Blog 10 - Video Vortex

The Practice of Everyday (Media) Life by Lev Manovich"
Manovich believes that the personal qualities that are now being exemplified in art creates better forms of communication through the internet as opposed to the previous style of video making which incorporated companies and professional artists.

"Prochronist Manifestation" by Dominick Chen
Due to the mass expansion of the internet, society is now capable of accessing on demand information which leads to the changing opinions of what we consider art, and artistic culture itself.

Manovich focuses on the ability that YouTube has to make the communication between artists and the public easier. One problem that Manovich sees is that now professionals are no longer the only ones capable of producing media and now art has become more of a form of communication amongst similar groups versus just self expression that used to the the main basis for art. Chen focuses more on the fact that technology is whats responsible for this new change in what we consider art. With the constant accessibility of art, art has lost its meaning and Chen references the avant garde as a means to continually reinforce what we consider to be true art.