化瞬间为永恒,融永恒入瞬间——一分钟影像艺术论析

Melting the Instantaneous into the Eternal,Transforming the Eternal into the Instantaneous: On One Minute Video Art

衡量世界上有关一分钟活动的各种纪录,通常的标准是效率;品评一分钟影像艺术,尺度则是隽永,即化瞬间为永恒、融永恒入瞬间。与一百多年前的一分钟影片不同,一分钟影像艺术是在数码技术支持下问世的。它是对商业化、体制化、模式化的长片的否定。从早期一分钟影片到成熟的长片,再到一分钟影像艺术的历程,体现了视觉艺术的辩证发展。

When evaluating all kinds of records related one minute activity in the world, the usual standard is the efficiency ; while appraising the one minute video art, the criterion is the meaningfulness, namely, melting the instantaneous into the eternal, transforming the eternal into the instantaneous. Far from the early one minute movie more than one hundred years ago, the one minute video art is innovative under the support of digital technology. It is the denial of the commercialized, institutionalized and formularized feature film, From the early one minute movie to the mellow feature film, then to the one minute art, the process represents the dialectic progress of visual art.