Comments on: Once more, with feeling http://blog.art21.org/2009/05/10/once-more-with-feeling/ The Official Blog of Art21, Inc. and the <i>Art in the Twenty-First Century</i> PBS series Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:56:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Daniel Quiles http://blog.art21.org/2009/05/10/once-more-with-feeling/comment-page-1/#comment-11515 Daniel Quiles Wed, 13 May 2009 17:10:40 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=5102#comment-11515 After watching this like 500 times, my favorite bits are when they simply match the newscast word for word, in this sort of robotic imitation. This is the direct inheritor of Laurie Anderson and “O Superman,” with the vocoder playing the role of Autotune, in which the artist repeatedly mimics the empty phrases of early-80s high-tech life (“Sorry! I’m not home right now! But please leave a message at the sound of the tone…”).

For me, this may prove the most fruitful legacy of the so-called “Pictures Generation”: not the still picture, but the hegemonic moving image and language of television.

]]> By: Daniel Quiles http://blog.art21.org/2009/05/10/once-more-with-feeling/comment-page-1/#comment-11508 Daniel Quiles Wed, 13 May 2009 03:41:53 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=5102#comment-11508 The first one, in particular, is amazing.

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