Went to the RCA show this morning. good stuff. will go again this afternoon for some more pictures.

Broadcasting House, by Matthew Falla, is a project which came out of a collaboration with Grizedale Arts in the Lake District, UK. It is a small model house that periodically transmits a pirate broadcast over the air to the user’s TV.

Most of the visitors to the Lake District are not interested in the contemporary art and the local and tourist population’s reactions to Grizedale seemed at best apathetic and at worst hostile. However, what visitors seem to like are souvenir models and trinkets. In particular, the small, caricatured houses, exemplified by the company “Lilliput Lane.”

Falla decided to use these objects as a vehicle for Grizedale to reach a much wider (unsuspecting) audience. The models lies dormant for a month after being purchased. It then starts to transmit a short range pirate broadcast, taking over live TV and replacing the regular television broadcast with an alternative, scheduled broadcast.