Youtube Killed the Video Star

Youtube Killed the Video Star

October 17, 2008

This open forum examines the effect that online video has on the creation 
and distribution of video art. Has the dream of the ‘democratic medium’ finally
arrived? Is the notion of ‘the screening’ becoming obsolete? With millions of
short videos freely available, what elevates the status of a video into the realm
of ‘art’? Is this good or bad, how are artists and distributers responding, and
what does the future hold?