Transvidéo
- Date of creation : 1974
- Country : Switzerland
- Duration : 00:05:20
- Technical characteristics : Black & white, Sound, PAL
- Artist - Author : René Bauermeister
Description
“In this experiment René Bauermeister exploits the potential of the afterglow of the video image which allows us to still see what is already no more.” Program of the 3rd international video week (Source, pdf, Vasulka.org)
"Transvideo visualizes different generations of events which accumulate in the magnetoscopic space. These images end up slowly fading and disappear with the video signal. The experiment was carried out in the following way: a camera films the screen of the monitor in front of which the subject is placed. The camera transmits the image to a first video recorder which records it and whose tape passes directly to a second video recorder which plays it on the monitor screen. As soon as the image filmed appears on the screen, behind the subject, the latter can withdraw from the field of the camera and let the process initiated complete until the tape is completely erased." (Source: René Bauermesiter, in Swiss video, landmarks...: Bauermeister, Minkoff, Olesen, Otth, Urban on the occasion of the general assembly of the A.I.C.A., September 1978, [Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts of Lausanne / 1978], Lausanne, 1978.)
Additional Informations
This video was presented as a closed circuit as Slavko Kacunko explains in his book Closed Circuit Videoinstallationen: ein Leitfaden zur Geschichte und Theorie der Medienkunst mit Bausteinen eines Künstlerlexikons, Berlin, Logos, 2004. (Source, pdf, Slavko Kacunko)
The Contemporary Art Fund of the City of Geneva (FMAC) acquired the work in 1997. (Source, website, FMAC Geneva Municipal Contemporary Art Fund)
- Types : mono, closed circuit
- Language : Français
Publications and Periodicals which reference the work
- Art Vidéo, recherches et expériences. Bauermeister, Minkoff, Olesen, Otth, Urban, Porte de la Suisse, Espace 76, Paris, 1976.
- René Bauermeister, "René Bauermeister", Studio International, vol 191, n° 981, May/June 1976.
- Swiss video, repères... : Bauermeister, Minkoff, Olesen, Otth, Urban on the occasion of the general assembly of the A.I.C.A., September 1978, Musée cantonal des beaux-arts, Lausanne, 1978.
- Closed Circuit Videoinstallationen : ein Leitfaden zur Geschichte und Theorie der Medienkunst mit Bausteinen eines Künstlerlexikons, Slavko Kacunko, Logos, Berlin, 2004.