February 11, 2006
Inmates can be citizen reporters too, according to an article in New Kerala.
Since January, 11 amateur reporters who are all inmates in an Italian prison have been broadcasting a daily programme on the prison's closed-circuit television. They offer a press digest of national and foreign news, sport updates, information about life in jail, new laws and changes to the judicial system.
p their daily walk in the prison's courtyard to work on the news programme. They bought the lights and some of the equipment with their own money, and the rest was acquired thanks to a 1,500-euro (1,815 dollars) donation from the local town hall.
The inmates get their information from newspapers bought by the prison staff. A detainee who used to work as a tailor stitched together the curtains that darken the room when the programme is being recorded.
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Michael Parenti has created an installation piece for the exhibition "bensiz" ("without me") at address istanbul, titled "paiksiz" ("without paik"), in tribute to the death of video artist Nam June Paik. Pictures HERE.
The piece is comprised of an old macintosh g4 laptop in a plexiglass case, with an riff on paik's original installation piece, "ego machine" (1974). The desktop picture has the words "paik, paik paik....etc" as the original, with a few differences: the words are struck through, symbolizing paik's death, and static video snow has been added. The laptop is also running a 7 minute film in continuous loop, which is projected on a semi transparent curtain in the middle of the 35 meter long space. The film was created in grid pro, using original footage of paik in his coffin, which Todd Thille filmed at the memorial service on Saturday, February 4th, in New York City, This original footage is mixed with close up shots of fingers on a typewriter keyboard as if Paik's ego is still typing his name - even in death, and is seperated into the three channels of video color space - R, G, and B - symbolizing the color space which paik worked in, and is accompanied the song "Death is not the end" a cover version by the austrian band, "Der Scheitel". The surround soundsystem in the glass enclosed space was courteously provided by Bang & Olufsen
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