| The New McLennium
AnthologyÊ 2:02:50 |
| As the expansiveness
of video and its accompanying new technologies continues to transform our
culture and our world, another historical tension is developing, not unlike
the technological revolution seen at the last turn of the century. That
tension is felt, analyzed and articulated in all of these recent experimental
videos - a tension oscillating between the expansive promise of global communications
which inspire new freecoms and social patterns on one hand, and the use
of new media forms to simply reinforce existing hierarchies and capitalistic
power structures on the other. The spectre of a "brave new world" looms
on the horizon - one that is sanitized, homogenized, commodified and Americanized
- the new McLennium. Program One Program Two |