VOLKSEMPFÄNGER: ARTWORKS BY dAVID K.: I SEND YOU THIS #E30022

20120321

I SEND YOU THIS #E30022

Hexadecimal re:interpretation of the correspondence between

artists John Berger and John Christie with constructivist

retrogarde flair:

david K

I Send You This #E30022

(after John Berger and John Christie's 'I Send You This Cadmium Red' 2000, and

Lazar Markovich Lissitzky's 'Suprematic Tale about Two Squares' 1920.)

10 x 8 inches

2007

The Volksempfänger ("people's receiver") was a radio receiver developed in 1933 to make radio technology affordable to the general public for propagandistic reasons. Despite the nature of the broadcasts the radio was intended to receive, the evil genius of the device was the efficient nature in which messages could be directly disseminated to the masses. The internet is the modern equivalent of the Volksempfänger - it costs little, it reaches millions of people, and one should be very, very critical of the rubbish emanating from it.