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What You See Is What You Get
Interactive Video data projection
TV screen grabs, Flash movies,Action scripting, LCD projector, PC
Baiju Parthan, 2003
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- What You See Is What You Get consists
of a click-able video projection interface, sound clips, and news clips gathered from news channels. |
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prominent element of the interface is a red circle that keeps panning
from left to right and then right to left. This circle emulates the
movement of the eyeball as well as the trajectory of the sun across the
heavens measuring out days and nights.
When the viewer clicks on the red circle, it brings forward a news clip
from a collection of short clips gathered from regular news
channels and stored within the interface. News clips of military action
in its various hues are all that the viewer receives from the interface.
Meme (pronounced- meem): A contagious information pattern that replicates by parasitically infecting human minds and altering their behaviour,causing them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by Dawkins, by analogy with "gene".) Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons,inventions, and fashions are typical memes. An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic. - Glenn Grant
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repositioning of information as an infective agent or organism brings
up very exciting and at the same time alarming scenarios where exposure
to certain kinds of information produce effects that we cannot control. |
the artist is exploring the memetic potential of news-feeds to infect and alter perceptions without our knowledge or permission.
