2002, USA, DV, colour, sound, 2 min. 30 sec.
A tape that celebrates consumer media culture as much as it critiques it. As Paper Rad puts it in their parody of a television schedule listing "Episode story summary: Chocofus gets a mysterious video tape in the mail from his cool pals and then something awesome surprise!" [sic]
At once affirmative and critical, the videos of artist collective Paper Rad synthesize popular material from television, video games, and advertising, reprogramming these references with an exuberantly neo-primitivist digital aesthetic. As member Jacob Ciocci writes, "in the '70s and '80s cartoons and consumer electronics were bigger and trashier than ever and freaked kids out... Now these kids are getting older and are freaking everybody else out by using this same throw-away trash."
Electronic Arts Intermix,
New York on-line catalogue