Questions for Busting the Tube: A Brief History of Video Art

1. Why does the author decide to write about this topic?

2. The author focuses mostly on the production of Video Art, why not the artists?

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Walter Benjamin The The Work of Art in the Mechanical Age of Reproduction response questions

1. I find it interesting that Walter Benjamin also wrote an article I read called the "Critique of Violence" in 1921. What mad him then write about art after, hence they are both very different topic?

2.When he says that its "Mechanical Reproduction"  is it really "mechanical"?