“It’s Making a Little Noise”: Video Art, A Radical Mess

Abstract

In each of the examples studied in this essay, artists deployed an affected lack of virtuosity in their early video artworks to confront established hierarchies—in short, to establish video as a radical medium.

Keywords

• 5.1
• dan sandin
• digital media
• film/video
• hermine freed
• linda benglis
• miguel de baca
• nancy holt
• robert smithson
• twentieth-century art
• videofreex