After reading media and performance, and how artists shifted from the canvas to recording performance art, I would like to ask, why isn't there MOMA TV? Why isn't there an art television channel? Why isn't there a channel that caters to art in this new medium? I am not sure if there is a definite answer to my question, but, it baffles me that such a channel does not exist. I don't understand why the museum is still so popular for housing these video works.
Video art comment: All these video works made that Rush mentions-from Nauman's "Wall Floor Positions" to Nam June Paik's "Butterfly"-seem lost to me. Without Rush's mentioning of such pieces, younger generations would have little access or knowledge period about such video works. All these works have the technological aspect that allow them to transcend the museum and exist in the relatively new medium of television. These artists had such a disdain for television and rejected to call it art...but television thrives while their attempts to "artify" tv only exists only so subtly, in pages of a book like Rush's "New Media..." It seems to me that most of the works for Conceptual Video or Video Art in general were in vain because they seem to have died out but not being represented in a new "televisory" museum for future generations to have access to.
After reading media and performance, and how artists shifted from the canvas to recording performance art, I would like to ask, why isn't there MOMA TV? Why isn't there an art television channel? Why isn't there a channel that caters to art in this new medium? I am not sure if there is a definite answer to my question, but, it baffles me that such a channel does not exist. I don't understand why the museum is still so popular for housing these video works.
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ReplyDeleteAll these video works made that Rush mentions-from Nauman's "Wall Floor Positions" to Nam June Paik's "Butterfly"-seem lost to me. Without Rush's mentioning of such pieces, younger generations would have little access or knowledge period about such video works. All these works have the technological aspect that allow them to transcend the museum and exist in the relatively new medium of television. These artists had such a disdain for television and rejected to call it art...but television thrives while their attempts to "artify" tv only exists only so subtly, in pages of a book like Rush's "New Media..." It seems to me that most of the works for Conceptual Video or Video Art in general were in vain because they seem to have died out but not being represented in a new "televisory" museum for future generations to have access to.