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Best Buy Allows In-store Art Installation
Borna Sammak’s Best Buy video installation went off without a glitch last night, partly because it wasn’t quite as illicit as I imagined given the artist’s unauthorized past participations. Curator Thomas McDonnell promised Best Buy reps that the two-hour television takeover, comprised of thirteen videos, would attract a lot of not-normal people who might buy stuff at the electronics store. Art in America interviewed the artist and curator, detailing their releasing the high-definition videos into their “natural habitat.” |Rhizome|
Photos by Ceci Moss/Rhizome
On October 8th, Best Buy on Broadway will be hosting a glitch art installation, they just don’t know it yet. For one night only, Borna Sammak, the artist who curated himself into the New Museum, is planning to take over every television in the electronics store for his video display: high-definition video clips deconstructed, then “mashed and violently reconstituted in a new, hi-resolution world.” The artist’s “Best Buy” installation and reception will take place at 622 Broadway from 7 PM to 9PM, or until the blue shirts call the cops. Read more »
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