video art

American  

noun

1. an art form involving the creative exploitation of video technology to produce videotapes for viewing on a television screen.

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Other Word Forms

• video artist noun

Etymology

Origin of video art

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

“One of our inspirations was very early experimental video art, stuff people made with a Sandin Image Processor, stuff that was only possible because people in the ‘60s and ‘70s decided they were going to engineer circuits to make visual images,” says video designer Sue Slagle.

From Los Angeles Times

Expect quantum physics and oil paint, AI and video art, climate change and sculpture.

From Los Angeles Times

Viola’s career began in the early 1970s when he assisted Nam June Paik, who created video art as we know it.

From Los Angeles Times

This heady rush of “firsts” for American video art peaked in 1989 when Viola was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

From Los Angeles Times

Viola soon took a related direction in his video art, exploring mystical and transcendent subject matter not being widely investigated in other contemporary American art.

From Los Angeles Times