Description
How have artists approached the object, materiality, texture, and thing-ness in video? How have systems and practices been articulated, elaborated, described, deconstructed, and torn apart on the screen? What does it mean to tackle this ugly dynamic through the language and sensibilities of art making as opposed to the formal languages of cinema or journalism? In this course we will closely observe seminal and semi-forgotten exemplars of these messy materialistic tendencies in video art. Based around screenings and discussions, the course will culminate in a public screening series of student works.