The course will focus on video art from experimental visual art practices of the mid 20th century to the present. Adopting an overarching chronological format, the course will examine the gradual transformation of the filmic medium and its development into an independent creative, formal and conceptual medium. The course will also address how contemporary video art is intended as large-scale installations, and how multi-screened works dialogue with existing museum spaces, often questioning the idea of traditional display. The course will finally take in consideration a new generation of artists, often defined as Post-Internet artists, who engage with digital culture and 21st-century imagery. Works by a selection of established artists working with video will be analyzed during classes. All classes will be grounded in current visual art debates, expanding on issues dealing with the production of images, and the representation and interpretation of the contemporary world through the means of video art.