YOU CAN SEE IT, BUT YOU CAN'T HANG IT THE WALL
If I were to say to you "video art," you might just say, "Huh?" After all, in our video-inundated world, there's very little that's artful about the most common video forms— things like All My Children, Calvin Klein commercials, Ms. Pac-Man, Facts Of Life, Duran Duran posing anywhere on the planet, and anything hawked by George Plimpton, for o quick sampling.
YOU CAN SEE IT, BUT YOU CAN'T HANG IT THE WALL
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ROB PATTERSON
If I were to say to you "video art," you might just say, "Huh?"
After all, in our video-inundated world, there's very little that's artful about the most common video forms— things like All My Children, Calvin Klein commercials, Ms. Pac-Man, Facts Of Life, Duran Duran posing anywhere on the planet, and anything hawked by George Plimpton, for o quick sampling.
For all the informational potential OT video, it largely remains an entertainment medium with a commercial thrust. And that's despite what PBS may suggest of their programming, or the fact that you may feel leave It To Beaver is one of our great cultural events. But that isn't to say that what's art—and what's video art to boot—can't be entertaining or have o certain commercial appeal.