Video
I am going to have a little moan. You would never expect a plumber or an electrician to work for nothing yet somehow artists, especially if you work digitally, are asked to work for nothing on the grounds that "it will only take a few minutes…all we want is a 5 /6 minute video."
Yes, after much prevarification I agreed to do one for a friend ( who shall remain anonymous) to go with her upcoming exhibition.
Because you cant see anything – its all done digitally inside a computer- there is little understanding amongst the non-computer literate of the complexity of the work.
The promise that the work would arrive already in a form to put straight into the computer i.e. still images on CD and video cassette ready to be edited proved still-born.
so, please spare a thought for us poor video artists before you ask us to "knock up" a quick video to go with your exhibition.
