The video content on the internet is expanding enormously every moment. Video makers release their content to public without having much control on them, not like they have done with mass media which provides standards and formats for more control. Sharing on over internet provides variety, not only variety of independent authors but also variety of formats, standards. A video that is shared in one way can get manipulated and can exist in a totally different form somewhere else than the original location. For a video, it is not as easy to modify/collaborate as text based content, nevertheless it is possible and it exists.
ColorTV captures these shared videos and intentionally lowers the size and the color resolution. Videos that are shared by the author are no longer the same, but something else. They become a blurred image, a light source, a momentarily representation in a museum.
In the end, colorTV is a low-res social video visualization device. A device that serves as a medium between the shared videos and the casual watcher. It broadcasts videos from certain feeds in YouTube. Showing YouTube videos in Turkey also contradicts with the official block and it also proves the impossibility of such action.
ColorTV is now exhibited in santralistanbul as part of Uncharted: User Frames in Media Arts exhibition from March 21 to August 16, 2009.
You could contribute to the project by adding videos to colorTV YouTube group. They will be simultaneously shown in the museum.
You could check out www.gokcetaskan.com for more projects.
