Monday 30 January, 15:00 hrs TRUTH_TV TRUTH_TV brought together several artists to discuss their work exploring the nature of truth as represented by television.
"To distinguish enemies from friends we have to depend on our own personal interpretation of fragmented pieces of (visual) information sent to us by the media. In principle every single piece of third hand information is a lie..." Geert Mul's (Rotterdam) project MATCH MAKER applies algorithms to pixel to find matches between thousands of satellite broadcast images, pairing images that share formal composition similarities. Mul's work questions the role of composition and its role in constructing truth within the television frame.
The Yes Men are culture jammers that have successfully sold lies to the media. They have recently passed themselves off as representatives on BBC news of Dow Chemicals, the owner of Union Carbide, and claimed responsibility for the Bhopal Disaster.
Perry Bard is a New York artist who's working with electronic media. Her recent public video installations are site specific and address cultural history and memory often involving local community members in the production process. Bard's current work is about the US intervention in Iraq, and has examined the role of the media in the US elections.
With Geert Mul (artist), Perry Bard (artist), and The Yes Men (culture jammers). Moderated by Stephen Kovats (V2_Institute for the Unstable Media).
=============== For the International Film Festival Rotterdam program Exploding Television and the exhibition program Satellite of Love, curators Edwin Carels, Adam Hyde, and Stephen Kovats compiled a series of guest interventions, talks, workshops and telepresentations at Witte de With. These TEA TIME TV series focused on artist and activist interventions with television. ===============
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DIY_TV Friday Jan 27th 2006 15:00 PM DIY_TV focused on the growing phenomenon of independent microTV broadcasters. http://www.archive.org/details/tangenttv1
SILENT_TV Saturday Jan 28th 2006 15:00 PM SILENT_TV was a tele-matic workshop on how to build your own tv. http://www.archive.org/details/tangenttv2
GATED_TV Sunday Jan 29th 2006 15:00 PM GATED_TV dealt with copy right issues vs open archives, open source, open archives http://www.archive.org/details/tangenttv3
TRUTH_TV Monday Jan 30th 2006 15:00 PM TRUTH_TV brought together several artists to discuss their work exploring the nature of truth as represented by television. http://www.archive.org/details/tangenttv4
DISH_TV Tuesday Jan 31st 2006 15:00 PM DISH_TV dealt with satellites and the constellations around global television. http://www.archive.org/details/tangenttv5
AVANT_TV Wednesday Feb 1st 2006 15:00 PM AVANT_TV dealt with the ambiguous interaction between art and television. http://www.archive.org/details/tangenttv6