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We are all star stuff — Lenka Dolanová (20070101)
Umělec magazine 2007/1
http://88.208.121.86/london/es/article/we-are-all-star-stuff
From the beginnings of Chicago Video Art
“It was this way in general, but mainly in Chicago, where there were many common goals, great ideas; lots of associated equipment and resources.” (Dan Sandin)
“Video Art is not Mona Lisa but it’s fun in its own way.” (Phil Morton)
The so-called “Chicago School of Video Art” is considered to have been one of the most interesting groups engaging in video experiments in the seventies and as a community it survived longer than the New York circle. Woody Vasulka, a video artist, commented on the Chicago artists’ group in a catalogue dedicated to the pioneers of video art in this somewhat obscure manner: “But I do not know enough about them to fully understand their inner dynamics. They always appeared self-satisfied, confident and full of rare knowledge. Their form of technological commune was the most refined, full of techno-sexual rituals, electro-erotic practices and secrets, which despite their obsession with the open dissemination of knowledge, have never been made public.” Chicago video art was interconnected with movements supporting political change and a desire to…
