"TV Show"

Created by Antoine Catala, "TV Show" is an exhibit about the death of television. Brian Droitcour explains in his review of the show that the "demise" of television has come quicker than expected, especially with the conversion to digital broadcasting eliminating some of the population from the television stream, especially the elderly. Using TV Blobs, which are three dimensional objects that distort live feed, Catala turns television into art. In these blobs are news anchors, shows, even sound which is demonstrated through his Spongebob Squarepants blob that sings. Using both the physical television set as well as the "broadcast stream as readymade sculptural material," Catala puts these on display as historical "artifacts of the industrial age." This show "underscores television's identity as an industrial product" through comic like stills of television broadcasting.

Quite surprised that television is considered outdated, especially with the surge of HDTV's on the market, Antonie Catala makes an interesting statement through his work "TV Show". On the artist's website, there are video's of his TV Blobs which make more sense than just seeing a still picture of them. The blobs make the image both scrambled and decipherable. He doesn't discriminate from any image, including advertisements, news broadcasts, cartoons, etc. Instead of the typical two dimension images from the television set itself, Catala uses these three dimensional images to project the images onto the exhibition walls. It was an interesting take on t.v., especially since a three dimensional image makes more of a presence. Incorporating both television images and the physical body of the television is clever. People are familiar with television as more than an image, and Catala takes that into account in his work. Over all "TV Show" is quite an interesting subject, but in the world today, you are in one moment and out the next.