Sosolimited Turn TV Garbage Into Gold
Posted by Motherboard on Monday, Feb 15, 2010
Sosolimited is a crew of MIT grads turned audio visual artists – Eric Gunther, Justin Manor and John Rothenberg – with backgrounds in physics, architecture, computer science, media arts and music. They say that TV is garbage – and they want to turn that $#!t into gold. So they create live remixes of broadcasts using pure information to filter and direct the look and feel of their videos: deconstructing the 2008 presidential debates by using word-count as an aesthetic variable, for example. “Essentially what we’re trying to do is like take the television studio and turn up the acid,” Rothenberg says. In this episode of Motherboard, we get an inside look at how Sosolimited mindblowing video alchemy.
- For more pixel pushing madness, see our interviews with Eclectic Method and Jean Y Kim
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cowwithaballoon 5 months ago
I am a bit confused on how exactly they are turning TV into "gold". It seems to me that they filtering it and distorting it, but at a certain level it is still crap. I may be really organized and pretty to look at but its still crap. Crap in crap out if you will, but really I am just being nit picky about there analogy. I didn't go to MIT so perhaps i don't understand there brilliance. I do however agree that what they are doing is interesting and does seem to respond to the quality of TV in an interesting way. I also enjoy the fact that they are MIT who are using what they learned and trying to do something with it that has no practical application. I assume they are trying to solve the problems of cold fusion during their day jobs. Anyways, cool post and I would love to go to one of there "performances".
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