POST #18 – LECTURE - ELECTRONIC MEDIA and PERFORMANCE

 Experimental filming may be difficult to understand since it's a wide-ranging genre. To put it simply though, you can have creative freedom, Personal expression, and social expression. All of these elements can give filmmakers more freedom for creativity and combine reactions when the audience gets to see the films. As art continues to form with experimental filming elements, Allan Kaprow created a sequence in art called "Happenings." He wanted to prove that things in motion can be considered art and it is a type of art that isn't permanent, but for the audience to see in real time, it was inspired by Jackson Pollocks art. TV's have a massive potential in art too. Because of Nam June Paik's study on how TV's work, he discovered that if you place a magnet on front of a CRT TV screen, it creates a motion of waves and a blue like form that can be classified as art. This is known as Video Art.