Installation Art

Installation art, in my opinion, seems to be the meeting point of cinema and video art. To me, the main difference between video art and film(cinema) is that going to see a movie, one is not just going for the experience of seeing that particular movie, they are going to take in the experience of "going to the movies' as an idea itself. Video art does not have this same romantic experience. Video art installations thus prove themselves to be what the movie theater is to film. It is not just that one experiences watching a video, it is the experience of the environment in which one watches a video. It is pretty clear here in Bill Viola's piece "An Ocean Without a Shore"