Glossary

Video art is a form of media art that uses moving images, as well as audio and video technologies, as its primary means of expression. It emerged in the 1960s with the advent of portable cameras. Unlike traditional film, video art often avoids linear narrative structures and instead experiments freely with space, time and image montages. It treats video as sculpture, installation, or standalone screen-based work. Video Art is one of the oldest, most established genres within New Media Art, with a collecting market and conservation practices more mature than most other categories here.