Beryl Korot

Beryl Korot is an internationally known video artist who has created multi-monitor installations that have been shown all over the world.  She is an early video-art pioneer whose multi-monitor installation works explore the relationship between programming tools as diverse as the technology of the loom and multiple-channel video.  As well as being a video artist, she was also a painter which helped influence her video work.  

“Just as the spinning and gathering of wool serve as the raw material for a weave, so the artist working with video selects images to serve as the basic substance of the work” (Beryl Korot).  Korot is saying that working with video is no difference than working with a raw material such as wool.  Each is combined together with something else to be created into something completely new.  Korot’s paintings were based on a language she created that was an analogue of the Latin alphabet.  From her interest in weaving and video as related technologies, her paintings were done on hand-woven and traditional linen canvases.  In her video work, such as with the “Three Tales,” it extends and deepens her interest in both technology, which most of her video work is about,  and weaving as a material to make her work.    

Her works in video, weaving, and painting combine together and influence each other in her works.  She uses each aspect of her works together, but still creating each work individually.  Beryl Korot said “I was attracted to video art because it allowed me to combine a strong sense of content with formal innovation. The field was wide open and allowed for a great deal of experimentation for creating new forms.”  Being new to the field of video allowed to her to explore and experiment with new ideas and creations, leading to her being one of the most internationally known video artists and video-art pioneer.

Dachau 1974

Radical Software 1970's

Three Tales Act 1