Carriage Trade's exhibition On Television "reveals the continuity of mass media’s societal influence across ever shifting platforms, technologies, and devices, where 'updates' in technology are not necessary accompanied by more progressive considerations of the public, and seductions of future technological promise can often mask the agendas of powerful interests whose influence might be presumed to be a thing of the past. Incorporating photography, film, video, and sculpture, the artwork in On Television employs humor, irony, critical distance, and direct engagement as a means of revealing the seductive power of the televised image and its profound effects in (re)shaping our world."

Peter Scott, artist, writer, and director of Carriage Trade was joined by Anjali Khosla, Assistant Professor of Journalism + Design at The New School to discuss the exhibition and consider this moment, where broadcast television is being phased out (Gretchen Benders’ TV Text and Image incorporates live TV broadcasts) as the broad societal effects of social media and AI are just beginning to be known. 

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