Dellbrügge & de Moll
«Video Theory, No-Tech Version»

‘The 'no-tech version' of the four 'video theory' tapes previously produced restores their texts to the print medium and a contemplative viewing situation. The machines (monitor and recorder) are supplied in the form of drawings, and the easily transported work is also quick to install, low in price, and designed for interactivity.'
Dellbrügge & de Moll

Positioned between ‘monitor' and ‘recorder', the viewer completes the media triangle and reception model. Designed as a multiple composed of two colourless cardboard signs and a box with 43 pages of text, the installation with considerable irony translates into well-nigh school-like teaching units the quotations from the texts conveyed in the videotapes (e.g. ‘How have functional developments in the TV set influenced programming?'). An ideal introduction to, not unexpectedly, ‘video theory'.

Rudolf Frieling