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Hal G. Meeks (hgm@unity.ncsu.edu) wrote:
: hodges@news.NeoSoft.com (Eric Hodges) writes:

: >My partner is a video artist, and the "idiot" I think you are referring to
: >is a very well respected artist  (who's name escapes me right now).  She
: >didn't make a "pathetic documentary", she made a very powerful peice of
: >artwork.  The toy camera windowboxes the image, reduces the resolution
: >severely and records only in black and white.

: These artists should go back to school, then, and learn a little more about
: the tools they are using. 

Sadie Benning was 15 when she made her first PixelVision film. Go back to
school?? Grade school?

: I abandoned the PXL2000 because it limited me so severly in flexibility, that
: everything I shot looked the same way. My input as an artist was minimal, 
: restricted to subject matter. I had minimal control over lighting, contrast, 
: framing, sound, etc. If I was a traditional artist, I would liken the PXL2000
: to an Etch-a-Sketch.

If someone used an Etch-a-Sketch to impact me emotionally, I'd consider it art.
The tools are just that.  Tools.

: >To acheive the same results through processing would cost more for 3
: >hours of studio time than the price of the PixelVision!  THATS why many
: >artists want them.

: Artists that want to work in the experimental video medium have to become
: technicians as well. I started using computers in video about 10 years ago. I
: don't use computers for the traditional video uses; I do no 3D modeling. I use
: my computer as a sort of digital filter -- it's rather easy for me to take 
: video from my Hi8 camcorder and end up with something that looks like stuff
: from a PXL2000. And my equipment is cheap; the computer and digitiser can be
: had used for well under a $1000.00. 

Please post an equipment list! I'd love to pick up a computer and digitiser
suitable for professional video use for well under $1000!

: >:  Guess there's a sucker born every minute.

: >That's very insulting.

: I don't intend to insult you or your partner, it's just that some of us work 
: very hard at our craft. Stuff like the PXL2000 is a novelty -- I have seen too
: much crap shot with it that was passed off as art. We both know that real art
: transcends the medium to which it is bound....right?

The only video art done on the PXL2000 has been Sadie Benning's work.  I
certainly consider it art, so it isn't being "passed off" in my opinion.
My partner works very hard at her craft as well.  It is insulting to assume
that she doesn't just because she has expressed an interest in buying a
PXL2000.  (She's waiting for the 3000 though.)  

I don't think there is such a thing as "real art".  People each decide what
they think of as art.  Sometimes they form gangs and enforce those decisions
on others.
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