The Three people I will be researching in the business of video installation are; Jodri Colomer, Lennie Lee, Don Ritter.
Video installation is a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art, making use of all aspects of the surrounding environment to affect the audience.
Jordi Colomer
Colomer studied at the School Eina of Art and Design, History of Art and Architecture in Barcelona. In his first period, he developed sculptures of an architectural scale, walkable buildings, and references to the theater and its devices. In 1996 he began working with videos, in the form of micro-narratives where the characters are confronted with objects, sets, and props. An example of his early work is Simo: http://vimeo.com/31908304
The video series Anarchitekton which was created between the years 2002–2004, is one of his best work which eventually became symbolic to certain cities in Barcelona, Bucharest, Brasilia, and Osaka. the character in the video series called Idroj Sanicne carries cardboard models and replicas of real buildings that he made. Throughout the video series the character is seen as sarcastic.
In 2008 the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris hosted the biggest exhibition full of Jordi Colomer's work.
I believe that this can be seen as controversial, because it relates to the modern world as Jordi's pictures include bulidings that can be seen in real life. His pictures are often seen as confusing and hard to understand.
Lennie Lee
Lennie Lee is a British artist born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He moved to the UK in 1960. He was educated at Dulwich college in London before winning a scholarship to study philosophy at Christ Church, Oxford.
In 1983 he took up painting. Soon after, he moved to east London where he became interested in the urban view of how people felt abandoned because of the Second World War. In 1984 he occupied several disused buildings and, together with a number of artists including South African painter, Beezy Bailey, he began to make installations using found material and buildings. Lee is a painter and performance artist working with themes of taboo, shame and fear. His work involves extreme performance, video and digital images.
He has set up a gallery called 'Rich and Famous' in the heart of east london and has been in many groups such as, the ARC group, group of radical artists from Zurich including Mark Divo and Ingo Giezendanner. He also has been to many famous galleries to present or work with other artists such as; Cabaret Voltaire, Gustavo Aguerre and Ingrid Falk, mainly in Sweden.
Don Ritter
Don Ritter whom was born 1959 is a Canadian installation artist and writer living in Berlin, Germany. He has been working in the field of digital media art since the late-1980s. His work consists of large interactive video and sound installations that audiences control through their body position, body movement or voice. An example of one of his early works is http://aesthetic-machinery.com/intersection.html
I believe this can be seen as controversial, because compared to the other two video installation artists, Don Ritter's videos are unique to the point where he would interact with his target audience through his art.
An Idea i have is to use a black trainer (preferablely my black air maxes) have the camera on it with a white background to make it look like the shoe is floating then slowly rotating and gradually getting faster and flipping in different directions. Whlist that happens I will try to show the nike sign by making it quickly appear and disappear on screen, using this technique i am using subliminal advertising but also I will include different other pictures
