Interactive Digital Art

 Art installations began incorporating the viewer in art but digital art is allowing the viewer to begin to control parts of the art (Rush 183). As technology progresses more and more art can be interactive for the viewer. Using the internet an artist could make an art website that is interactive for the viewer. But even more, we are beginning to see virtual reality devices become more affordable. Mainly used for gaming now but it could be and most likely will be used by artists to create very interactive experiences.

Surveillance Art

 Artists began using surveillance video in art installations this took viewing art from a private function to a public one. The viewer was put on display as part of the art. This can give an art piece a more sinister feel. Today this kind of view isn't the same because reality TV took the sinisterness out of surveillance as well as the large presence of surveillance. It's everywhere.

Video Installation

 Installation art is more of an experience than just a piece of art. Video installation can really put the viewer into the piece itself. Giving the viewer a new experience and invoking new and different kinds of emotions in art. This brought a new experience to the art world.

Wolf Vostell

 Wolf Vostell is another example of art being the intention of a thing rather than the thing itself he said "Marcel Duchamp has declared readymade objects as art, and the Futurists declared noises as art. It is an important characteristic of my efforts and those of my colleagues to declare as art the total event, comprising noise/object/movement/color/and psychology - a merging of elements so that life(man) can be art" (Rush 125). I really like this quote because he is saying that anything and everything can be art even we are art. The idea is more important than the thing itself.

Intention

 Rush explains art in a way that made something click for me. I have been studying art and art history for a little while now and I guess it never made sense where the line of what art is and what art isn't. I've looked at many pieces of art that I think how is that art? It seemed so random to me. Rush said "Art lives in the intentionality of the artist"(87). It makes so much more sense now. Artists aren't just saying I'm going to put this box here and call it an art they have an entire thought process and idea that they need to share and that's how they execute it.

Andy Warhol and Video Art

 Andy Warhol was one of the first to show video art (Rush 87). He was also among the first to use portable video cameras. The fact that he was already a known and established artist and that he used video to add to his practice is what made him one of the first along with Nam June Paik. Warhol continued to use video, but Paik made it his preferred medium.

Influence on Today.

 Techniques of using multimedia in dance and theatre have carried on today. In the '90s Bands begun using video as part of their concert experience. Many bands still do this today. Many include not only video of themselves to make viewing easier for large arenas but also to add more to the show (Rush 75). At a concert, I went to they had a video of another artist's play that they did a collab with as well as other sorts of visuals.

Art and War

 War is a huge influence on art. After the war, many artists made art in response to war. An example is the Viennese Actionists. They liked to use destruction to make a statement. An Actionist Otto Muehl said, "I can imagine nothing significant where nothing is sacrificed, destroyed, dismembered, burnt, pierced, tormented, harassed, tortures, massacred... stabbed, destroyed, or annihilated." (Rush 56).

Nam June Paik

 Nam June Paik created art that incorporated many different ways of creating using all types of media. His work was controversial. He likes to think of his art not being in any particular genre of art. He did call his art "Time art" as he liked to visualize time in his art (Rush 53).

Affordable Technology

 As technology progressed and became more affordable more artists were able to use video cameras in their art-making process. For many artists it allowed them to take a step back from traditional art. It allowed them to incorporate their studio art in a new way and not be stuck in one particular way of making art. For Bruce Nauman he was able to explore relationships between his art and his process (Rush 47-48).

Deborah Hay

 Deborah Hay was a member of the Judson Church choreographers. She was known for combining video with live performance. Mixing the two elements in her art helped add more depth and meaning and added the visualization of time into her art. She influenced other artists by doing this as well (Rush 41).

A Change in Art

 In the '50s and '60s so much was changing in the world. The technology was evolving. There was war. These changes influenced art and changed how artists were creating. There wasn't the main focus on the subject of the art the focus became the process of art-making itself. Jackson Pollock is an example of this. the subject wasn't the idea it was the process of putting the paint on the canvas that was the idea. It did even transition to performances, happenings, and events (Rush 36).