"Well, challenging the Void is not something easily done. Especially in this commercial environment! True, that's what most art of the Twentieth Century had always encountered, but here we were, at the end of the century, dealing with the mass media, a multi-national conglomeritized network of Being. People didn't give two shits about avant-gardism. Avant-gardism was a chewing gum commercial in-between the music video commercials. The first time you saw it it was way avant. By the time the commercial repeated for a second or third time, it too became just another kind of music video and lost its avant-status. But the viewer, seeing a world premiere video or the latest Coke commercial or both at the same time, she was always avant, Avant-Gazing. Grazing the pasteurized knowledge..."