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"outdated" or have been used in one of the other essays.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 essay-22.htm
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
22. The
Subtle Ways of Censorship on Democracy (only in English)
Paper delivered by Torben Soeborg at the
conference
CENSORSHIP A VIRUS IN THE NEW MEDIA SCAPE
Bucharest, Romania, November 3-4, 1994
23. Bemærkninger
om og reflektioner over VIDEOKUNST
(only in Danish)
(Observations and Refections about VIDEO ART)
Paper delivered by Torben Soeborg at
conference,
Frölunda Kulturhus, Gothenburg, Sweden, March
1989
24.
My Involvment with Video and Video Art (only in English)
Torben Soeborg interview to English magazine, 2001-2002
8not published)