Zbigniew Rybczyński and Early Video Art

When it comes to the visual arts there is often a division between artistic vision and technical craft. This is true in both the world of modern art and commercial media. On the one side there are the atists, the film or tv directors or the advertising creative teams who come up with the ideas. On the other there are the practictioners who put these ideas into practice. It used to be the case in the old studio systems that apprentices would be able to work there way up to be directors but those systems are gone. It is much more fluid today but there still seems a distinction between those who decide on an artistic concept and those who realise it.