Ana Peraica / AVI AND DIVX ART

Ana Peraica
Hrvatska /Croatia





After the appearance of the Ubuweb archive containing very exotic Modern video collection, artworks of contemporary artists such as Matthew Barney, Marina Abramovic, Harun Farocki etc... started to be available. This ("Napsterisation") phenomena, that has caught first the most commercial domain of popular culture, is slowly but surely distributing once "elite" culture to unknown viewers. Despite the elementary information of "what" to search for is needed, more important for new art public is actually "how". Arttorrents blog is one of comprehensive entrances to artworld giving "free tickets" or torrents. Still, behind this new sort of public, "knowing how" to search for movies or videos is more curious and skilled, it has also become almost immune on the resolution barrier. Instead of screening resolutions preview resolutions are taking place.

(The presentation analyzes institutional, public and educational status of downloadable video art, showing a part of the 500 GB collection with a VJ)

Read the whole text:
Ana Peraica. Avi und DivKunst Videokunst am Rande des Uberlebens (Springerin, summer 2007 / editors pick Documenta) http://magazines.documenta.de/frontend/article.php?IdLanguage=5&NrArticle=1363