A TV station is forming around downloadable art
NIGHT EYE TV's guide-book pages sketch the model: short-form programming that advertises experimental works you buy, download, and run.
Before it has a website, NIGHT EYE TV has a TV guide. The upcoming platform has spent the last few weeks introducing itself through the NIGHT EYE TV GUIDE BOOK, square pages set in a serif over lobby-wallpaper diamonds, and through a featured-contributor slot: alpha_rats first, then Vinny Roca, and—in the reel that crossed my feed—pickpanpuck.
The site will run short-form content that advertises contributors' larger works, which will be available for purchase and download. That is, more or less, what broadcast television always was—programming as a shopfront for the thing being sold—except the thing being sold here is experimental art that arrives as a file and runs on your machine. "Experimental art after dark, coming soon," reads an earlier post, and the whole project has that flavor: public-access aesthetics applied to the executable-art space between games and net art.
The infrastructure for this work keeps thickening: last month we covered The Little Database's expansion into a desktop directory. Executable art already has its archives and its directories. Now, apparently, it gets a television station.
Guide-book pages and featured-contributor spotlights for alpha_rats and Vinny Roca. Via NIGHT EYE TV.
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