08/06 Fringe Exhibitions, Los Angeles
This remix of live television is a computer program that looks at the television signal as a stream of text, searching for products. It responds to this incoming feed by translating the Closed Captions into its own pseudo-language of brand names, and presents this revised content through dynamic typograpy and illustration.
The goal is to turn all of the television signal into one continuous, semi-legible commercial. This piece was exhibited as part of Computing Culture's group show at Fringe Exhibitions in Los Angeles.
The graphics were projected onto the walls of the gallery from a pinth which also served as a stand for a television. Both the live TV and the remixed content could be viewed simultaneously. The visual paramaters of the installation were either automated or linked to the incoming video feed so that the composition developed in relation to the television content.
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