This visual art form varies from in a form of a very simple to the very simple to the very complex installation. An installation can be either presented in a gallery based, digital based, electronic based and web-based where possibilities have no limits where it only relies on how and the way each and every artists with their own concepts and intentions in presenting their work of art to give out messages. Nearly any type of materials or media can be considered as part of contemporary installation art, either in a form of natural or man-made objects as well as in a form of new media such as video, film, photography, audio and performance.
Some works are suitable to be put indoor whereas some are called public art where it describes as a way to construct in an open-air community spaces or public spaces. Some outcomes might be in a form of mute, while others are in an interactive form where interaction is needed to understand the work that has been being installed in a certain space.
Let's look through one of the artists who influence the style of post-modern art.
"I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty." -Barbara Kruger.
The influence of feminism highlights the challenging within the power of relationships and undermining the power and authority of the female form by using agitprop (political propaganda, especially in art or literature) style with pictures and images of her way to express her point of view to the viewer.
Video installation breakthrough was in the 1990's where it was multi-screen editing where it mainly articulates in a form of flat video being played on a wall or screen as to give out an interactive immersion where it intensifies to the viewers visioning what has been played in the video to give out an interactive style of message. This kind of idea is an example from an artist who created one of his digital interactive artwork called Legible City, 1989 by Jeffrey Shaw.
In the Legible City, the visitor is able to ride a stationary bicycle through a simulated representation of a city that has been constructed digitally by a computer generated three-dimensional letters that form words and sentences along the sides of the streets where Mr. Shaw with Dirk Groeneveld used the actual cities such as Manhattan, Amsterdam and Karlsruhe where the existing buildings in the cities are being replaced in a form of text and wordings. Traveling through these cities of words is consequently a journey of reading where choosing the path is an act of choosing spontaneously.
On the other hand, another example of an installation artist Claire Bishop who is excellent in her critical history in a form of installation art base where she suggested that contemporary installation can be traced back form the styles of Dada and Surrealism in the early of 1960's.
Bishop's history of installation art have made a new form of revolution in a way to trace back the history yet bringing it in a form of modernity. Which is to say, examining not only the physical characteristics of installation art but also the ideas and values that upbringing this mode of expression.
There are three important points where Bishop has guided herself in analysing her works her works in installation art form.
First, the aspiration to create a more direct involvement between the viewer and the work of art; Second, the observation that installation art presents the viewer with fragments that must be explored and assembled in a manner that 'activates' the viewer; and, third, the expanded (more extensive) sculptural such as Krauss in 1979 where Krauss's reformating of sculpture as "not-architecture" as a positive justification for the "quasi architectural integers" of minimalist art was an elegant rhetorical turn, giving tactics of deconstructing the traditional concept of the precious work of art; In other words, the use of found objects and materials.
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