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Born from an interest in exploring the expressive potential of new technological media, video art is an artistic discipline that uses video as a creative tool. It originated with the introduction of video recorders and televisions to the market between the late 1950s and early 1960s. By convention, the origin of this discipline is dated to 1963, when Nam June Paik, a member of the Fluxus group, exhibited his televisions at a German gallery in his first solo exhibition, Exposition of Music \u2013 Electronic Television.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n

I PIONIERI<\/h2>\n\n

One of the pioneers, if not the founder, of video art is Nam June Paik, a Korean artist considered the first to transform the television into an art object, with his works TV Bra<\/em> and TV Cello<\/em> from the mid-1960s. In doing so, he removes the television from its domestic context, exploring the close relationship between performing arts and video. One of his best-known works is TV Buddha<\/em>, which features a sculpture of Buddha watching his own live image on a screen placed in front of him. It stages a kind of struggle between the image of Eastern meditation and Western technology, as well as a reflection on our perception of ourselves through technology. One of the greatest exponents of video art is Bill Viola, an American artist who has carved out a place for video in the art world, defining it as an excellent and powerful expressive and reflective medium. Regarding video, he stated: \u201cThe fundamental aspect of video is not the images\u2026 Its essence, in my opinion, is movement\u2014that is, something that exists in one moment and transforms itself in the next<\/em>\u201d.His works are characterized by the use of slow motion and the selection of historical and evocative locations, which he employs to create living pictures. An example is Emergence<\/em> (2002): a large vertical screen displays the image of a man emerging from the water as if reborn. The composition and scenography recall the fifteenth-century fresco Christ in Piet\u00e0<\/em> by Masolino da Panicale, creating a dialogue between past, present, and spirituality. Last but not least is the Swiss video artist known by the name Pipilotti Rist who stated: \u201cVideo art is like a big bag: there is room for everything: technology, language, music, the flow of images, poetry, emotion, the premonition of death, sex and friendship\u201d. <\/em>In her work Sip My Ocean<\/em>, a video projected onto two adjacent walls shows a woman in a bikini swimming in the water amidst the waves as household objects sink around her, a scene accompanied by the lyrics of the pop song Wicked Game which almost obsessively repeat \u201cI don\u2019t want to fall in love<\/em>\u201d. <\/p>\n