Elegy for Television
Television is dead. Long live television.
The television is forecast to disappear from households by the end of the next decade, and with it, the TV schedule that has structured the everyday life of families across generations and nations. The Cord Cutting Revolution refers to a movement away from the consumption of television content via satellite & cable, towards online streaming. The global expansion of the Internet has transformed consumption away from the temporal reign of the TV Guide; on time has become on demand.
Through this frame, Fabian Holle, Baly Nguyen, Damian Rebgetz and Melanie Jame Wolf perform an «Elegy for Television» summon the rituals of the television age, the lost moments of community, the synchronization of neighborhoods and nations, and flick through fragments of individual and shared experience.
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