E-flux and video art

The E-flux and video art readings discuss moving art in the digital and analog ages respectively. Much of the latter reading is a television fact overview, which felt way too detailed and complicated for the simple point that it was trying to get across. Despite the fact, the writer highlighted some important influences of video art in the early days of television that we partly discussed in class, such as the difference in price of transmitting and receiving equipment, and the precise arrangement of TV programming. For a lack of a good argument, I’ll switch to the E-flux reading, which discussed the more recent video art – digital. One of the more clever points made by the author, was that as images and videos lost visual quality they gained speed, which did not mean they lost meaning. Traditional painting came to mind with which the same phenomenon occurred: painters were first obsessed with capturing reality in high resolution, yet later turned to simplified and abstracted visual styles to express something beyond imagery. Similarly, those pixilated videos and pictures carry meaning because more people see them and more authors participate in their making.