video art

Expect quantum physics and oil paint, AI and video art, climate change and sculpture.

Viola’s career began in the early 1970s when he assisted Nam June Paik, who created video art as we know it.

This heady rush of “firsts” for American video art peaked in 1989 when Viola was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

Video art was taking off following the late-1960s invention of portable — and affordable — television recording equipment for personal use.

At Syracuse’s Everson Museum of Art, director James Harithas, a supporter of all things artistically novel, hired David Ross as the museum world’s first curator of video art.