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Zhang Peili 張培力
Broadcast at The Same Time (1999.12.31 night) 同時播報1999年12月31日夜
2000
This video installation surrounds viewers with evening news broadcasts from around the world, played simultaneously on twenty-six televisions. The different channels blend together to create a noisy and disorienting experience. Zhang Peili collected news segments broadcast on 31 December 1999, and this millennial moment is the focus of the work. Amid a wave of globalisation, the flow of communication and data at the time promised to transcend the limits of political and geographical borders. Zhang’s overwhelming spectacle of image and sound predicted our current era of information overload, reminding us of the continually expanding technological environment that we now inhabit.
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