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Wednesday, Feb 28, 2001
The Medium Is...
The wildly diverse practices and orientations that epitomize the video medium-from activist interventions to feedback loops to broadcast TV-are explored in this program. Mass media (broadcast, cinematic, pornographic) is dealt with as spectacle, tool, condition, adversary, comedy of errors, or opportunity. The lushly imagined Whitewash is at once a rereading of broadcast news conventions and an investigation into individual memory, while The Jungle Boy weaves a revisionist reading of the 1942 film The Jungle Book into its bawdy and poignant narrative. In some works, access to the most basic technology provides ample possibility for communication, while other works inventively reveal the complex visual, material, and technical opportunities of the video apparatus itself. Piujug and Angutautuq tells a contemporary version of an Inuit tale, exchanged over CB radio; while In Response to the Dumbest Question of the 20th Century is a low-tech, modern-day cowboys and Indians saga shot on a consumer camcorder.
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