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Tetsuo Mizuno
Japanese, born 1948
1984
A compact 1984 video in which Tetsuo Mizuno layers domestic moving-image footage with comic-style graphics and analog glitches to unsettle everyday narrative and probe how images create meaning.
A small square of countryside—curving train tracks, houses, telephone poles and hanging laundry—floats in a wide black frame, its colors edged with purple noise and punctuated by a manga-like speech bubble so the ordinary scene feels theatrically fragmented.
Working at the intersection of consumer videotape and manga visual language, Mizuno used distortions and graphic overlays to question television’s authority and prefigure later multimedia, appropriation, and remix practices in contemporary art.
Medium
Video (color, sound)
Dimensions
8:15 min.
Classification
Department
Accession
520.1986
Palette
Exhibitions
