Making Sure There’s Always Something Good On TV

“Those sleek flat screens popping up on people’s walls may just look like fancy televisions. A new generation of artists and gallery owners wants you to think of them as something else: an empty picture frame… Digital works, the latest genre of new media art, usually are sold in limited edition DVDs. But this spring, Steven Sacks, the director of New York City’s bit-forms gallery, plans to start selling lower-priced original works of software art at software ART space. Prices will range from $100 for unlimited-edition works to $1,000 for numbered pieces. Buyers will get a sleekly packaged disc; limited editions will be signed by the artist.”