The artistic work of Eli Cortiñas, Professor of Media Art at the HGB, is featured in Erika Balsom's publication “Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art”, which will be published by Phaidon in April.
"Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art" is the most comprehensive overview of contemporary video and moving image art of the last decade to date. Video has never been more prevalent in contemporary art than it is today. At a time when moving images have saturated daily life, artists continue to draw new possibilities from the medium.
From live-action documentation to hand-drawn animation, participatory video-game technologies, and computer-generated imagery,Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art presents over 850 images from more than 100 artists. Discover recent work by established names as well as rising stars in the contemporary art world, all nominated by a global panel of high-profile art-world figures.
Erika Balsom is a scholar and critic based in London, working on cinema, art, and their intersection. She is Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London and holds a PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University.