Art Installation: First TV Memory

First TV Memory is a kinetic sculpture and video installation that was the precursor work to East of Fallon, Highway 50, Nevada. The work recreates my earliest recollection of television. In 1968, I remember getting up in the morning, I was 4 years of age. I wanted to watch "Captain Kangaroo" on CBS. I was very frustrated as all television progamming had been pre-empted by the image taken from a camera mounted on the back of the funeral train of Robert Kennedy. His body was being taken from Los Angeles to the East coast for burial after he was assassinated after a campaign speech in California.

In this work I created a realistic HO scale train track inside the surface of a small, kinetic Ferris wheel type structure. The small, black and white video camera, records and transmits in real-time the image that simulates the TV memory that is in my mind's eye. This work has been displayed using a video projector or a small black and white TV.

This piece was awarded the "Wand 5 Award" at the 2003 Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival of Expanded Media, Germany.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• art
• delappe
• installation
• kennedy
• assassination
• video

[visnevskiscom]

Nice work. But the voice is like dying :)

[deadunitx]

that was elegant and sweet.

"You remind me of

a small child

i once watched

picking flowers"--sappho

thanks for that

sincerly,

an artist

[rcflight13]

Genius, pure and simple.

[noPROFITjustPROGRESS]

tight work

[ArchhereticK]

Quite a powerfull piece.

[outled]

"I remember being very upset that i couldnt watch my favourite show"

haha the intonation on this line says it all.

This vid is a gem!

[futurehope65]

Thought-provoking... My first memory is similar, though it was of the first moon landing pre-empting cartoon broadcasts...or was it of the 68 Democratic Convention riots? Thanks

[BeatEmorBurnEm]

Very well constructed, and a great concept.

[zrebeKDemitri]

You talk English very good.

[LivengoodTodd]

Your sick in the head. Why would you waste HO scale track. Now you think you a hampster. Go take you meds. Left state mental illness.