Unfamiliarity and difference
The challenges of supporting arts activity in a new medium
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5717467 |
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| Authors | Julia Knight (0000-0001-8844-181X, University of Sunderland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 38-51 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2045-6298 • E-ISSN: 2045-6301 |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/miraj.6.1-2.38_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2782062023 |
| Language | EN |
Video technology had a relatively brief lifespan, but like digital it was once a new media technology. This article revisits the newness of video in the late 1970s and early 1980s to explore the challenges it posed for supporting and promoting video art in Britain - including developing and funding a video infrastructure, creating an identity for video art and sustaining a video specific identity in the face of technological and social change. Aspects of this history resonate with the more recent history of digital technology and the article concludes that video can be understood as digital's forerunner
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Digital media · Digital video · Media studies · Multimedia · Political science · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Telecommunications · The arts · Video art · Video production · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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