video art

American  

noun

1. an art form involving the creative exploitation of video technology to produce videotapes for viewing on a television screen.

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Other Word Forms

• video artist noun

Etymology

Origin of video art

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

“What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem” runs six weeks through March 20 and spans more than 120 years of moving images, from early silent cinema to contemporary video art.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

Perhaps you’d prefer to start with photography and leave some room for video art?

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2023

Many of CTL’s clients are museums looking to restore works by a single artist, the video art pioneer Nam June Paik, who died in 2006.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2023

Paul Pfeiffer makes video art that, at its best, exploits the one-to-one relationship between viewer and image more commonly found in the experience of painting than of most video.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023

The same applies to photography, video art, theater, dance, minimalist music, and the architecture of deconstruction.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai