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| VIDEO DADA Through February 6, 2010 Tuesdays-Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. Free and open to the public University Art Gallery at UC Irvine's Arts Plaza of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts |
In this era of viral video, it was only a matter of time before the worlds of art and video technology united.
Take the current exhibit at UC Irvine's Arts Plaza: VIDEO DADA. Running through February 6, 2010, this art exhibit boasts seven screens displaying more than 300 “inventive, intelligent and aesthetically sophisticated” videos by independent artists, showcasing pop culture and art, and how they intertwined and changed thanks to the Internet.
Much like the Dada art form that hit Europe during and after World War I, this exhibit aims to stimulate our visual, artistic senses through dramatic performance, animation, creative collage, and "uncategorizable others.”
Exhibit curator Martha Gever, UC Irvine Studio Art associate professor, adds more to this visual treat while establishing its uniqueness. She describes the exhibit as: "No repeat of history, not neo-Dada, but still wreaking havoc with conventional parameters of art. Nowadays inventive, intelligent and aesthetically sophisticated videos can be seen far afield, outside traditional art venues like museums and galleries. And artists circulate their videos on a much wider scale than that achieved by any television network. VIDEO DADA asks how these changes complicate the conceptual and aesthetic contours of art.”
