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Innovative Video Installations Explored

This document discusses video installations by four artists: Sonia Falcone, Mary Lucier, Stan Douglas, and an unnamed author. It summarizes each artist's installation, noting that Falcone used projecting light and color onto blocks, Lucier projected a distorted video through a glass of water, and Douglas explored the effects of industrialization through complex audiovisual structures. The author observes that the artists use different technologies that have advanced over time, allowing surprising and thought-provoking works, and that installation location can greatly impact the overall feel of a piece.

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Innovative Video Installations Explored

This document discusses video installations by four artists: Sonia Falcone, Mary Lucier, Stan Douglas, and an unnamed author. It summarizes each artist's installation, noting that Falcone used projecting light and color onto blocks, Lucier projected a distorted video through a glass of water, and Douglas explored the effects of industrialization through complex audiovisual structures. The author observes that the artists use different technologies that have advanced over time, allowing surprising and thought-provoking works, and that installation location can greatly impact the overall feel of a piece.

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Video Installation

Sonia Falcone - Sonia Falcone is an Bolivian painter and artist. She has managed to exhibt worldwide in a variety of galleries.
For her video installation she was invited to present a piece of work,
this video installation was shown at XVII Bienal de Arte de Santa
Cruz de la Sierra. This is her most major piece to date. This is a
video installation done by Sonia Falcone. It consists of a combination of a dark background and light projecting onto blocks. This results in a colourful and vibrant presentation. This combination of colours on a dark background would make more of an impact on the
audience also it would make them feel that they are in a happy environment. This installation was also set up so that it was able to be
seen by different perspectives. This allowed viewers to see different
colours and feel different emotions depending on where they were.

Mary Lucier - Mary Luciers video projection Wisconsin Arc, the
main attraction of her show, is a beguiling meditation on vision and on
video itself as a mirror of perception and consciousness. The three-part
26-minute loop opens with a close-up of a glass of ice water through
which you see a distant balustrade and a walkway where people go right
and left. The water glass distorts the view, rendering people and the balustrade into curvy, almost abstract forms, and also reversing the field so
that pedestrians moving leftward move rightward when seen through
the glass. This is about seeing through lenses of cameras and of eyes.

Stan Douglas -Canadian photographer and filmmaker, lives and
works in Vancouver. After studying at the Emily Carr College of Art
in Vancouver (197982), he began making films and videos that reflect on issues of culture and technology and on the relationship between popular representations of history and subjectivity. The complex structure of Douglass audio-visual installations is often based on
long periods of research, as in the case of Pursuit, Fear, Catastrophe:
Ruskin B.C. (1993), which explores the history and effects of industrialisation on an area of British Columbia known as Ruskin. The social
aspect of his work can be compared with that of a group of artists
based in Vancouver, including Jeff Wall and Rodney Graham, who
began during the 1980s to examine the socially and environmentally
detrimental effects of industry and technology on their surroundings.


The artists have used different technology and techniques to install
their work, by doing this it really lets the viewer know how much technology has progressed over the years. This platform really allows the artists
to make the most of their work and can suprize the audience and make
them think Its something a bit different and not of the norm. The styles
the installation artists have used are all very impressive and set on a big
scale, my faviourate is by Sonia Falcon, I think its a really new and creative design and has an amazing impression on what video installation is.
The technology used in her installation is different from any I have seen.

The installation may be the most important part of it, but the location to can play a massive part in the overall feel of the installation for example Sonia Falcones installation was shown in Santa
Cruz which must have given the installation a massive impact. The
reason these Installation artist have influenced my work is because
I feel that my installation will have the same idea but not the same
setup. I want my to look as dynamic as the ones they have made.

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