Why does the new media art come from the modernist tradition of technical care?

If we take video art as a case to see the occurrence context and evolution law of new media, new media art comes from the modernist tradition of technical care. Because it has always held a dilemma attitude towards technology: on the one hand, modernism itself originated from the perceptual response to a large number of scientific discoveries and fierce technological progress at the end of 19, and the enthusiasm for new technologies and utopia in the new world gave birth to futurism, constructivism and cubism. On the other hand, he was afraid of machines, preferring to follow Gauguin's footsteps and return to the original paradise that was not polluted by machines. Under this resentment, he had a "Dada" and surreal nightmare. It was not until 1950s that the latest machine-TV set entered the family. Television is widely used as daily household goods, and traditional home decoration is in harmony with television.

In view of the psychological changes and reactions caused by the modernist movement to television, a product of technological revolution, and referring to the whole modernist movement, Qiu Zhijie, an art critic, organized the modernist movement into four parallel and intersecting practices: utopia and dystopia, secular discovery, language reflection and secular experience. In addition, he also pointed out: "New media art should undoubtedly be at the intersection of the exploration of time experience and the thought of positive and negative utopia. On the one hand, it inherited the optimistic spirit of early modernism embracing technology enthusiastically and maintaining dialogue with technological progress, on the other hand, it also maintained the critical spirit of constantly questioning technological progress. In this doubt, the global village described by McLuhan is not a beautiful new world, but a modern' electronic prison'. " The film itself has long been a scam, deceiving people to lose themselves in the dark theater. The plot and the emotions of the characters took away the audience's self-awareness, and they were hypnotized and their bodies became stiff and numb. Television has penetrated into the family more than movies. Television has really ended the old times and started the broadcasting era of active electronic images.