Five works commissioned by MTV Networks were transmitted unannounced, internationally, and repeatedly throughout 1994 between scheduled programmes.
reacTV: ‘In reacTV there is abjection, rats…. and vacating doves’
contexTV: ‘In this second piece the back of a TV set with superimposed images fills the screen as a voice repeats ‘this is a this is a this’, each time with differing inflections.’
exiTV: ‘In the third piece television accelerates from its beginnings to its demise.. …
“The film and video artist Malcolm Le Grice (1940-, UK) has written about the issues raised by the emergence of the non-linear manipulation and its implications for film and video from ideas that have emerged from his own fine art practice, including a sustained period of working with accessible digital technology. In work such as Arbitrary Logic (1986), Sketches for a Sensual Philosophy (1988) and Digital Still Life (1989), Le Grice worked with inexpensive home computers (initially the Sinclair Spectrum and the Atari) to explore the potential of the digital and its implications for moving image within a fine art context.” …
‘The Chronos Project’, Vertigo Autumn/Winter 1995 issue 5 – article on LeGrice’s work ‘Chronos Fragmented’.pdf here …
