摘要
Video art is,for all intents and purposes,having a moment right now.In China the format has allowed some of the country’s best artists and art minds to rise both within the country and around the globe.Reference,for example,the‘Father of Video Art in China,’Zhang Peili.Zhang graduated from the Department of Oil Painting at the Chinese Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 1984,and quickly switched his focus to video art as he became disenchanted with painting,founding The Pond Society with Geng Jianyi,Song Ling and others in the mid-‘80s.