SNOOZE
Francis Gomila
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Francis Gomila
“Television, with its illusion of immediacy, distances – immures us in our own indifference” Susan Sontag.
Arising from a series of recent digital works deconstructing the medium of television, SNOOZE stitches together the consecutive seconds in which a news presenter blinks his eyes shut during a live BBC News 24 broadcast.
By supplanting the original sound with a gentle twinkling melody, Gomila
creates a sense of lull and monotony effecting a slumberous TV presenter
despite headlines of breaking news. These subtle manipulations transfer
to the viewer and as we begin to nod, questions are poised about media power
of information control and dissemination.
