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​VIDEO ARTISTS
Zach Blas . "internet contra" 
​sigalit landau  DeadSee. 2005
Yuge Zhou . Collaged Video
Cao Fei
Jackie Goss  animation/mixed media
Shelly Silver  (personal documentary style)
David Gatten Experimental film
Elisa Liisa Atilha 
Doug Aiken
Kate Gilmore (gesture and cliches)
Matthew Barney No Restraint/ .  Redoubt
Shaun Leonardo
Sadie Benning
Cheryl Donegan
Douglas Gordon
Celiia Condit (pulling up roots, text, metaphor, artist as agent)
Gary Hill  Blindspot/structure/fast to slow strobe/finger
Bill Viola
Joan Jonas
Miranda July
Kristen Lucas  older-Host  newer, sick waves 2015 SoleSoaker, vid game
Guy Maddin
Pipolotti Rist
Nomi Talisman and on vimeo (appropriation/conceptual ads
Elisabeth Subrin nytimesvideo
Jennett Thomas  VDB site Early Videos Gorgeous Operation
Willie Doherty  watch non specific threat.
Ilona Huss Walin  If I Were a Rat
LernerandSander set ups
FischiliandWeiss the way things go
Guy Ben-Ner  (domestic set construction)(interview)
 and Stealing Beauty on Youtube
Melanie McLain (performance/yogic/breathingPunctuation
Amy Hicks (
Readaptation,AbstractionsGGBridge,books)
*Sabine Gruffat (video animation AE, documentaries, oscillators, signals)
Kelly Sears (2 d animation)
Adam Hinterlang
Michael Langan (choros, dahlia, heliotropes poem brian christian) (layers)
Tacita Dean
Ben Hagari  "Invert"
Peter Horvath  (experimental docs/video installations)
Ryan Whittier Hale:romantic landscape todaywww.ryanwhittierhale.com/undulatinglandscape/
Araya Rasdjarmerearnsook
Alex Prager  La Petit Mort (seen at 
Janaina Tschape
​Paraic McGloughlin ReplacementAnimation Music Video "Someday"

Paul Turano
John Sanborn




Vito Acconci
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Doug Aitken
Lucas Ajemian
Ant Farm
Miguel Angel Rios
Eleanor Antin
Kutlug Ataman   Experimental Documentaries
John Baldessari
Oladele Ajiboye Bamgboye
Mathew Barney
Burt Barr
Lynda Benglis
Guy Ben-Ner
Sadie Benning
Dara Birnbaum
rossina bossio (the holy beauty project)
Candice Breitz
Jessica Bronsom
Robert Cahen
Peter Campus
Paul Chan
Seoung Cho
David Claerbout
Jem Cohen
Phil Collins
Celia Condit
Keren Cytter (vimeo/ website)
Sue de Beer
Cheryl Donegan
Stan Douglas
Toni Dove
Juan Downey
Chris Doyle
Valie Export
Kevin Jerome Everson (blur line between doc's and fiction)
Mindy Faber
Omar Fast (fact and fiction, identity, drones, separate lives)
Ken Feingold
Yang Fudong
Kip Fulbeck
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Douglas Gordon
Dan Graham
Rodney Graham
Vanalyne Green
Doug Hall
Kathy High
Gary Hill
Ursula Hodel
Nan Hoover
Jonathan Horowitz
Teresa Hubbard/Alexr Birchler
Pierre Huyghe
Joan Jonas (performance with also with pianist Jason Moran)(experimental drawing)
Miranda July
William Kentridge
Ken Kobland
Paul Kos
George Kuchar
Kristen Lucas
Guy Maddin
Ann Magnuson
Inigo Manglano-Ovalle
Christian Marclay the clock exerpt   telephones exerpt
Chris Marker
Maria Marshall
Paul McCarthy
Bjorn Melhus
Aernout Mik
Branda Miller
Takeshi Murata
Meena Nanji
Bruce Nauman
Shirin Neshat
Motohiko Odani
Marcel Odenbach
Nam June Paik
Paul Pheifer
Matthew Pell (experimental light) (mirrored)
Leighton Pierce
Adrian Piper
Lourdes Portillo
Bettina Pousttch
Sergio Prego
Walid Ra’ad
Scott Rankin
Jennifer Reeder
Dan Reeves
Pipilotti Rist
Alex Rivera
Martha Rosler
Anri Sala
Hiraki Sawa  (Lineament)  (3screen)
Ilene Segalove
Bill Seaman
Jason Simon
Roman Signer
Smith/Stewart
Elizabeth Subrin
Eve Sussman
Mary Sue
Rea Tajiri\
Nomi Talisman
Fiona Tan
Diana Thater
Jeanette Thomas (surreal, exaggerated stories and characters)
Leslie Thornton
Trin T Kim Tran
Steina and Woody Vasulka
Bill Viola
Gillian Wearing
William Wegman
Jane and Louise Wilson

Hans Op de Beeck: Staging Silence, installations,    projected video on maquettes strongly architectural 
 (more from StudioHOdb)
Ange Leccia     La Mer  AO, waves above.
Cristina Lucas rape of sabine women
Hito Steryel  see Is the museum a battlefield

Manifesto Julian Rosenfeldt Interview

Josh Gumiela on vimeo
Phil Hastings: Compositing/ Poetic/Metaphoric
Alexis DeStoop. Northern Drift 
ORGANIZATIONS
Video Data Bank
Electronic Arts Intermix


Abstract:
Qian Li
the flying steering wheel by RuXandra Mitache and Louis Durra
Christine Gillot CGRyan

MUSIC VIDEO
Latham Owen Zearfoss
Rashaad Newsome  (music video styles)

Video Poem
Christine Hume
 
Yi Dai



Tools:  Twine is an open source tool for telling interactive, non-linear stories.
Software:Final Cut Pro, Adobe Products, Premiere, After Effects
3D- Maya, ZBrush, RenderMan,Nuke, Substance Painter, Ornatrix
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OPPORTUNITIES: Festivals/Galleries
Independent Exposure Festival
Young  Projects: LA
ExperimentsinCinemaFestival

MULTI CHANNEL
Hariki Sawa
Pipolotti Rist
KaterieGladdys class page
Mary Lucier
Cynthia Pachikara
Diana Thater
Seoungho Cho
Leighton Pierce
jim bizzochi Cinemascape/ambientvideo
ragnar kjartensson
LINKS TO VIDEOS AND FILMS
Superstar: Karen Carpenter/ Barbie
Holy Chicken
Fashionably Late to the Relationship (time)
Metropolis by Fritz Lang
Sita Sings the Blues
Spoof on New Wave French: cat video
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EXPERIMENTAL
Experimental 3D Animation
DanBrowne on Vimeo
RyanWhittierHale romanticlandscapeish
Matthew Schoen (Noise piece fragmented/abstract)
Richard Mosse on Refugees thermal imaging


Miwa Matreyek:  Video and live performance


Media Sculptures
John Slepian
Kimberlee Koym Murtiera


Students From Elsewhere
From SUNY Fredonia


A Variety of Approaches to Video Art  by Professional Artists: (a beginning list….)

Utilizing the essential qualities of Video:
Electronic Mirror  Sadie Benning, Dan Graham,  William Wegman, Cheryl Donegan

Experimental Abstract: Nam June Paik, Diana Thater, Ken Feingold, Seoung Cho, Lynda Benglis, Gary Hill, Leighton     Pierce,  Hiraki Sawa, Bruce Nauman, Steina and Woody Vasulka

Utilizing software qualities:
Random and specific editing options  Psycho by Douglas Gordon, The Fly by Brian Springer, Lev Manovich, Bill            Seaman (recent)

Utilizing Popular Culture References:
Famous Hollywood Style Movies: Rodney Graham,  Meena Nanji, Nomi Talisman
Advertizing Jason Simon, William Wegman
Television AnnMagnuson,
Video Gaming: Kristen Lucas, Toni Dove, Jackie Goss, Cory Archangel
General Stereotypes:  Eleanor Antin/ Cheryl Donegan/ Paul McCarthy
Mark Rappaport "Journalsof JeanSeberg95
Animation: WmKentridge, Kelly Sears, Quay Bros, JanSvankmayer,Early Russian, Jessie Drew (manifestoon) more links

Utilizing Art Historical References
Eve Sussman, Mary Lucier, Lynda Benglis,

Creating Narratives

Personal/ Diaristic  (Kip Fulbeck, Elizabeth Subrin, Vanalynne Greene, Martha Rosler, Adrian Piper, Sadie Benning,     Ursula Hodel, Scott Rankin, Dan Reeves, Ilene Segalove, John Smith, Ardel Lister

Fictional:  Jennet Thomas, Eija_liisa Atilha, Matthew Barney, Shirin Neshat, Guy Ben-Ner, Miranda July, Guy Maddin, Chris Marker,Ceila Condit,  Joan Jonas, Georges Melies, William Kentridge, Doug Hall, Teresa Hubbard/ Adexr Birchler, Pipolotti Rist

Factual (at least partly) : Martha Rosler, Adrian Piper, Walid Ra’ad, Jem Cohen, Mindy Faber, Bill Viola

​Poetic/ Abstract: Bill Viola, Leslie Thornton, Ken Fiengold, Seoung Cho, Bill Seaman,
Saskia Olde Wolbers

Social Commentary or Community Action:
Phil Collins, Doug Aiken, Kutlug Ataman, Shirin Neshat, Jem Cohen, Sue de Beer, Cheryl Donegan, Juan Downey,  Kathy High, Pierre Huyghe, Joan Jonas, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Maria Marshall, Jennifer Reeder,  Dan Reeves, Rea   Tijiri, Trin T Kim Tran, Gillian Wearing, Jane and Louise Wilson, Ant Farm, Jane and Louise Wilson, Dan Reeves,      Peter Bonde Nelson, Vera Frankel, “what does she want” series. Alex Rivera, Ken Kobland, marni ellen
Larry Achiampong
​Connie Walsh Cenetar (Child and war)
​Marayam Tafakory Absent Wound

Installation based:
Mary Lucier, Nam June Paik, Diana Thater, Bill Viola, Hiraki Sawa, Gary Hill,
YorgoAlexopolous (video walls)
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Performance Oriented:
Manual Cimema (live puppetry and tech)
Marina Abramovich, Cheryl Donegan, Ursula Hodel, Guy Ben-Ner, Miranda July, Vito Acconci, Marlon Riggs, TrevorMartin,Kym Olsen (on Love and exertion), DV8,
My Barbarian(UniversalDeclarationof infantileAnxiety(whitneybienniel), Claudia Hart



Documentary Styles

Creative Time" Trevor Paglen- The Last Pictures Project Video
uses sidebyside images, diff angle/distance...info sent in satillite


PBS Digital Studio Video Art
features these artists in a brief history (under 10 min)
Nam June Paik
Shigeko Kubota
Andy Warhol
Tony Oursler
Joan Jonas

Dickson and Edison kinetograph
Lumiere brothers
George Melies
Futurists
Eggling
Duchamp
Leger
Brunel
Fellinni
Martha Rosler
John Cage
Stan Vanderbeek
Carolee schneemann
Allan Kaprow
Eleanor Antin
Vito Acconci
Bruce Nauman
David Haxton cube
Anthony Mccall line describing arc
lis rhodes light music 1975
Krysystof Wodiczko
Dara Birnbaum
Jack Goldstein
Helio Oiticica
Ernst Caramelle
Valie Export
Francis Allys
Zhang Huan
Howardina Pindell
Hermine Freed
Bill Viola
Michal Rovner
Petra Cortright
Ryan Trecartin
jorgen
Paul Pfeiffer
Guy Ben Ner
Issac Julian
Cory Arcangel
Jennifer Steincamp
Camille Henrot grosse fatigue
Pipilotti Rist
Ragnar Kjartanson
Candice Breitz