Response to Origins of video art

The origin of video art discusses about the history of video art, and it’s development as a new art medium. In the first part of the article, the author covers the advances of technology, anti-art movement and how these factors establish the status of video art.Due to the fact that video recording technology has become more and more available to general people, the Video become a territory without defined rules, boundaries, or critiques. What make me interest about the fact about the video art is that, the freedom attracts different artists that come from totally different background, for example David Hall who was trained as a sculptor, he worked with photography before taking video. Which I think bring a wide range of variety to Video art.  The development of video art cannot happen without Nam Jun Paik: “Father of Video art” who participating the Fluxus which is inspired by the composer John cage who use every day sounds and noises in his music. Which I believe has profound influence on the development of video art, glitch art, remixing art. the misusing the instrument and tool in our ordinary life , or distorting the element of the medium and recombine it in a new ways are something that I found really fascinating. Here are two video that could illustrate the innovative media that mention above:

Here is a video of John cage performing a piece using unusual items and sound of environment:

 glitch video art: Monster by Takeshi Murata