San Diego artist and filmmaker Paul Giret creates art installation, TV Monster

Paul Giret's explanation of the project:

I built a TV Monster that stands 11 feet high and incorporates 15 TVs that are displayed in a cross like fashion and run off 8 DVD Players all playing 45 Minute psychedelic Mix Tapes that I created myself by downloading videos from the Internet and messing with them inside of Pinnacle Studio and burning them onto looping DVDs.

The TV Monster made it all the way up to the La Jolla Indian Reservation and stood all Three Days of the event, however, it shorted out after only 3 hours of playtime in a blaze of gray smoke due to a lack of power being provided to the Monster. 8 out of the 12 TVs are now toast, leaving me with a new game plan and 12 months to prepare more psychedelic mix tapes (as opposed to the 2 weeks i was given to prepare for this event) so I can make the TV MONSTER even better for the Next Burning Man Decompression.

The concept for the project was to take as many images and videos from the internet and throw them into an overwhelming video display in order to give the viewer the feeling of confusion. Too much going on at one time. I took many clips from popular sharing video websites and added visual effects to them. I also transposed like videos together.

Some videos were purposely sequenced together and others were put in a completely random order. All 8 DVDs were almost completely different so that no matter what screen you were watching, something different was on display.

Art's two cents: The "feeling of confusion" the TV Monster communicated relies on fair use under copyright law. In this case, the videos have been transformed for the purpose of the artist communicating confusion rather than their original entertainment value.

See Paul's video creations on his YouTube Channel

Attendees enjoying Paul's art project

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