Between screens and dreams: which virtuality? by Riccardo Panattoni

“…The paper focuses on the work of video-artist Bill Viola assuming the philosophical perspective of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan.…”
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Memories that will not die – Roberta Carreri in "Flowers for Torgeir" by Annelis Kuhlmann

“…The performance is a co-creation together with the German-Italian video-artist, Stefano Di Buduo and the Danish dramaturg, Anne Middelboe Christensen. …”
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Screens, pictures, windows. On the poetics of Marcantonio Lunardi by Pasquale Fameli

“…In recent years the work of the Lucchese video artist Marcantonio Lunardi (1968) won several awards at national and international level, also receiving some attention from critics. …”
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Ambivalent theatricals, troubled memories and heuristic uncertainty in Tracey Moffatt’s Nice Coloured Girls by Anne Le Guellec-Minel

“…Nice Coloured Girls (1987), by Australian film, photography and video artist of international renown Tracey Moffatt, is a short film that was produced in the run-up to the Australian Bicentenary Celebrations. …”
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Imaginary Video Landscape: John Cage, Mugam Music, Video Art by Gabriele, Matias Guerra

“…Moreover, this “dialogue” is articulated and represented in electronic images by the French video-artist Robert Cahen and the Chilean multimedia artist Matias Guerra. …”
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Transcending obsolescence in technological ruins? Questions of conservation and presentation in Nam June Paik’s Something Pacific and Rembrandt Automatic by Hanna B. Hölling

“…As the first outdoor ensemble of the Korean video artist Nam June Paik (1932-2006), the installation Something Pacific (1986) was installed here almost three decades ago. …”
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Appropriating Canaanism: Ruth Patir’s Reanimation of Judean Pillar Figurines by Hava Aldouby

“…This article addresses a body of works by the video artist Ruth Patir, in which Israeli womanhood in the 2020s is interrogated through Iron Age female statuettes, known as Judean Pillar Figurines. …”
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Intermedialità e sinmedialità nella videoarte contemporanea: Robert Cahen e Pierre Boulez by Raffaele Pozzi

“…Intermediality and Sinmediality in Contemporary Video Art: Robert Cahen and Pierre Boulez The French video artist Robert Cahen (Valence, 1945), member of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) founded in Paris in 1958 by André Schaeffer, begun to apply to images the experimental techniques of the so-called «musique concrète» in the early Seventies. …”
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From Norman Mailer to Matthew Barney. The post human myth of Gary Gilmore by Francesca Agamennoni

“…For its power to make American institutions wonder about ethical and political problems, like the legitimacy of death penalty or the relationship between individual freedom and public law, this case inspired in 1979 The Executioner's Song, a non-fiction novel by Norman Mailer. about twenty years later Gilmore became a character of The Cremaster Cycle, one of the most important works by the american video-artist Matthew Barney, who based the plot of his Cremaster 2 (the second episode of this five-movie saga) on Mailer's novel. …”
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The Time of a Missing People: Elliptically Uncovering the Workday of the “Extra” in Bruno Varela’s <i>Papeles Secundarios</i> (2004) and <i>Cuerpos Complementarios</i> (2022) by Byron Davies

“…This article examines some work by the Oaxaca-based Mexican experimental filmmaker and video artist Bruno Varela in order to explore the sense of Gilles Deleuze’s view that modern political cinema is characterized by a “missing” people, to which the adequate response is the people-sustaining or people-generating trance. …”
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The Black Mirror of the Pupil of the Eye: Around the Eye that Sees and Is Seen: Ibn al-ʿArabī, Bill Viola by Antoni Gonzalo Carbó

“…Ibn al-ʿArabī and Shabistarī have had an explicit influence on the work of the reputed American video artist Bill Viola (Queens, New York, 1951), specifically in his two video/sound installations—<i>He Weeps for You</i> (1976) and <i>I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like</i> (1986)<i>,</i> in which the common image of the mirror pupil of the eye summarizes the entire ancient Neoplatonic conception of the θεωρία (<i>contemplatio</i>, <i>speculatio</i>).…”
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<b>Um passaporte húngaro, de Sandra Kogut: cinema polí­tico e intimidade</b> by Consuelo Lins

“…Palavras-chave cinema, documentário, intimidade, memória, polí­tico Abstract A Hungarian Passport, a film by Sandra Kogut, a Brazilian film-maker and video artist, makes use of different technologies in order to construct a narrative in which the director is strongly present. …”
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Pierrick Sorin. Comedy in Video Art by Yugay Inga I.

“…The article reveals the genre-stylistic specificity of artworks of the French video artist Pierrick Sorin, created between the 1980s and the 2020s. …”
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Analysis of the femininity identity in video art based on psychoanalysis approach of Lacan (Case Study: Pipilotti Rist) by Forough Khabiri, Ali Sheikh Mehdi

“…In this way, a women video artist Pipilotti Rist (1962) has been selected. …”
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Cinematic Art (History) and Mieke Bal's Thinking in Film by Filip Lipiński

“…While I acknowledge the importance and complementary nature of Bal’s artistic practice as a video artist with her theoretical work, due to the limited space of this article, the focus of my text is on her writing. …”
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Zeitgenössische Videokunst und die Koproduktion des Kunstmuseums by Stefanie Stallschus

“…In contrast to museum films with an educational focus, video art offers a great deal of freedom in the handling, presentation, and reconsideration of collections. Nevertheless, video artists are also fundamentally dependent on constructive cooperation with the institutions, as the realisation is entirely dependant on the support of staff within the house and on the permission to film and publish. …”
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Galicia ¿escuela de subalternidad? by Marta Álvarez, Laureano Montero

“…María Ruido has become one of the most recognized video artists and filmmakers (in a broad sense of the word) of the contemporary Spanish scene. …”
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Vidéo-clip musical et vidéo expérimentale by Némésis Srour

“…In the early 2000s, two phenomena emerged at the same time: the sprouting in Lebanon of a video clip industry that spread throughout the Arab world and the recognition, in the field of contemporary art, of a new class of video artists from the region. A study of these two antithetical visual forms, which differ both aesthetically, and in their resources (technical, economic) and purpose, revealed the same paradoxical logic of a “deterritorialized” image, in a place where the notion of territory is a recurring pattern of both political and symbolic lives. …”
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(Re)mobiliser les acteurs autour d’un projet de territoire : un enjeu de méthode et de medium by Elsa Vivant

“…This process is characterized by the production of fictional films to imagine the future of the territory and by the mobilization of new professionals (designers and video artists). The article will show how the attention paid to the method redefines the objectives of the process: from the remobilization of local actors to the projection into a future to be made. …”
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Representation and Identity in Contemporary Women Artists’ Video by Laura Leuzzi

“…Selected works by Elisabetta Di Sopra, Francesca Fini, and Mariateresa Sartori are discussed by comparing elements from works by earlier generations of feminist video artists, such as Pipilotti Rist, Elaine Shemilt, and Catherine Elwes. …”
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