40 Years Video Art - (German) Digital Heritage

40 Years Video Art – (German) Digital Heritage will be presented by the Monash University Faculty Gallery at Caulfield from the 27 August – 27 September, 2008.

The Faculty exhibition has been initiated by Professor Claudia Terstappen and the Photography and Video Research Network and is supported by the Goethe Institute, Australia.

40 Years Video Art offers an overview of historical as well as current trends in video art, including its early beginnings in film and television. Fifty-nine individual art works will be featured; all produced in Germany between 1963 and 2004. The featured video works specifically reveal the development of video art work from monitor presentations to installations that took place in the eighty’s. The exhibition will allow us to focus on a broad sphere of contemporary art, cross-pollinated with television, film and photography. At the same time it will create an awareness of a medium that requires as much care in its life-span of existence as any other artwork; an important issue that art historians, artists, museums and galleries face.

40 Years Video Art includes renowned artists such as Rebecca Horn, Valie Export, Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovic/Ulay, Katharina Sieverding, Klaus vom Bruch, Dieter Kiessling, Ulrike Rosenbach and Ingo Guenther.

Jeanne Faust, one of the video artists in the exhibition, has been invited to Monash as an Artist-in-Residence. She will give a lecture on her work in the Wednesday Lunch-Time Art Forum on the 17th September at 12.30pm. Additional lectures on Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys, Valie Export and other artists will be scheduled from the 4th-24th September 2008. This truly impressive selection of works emphasises the richness of video art that has shaped the understanding and knowledge of digital media today.

Supported by Photography &  Video Research Network

Image: Jeanne Faust, image for 'Interview', 2003, video, 9min