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Article: Video installation: characteristics of an expanding medium.
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- March 1, 2007
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Video installations, with their multiple historic roots, are unique hybrid art forms that represent the dominant direction art-making has taken in the twentieth century toward interdisciplinary boundary-crossing collaborations that connect artists to new ideas and practices, while integrating media technologies and systems into the art world. How can we begin to define these ephemeral, protean art forms that have become increasingly dominant artistic modes of expression? In this essay, I will first identify some of the significant cultural, conceptual, and technological characteristics that define video installations; I will then examine three video installations by ...