Questions Set #2

1) The article mentions San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator Christine Hill stating that a fundamental idea held by the first generation of video artists was that in order to have a critical relationship with a televisual society, you must primary participate televisually. Do you think this is true of most art forms? Is art simply how we respond to the world around us, the new technologies? The people? 2) The article also claims that by the 1960s, Americans were watching up to seven hours of TV daily and it was becoming a consumer society. Does ingesting that much media change how you view art? Does it become more important or less important?