Being more and more recognized by the artistic institutions, the videoinstallation uses the electronic image technology as a basis to develop a contemporary art. The relationship between viewer and monitor changes in a given videoinstallation, as the 2-D image moves out of its plane and expands towards the outer space in order to bring up time and motion to the scenery. The presentation of the 11 videoinstallations, quite diversified among themselves, show the broad possibilities about what could be made and is a unique opportunity to know the work of internationally-renowned artists.
The work of the german artist Dieter Kiessling is part of a series of installations that have electronic media and its basic characteristic as a theme.
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Statement Dieter Kiessling, 1994
Since 1982 the electronic media is the theme and material of my artistic work. From them I use mainly the basic characteristic of the TV and video technics.
First I attempt to understand these structures and elementary relationship, to show, then, as these structural characteristics, usually unnoticed, mark the function and effect of the media: For example, in an installation of video in a closed-circuit – where the cameras focus straight to the TV screens – I can establish the close relationships between the video technique and the different components.
By this way the basic structures of this media become visible, making it possible to show the relationship of the process of perception. In this style I place the closed-circuit installation Untitled, 1994, in which I take as theme the difference between reality and image. Six images of a red light are created simultaneously, side-by-side, on a TV screen. A clear tough of blue – a common deficiency of the system, permanently present on TV images, but rarely noticed by the viewer – modifies the images of the light, which, in the sixth reproduction becomes blue.
ASSOCIAÇÃO CULTURAL VIDEOBRASIL. "10º Videobrasil: Festival Internacional de Arte Eletrônica": de 20 a 25 de novembro de 1994, São Paulo-SP, 1994.