1. Feminist artists latched onto video as a medium because of its newness and its disassociation with the more traditional and male-dominated art world. But video is not the only art form to have first appeared after the turn century, when feminism began to pick up. What about video appealed to feminist artists that other new mediums, such as animation, did not posses?
The chapter presents several different viewpoints regarding video and television in the art world; For some, television is an exciting new medium for thoughts and ideas to be expressed in new, never before seen ways. For others, television is destructive of art, changing people's perceptions and cutting down media into bit-sized chunks. Can any aspects of television, good or bad, be accepted as universally true for the art world.
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