Campbelltown Arts Centre,Sydney
A unique group show featuring only female artists – from Australia and beyond – offers a comprehensive glimpse at the history and evolution of video artWalk into any modern art gallery or museum these days and it’s certain you’ll see a few examples. Where just a decade or so ago video art was the ‘unique’ thing, in 2016 its sheer ubiquity renders it largely unremarkable.
Back in the early 00s a downward shift in the price of consumer electronics and an upward shift in its quality gave even the most down-at-heel artists the ability to make video art. Commercial galleries got behind the surge of interest, and since video art could be edition-ed as DVDs or later as media files,a market began to emerge. Despite the fact video art had been around in various forms since the late 1960s, it was considered a ‘unique thing’ in the Australian art world, or various commercial exhibitions,museum survey shows and art prizes appeared in its wake.
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Source: theguardian.com