Response #5: Pg 58-81

From the concept in this week’s reading, the use of filmography is a very interesting. Video Art as one would call it is a very cool idea that many people don’t necessarily how to use. But when used and done right, then it becomes a thing of true beauty. Especially when it comes down to the artistic talent and eye required. One of the main points shown in the reading in general, is the work that is done under the minimalistic and conceptual trends in video art. The ideology behind the simplistic approach that many creators back then, as well as today, is to make their narrative be able something simple, but can vary in complexity. One of the well-known artists that do these types of works, is by Robert Ashley, which made his “experimental Opera” which included “sounds of spoken text, projected video images of abstract images, appropriate images, and words”. the way many artists today, try to over complicate things by over the tops scenes, don’t necessarily have a greater impact in the field, as someone who could fall back onto a simpler and straight to the point, type of work. These types of works, combined with the actions of videographers, make an interesting combination. You get to sense some type of emotion, some more vivid than others. Lepage had said,” the theater is linked to technology; There is a poetry in technology, but we try to use it in a way that does not eclipse the action on stage”. This is to say that technology and stage work, will work hand in hand, as is develops.