Frames of Reference
Volume 5 Program 1
Cybernoia

Technology takes a sinister turn in these works, which alternately satirize and comment darkly upon the omnipresence of electronic telecommunications, surveillance video, and broadcast propaganda in contemporary life.


Suicide Box
Bureau of Inverse Technology
13:00  1996
The infomercial-style video Suicide Box by Bureau of Inverse Technology examines the chillingly clinical nature and inescapability of surveillance technologies.


Fresh Kill
Shu Lea Cheang
1:18:41  1994
Shu Lea Cheang's witty narrative Fresh Kill envisions a post-apocalyptic landscape strewn with electronic detritus and suffering the toxic repercussions of mass marketing in a high-tech commodity culture.