Essays about video and video art by Torben Soeborg
The essays are written over a long span of years. They are reproduced here in their
original form
- although part of an essay today may be
"outdated" or have been used in one of the other essays.
Only the essays about video installations
(Essay 3 and 5) have been revised and rewritten and
are here published only in the new version as
Essay 13.
1. "Video
+ kunst = videokunst?" (Video + art = video art?) [only in Danish]
Sune Nordgreen (edit): Videokonst
i Norden, Kalejdoskop, nr.3-4, Kristianstad,
Sweden, 1983, p. 11-16
2. "Videokunst
og kunstkritk ... tanker efter en paneldiskussion" [only in Danish]
(Video Art and Art Criticism ... Thoughts after
a Panel Discussion)
u.p., Haslev, Denmark, 1983
3. "VIDEO
+ TID + RUM = VIDEO INSTALLATION" (Video + time + space = video installation)
Torben Soeborg (edit): VIDEO monitor -
Newsletter om nordisk videokunst,
Nordisk Kulturfond, 1984
4. "Aspekter af videokunst"
(Aspects of video art)
FOOLS-85 FESTIVAL, Katalog,
Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1985
5. "Video-installationer:
... like having your cake and eating it, too!" [only in Danish]
VIDEO MARATHON II, NORTH-information,
No. 161, Roskilde, Denmark,1988
6. "VIDEO
& KUNST = et provisorium" (Video & art = a provisional measure) [only in Danish]
Honningpumpen, No.1, 1989,
Faggruppen af Kunstbibliotekarer, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1989
7. ""Mais
je suis passager", I insist" [only in Danish]
Susanne Neimann (edit): EN STØJ I ØJET.
Film- og videoeksperimenter, Klim. Aarhus, 1989, p. 37-42
8. "Video er ogsaa kultur og kunst ... bl.a.: Om videokunstens
vilkaar" [only in Danish]
(Video is also culture and art ... among other
things: About the condition of video art)
Carsten Frederiksen (edit): DEN HELLIGE
SKRIFT. En bog om boeger og billedmedier,
Danmarks Biblioteksforening, Copenhagen,
Denmark, 1989, p. 163-170
9. "VAND,
VIDEO OG POESI ... at undres med Fabrizio Plessi" [only in Danish]
(Water, video and poetry - to wonder with
Fabrizio Plessi)
monitor, 24/92, Haslev, Denmark, 1992
10. "Videokunst
- Between Department Store and Television - zwishen Schicksal
und Anspruch (eller om at se TV og laese video)" [only in Danish]
(Video art - between department store and
television - between destiny and
demand (or about looking at TV and reading
video))
monitor, 32/94, Haslev, Denmark,
1994
11A. "Video Artists, video art ... and Television?" [only in English]
A paper for the FIV 95 Festival, November 1995,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
11.
"Nuevos tendencias en media - eller gentagelser af tidligere trends" (New
trends in media -
or repetition of earlier trends) [only in Danish]
monitor, 38/96, Haslev, Denmark,
1996
12. "Videokunst-hjemmekunst"
(Video art - "home art") [only
in Danish]
Kunstavisen, No. 2, 1998, Koege,
Denmark, 1998
13.
"VIDEO + TIME + SPACE = VIDEO INSTALLATION" [only in English]
Published online, 1999
14. "Video-
og mediakunst: Teknologi og tendenser"
(Video and Media Art: Technology and trends) [only in Danish]
monitor, 43/2000, Haslev, Denmark, 2000
15. "VIDEO\BILLEDE
- ad overvejelserne i monitor 43/2000"
(Video\Picture - with reference to the thoughts
in monitor, 43/2000 [Essay 14]) [only in Danish]
monitor, 44/2000, Haslev, Denmark, 2000
16.
Introduction to the Danish Video Art Selection at Medi@terra Festival
Athens, Greece, Nov. 4, 2000 + monitor,
47/2000, Haslev, Denmark 2000 [only
in English]
17. Thougts
about interactivity, creativity, authorship, aesthetic theory and new media [only in English]
monitor, 48/2000, Haslev, Denmark,
2000
18. "Videokunst:
tendenser og teknologi"
(Video Art: Trends and technology) [only in Danish]
Foredrag, KOMPONENT, Copenhagen, May 26, 2001
19. "Moscow
Paper" [only in English]
Paper delivered by Torben Soeborg at the MEDIA
FORUM
of the XXIII Moscow International film
Festival, Moscow Russia, June 23-27, 2001¨
20. SHIFT
from Exhibition to Reflection: Some Personal Viewpoints on Art Installations [only in English]
October 16, 2003
21. The
Poetic Inspiration of my Video Art Works [only in English]
November 1, 2003