101 TV Sets
Creator:
David Hall/Tony Sinden-
This work is part of the rewind archive.
Year: 1975
Media types:Video
Type of work:TV receivers - showing off-air broadcasts
Funding source: Arts Council of England/Great Britain
First exhibited: First shown as 60 TV Sets at the exhibition A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain, Gallery House, London 1972, and as 101 TV Sets at The Video Show, Serpentine Gallery, London 1975
Technical details: Used 101 Television Receivers / Colour and sound
Article in Hayward Exhibition Catalogue (1979). Contains photograph of ‘101 TV Sets.’ pdf here.
Description of Installation Pieces including ‘101 TV Sets.’ pdf here.
‘Although no video is directly involved (the TV sets are tuned or mis-tuned to broadcast signals, and all parameters of picture quality variously utilised) this is an important precursor of British multi-channel video installation work…’ Chronology, Diverse Practices: A Critical Reader on British Video Art 1996.
‘Media of now: An interview with David Hall’ – interview with Joanna Heatwole, from the publication Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, published by the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, Volume 36, Aug/Sep 2008.pdf here
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