“It’s Making a Little Noise”: Video Art, A Radical Mess Miguel de Baca In each of the examples studied in this essay, artists deployed an affected lack of virtuosity in their early video artworks to confront established hierarchies—in short, to establish video as a radical medium. Category: In the Round Tags: 5.1, Dan Sandin, film/video, Hermine Freed, Linda Benglis, Miguel de Baca, Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson, twentieth-century art, Videofreex