Video, when presented on the small screen, falls under the same physical rubric. Which brings us back to the issue of presentation. It seems that the ability to walk around a work and see it from different angles is vital. If we can do this with video, the similarities with painting, sculpture and installation deepen. If we can't, the video aligns itself closer to film.
Video also can provoke important questions about the role of the museum.
The kinds of questions surrounding video as an art form are age-old, echoing the same dilemmas that photography brought at the end of the last century. Critics saw photography as more of a reproductive science and a product of the popular press than an art. But photographers such as Julia M. Cameron, Alfred Stieglitz and Man Ray showed that one can play aesthetically with light, depth of field, speed, contrast and texture. Photography is now an accepted medium at a vast majority of museums and galleries. Video, too, is gaining ground in that arena, and many museums are presenting videos as fine art.