1. Do you think Radical Software's ideology from the 1970's is still relevant today? How is the control of mass media and tools even more important in an age where the internet and social media is so much more accessible?
2. Can you think of a way that video art is still very influential politics, arts, and social movements? Has the use of video actually created a different type of culture that has become more mainstream?
Control is the keyword there. Or rather, 'lack' of control. It is hard to manage what is by default so viral and wide spread. I think that ideology takes on different terms with such a savannah of mass media happening. As we've seen. DRM bills in our government failed. The music industry will never be the same.
ReplyDeleteVideo has somehow become more influential to politics, arts, and social movements I think. For the very reason of the latter : it is more social. If we can connect ideas to one another at a more rapid pace, understanding of something is more effective. One example of that may be something like the Occupy Wall St. movement. Through the whole digital craze and 'vlogging' that put forth, a certain culture of it was devised and definitely put forth into the mainstream.