Kill Your TV: How Bay Area Video Art Exploded in the 1970s | KQED Arts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YNJsQgjNY8
This 8-minute piece gives an overview of video’s early years in the Bay Area.
- What were the concerns of artists during this time?
- The political, anti-war, student movement, feminism,
- Why was the medium of video suddenly more accessible?
- Lower cost, higher availability, specifically the Sony PortaPack
- Video and VCRs are now available outside of TV studios, only just.
- No longer was recorded images only able to be created and distributed by TV stations, or at cinemas, the technology was now starting to be available to artists and other regular people.
- What was the political context of these times in general? (IN THE WEST)
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
- US Invades Cambodia
- First Earth Day celebrated
- Student movement
- Oil crisis
- Richard Nixon / Margret Thatcher
- First microprocessor
- How has this context changed / how is it similar?
- New technology and its availability fuels new art and new artistic movements, this is the case from pre-history until now, in the 1970's it was video art that was blossoming, in the 2000s it was media art and software art, now it is AI, machine learning, Internet art.
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