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Destroy Television and Brooklyn is Watching

Destroy Television was a really cool-sounding project that created in 2006 by electric sheep. Unfortunately I completely missed it at the time (reader, did you see it, what did you think?) but i heard about it sometime in the spring of last year and read all the documentation on the web about it. I see it as a precursor to Brooklyn is Watching. DTV allowed visitors to a website to control an avatar who was walking around life-blogging its every move through constant automated flickr uploads. Destroy Television was for a limited time, and it was Web-to-SL, so it sounds like it essentially became the same group of people controlling the view point and being viewed. Brooklyn is Watching is less egalitarian, and more focused on social relationships because it brings in at least some degree of potential distance between the watched and the watchers. Its also more ridiculous and therefore funnier… well to me anyway. Because control of Monet, the Brookly is Watching avatar, will be only available to people who live in or can visit Brooklyn, the entire project is tied directly to a particular place. Because that place is a contemporary fine art gallery it is tied to a particular (delightfully strange, insular) stream of commentary and critical dialog. The Podcast, I’ve been telling people is going to be “art people talking about second life” and indeed some of us are complete SL noobs and some of us don’t even particularly like second life– and then some of us love it– so it should make for some good arguments. Our plan is to do this for (at least) a full year so we hope that we’ll get an active community of people participating in the project

Posted by jvanb on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 at 6:35 am.

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This sounds like a very interesting project. It’s exciting to see more mixed reality events/exhibitions. Hopefully I will be able to make it over to Jack the Pelican to check it out. I did want to add a bit more info about DTV for those that are just now tuning in. On May 23 through June 2 in 2007 Art Center presented “Destroy Television”, a mixed reality interactive virtual installation by futurist Jerry Paffendorf and metaverse architect Christian Westbrook, curated by and in collaboration with artist Annie Ok. This exhibition took place simultaneously in Second Life as well as in NYC at Fuse Gallery. You can see
240 hours worth of the experience documented on Flickr & some videos on YouTube.

Left by Derek Lerner on March 1st, 2008

Just noticed that destroytv.com is currently down. You can read more details about the project here.

Left by Derek Lerner on March 1st, 2008

Thank you Derek! Good info, i would love to try to get you, Jerry, Christian, and Annie to guest start on the BIW podcast coming up, we hope to tape the first one on sunday March 8th if any of you would be available, but i realize that is crazy short notice, so contact me and lets figure out a time– OH, also– sorry this comment went so long before being moderated – something went wrong with my comment notification but its fixed now.

Left by jvanb on March 2nd, 2008

[...] You can also see descriptions and discussion of its relationship to BiW here: Destroy Television and Brooklyn is Watching [...]

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