{"id":749,"date":"2012-02-07T09:37:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/utv\/"},"modified":"2021-01-17T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T06:29:10","slug":"utv","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/utv\/","title":{"rendered":"UTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-749-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/vimeo\" src=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/7932336?loop=0&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/7932336?loop=0\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/7932336?loop=0<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rob Duarte\u2019s 2010 work UTV bears a strong resemblance to The Murmur Study in its symbolism and<br \/>\npurpose, but takes a different physical form\u2014that of a stack of old analog<br \/>\ntelevisions. The piece, is an over the air broadcast of our internet ideates,<br \/>\ndefined by Twitter feeds. Part of a bigger exhibition called \u201cCommunication<br \/>\nIII\u201d, it consists of two parts. One part, \u201cInterface\u201d takes up half the gallery<br \/>\nspace and is made up of a laptop displaying the algorithms and scripts that<br \/>\ncollect the tweets from people in the Chicago area. A camcorder then converts<br \/>\nthis feed into a television signal which is broadcasted to all televisions in<br \/>\nthe immediate area. There is a corkboard placed above the laptop that contains<br \/>\nnotes about the process of the project as well as, \u201ccomparisons between the sociopolitical<br \/>\nhistories of Internet and broadcast TV media, and the re-appropriation of the<br \/>\nobsolete medium of analog TV for the purposes of broadcasting local<br \/>\ncommunity-produced content.\u201d<br \/>\nThe second part of the project is the actual televisions, or the \u201cOutput\u201d. A<br \/>\nstack of analog television sets with rabbit antennae display the twitter feed<br \/>\nas white text on a black background, the phrases scrolling from right to left<br \/>\nacross the screen at different speeds. The purpose of this piece deals with the<br \/>\nrelationship between the demise of analog televisions and the struggles the<br \/>\ninternet might face in the future. With the death of the analog TV came the<br \/>\ndeath of \u201cfreely available, community-driven content\u201d<br \/>\nThis piece aims to bring that community content back. However given present day<br \/>\nissues, this piece has a darker side. The creation of SOPA, and perhaps even<br \/>\nmore threatening, ACTA, are legislation that aims to silence some of these<br \/>\nvoices. Perhaps Duarte was far ahead of his time when predicting the future<br \/>\nstruggles the internet will face as corporations try to silence it, just as<br \/>\ncorporations bought out community channels on analog television.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial;\" width=\"360\" height=\"541\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img width=\"360\" height=\"541\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robduarte.com\/utv.html\">http:\/\/www.robduarte.com\/utv.html<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.random-magazine.net\/2010\/06\/utv\/\">http:\/\/www.random-magazine.net\/2010\/06\/utv\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":15277,"template":"","artist":[910],"streams":[8],"keywords":[4032,2508],"decade":[5545],"media":[5550],"class_list":["post-749","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist-robert-duarte","streams-charged-environments","keywords-analog-television","keywords-twitter","decade-2010s","media-installation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15276,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/749\/revisions\/15276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}