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2000's-today (this section will follow 1980's-1990's section)
As technology and editing techniques have evolved since the emergence of video as an art form, artists have been able to experiment more with video art without using any of their own content. Marco Brambilla's "Civilization" (2008) shows this technique. Brambilla attempts to make a video version of a collage, or a "video mural" by combining various clips from movies, and editing them to portray heaven and hell.

There are artists today who have changed the way video art is perceived and viewed. Ryan Trecartin, and experimental young video-artist, uses color, editing techniques and bizarre acting to portray what the New Yorker calls "a cultural watershed". Trecartin played with the portrayal of identity and ended up producicng characters who "can be many people at the same time". A series of videos made by Trecartin titled I-BE-AREA displayed this, one example is I-BE-AREA (Pasta and Wendy M-PEGgy), which was made public in 2008, which portrays a character named Wendy who behaves erratically. When asked about his characters, Trecartin explained that he visualized that each person's identity was made up of "areas" and that they could all be very different from each other and be expressed at different times. Ryan Trecartin is an innovative artist who has been said to have "changed the way we engage with the world and with one another" through video art.

Performance Art and Video art (this section will go below the decades sections)
Video art as a medium can also be combined with other forms of artistic expression such as Performance art. This combination can also be refereed to as "media and performance art" when artists "break the mold of video and film and broaden the boundaries of art". With increased ability for artists to obtain video cameras, performance art started being documented and shared across large amounts of audiences. Artists such as Marina Abramovic and Ulay experimented with video taping their performances in the 1970’s and the 1980’s. In a piece titled “Rest energy” (1980) both Ulay and Marina suspended their weight so that they pulled back a bow and arrow aimed at her heart, Ulay held the arrow, and Marina the bow. The piece was 4:10 which Marina described as being “a performance about complete and total trust”.

Other artists who combined Video art with Performance art used the camera as the audience. Kate Gilmore experimented with the positioning of the camera. In her video “Anything” (2006) she films her performance piece as she is constantly trying the reach the camera which is staring down at her. As the 13-minute video goes on, she continues to tie together pieces of furniture while constantly attempting to reach the camera. Gilmore added an element of struggle to her art which is sometimes self-imposed, in her video “My love is an anchor” (2004) she lets her foot dry in cement before attempting to break free on camera. Gilmore has said to have mimicked expression styles from the 1960's and 1970's with inspirations like Marina Abramovic as she adds extremism and struggle to her work.

Some artists experimented with space when combining Video art and Performance art. Ragnar Kjartannson, an Icelandic artist, filmed an entire music video with 9 different artists, including himself, being filmed in different rooms. All the artists could hear each other through a pair of headphones so that they could play the song together, the piece was titled "The visitors" (2012).

Peer Review
''So far, your draft looks really good! You have the correct content length and cite several noteworthy sources. After looking at your citations, I wouldn't say that I could find any issues with the sources you found. Your spelling and grammar is also in good form. I like how the tone of your additions sounds like something I would already be reading on Wikipedia. I can't find any blatant biases within your work. Additionally, I like the idea of using specific artists who have been influential in their medium as examples, as readers who come to this page will most likely be looking for influential video artists. My suggestion is that you create separate sections for performance and video art. This can be done really easily by adding separate headings for the two. I think this edit would create a nice format for readers and make it easier to find specific information. Great work! -Avam11 Avam11 (talk) 19:34, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Video art
I plan to make extensive changes to the Video art article. One main issue with the article is that it is focused primarily on American video art and gives no examples of other video artists. I plan to add information about such artists and include countries such as Peru, the Czech republic, parts of the United kingdom and others. I will also be including different types of video art and add a section on video art used with performance art. The article also fails to mention video art works before the 1970's so I will add very few early works beginning in 1929 and add a section on 1940's, 1960's, and 2000's on.

Possible topics
Health communication- To improve this article, I would first alter some of the wording and organization of it, since people have said it reads like a term paper. I would also add extensive public health vocabulary and alter the strategies and methods to be more diverse and descriptive.

Lifestyle trends and media- To improve this article I would change the overall organization of it since it is written primarily in essay form with large paragraphs. I would also add more examples and references to the article and focus on topics other than beauty that influence lifestyle.

Video art- to improve this article I will add international examples of video artists and performance artists. I will also add sections on other decades of video art and the history and early video artists including animators.

Article Evaluation
The article Celebrity culture has several issues throughout. The first sentence is acceptable, however it fails to give enough detail as to what celebrity culture is and remains vague and confusing. The fourth sentence in the first paragraph is not from a neutral point of view, in fact it seems to be mocking the idea of celebrity culture. The first paragraph also gives the idea that celebrity culture is only formed when the audience wants to change their lifestyle to fit that of the celebrities they are watching. However, celebrity culture can be defined in many ways, even if the audience just finds it entertaining and lovable. In the next section about promotion discusses how celebrity culture came to be, and very little about the promotion itself. In this section the author was alluding to reality television, but did not state or link an article to this section. Surprisingly the article also failed to include any examples of celebrity culture such as Keeping up with the Kardashians. Instead of talking about celebrity culture, this article tries to direct the focus onto lesser appreciated artists from centuries ago by naming Vincent van Gogh, Edgar Allan Poe, and others in the last section of the article. The article also offers very few sources available to read online, using mainly books. The references sections looks like a make up of old and outdated sources and a few new articles in order to support the biased view this article is trying to give. In the end it is a very poorly written article with no actual references to celebrity culture in it, that mainly focuses on the opinion of an audience that dislikes celebrity culture.

Treesssss (talk) 17:04, 2 February 2018 (UTC)