Just in time for tonight’s debate: The Live Remix
We’ve heard enough. That’s why we want – and get – something different from tonight’s final presidential debate.
Sosolimited, three MIT-educated software engineers-slash-culture jammers, will remix the debate using software that allows them to sample and analyze the video, audio, and closed captioned text of the television broadcast. Through a series of visual and sonic transformations they’ll reconstitute the material, revealing linguistic patterns, exposing content and structures, and fundamentally altering the way people watch the debate. Or to put it another way, show the absurdity of it.
The transformed broadcast, called ReConstitution08, is projected onto a movie screen for a seated audience at the Corcoran Galley of Art in Washington.
“It’s about looking at the debate in terms of underlying content, as opposed to the polished image that’s typically coming through your TV,” Sosolimited’s John Rothenberg, 29, told The Washington Post. “It’s about taking away the makeup and showing you the hidden layers.”
Check out Soso’s debatable approach on their video trailers.
