{"id":153,"date":"2006-10-29T10:56:49","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T01:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/29\/video-as-an-art-medium\/"},"modified":"2006-10-29T10:56:49","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T01:56:49","slug":"video-as-an-art-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/29\/video-as-an-art-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"Video as an art medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mori.art.museum\/eng\/exhibition\/index.html\">Mori Art Museum<\/a> with a friend and saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Viola\">Bill Viola exhibition<\/a>.  This was the first exhibition I went to that was entirely done in Video.  I have to admit, I wasn&#8217;t impressed.  <\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>I think video is a tough medium, because when it comes down to it, I do not think there is a shared consensus on how to interpret video as a medium for art.  Culturally we have had a lot of experience with video as entertainment, and I think one would be hard pressed to argue for popular media as art, and especially as advertising.  But museum art is a different creature.  <\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>You have to spend time to watch the entire loop.  If the loops are long, this can really be tough, because you are doing a lot of standing around.  Also, it seems like an imposition to walk in or out on the people that are already there viewing.  So I think that just as a medium, it is tough in a museum setting.  More than that though, I just had a really hard time interpreting what the artist means to say when I don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m equipped with the social metaphors to understand his art.  I mean, I could film some people&#8217;s hands for an hour and slow it down.  <\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I still really like the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi Hills and am looking forward to their next exhibition.  I am glad that I&#8217;ve seen some video art, but as of now, it isn&#8217;t one of my favorite mediums.<\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, as I write this I&#8217;m watching &#8220;Scrubs&#8221;, which is a form of video art.  The deeper message is mostly &#8220;funny&#8221; with a dash of &#8220;serious topics&#8221;, kind of like life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday I went to the Mori Art Museum with a friend and saw the Bill Viola exhibition. This was the first exhibition I went to that was entirely done in Video. I have to admit, I wasn&#8217;t impressed. I think video is a tough medium, because when it comes down to it, I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}