陈海涛:近些年,伴随着中国当代艺术不断的发展和完善,其在国际舞台上的影响力也不断扩大,中国的录像艺术在其中扮演了十分重要的角色。作为第一代从事录像媒介的艺术家之一和当今中国录像艺术的重要代表,请您先谈谈在20世纪90年代您或你们选择这种媒介的客观背景。王功新:从整个时代背景上看,在90年代初中国出现了我们这些开始做录像的艺术家,与中国当代艺术的发展进程有关。这个起源也跟西方录像艺术的形成有相 Chen Haitao: In recent years, with the continuous development and improvement of Chinese contemporary art, its influence in the international arena has also expanded continuously. China’s video art plays a very important role in it. As one of the first generation of artists engaged in video recording media and an important representative of today’s Chinese video art, please talk about the objective background of the media you or your choice chose in the 1990s. Wang Gongxin: From the background of the whole era, in the early 1990s China appeared the artists who started to do video recording, which is related to the development of Chinese contemporary art. This origin is also related to the formation of western video art