Against Immediacy is a history of early video art considered in relation to television in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how artists questioned the ways in which ldquo;the peoplerdquo; were ideologically figured by the commercial mass media. During this time; artists and organizations including Nam June Paik; Juan Downey; and the Womenrsquo;s Video News Service challenged the existing limits of the one-to-many model of televisual broadcasting while simultaneously constructing more democratic; bottom-up models in which the people mediated themselves. Operating at the intersection between art history and media studies; Against Immediacy connects early video art and the rise of the media screen in gallery-based art to discussions about participation and the activation of the spectator in art and electronic media; moving from video art as an early form of democratic media practice to its canonization as a form of high art.
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