Kill Your Television (KYTV) formed in early 2002 as the brainchild of Aaron Kao, Jeremy Sharma and Rizman Putra. In order to explore other artistic interests other than music and visual arts, hence, the formation of the collective.
The concept of KYTV is exploring the boundaries of various art forms like visual arts, installation, writing, movement, music/sound, and multi-media. Essentially, KYTV is a collaborative effort of artists with different aptitudes and experiences each time a new work is created.
Under the direction of co-artistic directors RIZMAN PUTRA and CHOY KA FAI.KYTV is moving towards hybrid territories of contemporary arts, whereby boundaries are constantly disappearing. Interactivity and experiences are now the main focus of KYTV’ works constantly experimenting and exploring regardless of forms.
KYTV seeks to create works that relates to our spontaneous and complex structures of urban existence, communicating with people within the ever-changing landscape of time, space and cultures.
Speaking of the horrors of MySpace, you should go to Postal Service’s MySpace page. PS’s sound is fairly unique and I kinda dig it. I just listened to “The District” probably 10 times in a row. It’s… mesmerizing.
It’s an interesting thing that people can feel alone in the middle of a crowd. Though most of us are surrounded by mobs of people there isn’t any authenticity or quality in the contact that we have with most of those people – this can lead to feelings of isolation even in the middle of the thronging hordes.
The Internet held the promise, at one time, of addressing this but I wonder how well it’s lived up to the hype.
Blogging seems to encourage stratification and establishment of power/traffic brokers to which others must become supplicants – no community exists without traffic and few are able to garner traffic independently. This leads to a few occupying the commanding heights and the rest in obscurity – as usual. Social network sites like MySpace create communities of laughable quality around themselves. Social news sites encourage corporate gaming of the rating algorithms to drive profitable traffic to client sites and again, little quality.
The only online environments that seem to foster a sense of community are special interest forums. Are highly focused forums, serving increasingly narrow interests and communities, the future of the Internet and social interaction in general? I don’t see the other idioms currently in place on the Internet filling the gap, but I wonder if narrowly interested groups is a healthy state for our society? Are the Clubbs and Societies of the Enlightenment a precedent for this type of fine-grained interest-specific societal organization?
Kim Bauer is now, apparently, a fixture on the show 24 and this annoys me.
Mrs. Interested and I are watching 24 via Netflix and are almost half way through season three (we hadn’t watched the show before now). It’s a good show except for just a few annoyances. The foremost is Kim Bauer. She is very reliable in one area – she can be relied upon to make the absolute worst decision possible, every single time. It’s so predictable and infuriating. I hate Kim Bauer.
Everybody at CTU has serious communication issues as well. I haven’t been keeping track of how many times serious problems could be averted if somebody simply spoke up and offered information at a meeting instead of keeping information back – but no, cooperation and collaboration isn’t the way of CTU. Lame.
Also, and this is really bothering me a lot, the cell phone tracking that they do on 24 is really starting to bother me a lot. They agents at CTU can seriously get video feeds from the operating rooms of local hospitals but they can’t get a trace on a cell phone given plenty of time and preparation. GAH! What are our tax dollars being spent on?!
Oh, and I think I’m going to be supremely annoyed by Chloe. She’s just a space case and totally doesn’t fit in with the crowd at CTU.
Something jumped out at me while reading this article. Specifically, the reasoning given for indefinite detention, without charge, of suspected terrorists is that this is lawful until the end of a war.
So when exactly are we going to be able to say that we’ve won the War on Terror?
Please don’t misunderstand. I think terrorists are scum and they deserve to be dealt with harshly. When you wrap your mind around the fact that terrorists would gladly see innocent women and children die in order to gain something political, you’ll understand that there is no dealing with them.
But that doesn’t mean that what we’re doing is right ethically or even politically. I don’t think that using the cover of an ongoing and open ended war on a concept to hold people without charging and trying them, forever, is right. If we have evidence against these people, let’s have it presented in a court of law. If we don’t, have we a right to detain them?
We need to be better than those we oppose, otherwise what’s to distinguish us from them? They use bombs, we use prisons, but ultimately everyone involved is destroying lives, families, trust. I understand the need to hold some things in confidence and don’t expect all intelligence to be made public. Still, there should be some way to show that a process is being followed that honors our American way of life and adherence to the law. We are a nation of laws, not of men, and certainly not of fear (or fear mongering).
