Over lunch not too long ago Dave Winer asked the question, is video blogging an art? It’s a complicated question. At the time I thought no, video blogging is not an art. But I was wrong to think so. I have experienced numerous works of video art by a great many video bloggers so why did I think otherwise? Was it the fish? No. I didn’t order the fish. I don’t eat fish.
William Blake, for a brief time, made a series of extremely small engravings that he called his “miniatures”. But Blake didn’t consider these pieces to be of equal importance to his large format works. The Tate Museum seems to disagree. Blake’s “miniatures” are displayed at the Tate as prominately as a “miniature” can be displayed.
Producing large format multimedia theater for many years has had a similar effect on me. When I try to equate a large multimedia stagework performed on a 24′ x 40′ stage with live performers to a small video screen the comparison seems ludicrous. But recently, after a delicious swordfish steak, I had the realization that the scale of an art work is of little importance compared to the degree to which I am captured by it, however large or small.
Jay Dedman, a noted video blogger evangelist, produced one of the first video blogs to fully capture me. His blog, momentshowing, can be inspiring.
If asked again I would say, yes, video blogging is art whenever it succeeds in reeling me in.
From Momentshowing
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