VIDEO ART CASE STUDIES

WORDS ON VIDEO ART

video is time
Nam June Paik

The only wars now are not of space, but time.
Paul Virilio

Video allowed a kind of real time play, the possibility to think out loud. Here was a process immediately accessible and seemingly a much closer parallel to thinking.
Gary Hill

…my TV is NOT the expression of my personality but merely PHYSICAL MUSIC.
Nam June Paik

It is the artform for the download generation. Video art is portable and you never need to feel lonely for your art collection – you can take it with you on your laptop.
Dick Quan

The question “what is video art?” seems to imply that the medium must somehow legitimize itself as an art form. But the real question is not whether video is an art form but how video changes definitions of art.
John G. Hanhardt

[New-media art] questions everything, the most fundamental assumptions: What is a work? How do you collect? What is preservation? What is ownership? All of those things that museums are based upon and structured upon are pretty much thrown open to question.
Jeremy Strick

Video is the new photography.
Andrew Frost

For me, these videos are like moving paintings. You can have them constantly playing on the wall as captured moments.
Shaun Gladwell