The current issue of Senses of Cinema has an interview with lots of information of historical interest on the New American Cinema and Jonas Mekas' involvement with experimental film.
Scott Snibbe and Golan Levin have written an interesting look at the history of abstract visuals keyed to human movement, with an extensive discussion of abstract animation and Fischinger's Lumigraph.
"Within many of mankinds tools are latent properties unobserved even by those those intuition has led to the design of the tool. Television is no exception. As an electronic system its range and complexity is astonishing; unfortunately, far more so than its usual content indicates."
This page has a very cool suggestion that exploits the innate ability of CGI to ignore real-world physical laws: configurable camera optics that can "shoot" multiple angles of their "subjects." The possibilities for this concept are really interesting. CGI need not be such a slavish imitation of the cameras we're all familiar with.
