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Article: Video art: dead or alive?
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- November 1, 1996
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"The least that can be said is that we have witnessed the death of video art in the United States." So writes Michael Nash in a recent and provocative essay on new technologies and the media arts, that appears, almost ironically, in Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices (1996), edited by Michael Renov and Erika Suderberg. Resolutions is just one of several new books dedicated to the critique and theorization of video art. Just as the death knell sounds for video, critical attention to the field - notoriously limited throughout video art's short history - has recently surged If video is dead, how can we explain the recent proliferation of "video studies?"
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