What is interesting is the emergence of several art movements around the same time as the Sony Portapak. In a time when artists were attacking mass media, consumerism, commodified art and power structures of society in general, the portapak acts as a medium in which individual expression & artistry alters previous frameworks.

• Dada 1916-1920's
• performance art
• conceptualism
• minimal art
• op art
• Pop Art
• Post-Painterly Abstraction (Clement Greenberg)
• Fluxus