| ART HIS 140C | VIDEO ART & ACTIVISM | GALVIN, K. | A historical overview of experimental and independent video production in the United States, from its early development in the 1960s and 1970s through the present day. As an introductory survey to video, explores a diverse range of video practices, along with their multiple critical and theoretical histories. Video art will be contextualized in terms of art world institutional support structures, as well as in relation to broader moving image histories. Specifically looks at how video has been characterized as a means of self and community expression, exploring how video has been wielded as a tool for aesthetic experimentation, activist agendas, and identity politics. As video has often been coupled with live performance, large-scale installation, television broadcast, and most recently with Web-based projects, evaluates the multiple and varied presentational formats of video art and activism. Includes readings in the foundational texts of video art, as well as media history and theory. Weekly in-class screenings of a variety of video works, including (but not limited to) performance art, public access programming, experimental documentaries, animation, and video remix. |