Music Videos II
From silent films screened with piano accompaniment to the golden age of MTV filled with audacious and expensive music videos, music and the moving image have long been intertwined. This, the second iteration of our Music/Video series, continues exploring the various ways in which artists have used music to change or enhance the meanings and the potential of video art.
Featured Works:
Plastic Rap with Frieda, 1983. Tom Rubnitz, Barbara Lipp, Tom Koken. Video (color, sound); 4:07 minutes. Courtesy the artist and Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org
finally destroy us, 1991. Tom Kalin (American, born 1962). Video (black and white and color, sound); 3:58 minutes. Courtesy the artist and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Aerobicide-Julie Ruin, 1998. Sadie Benning, Kathleen Hanna. DV video (color, sound); 4:00 minutes. Courtesy the artist and Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org
Year of the Spawn, 2014. Matt Wolf. HD video (black and white, sound); 4:49 minutes. Courtesy the artist and Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art is supported in part by Cuyahoga County residents through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture and made possible in part by state tax dollars allocated by the Ohio Legislature to the Ohio Arts Council (OAC). The OAC is a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally, and economically.
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