VOLKSEMPFÄNGER: ARTWORKS BY dAVID K.: 2011/04

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LEONARDO CHALLENGE

Photograph from 2010 Berlin series in the

New Haven Eli Whitney Museum

Leonardo Challenge:

cccb|cccp: Berlin Plate Glass

2010

Chromogenic photograph on Fuji Crystal Archive paper

10 x 8 inches

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INTERFACE-GALLERY, HAYAKA ARTI: TÜRKIYE

Selection of abstractive photographs now on view at

INTERFACE-GALLERY

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.