has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
Political and social comments based on tv footage from European news bulletins.
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'Nondescript News' is a compilation of TV stills (partly hidden by the speed of the medium) from several European news bulletins. These public images were watched collectively and categorically and form part of our worldview. Stripped of commentary and freed from their context, these explicit images have been neutralised. They are open to interpretation; an appeal is made to the viewer's archive of images. This always produces (individual) associations. But these rely on external iconography and may include stereotypes and preconceptions. What have we all been watching and can we still interpret images in their originality? (March 2010))
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The financial crisis marks the end of an era and is the start of social disintegration.
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Public opinion on politicians and bankers.
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At the end of each stand-up there is a short moment, sometimes only a (fraction of) a second, where we see a silent reporter waiting for the broadcast to switch back to the studio. The longer this moment lasts, the more helpless the impression which their non-functional presence makes on the viewer.
The series ‘Profession Reporter’ shows only the last frame of this wait.
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More and more newsbulletins make use of 'embedded footage': pictures from CCTV, widely discussed internet clips, 'newsletters' and 'viewer videos'. It is a logical development of control over society and, on the other hand, the possibility of recording every event and publishing it on the Internet.
Applying 'embedded footage' meets the demand for 'real life entertainment': frequently images become content and objectivity is not (always) guaranteed.
Are we happy to conclude that the mass media are now at last accessible to the masses and keep a close eye on society, or are we concerned about the imminent erosion of serious newsbulletins and the evaporation of journalistic ethics?
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Tv footage of police violence against demonstrators.
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Nondescript News #20 (2009) 'Nondescript News' is a compilation of TV stills (partly hidden by the speed of the medium) from several European news bulletins. These public images were watched collectively and categorically and form part of our worldview. Stripped of commentary and freed from their context, these explicit images have been neutralised. They are open to interpretation; an appeal is made to the viewer's archive of images. This always produces (individual) associations. But these rely on external iconography and may include stereotypes and preconceptions. What have we all been watching and can we still interpret images in their originality? (December 2009)
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Election fraude in Afghanistan.
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Barack Obama: loved by the world, hated in the U(nited)SA.
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The war in Afghanistan, started as a war on terror, in nowadays consequently named 'mission' by politicians and the military.
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