deadtech

Opening: Friday March 14th , 8PM – 10PM

24 Hour Riot - an installation by Sabine Gruffat
Show runs until: Tuesday April 15th

24 Hour Riot is a controlled demonstration of mediated upheaval. An
interactive video installation emphasizes the problematic relationship
between media imagery and political engagement by allowing viewers
localized and temporary playback control of electronic noise machines
and televised depictions of civil unrest within the hermetic space of
the gallery. Viewers moving around the space randomly trigger a variety
of dissonant electronic noises and in turn, incrementally provoke and
effect minor disturbances in the diffusion of the video riot. Similar
to the continuously archived news footage documenting uprisings
worldwide, the ensuing outcry and dissonance of 24 Hour Riot is abetted
and disaggregated by the technological conditions of its (non)release.