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Portland blog takes note of Broadcast

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    Dara Birnbaum, Hostage, 1994. Six-channel color video with six-channel stereo sound, interactive laser, four Plexiglas shields, and metal ceiling mounts.

A local blog that offers a guide to Portland’s art events and exhibitions discusses the Hoffman Gallery fall exhibition, Broadcast. The blogger writes, “The collection covers the late era of mass broadcast media, repurposed by artists. Radio and broadcast media receivers have achieved nearly 100% penetration in American homes, but it is the end of their era.”