I recommend watching this with headphones (louder!)!

Render of part one of the Collapse of PAL (Eulogy, Obsequies and Requiem for the blue plains of phosphor).
As performed at TV-TV on the 25th of May 2010, Copenhagen, DK.
The video work is based on analogue signal, compressions, glitches and feedback artifacts in sound and video.

For this part of the 30 minutes video, I used a NES, some image bending and a broken photo camera (CCD chip is loose) &&. For the sound I used a cracklebox, feedback, a telephone and a couple of DV-compressed videobends.

In "The Collapse of PAL" (Eulogy, Obsequies and Requiem for the planes of blue phosphor), the Angel of History (as described by Walter Benjamin) reflects on the PAL signal and its termination. She concludes that in the end, the signal still exists as a trace left upon the newer "better" technologies. PAL can, even though the technology is terminated, be found here, as a historical form that newer technologies inherited and appropriated.
The Angel also realizes that the new technologies that have taken over PAL are differently yet similarly flawed as PAL.

In memory of PAL
shout outs to Secam and NTSC!