0v3r104d (2002), pronounced overload, reconstructs the saturation of red, white and blue in the cultural and media landscape of the US after September 11, 2001. The buzzy, machine-like barrage of sound and strobe light style makes the flag appear as a flickering neon advertisement nearing burnout. As the image undergoes generation loss, the original soon becomes unrecognizable.
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Resources:
- Purchase 0v3r104d on FELIX: Risk / Riesgo DVD compilation
- Screened as part of Nations, Pollinations, Dislocations: Changing Imaginary Borders in the Americas
- Screened as part of Surveying the Border: Three Decades of Video Art about the United States and Mexico
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Geneva Gamez-Vallejo writes on her blog about a screening of 0v3r104d:
thanks for the headache.
meant to be art ?
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