Reconciling Video and Film in Frank Gillette and Ira Schneider's Wipe Cycle

Power is no longer measured in land, labor, or capital, but by access to information and the means to disseminate it. As long as the most powerful tools (not weapons) are in the hands of those who would hoard them, no alternative cultural vision can succeed. Unless we design and implement alternate information structures which transcend and reconfigure the existing ones, other alternate systems and life styles will be no more than products of the existing process . . . Our species will survive neither by totally rejecting nor unconditionally embracing technology— but by humanizing it; by allowing people access to the informational tools they need to shape and reassert control over their lives . . . Only by treating technology as ecology can we cure the split between ourselves and our extensions. (Raindance Corporation 1)