Wednesday 27 February 2013

BBC Tate

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19867389
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19871487

I wonder if the positioning of these videos, i.e.as part of a news bulletin affects how we perceive the images.
Both have depictions of the gallery space. There is a sharp factual voice-over and the surrounding textual information makes the viewing almost detached form its aesthetic context, i.e. the Tate.

The Tate however, looks impressive.

I posted this here to illustrate the contrast with the Schama documentary. Both give a glimpse of the same gallery space, the Tate. Increasingly we can visit the same gallery spaces in different YouTube setting. Could it be that our online behaviour when visiting these spaces is being refined, sensitised, heightened? This is a question I would like to revisit later.

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