Proposal for QUBE
Peter d’Agostino © 1978/2021
Video-text-sculpture installation Preview: 7min loop Edition: 5+2 AP
The installation consists of two cubes (white and black) and a video featuring a QUBE-TV console for home viewers to select channels or push buttons to ‘respond’ in real time to questions and surveys. Claims are made that viewers have the opportunity to “talk back to their television sets.” Referencing minimal art primary structures, the cubes have added content displaying “Quotes from QUBE” and “Quotes to QUBE.” The Quotes from… promote a false narrative of a participatory utopian television, while the Quotes to… include selections from Orwell’s “1984” and Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” revealing the dystopian consequences of QUBE as a surveillance system. [ Catalog ]