New Media in Art Ch. 2

Video art seems very complex. From what I gather it is basically using the television for art to be represented.  Using the television to portray art and then the audience interprets it. Original videos that were not edited and received well. Famous images being distorted and eventually a human element was added. It is almost like a canvas to me. Whatever could be portrayed on the television was something to be considered art. A strange canvas for that time and era but a canvas nonetheless. An artist can adapt to any kind of canvas and the television is no exception. Ultimately, what they did was impressive. The messages trying to be portrayed and the influenced it had. What they did was in a sense different but also unique. Although, physically using your body to the point of harm and pain seems a bit too much. It’s odd but if the message got across then at least something came out of it.