The Late Night Triad

Installation view   
Leno still   
Conan still   
Letterman Still   
see also:
amalgamations
film, tv & music
time-based/installation


The Late Night Triad   2003
   Part I: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
   Part II: Late Night with Conan O'Brien
   Part III: Late Show with David Letterman
3 Synced single-channel DVD projections
Running time: 3 min 35 sec looped. Dimensions variable. Ed. 3 + 1 APs.

In this installation, from a broader series begun in 1997, 64 nights' worth of the major US late night talk shows have been aligned and averaged using basic transformations. The result is a triptych of video projections with soundtrack, presenting an amalgamation of monologues which reveals the ghosts of repetitious structure and nightly activity.
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