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| StopGap TV Burn The Midnight Oil Hardware/ software Installation June 2004 Exhibitions: University of art and design (HGKZ), Zürich - Rüdigerstrasse, Zürich - Viper Festival (Metaworx), Basel | |||
StopGap TV is a night, fill or buffer TV programme designed especially for those periods time (night time and early morning) when TV channels used to broadcast TV test patterns (in industrial society the national anthem and the TV test patterns that followed it, told the viewer it was time for bed. Today there are fill programmes, reruns of films and soaps, call in game shows etc. to fill these programme gaps during the night. Television today has gone from informing and entertaining a public at the end of a laborious day to ensuring a continuous and incessant supply of images and entertainment thus connecting the viewer to rest of the world at all times.) |
StopGap TV consists of a small Telerobot, controlled by the TV viewer or viewers via text messages sent to the displayed number by cell phone and a landscape built from newspaper clippings. The viewer sees the landscape through a camera situated on top of the robot as it moves triggered by the comands sent in by text messages. |
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Despite being in charge of the robot and despite being able to interact with what he/ she sees on television, the viewer is confronted with a situation devoid of information and entertainment. |
Insteadof receiving entertainment and information the viewer is provided with a programme stripped of all subject matter, a totally pointless programme with the sole intention of providing the viewer with the possibility to escape the solitude of watching TV by oneself. |
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!Mediengruppe Bitnik, Zürich -
 2003-2007
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