NOTO uses television as formal camouflage and uses the symbolic operational mode of the medium. NOTO is introduced as a label and through the use of a TV station icon: camera and microphone create real fiction. The question examines, in 1998, a current politically relevant topic: Austria's NATO entry.

Interviews with the "public" question visitors to certain places: C1 is an interview recorded in the Viennese town center (St. Stephan's square), V1 stands for visitors of the exhibition "War of Extermination" in Salzburg and D2 is the tape where visitors of the Diagonal 98 in Graz were asked questions about the NATO entry in an EN passant fashion.

The respective groups of interviewees are not subject to cognitive representation criteria of the respective places of interview, rather arbitrary poetic criteria of most diverse types. Helbock's goal is the coverage of a "social opinion" contrasting the alleged politic listlessness of the late 90's with a concentrated diversity of opinions, seemingly not impressed by political discussions in the media in 1998. (Suess)

Exhibitions

Info War, 1998

Ars Electronica Center, Linz (OÖ), Austria

Videopräsentation: NOTO, 1998

Diagonale, Graz (ST), Austria

translocation (new) media/art, 1999

Generali Foundation, Wien, Austria

Specifications

15min 30sec stereo color PAL

Technical protocol

VHS (recording); Betacam SP (master)

Produced together with

Markus Lobner (camera, editing); Heimo Schedl (assistance)

Post production

Basis Wien

Sponsorship

Bundeskuratorin für Kunst Lioba Reddeker; Ars Electronica, Linz

Edition

Basis Wien

Copyright

Christian Helbock

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