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Performance and Video Art started to enter the art world in the late 60s. Artists now had the ability to be a part of their artwork, or they had the ability to create what was shown on the infamous television through the use of tape. Since the turn of the 20th Century, and we entered the age of moving images, technology began to explore avenues in which the canvas could not. The impact Performance and Video had on the art world was enormous, suddenly all the barriers of art were broken ushering in a new age of art, thought, and imagination. From the humble beginnings of Performance and Single Channel Video to dramatic Video Installations at rock concerts, Performance and Video have in many ways become the new art. The art chosen by those who deny there should be boundaries. Art practice first experienced the process as being an artistic statement in the late 40s. Jackson Pollock, through the process of dripping paint on canvas elevated art practice from process to another level of art making, which encompassed the notion that the act of art making is in fact art itself as well as that of the finished physical piece. From these early beginnings, staging the artistic process b