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MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATION / EVENT
LEARN
HOW TO WATCH TELEVISION BY LISTENING TO YOUR RADIO
FIAC
(INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR), PARIS
19 OCTOBER 1984
The
artist further perfects the esthetic application the concept
of the wildcat meta-media network in this work that prefigures
the « hacktivist » and “interface art”
of today by putting together a confederation of 10 independent
FM radio stations in the Paris area that will broadcast 4
hours of nonstop programming replacing the normal audio of
the television programming broadcast at same time (i.e., the
viewers are told to turn down the sound on their televisions
and listen to their radios instead). The artist’s radio
program features critical commentary by journalists and intellectuals,
ridiculous instructions issued to viewers to change channels
and perform other actions that together make up the “choreography”
of a distributed collective performance, and call-in segments
for viewer feedback.
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