Gallery: Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden Wilhelmstraße 15, Wiesbaden, Germany Artist:
Britta Thie
The fact that we can immerse ourselves in the fictional worlds of television series at any time reflects an immense logistical effort. These streams encompass server farms through which the huge amounts of data for streaming flow, the actors in front of the camera, the make-up artists who apply their ‘faces’, the designers and costume personnel who clothe the perfomers, the directors plotting scenes, the camera operators who interpret the dir...
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The fact that we can immerse ourselves in the fictional worlds of television series at any time reflects an immense logistical effort. These streams encompass server farms through which the huge amounts of data for streaming flow, the actors in front of the camera, the make-up artists who apply their ‘faces’, the designers and costume personnel who clothe the perfomers, the directors plotting scenes, the camera operators who interpret the directors’ commands, sound engineers who carefully follow the actors with boom mics. An entire solar system of different professions and devices buzzes around the action before the camera broadcasts the result to our screens. Standing by are the actors who are not part of the scene as well as other devices awaiting deployment. The artist Britta Thie found herself travelling in this galaxy of labour as an actor while filming a series in Budapest. While she was waiting for her scenes, her gaze wandered over the array of camera carts, headlights, and audio ports populating the set.
