CHARLES DANBY
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| 2008 TESTCARD / 17 February - 17 March Francesca Anfossi, Caline Aoun, Simon and Tom Bloor, Cut Up, Karen Tang, Bedwyr Williams, Simon Woolham Seven invited artists have produced new artworks based around the colour and greyscale configurations of traditional television test card images. These will be broadcast live throughout February and March 2009 on a new web based platform developed by PROJECKT as part of a wider exploration of curatorial outcome. The broadcast, viewable through downloadable software, sends the artists’ work to computer desktops where it is automatically updated, continually projecting different works throughout the broadcast period. Exactly one month after the start of the transmission the application will automatically uninstall itself and the broadcast will terminate. The famous Test Card ‘F’ designed by George Hersee and featuring his daughter Carole made its last appearance in the UK on BBC1 in 1997, while the last use of a publicly broadcast test card was during a BBC power failure on 20th June 2000. Since the turn of the millennium, and against the fixed resolution of conventional TV screens, the advent HDTV has led to the redundancy of the test card as a functional entity, as the assurances that it offered of unbroken lines, even contrast, and colour removed from neon glare, have become surplus to this current technology. | (W).jpg) |
| Simon and Tom Bloor, Testcard (2009) |