Vito Acconci Response

Honestly this entire reading had me a little lost. But, I am currently in a Film class where we focus on how TV andshows have developed over the past 100 years to the present and it is interesting to read Acconci's take on it. I enjoyedreading about his ideas on TV's being furniture and taking up a huge amount of domestic space.
I don't think many people really care enough to see the evolution or change that so many things go through. Our modern day flat screen TV use to be a huge, plastic box with antenna's coming out and you would need to be sitting right in front of it with the right signal to watch anything. Nowadays, everything is modernized and freestanding in a sense.

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