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MTV's Buzz: fantastically forward-thinking TV from 1990 - Boing Boing
by Decius at 5:39 pm EST, Nov 19, 2009 |
In 1990, MTV aired a groundbreaking TV documentary series called Buzz. Created and directed by Mark Pellington (Mothman Prophecies, Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" video) in partnership with MTV Europe, Buzz was a fantastic experiment in non-linearity and cut-up that drew heavily from -- and presented -- avant-garde art, underground cinema, early cyberpunk, industrial culture, appropriation/sampling, and postmodern literature. Experientially, it feels like what Mondo 2000 would have looked like as a television show, and in fact Mondo founder RU Sirius was interviewed on the first episode. Other notable contributors/subjects included William S. Burroughs, Jenny Holzer, Genesis P-Orridge, Syd Mead, and many other happy mutants.
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MTV's Buzz: fantastically forward-thinking TV from 1990
by noteworthy at 6:43 pm EST, Nov 19, 2009 |
David Pescovitz: In 1990, MTV aired a groundbreaking TV documentary series called Buzz, a fantastic experiment in non-linearity and cut-up that drew heavily from -- and presented -- avant-garde art, underground cinema, early cyberpunk, industrial culture, appropriation/sampling, and postmodern literature.
Jonathan Lethem: Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. Neurological study has lately shown that memory, imagination, and consciousness itself is stitched, quilted, pastiched. If we cut-and-paste our selves, might we not forgive it of our artworks?
Louis Menand: Authenticity is a snark -- although someone will always go hunting for it.
David Thomson: It is not that life imitates art, but that it is all art, all fictional as much as documentary, and it is cinema once any lens -- in camera or eye -- notices it.
Matt Knox: If you can cut it up into small enough pieces, you can get people to do almost anything.
Jim Jarmusch: Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.
Jean-Luc Godard: It's not where you take things from -- it's where you take them to.
Matt Jones: Get excited and make things.
Lawrence Lessig: By embracing "read-write culture," which allows its users to create art as readily as they consume it, we can ensure that creators get the support -- artistic, commercial, and ethical -- that they deserve and need.
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