[NJARC] A new television museum

[Al Klase]

Bill,

Works OK for me in Firefox on Vista.  I can't speak to the veracity of 
the material, but the guy did a bunch of work.

Regards,
Al

Bill Burns wrote:
> Visit our web site - See http://www.njarc.org
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> On 1/17/2009 3:16 PM, Dave Sica wrote:
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>> Visit our web site - See http://www.njarc.org
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>> http://www.teleseum.org/
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>
> What a hard-to-view site - not helped by its use of six-point white on 
> black type, displayed as an image and not re-sizable in the browser.
>
> And while there are hours posted, there's no indication of where it is; 
> the domain is registered to an Arizona address.
>
> A little googling shows it's a spoof (or perhaps "art installation" 
> would be kinder):
>
> Steve Gompf: Televisor Installations - Arts (Schneider Hall Galleries )
> Exhibit reception. Don't believe everything you read, watch or see. 
> Artist Steve Gompf uses sculpture and modern communications to fabricate 
> an alternate history of the birth of our media culture: the 'televisor.' 
> Gompf has created a museum for the televisor, his fictitious predecessor 
> to the television that presents video content in the style of motion 
> photography pioneer Edweard Muybridge on viewing machines that appear to 
> be contemporaries of the Victrola. The museum exists only as a Web site 
> (http://www.teleseum.org/) and contains extensive 'documentation' of the 
> 'Televisor Era' (photographs of televisors. clips of televisor footage, 
> newspaper advertisements, etc.).
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Al Klase - N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
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