Lithuania

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Cities

Vilnius

Precedessors

  • Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, painter and composer. In 1904-1909 explored the analogies between music and the visual arts. He draws on Lithuanian folklore, Oriental mysticism, and uses more abstract forms than many of his Russian contemporaries. [1]

Video art

Equipment
  • VCRs were availabe on the black market by the late 1970s. In 1986 a VCR cost the equivalent of 17 months average wage (Mark R. Levy, The VCR Age)
Artists
Exhibitions
  • Twilight. Curated by Deimantas Narkevicius, Kestutis Kuizinas, and Evaldas Stankevicius, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, 1998.
  • Lithuanian Art 1989-1999. The Ten Years. Curated by Kestutis Kuizinas, Raimundas Malasauskas, Deimantas Narkevicius, Evaldas Stankevicius, Jonas Valatkevicius, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, 1999.
  • The Others are Me. Social Instinct in Lithuanian Art. Curated by Maria Anna Potocka, Gallery of Contemporary Art BUNKIER SZTUKI, Krakow, 2004.
Literature
  • Renata Dubinskaitė, "Artist Roles in Lithuanian Video Art (1990-2003)", Athena: Philosophical Studies. Issue: 3, 2008: 156-172. [2]
  • Natalie Musteata, "Wired to History: Romanian and Lithuanian Video Art Post-1989", PhD Program in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center, 2010. [3]

Electroacoustic and experimental music, sound art

New media art, Media culture

Literature