"Surfacing video in public spaces"
(Robert) Some time ago, me and Geska made an article around screens and the "class belonging" of different types of screens and projections. Projections in a dark white cube of a room vs. a 42 inch plasma in a shopping mall exploding in marketeering phobia of emptyness - is one apparent dialectic. One demands attention, the other is happy to get any.
LCD:s being too much "PC-like", work place, diagrams, graphics, futurist, "borgouise" as opposed to bulky CRT TV-sets: home-like, well established, cheap, trashy, nostalgia. And so on.
I'd like to adress the choice of a "surface" as a distinct parameter; not only in terms of contrast ratio or other image properties, as well as physical size and disposition, but also: how is one surfacing a work of video in a social context, which is so often saturated with a sense of "seen it all". Graffitti people, f.e., often adress this issue by putting their pieces in "impossible" places (or the other tactics of repetition, to be everywhere).
