Television has no cannon, unlike art. Video art, via its myriad relationships to TV, grants television its indexical link to archival history. There is an assumption of a "high vs. low", and "active vs. passive" dichotomy, hearkening back to old modernist debates despite video's best efforts. Now, "mindless TV" is not so mindless, with a mass of critical media theory in wait to dissect it. Video art created a whole new archive based upon television.