[NetBehaviour] Potentially Harmful

[marc garrett]

Hi Antonio,

Yes, I agree with Rob.

You've made yourself extra cool without meaning to ;-)

marc

On 25 May 2016 at 19:59, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 25 May 2016, at 07:17 AM, Antonio Roberts wrote:
> > I recently made an ident for MTV that was shown everywhere apart from
> > the UK. This was due to the ident containing "Potentially Harmful"
> > content. I've never worked in broadcast before and, whilst I know
> > flashing imagery should be avoided, I didn't know stripes were
> > disallowed.
>
> I wouldn't have thought of that either but stripes moving at speed will
> flash. This is like a car driving through the shadows cast by tree
> branches on a sunny day.
>
> > I've described this whole process here
> > http://www.hellocatfood.com/potentially-harmful/
> >
> > Does this render a lot of glitch art/new media/digital art
> > unboradcastable?
>
> You've created art that is resistant to media distribution.
>
> In 2016.
>
> That's awesome!
>
> And potential problems are identified by machine -
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harding_test
>
> Which makes this an example of algorithmic critique as well.
>
> So to answer your question - more energetic examples of glitch/new media
> would need a certificate.  I wonder if institutions that collect such
> art have access to Harding testing?
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