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Watching 20GB of Art TV

They came from the hard drives of kind neighbours, from YouTube, from my favourite semi-legal filesharing service: 20 gigabytes of major blockbuster art television series made over the last 40 years or so. There’s Sir Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation series (1969, 1.36 GB), Ways of Seeing with John Berger (1972, 1.37 GB), Shock of the New with Robert Hughes (1980, 2.72 GB), This Is Modern Art with Matthew Collings (1999, 2.53 GB) and Art21 (2001-7, and a whumping 10.9 GB if you download the lot).

Over the last two months I’ve been stimulated by all this art television data, but somewhat exhausted – perhaps…

by Nick Currie on 20/05/08 | No responses | Read More

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