Media ecology ads / Muntadas. [1982]

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Media ecology ads / Muntadas. [1982]

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This witty visual critique of television images subverts the language of commercial advertising by challenging specific formal elements: edited time, visual speed, and the relation between text and image. Each of the three segments in Muntadas's Media ecology ads combines moving electronic text with an image of a physical event occurring in "real time," in contrast to the fragmentation and speed of edited TV time.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (12 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original.

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