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A fan and television monitor
are placed on plinths in a low lit gallery space. They are
at the same level, about 2 metres apart and facing each other.
The fan blows onto VHS rustling leaves and every minute or
so, a rhythmic cycle of flash frame images appear, taken from
an old catalogue selling film washers. The fleeting glimpses
of a woman presenting a wardrobe's worth of machinery are
reminiscent of a spangled magician's assistant.
'Television Fan' attempts to be a critical monument to the
passivity of televisual media. In place of the armchair bound
TV fan, a domestic desktop fan breathes life back into the
television tube. But the life that it breathes is merely an
illusion.
This simulated relationship is similar in many ways to the
user/work relationship that exists in the realms of emerging
interactive artforms. The user of a CDROM (for example) seems
and is seen to be empowered. No longer the couch potato, s/he
navigates electronic space on his/her own terms. Of course,
this is not true. Usually, the user is merely an augmented
remote control. S/he can command the work to, Stop, Start,
go here, go there etc.. while the content remains a static
body of ideas as didactic as any Daz commercial or CNN news
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