The Emergence of Video Art gives a broad introduction to video as an artistic medium, and provides a who's who of video artists, as well as the evolution of the form.
One of the most notable points made in the text is the point that, in the modern day, it is rare to see pure video art (or any pure medium for that matter). They refer to this as the post-medium condition, implying that for modern artists, the message is more important than the medium: an artist does not work in film, an artist expresses him/herself in whatever medium they so choose.
I find this interesting because it refocuses views or consumers of art on the fact that technology may bring new forms of media to artists, but it perhaps only brings a great expansion to art when that media allows new forms of expression. It is the message that matters and not the medium.
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