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(Now Playing) Television Meltdown by Soso Limited - Episode 29 of 53

Jul 30, 2009

Sosolimited is a crew of MIT grads turned audio visual artists – Eric Gunther, Justin Manor and John Rothenberg – with backgrounds in physics, architecture, computer science, media arts and music. They say that TV is garbage – and they want to turn that shit into gold. So they create live remixes of broadcasts using pure information to filter and direct the look and feel of their videos: deconstructing the 2008 presidential debates by using word-count as an aesthetic variable, for example. “Essentially what we’re trying to do is like take the television studio and turn up the acid,” Rothenberg says.

  • lowbrow

    6 months ago

    i know where i'd be hanging friday afternoons. beers and blown minds go well together.

  • boggle_brains

    6 months ago

    i bet a nancy grace remix would be very frantic and chaotic. they should consider it

  • killingmoon

    6 months ago

    how could you coordinate this to a drinking game?! every time the screen changes you drink? you'd...

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