Week 2

 - Video = to see in Latin (supports video arts' broad scope)

- Video art includes analogue video, digital video, film, multimedia moving-image practices

- Strong crossover with other art forms (expanded cinema, performance, sculpture, installation)

- Emerged in the 60s-70s alongside expanded cinema through formal and conceptual experimentation

- Can be single-channel works or multi-screen immersive; immersed in galleries, museums, online

- Often explores time, space, body

- Narratives and dialogue are optional

- Historically linked to analogue videotape until digital technologies opened up the category

- Video art is time-based, audio-visual, highly experimental

- Nam June Paik and others pioneered video art in 1965 using portable video technology

- Video art is now a major part of contemporary art culture but still has contested boundaries with expanded cinema

Reflection:

I got to understand video art is a very wide and flexible category, rooted from its original meaning in Latin. Knowing this encourages me to be bolder and stepping out of my comfort zone when doing my future creative work, because there is no "right way to do it".