use of new intellectual and scientific technologies in modern art, discussing the creations of such influential artists as Eadweard Muybridge, Robert Rauschenberg, and Bill Viola and incorporating into the latest edition coverage of new developments in digital work. Original.