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TV Set, Project #10

Bourriauds publication The Radicant is the most fitting discourse for this era. Grappling with the information age and what was once a linear history which humankind followed Bourriaud speculates that this era experiences the fragmentation of everything and "the information bubble" makes a "master narrative" impossible (p. 104).

My TV project, TV Set, is part of Project #10 and it displays a re -mastered retro classic Kraftwerk album both visually and on the soundtrack. Playing a remodelled version of two tracks from an original 70's Kraftwerk album, the TV's sneak up from behind the film and sound piece. It plays over multiple screens and for a moment a film is being experienced by the viewer, but then the three dimensionality of the sets themselves and the awkward discardedness of them produces a sensation reminiscent of the phenomenon of the information bubble that is this era. No longer capable of transmitting adequate digital quality or channel choices. Replaced by the flatscreen and plasma TV's which hit the shops, millions of perfectly good TV's were replaced and have become more junk, flotsam and jetsom of the age. Like the LP they are interesting forms, the glass screens and the weight of them bring the heterotemporal quality of the film and its meaning back to the foreground and ultimately the present the "confused mass" that is this generation.

Bourriaud, N (2009) The Radicant, New York, Lucas and Sternberg.

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