This video installation is called Oil and sugar and was created in 2007 by Kadar Attia. In this video installation, black oil is poured over a tower of white sugar and I believe this represents the black and white of our society. The fact that the video installation is continuously repeated made me think it was a representation of our society destroying our world by polluting it and continuously polluting it without thinking about it. The room has two separate entrances and a bench in between the two and then has the video projecting on the the wall ahead.
This installation is called Tiny deaths and was made by Bill Viola in 1993 and is shown by using three large screens on three different walls in a pitch black room. As you walk into the room, it is completely pitch black to a point where it is ridiculously hard to even see shapes of people around you and they use muffled voices and eery noises to almost give you the feeling of actually experiencing what is going on in the video installation. After standing in complete darkness for a while, an image on a man appears on the screen in black and white and only stays there for a second and then over exposes and disappears in a flash and this continues with other humans throughout.
The video itself is very simple but because it is so ambiguous it give many people different impressions and I felt that it was almost made to show life flashing before our eyes. The darkness enforced that theme as it felt like you were completely alone in your thoughts watching life flash before my eyes.
This video installation is called Nixon and was made by Nam June Paik in 2002. The installation is made by using two very old fashioned televisions on top of a cabinet with magnetic coils wrapped around each screen. The televisions play a clip of Nixon's television appearance in 1965. The coils causes the footage to jump, causing disruption.
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