Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inventive use of video, Tony Oursler's sculptures simultaneously fascinate and disturb. For the Biennial, he presents his most restrained and sophisticated work yet, three-dimensional glass ovals resting on metal poles or the floor, on to which he projects video images of talking heads. They stare at the viewer and blankly recite children's variations of songs commonly heard in school yards: "Joy to the world, the teacher's dead; we barbecued her head." Yet monotone delivery and eerie visual presentation transform these rhymes into disturbing alien utterances. We watch both mesmerized and repulsed, while the sculptures dare...
...parents to screen out certain programs using a V-chip by specifying the level of programming below which they deem unacceptable. However, the system as it exists is too simple--mixing in sex, blood and curses in one ultimate rating of age-appropriateness does not provide the discriminating viewer with very much information. Even a survey released by the media studies center reports that 79 percent of parents want a system that specifies the objectionable content rather than a general age rating...
...certain kind of discerning television viewer it remains a pop-culture mystery why millions more Americans this season tuned to CBS's lead-armed Walker, Texas Ranger on Saturday nights than to ABC's nuanced romantic drama Relativity. To many TV producers this is not a vexing question, however. Nothing is more dramatic than the conflict between life and death, they will tell you (even if the conflict involves Chuck Norris). Slice-of-life series almost never win the ratings that crime shows pull in, which is why eight of the nine new network dramas premiering this spring feature people...
...comics in French-speaking Western Europe over the last fifty years. Unfortunately, the supporting information is not as richly detailed as it could be, nor does it offer any background material on the history and culture against which it's being presented. The result is that, to the viewer with no previous knowledge of comics history or culture, the documentation will not be as educational as the designers hoped. The layout of the exhibit is also somewhat baffling, and, regrettably, no one at the Library itself seems to be sufficiently well-informed about the exhibit to offer explanations or enrichment...
...display are well worth seeing. Many, though not all, of the panels have been translated into English; a reading knowledge of French will be helpful but not essential to figuring out what's going on. The exhibit, laid out in roughly chronological order, starts by giving the viewer background on the classic comic weeklies Spirou and Pilote--started up in Belgium in 1938 and in France in 1959, respectively--which gave shape to the gradually maturing aesthetic of French comics. The commentary will take you through the first appearance of the "clean line" style of Herge, the creator and artist...