Signe Pierce: The Artist In The Instagram Era

Social media has completely changed our lives, whether we are fully aware of it or not. It has opened new channels of communication and has made the sharing of content easy for all on a global scale. For artists, it has changed everything. They no longer need galleries to showcase their work, and they have…

Chris Cunningham: Enhancing The Musical Experience

When we think of music videos, most of us do not really think of art. And yet, this format was very fertile for experimental video artists, as it consists in providing a visual complement to music. Over the decades, it became a true art form, before recently losing momentum. Nevertheless, the 1990s and 2000s gifted…

Bill Viola: The Ascension of Video Art

In 1965, when Nam June Paik claimed his grainy video of the pope on a visit to New York was a work of art, video art was born. Often associated with the conceptual, it was stigmatized by many as a ‘low’ form of art. Because of the overwhelming role of technology in the production process,…