They used some Richie Hawtin in that episode too - I think Psyk or one of those postmodern vampire movie theme-type techno tracks from Artifakts [BC] (this is not a diss on Hawtin at all, but some of his Plastikman stuff can sound so 'bloodless' and frigid in its austerity and starkness, I think of vampires and the walking dead, X-Files stuff). It was an ace programme - you could see the parallels between the music and art. It unwittingly contextualised techno as more than just 'dance' music. It's funny how all those debates in the art world, like 'is he a sell-out?', inevitably also rise in this very forum! It dealt with themes like the commodification of art and how this can be negotiated/subverted by the artists. The surrealist Salvador Dali was featured heavily in that episode, as was that cat Jeff Koons, who does this kitsch and campy stuff - making an art out of cuteness and novelty (he did that giant kitten with daisies back in the 80s), which is very clever. It was also one of the few art series that acknowledged graffiti as art. It infuriated me, but didn't surprise me, when Robert Hughs' series on American art excluded this. Modern Art was intellectual but less elitist as it moved beyond the high/low dichotomy.
>I was watching the final episode "This Is Modern Art: The Shock >Of The Now (Oxford TV/Channel 4) last week on ABC TV (the >Australian ABC not the US one). > >And i the last final minutes of the show when they were talking >about the future of modern art + Jeff MIll's 'i9' - was playing! >very appropriate i thought.. > >anybody else have any anecdotes involving 313 tracks on tv >programs/movies i remember a discussion a while back (like 2 >tyeas ago) about this sort of thing. > >Dave
