ReConstitution
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2008 Format:
netThe American art and design collective Sosolimited (Justin Manor / Eric Gunther / John Rothenberg) has been nominated with their performance project ReConstitution, a live remix of broadcast television, and a format originally configured for the 2008 presidential elections.
Technically it is a software tool for datavisualisation allowing the extraction of video, audio, and closed captioned text from television broadcasts in real time. Using this system, Sosolimited visually and sonically transform this data to a seated audience, creating an unpredictable, sometimes funny narrative by cataloguing the utterings and movements of the people onscreen.
The transformed broadcast was projected onto a movie screen for a seated audience and over 1500 people attended the three performances in Boston, New York, and Washington D.C. The legibility of the underlying debates were maintained throughout the performance.
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Every year transmediale and CTM invite submissions to the transmediale Award. The transmediale award seeks to honor outstanding experimental artworks that embrace, question and enrich our understanding and relationship to our immersed media and technologically driven society.
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Out of more than 1,500 submissions nine art projects have made their way onto the list of transmediale Award 2010 nominees. In a session of several days the members of the international jury have nominated the following artists and art collectives:
