[TLC note: the following is the text of a paper delivered by Andrew Frost at last November's Disappearing Video conference at the MCA. Here is a short roundup of the conference. And here is another, more comprehensive account, from our Brisbane guru Danni Zuvela. After the conference we asked the MCA if they were going to publish the papers or video documentation of the talks. They said they would like to, but as far as we know, it hasn't happened yet.
So we contacted Andrew Frost (best known as the guy from The Art Life) to see if he would like to publish his paper online here at the TLC. I think you'll agree it's a provocative account of video art reaching back to the 1980s, and ending with a set of predictions for the future which, well, see what you think of his predictions... - Lucas
-PS - here is a PDF version of this paper if you'd prefer to print it out, a bit more readable to those with square eyes from watching too much video art...]
[And just so you know who's talking to you in this article, here's a portrait of Andrew pinched from his Facebook profile...]
- – - “Now To the Future” by Andrew Frost – - -
Video is everywhere. On line, in portable mobile technology, in the ever-present plasma-LCD display of signal, in the melding of television and cinema.
Convergence and proliferation are the truisms of 2008.
The sheer visibility of video is unremarkable, mundane in a way, yet the experience of the screen has worked its way into every aspect of electronic media and underwrites our fascination with the capture of moving image within the shifting frames of the thing we call – video.
To talk about the future of video, and the subset activity called video art, is to inevitably talk about its past. Video art has been in a perpetual state of emergence, securing access to the technology to make it happen, searching for ways to find an audience and thinking about how the moment of now is an echo of the past and prelude to the future.
My task today is to talk about some of the aspects of contemporary video art practice and make some bold predictions for the future.
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