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Frank Monster
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"Frank Monster": In early 1994 I was flown to Berlin, Germany, by Herr Stiletto Studios to help build & run a complex media project whose various components had various names. One component was a cable TV program that was on the Open Channel a minimum of 15 hours a day, the time otherwise unused. We set up a studio, the Blaumilchkontrol (Blue Milk Control - a reference to a novel) & an installation in the Akademie der Kunst (West) as part of a large exhibit called "X94: junge kunst + kultur", an exhibit meant to showcase the work of young artists. For the 1st 2 weeks after I arrived I worked 100 hours a week building the technical framework for the piece, mainly in conjunction with Axel Jagemann. After that, the TV Hospital program was transmitted to the cable TV station using ISDN, picture telephone lines — at that point a very primitive & low resolution medium — & then sent out to the audience. The footage presented here was originally preserved on PAL VHS, copied to another PAL VHS, & then rendered as NTSC VHS. Despite the resultant poor resolution, it's still higher quality than what the viewing audience saw. One of the earliest experiments that we tried was a collaboration bet…
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tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
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TV Hospital, Herr Stiletto Studios, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Andrew Stulle, Gordon Monahan, Laura Kikauka, Axel Jagemann, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany, 1994, X94, picture telephone, cable tv, experimental tv, media art
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