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50 Great Works of Video Art That You Can Watch Online
BY REID SINGER JUNE 24, 2013 2:00 PM
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Peter Weibel, Endless Sandwich, 1969
What contemporary viewers might look at as a hokey toying with the moving-image camera was, in Weibel’s case, an avant-garde statement about spectatorship and the separation between the viewer and the viewed.
“In the screen there are viewers seen sitting in front of their TV. In the last picture a disturbance occurs,” he explains, “so that the viewer who watches this scene has to get up, in order to repair the failure. Thus the screen of the next viewer is disturbed. The disturbance reproduces itself, up to the real TV set, so that the real viewer must rise the same way, in order to remove the disturbance. Time delay: The real action is the final point of the reproduced process.”