The video installation component of this project is a mixture of CCTV footage as well as simulated news clips and some scripted dialogue sequences. "Gallery Dialogue" refers to a narrative inside META, where the piece is actively involved in describing its present location.
Piece 1 ) Mostly gallery dialogue, at the very end the video glitches displaying the first in gallery crane shot.
Piece 2 ) Gallery dialogue. The last third is a news clip talking about the construction of the spaceship and its journey to the edge of the universe.
Piece 3 ) Gallery dialogue. Half way through the video switches to CCTV footage of a drug deal going down. Someone buying disks.
Piece 4 ) Beginning with gallery dialogue for 1/3. Then CCTV footage of peoples homes during the evening, there is nothing unusual about any of these people. Followed by 2nd crane gallery shot.
Piece 5 ) No gallery dialogue. Beginning with video glitching and going right into news footage discussing the epidemic of digital drugs.
Piece 6 ) Mostly gallery dialogue. The last 1/4 of which is news of the ship being ready for launch.
Piece 7 ) No gallery dialogue. CCTV footage from inside doctors office. Talking to patients about their health. Clearly drug addicts. The last patient leaves, and the doctor begins to dictate notes into the computer.
Piece 8 ) A small amount of gallery dialogue. Then shows inside a factory where Doctors are hooking their patients up to the drug. 3rd gallery crane shot.
Piece 9 ) No gallery dialogue. Shows people on gurneys and two doctors discussing the current impact of the drug, how to make it stronger and more effective. The drug is designed to condition the human brain to make it more compliant and to keep it from deteriorating when the network connection inside those individuals is kept open.
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