Video Art : an Unfinished History

Nearly every book about video art starts with the same observation: how difficult, if not impossible, it is to come up with a definition of the medium. Half a century after it appeared, we may well wonder why the writing of a history of video art still poses problems. Furthermore, the difficulty of putting a precise date on the beginnings of this praxis is still symptomatic: 1963, for the first installations produced by Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell, using TV sets? 1965, for the first videos..