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Guy Dubord – from the society of the spectacle.
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The time of production, commodity-time, is an infinite accumulation of equivalent intervals. It is the abstraction of irreversible time, all of whose segments must prove on the chronometer their merely quantitative equality. This time is in reality exactly what it is in its exchangeable character. In this social domination by commodity-time, "time is everything, man is nothing; he is at most the carcass of time" (Poverty of Philosophy). This is time devalued, the complete inversion of time as "the field of human development."

This project has grown from a meeting between four artist on sunny Sunday afternoon in December 2005 into a very advanced research project with an analyses spanning from internet user tendancies and developments, to contemporary art movements in video, to the research in the limits of what technnology can produce today for video playback and selection. [PAM] originally thought up as a mad video display machine with four curatorial voices has grown to be an entity of her own, whose voice is the bridge between art, technology and new media, a hybrid spectacle of identity and impersonality.