Project Number
- 249
Title
- TV Guides
Description
- Interactive art installation about contemporary living with television.
Contact
- Don Ritter
Affiliation
- Ritter
Address
- 204 15th Street, 3rd Floor
- Brooklyn, New York 11215
- ritter@interport.net
WWW
- http://www.users.interport.net/~ritter/tvguides.html
Year
- 1999
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "..TV has, some feel, introduced a kind of rigor mortis into the body politic." - Marshall McLuhan (Understanding Media, 1964)
- "Viewers confront a living room environment that contains a video display playing live-broadcast programs. The television imagery is overlaid with cross hairs within a circle, giving the impression that viewers are separated from the programs by a viewing scope. When viewers move within the installation, the audio and video fade out, and the cross hairs recede into a black screen followed by text that requests viewers to remain still. The television imagery and sound resume only after all viewers within the installation have remained motionless for at least five seconds. Each time the television program is switched off in response to viewers' movements, different text messages are provided on the screen, such as 'Please Remain Still' or 'Just Relax.'"
Sight
- living room installation, TV display
Sound
- amplified sound
Touch
- motion sensor
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 5 - Established, Finished
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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