Naftaztec TV
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Outtakes of the actual live satellite transmission of Guillermo Gómez-Peña's pirate TV broadcast "El Naftazteca: Cyber-Aztec TV for 2000 AD."
This live satellite transmission, interrupting the nightly news in an act of guerrilla television, presented the artist as a post-NAFTA Cyber-Aztec pirate who commandeered a commercial TV signal from his underground "Vato bunker," where virtual reality meets border art in a collage of footage ranging from home movies, excerpts of earlier Gómez-Peña performances, Mexican "B" movies, etc.
Radical politics, autobiographical material, "reverse anthropology" and parodic traces of traditional media broadcasts comprise the content of this legendary video art piece; its finished product was later distributed by Video Data Bank.
[Source: Hemispheric Institute Video Library Collection]
Outtakes of the actual live satellite transmission of Guillermo Gómez-Peña's pirate TV broadcast "El Naftazteca: Cyber-Aztec TV for 2000 AD."
This live satellite transmission, interrupting the nightly news in an act of guerrilla television, presented the artist as a post-NAFTA Cyber-Aztec pirate who commandeered a commercial TV signal from his underground "Vato bunker," where virtual reality meets border art in a collage of footage ranging from home movies, excerpts of earlier Gómez-Peña performances, Mexican "B" movies, etc.
Radical politics, autobiographical material, "reverse anthropology" and parodic traces of traditional media broadcasts comprise the content of this legendary video art piece; its finished product was later distributed by Video Data Bank.
[Source: Hemispheric Institute Video Library Collection]
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