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{{Short description|Art form using video technology}}
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'''Video art''' is an [[art]] form which relies on using [[video]] technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as [[video tape recorders]] became available outside corporate [[broadcasting]]. Video art can take many forms: recordings that are [[broadcast]]; [[installation art|installations]] viewed in galleries or museums; works either streamed online, or distributed as [[video tape]]s, or on [[DVD]]s; and [[performances]] which may incorporate one or more [[television set]]s, [[video monitor]]s, and projections, displaying live or recorded images and sounds.<ref>Hartney, Mick. [http://www.moma.org/collection/details.php?theme_id=10215 "Video art"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111017023139/http://moma.org/collection/details.php?theme_id=10215 |date=2011-10-17 }}, [[MoMA]], accessed January 31, 2011</ref>

Video art is named for the original analog video tape, which was the most commonly used recording technology in much of the form's history into the 1990s. With the advent of [[digital recording]] equipment, many artists began to explore digital technology as a new way of expression. Video art does not necessarily rely on the conventions that define theatrical cinema. It may not use [[actor]]s, may contain no [[dialogue]], and may have no discernible [[narrative]] or [[plot (narrative)|plot]]. Video art also differs from cinema subcategories such as [[avant garde]] cinema, [[short films]], and [[experimental film]].