4:3:ME / I Was Born on Television
April 2005
print, solo work
12” x 18”, hard cover
4:3:ME is an encyclopedic document that offers an analytical cultural perspective inspired by the event of a televised birth in 1976. Beginning at the micro level of the broadcast and expanding out to introduce ideologies from Marshall McLuhan, to Greil Marcus, to Jean Baudrillard and Rem Koolhaas, the document draws metaphorical connections between the physical act of being born on television and being part of a generation who was psychologically raised by the medium. Dividing the analysis between four main characters, MOTHER, CAMERA, ME, AUDIENCE, 4:3:ME deconstructs both the positive and negative re-enforcements perpetrated by a mass media driven society.
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