Visual Arts · Digital & New Media Art
A topic within Digital & New Media Art, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Visual Arts.
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Gene Youngblood
Argues that video, computer and multi-screen art extend cinema into a new synaesthetic, cybernetic mode of consciousness continuous with television and computing, rather than remaining a niche avant-garde film practice.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Rosalind Krauss
Argues video art's defining formal feature is the closed loop of instant self-feedback between camera and monitor, which tends to collapse the artist's attention into narcissistic self-regard rather than outward observation.
link checked 17 Sept 2026