NEWSFEED

This video was created entirely from clips of cable news programs (Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc.), to comment on our TV news coverage and viewing habits; like many of my other short non-narrative/abstract videos, it uses this appropriated footage for a hypnotic (or simply overwhelming) effect.



It is now common for many institutions (offices, schools, cafes, etc.) to contain screens (of one kind or another) set to a constant live feed from a cable news channel. To use a particularly salient example, these screens can be found (typically broadcasting CNN) throughout the Temple campus, including the Annenberg Hall Atrium.

I would like to install this video piece on one of these kinds of screens, in the place of the usual (CNN, Fox News, etc.) content. In the most simple variant of this installation, this video would simply replace the content of one out of many of these screens, or be added amongst the already existing screens. For example, I could place a third screen, playing this video (on a loop), between the two that already exist in the Atrium.

Preferably, this piece could also be installed on a single screen or monitor in a somewhat isolated location (to continue the earlier example, a hallway somewhere in Annenberg Hall). This screen would be playing the commonly found feed from CNN or another network; however, the screen would be equipped with a motion sensor, and switch to the above video whenever a person came within a certain distance (say, 10 feet of the screen on either side of the hallway).