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Reverse Television is a series of 44 video portraits made by American video artist Bill Viola in 1983, originally produced for broadcast television and later documented as a 15-minute video. These portraits depict people throughout Boston sitting in their living rooms, silently staring at the video camera as though it were a TV set. [1]
The video »Reverse Television – Portraits of Viewers« is based on a change of perspective: The viewers of the video assume the position of television sets. They look into the living rooms and bedrooms and at all the people who sit motionless in front of their TV sets for hours every day.
Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers. Fecha de creación 1983 - 1984. Ámbito Nouveaux médias | Vidéo: Técnica U-matic NTSC, couleur, son. Duración 15 minutes. Adquisición Achat, 1988. Sector de colección Nouveaux medias. Inventario
Viola inverts the position and gaze of the television viewer in a series of forty-four portraits of individuals sitting at home in their living rooms, staring silently at the static camera as though it were a TV set. Produced specifically for broadcast television, the original one-minute segments...
Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers. 1983 - 1984. On display: Museum, level 4, Film, video, sound, digital works area. Art vidéo. assis. canapé. fauteuil. homme. Show more. Unable to open [object Object]: HTTP 403 attempting to load TileSource. Credits. Caption : Vue sur moniteur. © Bill Viola.
Documentary. Broadcast television project featuring forty four 30-second portraits of people - ranging in age from 16 to 93 years old - sitting in their homes and staring in silence at the camera, which aired in between programs as unannounced inserts. Creator. Bill Viola.
1 de ene. de 2022 · January 1, 2022 - January 31, 2022. Bill Viola inverts the position and gaze of the television viewer in a series of 44 portraits of individuals sitting at home in their living rooms, staring silently at the static camera as though it were a TV set.
