Part 5

I like how Youngblood describes television as a "powerful extension of man's central nervous system". I think this is a pretty accurate statement given the way we use technology, especially in this day in age.

In the section about videographic cinema I find it interesting how popular culture plays its part in the films of Jud Yalkut and Ture Sjolander and Lars Weck amongst others. Extremely distorted images of celebrities reconstruct the appearances of these idols "until little remains of the original icon". I'm assuming the music industry was a big "in" for a lot of these video artists as it still remains presently.

The idea of television as art is also thought provoking. I especially like Les Levine's philosophy that "all of television, even broadcast television, is to some degree showing the human race to itself as a working model." In some ways television can seem more like inserting a computer chip into your head that tells you who you should be, how you should dress and what kinds of things you should say and do. Les Levine's piece, Iris, was created more as a mirror for people to see themselves the way they really look, which is often different than the way people think they represent themselves.