Displaced (2009)
Theme: Welcome to the New World
14 Jan 2009 SMU Arts Festival.
A set of 7 television displays that illustrates the various properties of MEDIA. Illusion, repetition, emphasize, ambiguity, power, distraction and implication.
The user will sit on a couch infront of the television set. By sitting on the couch, the user will activate all the television sets. Sound will be played from the internals of the couch with sounds from the television sets. The sound will increase when the user sits long enough, making him/her uncomfortable. A camera is built into the television set to capture the user’s response as soon as he/she sits and will be broadcasted via live feed elsewhere.
This work is to suggest that we are comfortable with the information that we are gathering from these media devices, that we do not challenge them, rather simply by absorbing, and accepting them.
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