Taylor Rients Television, Furniture, Sculpture Response Week 9

Acconci first discusses the tangibility of TV and this leads to the tangibility of stories that are portrayed on these TVs. I believe that people like this because people like control and power, TV provides this for many people: "The viewer and the face on-screen are comfortable with each other; the news from that face, then, is assumed, taken as fact."

Vito Acconci then begins to depict the idea of television becoming a "model person" where the person becomes the screen. Is the argument that TV and movies are hard to relate to? Are they too foreign? But isn't TV more accessible and portable than ever? Or maybe this does not matter.

I also found it interesting that he pointed out how accessible film equipment and film is in the United States. Although I believe this to be true, I really have not thought about it...maybe that is part of the problem. Does this lead audiences in the U.S. versus other countries to view video art of film differently? And if so, how?

I was completely lost when Acconci begins to compare the two types of power: economic and sexual power. TV is sexless?

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