Media on Fire
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Television often report from a world on fire. Now the medium is next in line to feel the heat.
This project was custom made for the Danish Broadcast Corporation.
At the moment is on hold and looking for new partners
By actually burning one of DR´s (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) TV-studios the artist duo Thyra Hilden & Pio Diaz set the stage for a discussion of the role of the media in the public space and the underlying economical interests and political forces that often controls our news service.
The public power of television is immense. The medium is our window on the world and it is often through the agency of television that we derive information on the condition of the world. It is usually television that identifies who is good and bad. This medium represents a powerful value-creating agency in our daily lives and it is a significant part of the reality of western peoples. Through the action of burning a TV-studio Hilden & Diaz raise questions about not only the medium as a common frame of reference but also the values that it directly and indirectly instills in the viewer
With their art installation Media on Fire Hilden & Diaz – in other words – bring attention to television as a central and conscious participant in our formation of reality - and invite us to reassess the status of the medium.
