Many of the early prominent video artists were those involved with concurrent movements in conceptual art, performance, and experimental film. These include Americans Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Joan Jonas, Dan Graham, Bruce Nauman, Peter Campus, William Wegman, Martha Rosler and many others.

In the Post-9/11 and YouTube world video art has now expanded into popular culture and anyone can make video art, and as such young tech-savvy artists like Canadian artist Charles Moffat have appeared to create playful music videos like "Samurai Jack is Too Sexy" (2004) and at the same time blatant anti-war art like "Fear Americans 1: Bushitler" (2004) in which he splices together pastiched video from various sources, including video of George W. Bush picking his nose spliced with a nuclear explosion (to the music of David Bowie singing "God is an American").