[NetBehaviour] Potentially Harmful

[Paul Hertz]

Welcome to the grand tradition of Tony Conrad's Flicker films. Still
capable of causing epileptic seizures after all these years.

-- Paul


On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:18 PM, marc garrett <marc.garrett2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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