The 1980s saw the rise of the music video and a new generation of MTV obsessed artists. We explore the influence of the music video on Australian video art through the work of The Kingpins, Sue Dodd and Darren Sylvester.
We now live as much online as we do offline. We are part human, mostly smartphone. Artists Xanthe Dobbie, Joe Hamilton and Club Ate work at the interface of art and the internet.
Often what is left out of frame is as significant as what is told. Vernon Ah Kee, James Nguyen and Susan Norrie use the documentary mode to critique sociopolitical realities.
Video was made popular in the 70s as a wave of social movements swept the world. Fifty years on, Caroline Garcia, Dr Christian Thompson and Angela Tiatia unite the personal and political through performing for the camera.
