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The video is a technique of recording of images on a magnetic medium. The camera obtains the information which the video tape recorder records, and can restore on a screen named monitor. Resulting from television, the video art appeared in the United States and in Europe with the beginning of the year 1960, and influenced the large currents of the time at once, of Fluxus to the performance, the conceptual art to the minimalism and the sociological art.

In the Years 1960, Nam June Paik had the creative gesture of a new artistic current: the Video art by laying out one (large) liking on a Television. The Cathode tube reacts by creating coloured distortions and images of deformed Nixon.

In 1959, Wolf Vostell created the Darkroom collection Berlinische Galerie Berlin, assembly of materials and television sets, the first work to be used the electronic image as artistic media. This novel method will be used henceforth to record performances and installations. Since 1965 Fred Forest carries out in France of video works on Portapack Sony 1/2 inch (the phone box)

Thereafter, the video art became emblematic plastic research of the Années 1980, during which the portable cameras and the assembly benches became accessible to more many people. Bruce Nauman is one of the examples most proven, which uses, according to the example of daN Graham, the setting in network of surveillance cameras in its installations.

Today, video within the Contemporary art is to it a traditional medium.

Artists vidéastes

Slobodan Pajic the video collection of the National museum of modern art

Hopes of video art

Video art is in strong change in particular with the advent and the broad diffusion of technologies software. Certain video artists without notoriety currently bring a strong evolution to this discipline (Deluxe Sibyl for example).

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