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PloktaTV live between 1 and 5 April 2020</div></header><section class="entry-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><p class="">Let’s return to the golden age of broadcasting, when the medium
really was the message, and the tube was the shining light bringing
households together. To watch events unfold – good, bad, revolutionary.</p><p class="">The festival might have been postponed, but the show must go on!</p><p class="">Today as the pandemic shuts us in our homes, Plokta TV connects works
and creators from around the world, exploring technologies and their
effects on society, for better or worse. This channel rolls on in
synchronicity, just like back when families witnessed the world’s shifts
simultaneously through cathode ray monitors.</p><p class=""><em class="">“In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.”</em> Marshall McLuhan, 1966.</p><p class="">Long gone are the times when media scholars made dramatic claims
about TV, whether as the great democratiser, or the idiot box – the new
collective culture, or the bad omen of the society of the spectacle.
Technology may have moved on, but TV has become yet again a gathering
point with newfound relevance for a time when gatherings are no longer
permitted.</p><p class="">So tune in your dial, and gather round the warm glow of your set.</p><p class="">Stay home. Watch TV. PloktaTV.</p><p class=""><strong class=""><a href="https://plokta.nl/tv" class="">https://plokta.nl/tv</a></strong></p><p class="">Check out the <a href="https://plokta.nl/tvcall" class="">OPEN CALL</a> if you would like to show your work on PloktaTV. Send it in as soon as possible, PloktaTV is almost going live…</p><div class="">Contact: Plokta / Jurian Strik <<a href="mailto:hello@plokta.nl" class="">hello@plokta.nl</a>></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></section></body></html>