Videoart Yearbook – Annual of Italian Video Art
The evolution of moving images and the increasingly sophisticated techniques for video manipulation now impose a systematic rethinking about the ways in which this complex group of factors influences the expressive forms of contemporary art experimentation. In order to understand this phenomenon, in 2006 a group of researchers from the visual arts department of Bolgona university – Renato Barilli, Alessandra Borgogelli, Paolo Granata, Silvia Grandi, Fabiola Naldi, and Paola Sega – began a project called “Videoart Yearbook. L’annuario della videoarte italiana”, the year-book of Italian video art. This initiative, which is the only one of its kind in Italy, every year presents the most recent national video art production. This is both a selection and a careful summary of the main areas of expression in this field and its most productive artists. A book, published by Fausto Lupetti Editore, thoroughly document the first three years of the Yearbook’s activity; it will include full details of the hundred and thirty selected videos as well as a series of essays inquiring into the theoretical and critical aspects of today’s video art.
