Author Heidi May discusses artists who use video, and appropriate aspects of television within their video works, to create a critique that addresses the dominance of televisual identity. May argues that a lot of current video work addresses technology and the array of effects it has on identity issues within an increasingly digital world, and gives the examples of Canadian filmmakers Atom Egoyan and David Cronenberg bodies of work, as well as the works of video artists such as Tom Sherman, Stan Douglas, and Nam June Paik.