File:J. Gillerman Orchid 1985.jpg

Still image from video by JoAnn Gillerman, Orchid (video, computer graphics, image processing and frame-by-frame animation, 1985). The image illustrates a major body of work in JoAnn Gillerman's career beginning in the 1980s, when she produced experimental new media works combining collaborative live performance, music, and synthetically-generated video imagery. This still image is from a video/performance/print project in which Gillerman created an erotic depiction of a flower composed of a montage of the body of a frontally nude male. These performances and new media works were publicly performed or exhibited in prominent alternative venues and conferences and discussed in major art journals and press publications.

Artist JoAnn Gillerman. Copyright held by the artist.

JoAnn Gillerman

Still image of video

Yes. The image will not affect the commercial value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.

The image has contextual significance, serving an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work in JoAnn Gillerman's career beginning in the 1980s: her experimental video works, which shifted from phenomenological explorations of sensory perception to sensual and erotic imagery and heralded the introduction of computer graphics into art. These works used complex image processing and rapid editing to create in highly associative, playful and dramatic patterns of dissolving and reassembling forms in video-performance works. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this key body of work and medium, which brought Gillerman ongoing recognition through performances and exhibitions in major venues, computer conferences and alternative spaces as well as coverage by major critics and publications. Gillerman's work of this type and this series, as well as this specific work, are discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by JoAnn Gillerman, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.