Nicolas Boillot

installationvideo The television flux is taken in terms of potential, a potential of images, movements and signs. Every time a fragment of image changes during the broadcasting of a television programme, it is extracted in real time through an automated process. Those are captured and recast, in a spatial-temporal way, on a twenty-four images loop.

When shown frame by frame to the spectator, it’s the broadcasting itself that is modified as each fragment of image is kept in memory and potentially repeated several times. The hypnotized mind gets used to the fragments, waits for them to reappear and may even try to re-configurate them. But the intended persistent effect doesn’t prevent the progressive erasing of the configuration, as each fragment added to the loop is only present and repeated until a new one gradually replaces it, driving it slowly into disappearance and oblivion.