The article "Video Installation: Characteristics of an Expanding Medium," calls to mind an exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum called Act / React, which provides a fascinating glimpse into video installation as a medium where computers generate content based on the actions of the viewer. Whereas installation seemed to start partially as a reaction to television's submissive state of the viewer, this seems, to me, to signal how that focus has shifted from television to the internet and the interconnectivity of the body and the computer. With many of the pieces at this art show, the fingerprint of the artist seemed obscured by the fingerprint of the computer program. The roles of artist and computer programmer become synonymous. The viewer, meanwhile, is responsible for both sending and receiving the information which is processed by the computer into the aesthetic and spatial experience. I feel like this complicates the role of the artist, but in what way?