This illustration by Cristiana Couceiro accompanied a 2015 article in the New York Times about how social media has made TV a more interactive experience. It’s worth a read, but I’m posting this GIF today because it relates to Emily Colucci’s review of Public Access/Open Networks, a show about how public channels can bypass institutional hierarchy. If this illustration points to that thesis it alludes to it only—the TV signal broken up and disbursed by many mostly indicates that we’re our own broadcasters. But of course, embedded within that reality is the belief that this offers us a chance to bypass and resist institutional structures. Does that actually happen, though? Eh, sometimes.
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