Re: nettime The Premature Birth of Video Art

Hi Andreas, Thanks for your comments about my interrogation of the Paik Portapak myth. I've had a few people write to point out Paik's earlier work with modified or prepared televisions, in Wuppertal in 1963, stating they believed his distortion of television pictures with magnets was the

Re: nettime Iraq: The Way Forward

In my original piece on Iraq, I tried to make the point that the main reason for US militarism is itself, it's ecnomic benefits(?) at home, and its effect in solidfying the country behind leaders and policies that otherwise would be more suspect. Justifications or rationalizations in

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Re: nettime The Premature Birth of Video Art

hi andreas and tom, apart from tom's concrete questioning of the actual myth of origins concerning video-art, i.e., the fact that there might be some practical objections to it (objections which i share), there are also some problems concerning the foundational character of that myth - that is: