Video Installation
Video Installation is the experimentation of video as a medium through a creative outlet. It's a non-mainstream form of video production thats mainly used in galleries and exhibition spaces to create an creative and artistic atmosphere.
Tony Oursler
Tony Oursler is a native New Yorker, born in 1957. He received a B.A. in Fine Arts at the California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA, in 1979. His art covers a wide range of media, including video, sculpture, installation, performance and painting. He created some controversy mainly through his installations, e.g. at Documenta IX in Kassel (1992). He also made a name for himself by producing a large number of music videos.
Tony Oursler's artistic creations consist of his work involving rather strange and unorthodox faces and figures which are vastly seen as controversial in the art/creative media industry because of the disfigurement and constructive demolition of the human face. His work portrays . Examples of his work include using projectors onto various objects to form artistic creations which branch away from the usual.
Samantha Taylor-Wood
Samantha Taylor-Wood is an 47 year-old artist who is renowned as a English Filmmaker, Photographer and Visual Artist. Her work in the Film industry involves directing a feature film which debuted in 2009 named 'Nowhere Boy', a film revolving on the childhood experiences of The Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon. The vast majority of her work is broadly admired and appreciated amongst people in the art/film industry given the level of creativity and individuality which is distinguishable from other artists/filmmakers.
One of Taylor-Wood's previous projects includes a video installation which is considered slightly controversial given the grotesque nature of it's content. 'Still Life' conveys the concept of how death/time coincide with a heir being decomposed and disfigured by maggots. The film represents the life-cycle and acceptance of mortality although not being universally appealing because of it's sensitive, grotesque nature. It also emphasises the process of self-disappearing life with the heir being eaten by maggots although upon closer inspection, I had noticed the plastic ballpoint pen, a cheap contemporary object. One that doesn’t seem to decay and doesn’t seem to be a part of the universal process of self-disappearing life. 
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