A Dual-Media Hybrid
A Dual-Media Hybrid
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56kTV – bastard channel – the international online art project curated by xcult.org at the invitation of the Arts Council of Switzerland Pro Helvetia
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Jimpunk’s furious choreography of sound and image, too, uses the floss of computer culture, setting Google dialogues, spam headers, pop-ups and typograph-ically constructed figures to a soundtrack of computer noises: error alerts, the digitally simulated click of a camera lens, beats, Indian drums. Underscored by stills from websites and snippets of film music, the wandering, emerging and fading windows take on a filmic character. They are pre-programmed, rehearsed as it were, but the almost simultaneous download of data onto the screen makes them seem like a live performance.
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Text: Annina Zimmermann
originaly from mapping-new-territories.ch/exhibition/56_k_tv