Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interactive TV, the lines between advertisements, entertainment and services may grow fuzzy. A slick demonstration put together by programmers at Microsoft shows how that might be so. The presentation opens with a Seattle Mariners baseball game. By clicking a button on a mouse or remote control, a viewer can bring up a menu of options (displayed as buttons on the screen). Click on one, and the image of the batter at the plate shrinks to make room for the score and the player's stats - RBIs, home runs and batting average - updated with every pitch. Click again...
...great importance, his work reconsiders the racial implications of Robert Mapplethorpe, gay make pornography, and the art world. He asks questions in a variety of forms, which include such topics as identity, friendship, creativity, relationships, and genders. Harris's secret life--his closet. He invites the viewer into this no longer secretive life, and in so doing, demands a close look at the complex interactions which construct an individual...
Armed with the exhibition notes, any viewer will surely appreciate both the subtle artistic beauty, the political connotations and the humor in this show...
...political utterance set out, with lapidary accuracy, by the art critic Adam Gopnik a couple of years ago. That is, you take an obvious proposition that few would disagree with -- "Racism is wrong" or "One should not persecute gays" -- and encode it so obliquely that by the time the viewer has figured it out, he or she feels, as the saying goes, included in the discourse...
...where some of their surroundings lose their form, Brown and Hopkins are capable of compensating for the chilly atmosphere, which can otherwise freeze the viewer out. Quartett demands maintenance of that edge which makes the difference between dull and cutting...