Response to 5 Video Artists

1. Jan Svankmajer

I watched, Alice (1988) and 4 Dark and Light. I really enjoyed 4 Dark and Light it was whimsical and a little creepy. His work seems to be mainly stop motion video with no dialogue. His videos had very accurate sound effects however, filling the space making dialogue unnecessary. Overall I was very interesting in his videos, usually with video artists I find myself bored while watching them, but his work really caught my attention.

2. Eve Sussman

I watched clips from 89 seconds of Alcazar, and Studio 360. Eve's style is very different, and she uses a lot of strategically laced dialogue in studio 360. I didn't completely follow what was happening in that film, and it was kind of boring to watch because i just wanted to know the narrative or plot ot what i was watching. The clip of 89 seconds of Alcazar seemed really interesting and I wish i could watch the full film. Overall her style was really cool, and her back ground music and dialogue was original which caught my attention.

3. Joan Jonas

While searching around the internet looking at pictures and videos of her work, I thought everything she has done is pretty awesome. Her one exhibit named Light Time Tales, looked really interesting and cool. I have never seen an art exhibit where an artist has so many different videos set up in one room on different sized screens, and different meanings. In one of her interviews she said that the videos set up in the room cause the viewer to view them in almost a 3D sculpture like perspective, and i thought that was so unique. Personally i have always thought video art as boring, but her exhibits look so energetic, and exciting.

4. Valie Export

I watched her 9 minuet film called .....remote....remote...(1973) and the preview to her film called Invisible Adversaries. The 9 minuet film was just her sitting in a chair clipping her cuticles. I thought this was odd, and i am sure there is a big deeper meaning too it but i did not get it. Her work is the kind of video art I don't understand, or really enjoy at all. I felt uncomfortable, and anxious while watching her video, and that might be the point of the artwork, to create that sense of emotion, but overall i wasn't that interested in her style of film making.

5.Fred Forest

His work was very unique and his website was different from any kind of artists website i have come across. A lot of his work was based in mass media and on the internet. I have never seen an artist who utilized the internet and "cyberspace" the way he was. His work is interesting but it was hard to find a lot of concrete videos and performances to look at online, so i did not get a well rounded impression of him.