Video sculpture

Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik is composed of over 300 television sets, neon tubing, and 50 DVD players, to form a map of the United States.

A video sculpture is a type of video installation that integrates video into an object, environment, site or performance. The nature of video sculpture is that it utilizes the material of video in an innovative way in space and time, different from the standard traditional narrative screening where the video has a beginning and end.[1]

In one definition video sculpture involves one or more monitors or projections that spectators move among or stand in front of. Video sculptures formed of more than one screen or projection may broadcast a single program or may simultaneously broadcast different interconnected sequences on several channels. The screens used in the sculpture can be arranged in many different ways. For example, they can be suspended from a ceiling, aligned and stacked to make a video wall or even randomly stacked on top of each other. Video sculpture is a medium that offers performing artists a chance to have a more permanent artistic forum.[2]

Video sculpture includes projection mapping on objects and environments. This has become more accessible and popular due to software advancements in the last five years.[3]

  1. ^ "video sculpture - Google Search". Google.com. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
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  3. ^ Jones, Brett (15 November 2012). "What is projection mapping?". Projection-mapping.org. Retrieved 2 January 2019.