Collected Videotape Vol.1 (Peter Campus - 1973-75)

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Collected Videotape Vol.1 (Peter Campus - 1973-75)

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Peter Campus

Peter Campus is a seminal figure in video art. In a career that includes installations and photography, Campus' video work is distinctive in its theoretical and formal significance. In videotapes produced from 1971 to 1976, Campus mapped the technical and symbolic parameters of the emergent medium as metaphors for the psychology of the self. This rigorous investigation was undertaken as a systematic exploration of video's essential properties and formal foundations.

Three Transitions
1973, 4:53 min, color, sound
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Three Transitions is one of the seminal works in video. In three short exercises, Campus uses basic techniques of video technology and his own image to create succinct, almost philosophical metaphors for the psychology of the self. In these concise performances, he employs video's inherent properties as a metaphorical vehicle for articulating transformations of internal and external selves, illusion and reality. In the first "transition," Campus records with two cameras simultaneously on either side of a sheet of paper to achieve a breathtaking visual illusion: he appears to stab himself in the back, climb through the rupture in his body, and emerge whole on the other side. In the second exercise, Campus uses the effect of chroma-key to achieve a potent metaphorical effect. He wipes his face with his hand and, in doing so, "erases" its surface -- only to reveal another image of his face underneath. Finally, in a dynamic conclusion, he appears to burn the living image of his face (as if it were a photograph), leaving only blackness.

In each episode, Campus displaces an image of himself and eventually eradicates it. He writes that these works "deal with duality in an ironic way, also with the video space made with this technological tool. The question of self is important, as the performer tries to expose the illusions the artist has set up." The tape's precise formalism and simplicity of execution advance the psychological wit and symbolic content. The first of Campus' works to be produced at WGBH-TV in Boston, Three Transitions is a remarkably powerful articulation of video technology as a metaphorical vehicle.

[here for more infos on the other videos:
http://www.eai.org/eai/artist.jsp?artistID=379]
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Well, Auess and Fitz already started to download it :juas: so let's give it an official release :P

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Mensaje por Fitzcarraldo » Jue 08 Sep, 2005 18:10

danke schon ! :twisted:

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Mensaje por by_MaRio » Jue 08 Sep, 2005 18:30

Thanks, dear trep :wink:

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Mensaje por Faeton » Jue 08 Sep, 2005 19:07

*kisses Trep* *clicks* :twisted:

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Mensaje por vespertilum » Jue 08 Sep, 2005 23:26

Thanks trep, clicked.
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Mensaje por alchemist » Vie 09 Sep, 2005 00:17

Fitzcarraldo escribió:danke schon ! :twisted:
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Danke schön, sehr nett von dir!

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Mensaje por auess » Vie 09 Sep, 2005 01:00

Great!!! :D :D :D
Finally you released it! :mrgreen: Dear Enrico. :plas:
I'll keep it sharing asa finished. :)
TTTHANKS buddy! (:-)

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Mensaje por akopletas » Vie 09 Sep, 2005 02:10

8O 8O 8O Era una de esas cosas q buscaba desde hace siglos

Thanks!!! 8)