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Until Sun Jun 10 ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH Full details & map

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Mark Leckey, still from Felix Gets Broadcasted, 2007 - Courtesy of the artist and Cabinet, London

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This exhibition features work by over 30 artists who have explored both the social and cultural impact (good and ill) of the television set. In the downstairs galleries a row of television sets play a mix of archive artists's videos, while the concourse and upstairs galleries present a broad and, as a whole, contemporary selection of works, such at Hito Steyerl's installation 'Red Alert', (2007), three wall-mounted monitors each playing an image of plain glowing red, which is a pleasing play on both minimalism and danger, especially as the screens emit a faint, but discernable heat. (HS)

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ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

Transport Charing Cross

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020 7930 3647

http://www.ica.org.uk

Exhibitions 11am-6pm Tues-Sun, until 9pm Thu; venue open 11am-11pm Tue-Sun

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By John Black - Feb 15 2012

Preceding 'Remote Control' at the ICA is the exhibition 'End Piece ...' by David Hall at Ambika P3, 16 March - 22 April 2012.
This timely exhibition vividly heralds the end of analogue TV in the UK as London switches to digital on April 18. The exhibition by David Hall, the influential pioneer of video art, features a monumental new commission, together with two restaged early seminal works. The contemporary reworking of one of his major works ‘101 TV sets’ (1975) will form the centrepiece: The new '1001 TV Sets (End Piece)' features 1,001 aging cathode ray tube TV sets filling the massive P3 subterranean space, each tuned to different analogue channels playing a cacophony of electronic signals which gradually reduce between April 4 and 18 as the last analogue signals broadcast from London’s Crystal Palace. When transmission is switched off the multiple sets will emit only terminal audio hiss and a visual sea of white noise.
David Hall was awarded the inaugural Samsung Art+ Lifetime Achievement prize by an international jury in January 2012.
Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS. Wed–Fri, 11am–7pm, Sat–Sun, 12pm–6pm. Tube: Baker Street.