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Tom Moody Dallas Public Access Project

Above is a proposal page for a project I did around 1990 for Dallas Public Access Cable. Messages 2-6 above were translated into "teletext" (block capitals on blue screens) and aired individually at random times of the day. I made this crude prototype using MacPaint. Clearly, as text-based art the piece owes more to Harvey Kurtzman of Mad than Lawrence Weiner of Dia. Never saw these live because I didn't have cable but remember one anecdote from their run: Due to a technical glitch the "WE COMMAND. YOU OBEY..." screen accidentally ran on an African American affairs channel and the station got a lot of angry complaints. What, black people don't want authoritarian messages coming from their TVs? Seriously, sorry that happened but it was kind of an anti-authoritarian (or a-authoritarian) message.

I was reminded of this because Emma Davidson (Lektrolab) and Paul B. Davis (Lektrolab/BEIGE) are doing a Teletext project that will run on Dutch TV later this month as part of ambientTV.net. Their Teletext TV station is called Microtel, and they are calling for submissions to create simple text and graphics messages. If you saw the Bodenstandig 2000 show at Deitch you saw some of drx's girlie/sex ads done in this format and they looked great--very low res and cheesy. You have to download a program (Windows only) to create the Teletext files and then email the files to Paul and Emma for reformatting.

- tom moody 1-04-2006 7:54 am [link] [3 comments]



The Year in the Internet 2005

Michael Bell-Smith and Cory Arcangel present The Year in the Internet '05. More linkz than U can shake a joystiq at. My selection has a blog focus. Eventually I'll repost it here, but for the time being go to their page [Swoosh!!] RIGHTNOW! [Gong!!]

- tom moody 1-04-2006 4:00 am [link] [2 comments]



"ChamberVirus" [mp3 removed]. Tech house Morton Subotnick* using 2 softsamplers and some Access Virus effects sounds and drum hits from the Drat Fink Archive. A musician I know unloaded his Virus synth because he couldn't make interesting enough sounds with it. I dunno, these sound seriously deep to me. (I've been fantasizing about the TI Desktop.)

*changed to be less falsely modest.

- tom moody 1-04-2006 3:43 am [link] [add a comment]