What do you think about video/audio art? // Get quoted for an upcoming magazine article

[Anthony // Brooklyn Art Project]

We're writing an article for an Asian lifestyle magazine on the growth of video/audio art installations around the world, especially in Asia (Philippines, Singapore, Beijing, Honk Kong, Tokyo, etc.)

Respond to any of the questions below and include your name to be quoted in the article. We're looking for innovative audio/video work too so please link or embed videos/audio samples if you know of any, or have created some of your own. We'll post a PDF of the article here when it's published.


// What audio/video installations have you've seen? Where were they?

// What do you see as the current/future role of video/audio installations in contemporary art?

// What audio/video artists do you think are leading the way these days?

// What links can you share to great work or artist sites online?

// What upcoming audio/video installations in your city would you recommend?

Links:
Preview Magazine / Philippines

http://sinemaleta.blogspot.com.

Wikipedia definition of video art:
"Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and is comprised of video and/or audio data. (It should not however be confused with television or experimental cinema). Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations."

[allicette]

I believe that we are on the verge of seeing a major explosion of video art. Consider the affordability and technical ease by which artists can incorporate this medium into their arsenal of skills. Video allows all level of artists to capture ad hoc the loose nature of the fleeting and elusive—dreams and the real embodied in digital form. Followed by its coinciding with our leaving the infancy stages of the “inter-web” and doing the free-falling leap to the next level in new media and art fusion. The gem of video art is that it morphs itself quite astutely to the sound-byte generation and simultaneously to the established guard in the art community; content can instantly be broad or focused, fast or slow. In our lifetime we will see art move from static to free-form and liquid, something that other schools of art promised but never quite got because they were bound their canvases, papers and paints. The new video/new media age will become the avant-garde because it it the right tool at the precise moment.

Note that I had sent you me recommendation for call for a Asian video artist.

[Not Rondo]

http://www.119gallery.org/

[Deborah J. Boyd]

This is what I think. I am 59 years old. I grew up with TV. I was an only child so it was my best friend.
Now we have kids that have grown up with computers.
Soon we will have kids that have grown up with the Internet.
The World would have tanked long ago if not for entertainment. The video game market, dvds, movies, social networks. Within 5 years most TV will go out over the Internet.
I heard that the computer would put the paper business out of business. We probably use 50 times the paper we used the first time I heard that. IBM, my ex-employer, said the personal computer would only be used by a few geeks. They payed heavy for guessing wrong on that even though they built the first PC.
Technology has now put photography, communications, and networking together and the real kick is that it is affordable. It gets more affordable with each generation of improvement.
The social networks are arranged around common interests that run the gammut from Video Games to Religion. The users are from 12 - 80 years old.
The Internet has made time and geography irrelevant and opened up more opportunity than anything in my lifetime. Remember I said I had worked at IBM so I know a little about managing Dinosauers. We have a vacuum of leadership in the world that fails to understand the dynamics of the visual marketplace. We have kids in High School today that want to be Video Game producers instead of sports heros as when I was in High School along with George Washington.
The most popular theme right now is Peace on Earth and save the planet.
I intend to assist in doing both, largely via computer graphics, photography and writing.
I ignore age, wealth, ethnicity, geographic location, formal education, gender, politics as I build my army to take over the world.
No more real war, no more destruction, no more children in abusive situations.
I have a theory that all human violence is rooted in Domestic Violence. Like weeds we must get to the root.
I am a follower of The Secret - the first movie ever released at the same time worldwide - only possible via the Internet. My chilldren and grandchildren will save the World. Powerpeace
www.peaceconsciousness.org