Miha Vipotnik (1954) graduated in painting in 1976 and in 1979 completed his postgraduate studies in video and television at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. In the 70's and 80's, he created numerous artistic videos, intros and animations, directed art-related programs and has pioneered the experimental usage of video technology for the public television RTV Slovenia. From 1987 to 1991, he studied MFA, Film and Live Action at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. Together with Marie Claude Vogrič, he was a co-founder and the Director of an international biennial video festival VIDEO CD in Ljubljana (1983-1987), during which a significant number of Slovene and international video art works were created with the state-of-the-art technical equipment in impromptu studios. From 1987 till 1991, he received a Fulbright stipend for his master's studies of Film and Live Action at the California Institute of the Arts in L.A. During this period he established the XYZX Production, through which he collaborated with TV stations and film studios across the globe. In 1994, he began managing the Long Beach Museum of Art Video Annex and with Elayne Zalis, he co-created the concept for digitization of their significant video collection in order to make it available online. This collaboration also resulted in numerous art installations and video art projects produced for international artists. LBMA Video Annex priceless collection of video art is now part of The Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute's Art Video Archives. Since 2002, Vipotnik lectured through video art workshops in Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Croatia and Slovenia. In 2014, he started working as a visiting professor of film and video at the Department of Digital Media, Cinema and Television at the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts of USEK University in Lebanon and at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts ALBA in Beirut, where he teaches creative expression and art-related interdisciplinary studies. Vipotnik is primarily a painter, whose images and stories materialize in a form of movies and video art. From very early on, he used video as his main medium of expression - either through a single-channel video or as a constitutive part of his multimedia and interdisciplinary projects and art installations. Electronic media experimenting and the actual performative process are among key features of his artistic praxis, through which he explores the impact of such image transformations within his narratives. His artistic language includes elements of performance with an emphasis on the significance of timing and the gradual unfolding of enigmatic personal stories into a palimpsest of images, inscriptions and speech.
Production: M.A.X. M.A.X., 1986
Auto-Vision was TV program produced by Miha Vipotnik as director and Marijan Osole–Max as editor in M.A.X. M.A.X. (Brut)studio for RTV Ljubljana (in frame of Integrali series). It was announced as »the only program about artistic videos by vid...
Production: Max-Max (Brut), 1986
In his video work the author gives an ironic statement about the state of home video production of that time and its integration in television programme (recorded for Petak u 22. TV Belgrade show in 1984). In the beginning the artist is sitting in a studi...
Production: TV Koper, 1984
A reflection on the chain letters; contains tales of human fate and mysterious events that occurred in 1955.
Production: RTV Ljubljana, 1984
An experimental music show about singer-songwriter Andrej Šifrer, with the participation of Marjan Paternoster.
Production: RTV Ljubljana, 1984
Video work is a recording of a presentation of Red Album (Rdeči album), an album by a punk music group Pankrti. Seven songs as they follow each other: Slavni rezglas (4:00), Gora (3:46), Sarajevo 1984 (4:10), Kaj nardit (4:19), Lov (4:06), Vodja (3:13), Ba...
Production: TV Koper Capodistria & Obalne galerije Piran, 1984
The video follows a friendly conversation between the author and a painter and philosopher Andraž Šalamun. It alters the succession of events, thus manipulating the text and creating a complex narrative without logic and continuity. The flow of im...
Production: RTV Ljubljana, 1983
A folk song about a girl and her deceased lover, sung by Mateja Koležnik and Jani Kovačič. The dialogue of the two singers is followed by a sublime transition from one face to the other. With a constant turning of positives and negatives of images the...
Production: RTV Ljubljana, 1976/79
Video is a final result of performative events conducted at TV studio, which were recorded by the author with five cameras. The study of the limits of video, using painting and performative elements, achieves an effect of an innovative and unique visual a...
Production: RTV Slovenija, 1976/77
The video is the first attempt at computer animation by means of the interaction of the camera and the monitor. The graphic sign is constantly moving, the effects are changing with the interventions of the hand in front of the monitor. (source: Videodokum...
Production: RTV Ljubljana, 1976
Videogram 4 is an umbrella name of a project developed by Miha Vipotnik in a period of three years (1976-1979) in the studios of Ljubljana radio and TV station together with the painter and singer Andrej Trobentar, actress Maja Boh and radio presenter Du&...
Production: 1974/2002
TV announcements and inserts from TV shows from the 1980s show the creative work of Miha Vipotnik for public television (RTV Ljubljana). TV commercials made by Miha Vipotnik for various Slovenian producers and their brands between 1996 and 2002 show a ski...