Chapter 2 Video Art Questions.

Chapter 2 Video Art Questions: 1) Paik was the first to use video in his art work, his first being the Pope, did he go through public scrutiny from the church and it's followers? Was it ignored as another artist trying to make it big? Was this form of Art considered blasphemic with in the church? 2) When video came about, did the idea of abstractive play consume the ideals of the artist to a point where we as a veiwer questions the artist sanity?