People as Pixels
http://www.typotheque.com/articles/pixel_people.html
- very specific article on examples of design with “People as Pixels”
Media Theory
http://homepage.newschool.edu/~wilder/MediaElision.html
“Media Elision”, an article by Carol Wilder of the New School on the blurring of news and entertainment. Mentions Neil Postman, McLuhan, Beaudrillard – the usual.
http://proxy.arts.uci.edu/~nideffer/Tvc/section3/11.Tvc.v9.sect3.Grindstaff.html
“Trashy or Transgressive: Reality TV and the Politics of Social Control” – gives a good overview of media theory surrounding infotainment and reality tv. Mentions Adorno, Horkheimer, Postman, etc.
http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/teaching/classes/401_s02/connections/Saras_connections.htm
Sara Diamond’s Connections. Contains links to participatory media, designs, spectacle, enabling technologies, and all that.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jlesage/Juliafolder/nonfictionTV/nonfictiontvbibliog.htm
Bibliography of useful books on Nonfiction TV.
Prior Art
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/art/reviews/4485/
- review of Andreas Gursky’s minimalist photos of buildings and crowds as “Pixel Visionary”
http://www.flong.com/telesymphony/
- Golan Levin’s “Telesymphony”. He used the audience’s cell phones as instruments in a ring-tone orchestra.
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/World_20record_20display_20panel
- another waste of an idea on halfbakery.com. They suggest making the worlds largest display panel made of people holding adjustable CMY color cards