These televisions were placed around Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to celebrate the return of analog television frequencies to the ether.
To commemorate this event we are inviting the public to come
witness the beginning of the Television Drops, a series of public
television events as part of the New Stations Network.Using televisions reclaimed from the street corners where they are
left as trash, we will tune them in to our own local broadcast.
Powered by the city itself, the TV will present the first episode of a
new public television show, This World.A single character struggles to build a relationship between himself
and those watching. He is simultaneously in command of the program and
trapped within it. He is both holding television hostage and himself a
prisoner. Forced to be the full cast he builds an anti-narrative with
an arsenal of costumes serving as a multiple personality cure to his
own loneliness.~New Stations
My own inclination is to crush television. [Thanks, David!]
Erm…the analog switch-off got pushed back to June 12. Fun project nonetheless.
Kill Your Television
Ah, Neddy, we hardly knew ye.
What a silly thing to create art about. Bring on the future! Leave this analog crap in the past. Stop obsessing on the obsolete. There is nothing romantic about analog TV signals. There is nothing romantic about digital TV signals either. Just let it happen.
Are you kidding? There is nothing romantic about a wood-paneled cathode-ray-tube with rabbit ears? Sitting on a street corner? 1080p 42″ plasma = sexy as hell, but not as romantic as analog. In my less than humble opinion.
Does anyone want to provide, say, a link or something of that nature? I doubt I’ll find myself meandering the streets of W’msburg solely in search of these repurposed sets when I don’t even know the sort of thing I’ll be seeking. (No doubt I’d know it when I saw it, but I’d rather see samples before I freeze my nuts off.)
“Powered by the city itself”
Um, whut?
They didn’t give us a link!
“Powered by the city itself”
I’m guessing the TVs are tapped into the lampposts for power, seen street performers do that a few times