Attention Span
Video runtime :30 (2006)
An experiment in perceptual awareness, Attention Span is a hallucination of the somnambulistic attacks on our psyche as we watch television. The viewer immerses themselves in the display, while listening to binaural beats associated with deep sleep. The longer someone engages with the visualization, the stronger they transition to a state of waking sleep. The silhouette of a tumbling person rotates faintly centered in the composition. Explosions of pixels flash onto the screen, video feedback that implodes on itself as the video loops infinitely.
The visualization emphasizes the spectacular processing happening in the brain as we are lulled into a state similar to sleep while watching television. This is TV when it is stripped of its comedic and dramatic cues.
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