‘Noisefields’ exhibited at the National Gallery of Iceland, 2016 (via Tique)

Back in the nineties, before the internet was merely a platform for sharing hate tracts and pictures of your lunch, we cherished utopian dreams about its possibilities. Some people looked forward to a revolution in education, others to radically new forms of storytelling and decentralized systems of government that would put a check on corporate power. I clung to the simple hope that, in the future, every day would bring a fresh opportunity to nuke my central nervous system with megawatts of electronic light and sound.

Steina and Woody Vasulka probably had something else in mind when they created Noisefields in 1974, but for me it represents a technological utopia still to come. Like a video tattva card, its elements are basic shapes and primary colors, gently abraded with TV noise. Its bracing electronic soundtrack, rapidly alternating frames and illusion of indeterminate depth will get your thinking parts’ TILT sign flashing in no time!

Do NOT watch Noisefields if you have photosensitive epilepsy.
 

 
via Reddit