This journal gathers the articles of several authors who analyze the particular universe of video-art through different approaches. On one hand, they reflect on the creation and production of this artistic movement known as video-art where the role played by the actor, in a media whose structure is based on the absence of narrative, affects the particular narrative cinema dramatic function; and considering that the spectator’s place also radically changes. In addition, the journal poses the particular relationship between the concept of staging, space and body in video-art, from the reflection of some contemporary video artists. On the other hand, the authors conduct a historical approach on video-art from its relationship with the artistic, historical and cinematographic vanguards, as well as its close relationship with the experimental cinema of the 60s and 70s. Another approach developed by the authors is based on the unique characteristics of video-art in the cultural field by analyzing their genealogy and reflecting on their current situation, as well as the possibilities in the field of university education to the analysis of
video-art as a teaching tool. Finally, we reflect on the possibility of creating video-art archives considering the changes brought by digital technologies and the Internet circulation of audiovisual material.

Published: 2019-10-08