Unlike all previous communications technologies. . . TV was a system primarily devised for transmission and reception as (an) abstract process, with little or no definition of preceding content. . . It is not only that the supply of broadcasting facilities preceded the demand: it is that the means of communication preceded the content' Raymond Williams.
The installation comprises 15 monitors arranged as a videowall. The only screen to be viewed is a central monitor. The image is of the moon panning from one side to the other, and is a facsimile black and white 30 vertical-line construction similar to the earliest transmissions of the 1930's.
The other monitors face a wall and are not seen, but reflected light from them on the wall forms a moving 'aurora' around the stack. The sound is an 'overdose', a loud conglomeration deriving from multiple broadcast channels, and composed as a musical score.
The work assumes a many-faceted response, but is in part a comment on the global ritualistic acceptance of television since its earliest days: where technological innovation preceded, and continues to precede, concern for issues of cultural form. . .
Video Positive Commission.
New Commission.
[LESS]Unlike all previous communications technologies. . . TV was a system primarily devised for transmission and reception as (an) abstract process, with little or no definition of preceding content. . . It is not only that the supply of broadcasting facilities preceded the demand: it is that the means of communication preceded the content' Raymond Williams.
The installation comprises 15 monitors arranged as a videowall. The only screen to be viewed is a central monitor. The image is of the moon panning from one side to the other, and is a facsimile black and white 30 vertical-line construction similar to the earliest transmissions of the 1930's.
The other monitors face a wall and are not seen, but reflected light from them on the wall forms a moving 'aurora' around the stack. The sound is an 'overdose', a loud conglomeration deriving from multiple broadcast channels, and composed as a musical score.
The work assumes a many-faceted response, but is in part a comment on the global ritualistic acceptance of television since its earliest days: where technological innovation preceded, and continues to precede, concern for issues of cultural form. . .
Video Positive Commission.
New Commission.
