TESTCARD
Sep 24, 2022
TESTCARD
24 SEPTEMBER FROM 02:00(BST) - 25 SEPTEMBER 02:00(BST)
www.t-e-s-t-c-a-r-d.com
TESTCARD was a programme of artists moving-image that takes the format of a 24-hour TV variety show which included a combination of live and pre-recorded material to draw on the history of radical and public broadcasting, open publishing and transmission. The first TESTCARD event took the model of mid-late 1990’s and early 2000s popular TV variety programmes like ‘MTV’, ‘Diggit’, ‘TV with Ray Cathode’ and ‘Live and Kicking’, to create a single streamed event that counters the culture of on demand content and engaged in the history of artists' DIY broadcasting and transmission projects including TVX/London Art Lab, Paper Tiger TV, Radio Anti and Convex TV.
Reactor took the graveyard slot(s) at either end of the broadcast. Viewers could turn on, tune in and drop out with our TV TESTCARD, fall asleep to our soothing tunes, allow the messages to wash over them, and wake up for the punchline!