Vito Acconci - Isaac Cordova

I've always wondered if our entire existence is sitting on some alien's science project that he got a C on.
It's clear by now that Vito Acconci is an out of the box thinker. The idea that "we are led to believe" that the world is in our hands sends chills down my spine! Saying television aggressively "implants" images in our brains is true, but is for some reason a hard pill to swallow. I would disagree with the notion that we are the screen. It is more of a visual penetration than a collaborative process.
Because I feel TVs have preceeded my time, I'm forced to agree that a TV is furniture. Perhaps my experience in advertising prevents me from viewing TVs as sculptures, since to me they are nothing more than outdated symbols of capitalist innovation in entertainment.

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