Founded by a collective of radical media makers in 1981, Paper Tiger Television pioneered edutainment. Broadcast on public access television, the collective took a grassroots, DIY approach to media production that showcased how television was made through television, while critiquing corporate media and attempting to build a more equitable form of moving image. As one of the founders put it: “It is one thing to critique the mass media and rail against their abuses. It is quite another to create viable alternatives.”
Posts Tagged → tv
TV Man is coming
On a Sunday morning in Henrico County, Virginia, dozens of residents woke to find old TV sets dumped on their lawns. One person reviewed their home security footage and reported the following: “It was a guy dressed in a jumpsuit with a TV for a head,” said Adrian Garner. “It’s the weirdest thing. He squats down, puts the TV there and walks off. It’s really weird.”
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Slow Television
Slow television is the uninterrupted broadcast of an ordinary event from start to finish…
[via kottke]
Cup of fur…
de/Rastra
The de/Rastra oscillographic synthesizer is a real-time audio/video instrument and computer-interfacing device that allows a performer to generate visualizations intrinsic tocathode ray tube technology while simultaneously creating the acoustic analog of the displayed imagery.
Part time virus hunters
“Overly melodramatic and cheesy Boston TV channel news report about a computer virus outbreak discovered by MIT nerds in 1998. Fun because they don’t just report on the virus – they interview geeks, and insert random clips from retro videogames and TV movies to illustrate what a virus is.”
[via dangerous minds]
The Internet in 1995 on MTV News
(Via Driveby Blogging)
Television Delivers People
Good stuff never gets old…
Topologies
“A moving picture is a real thing and as a real thing it is not imitation. It does not reflect on life, it embodies the life of the mind.” -Ernie Gehr
Spectacular tv sculptures by Antoine Catala (on view at AVA, New York, until November 4th).
[via triangulation blog]
Water Walk
John Cage performing Water Walk on a game show in 1960. Incredible stuff.
[via imrevolting]