https://4rt.eu/ch01/index_en.php
2021
Channel 01 is the first algorithmic news channel, based on artificial intelligence. It is the channel of the post-truth, fake news, clickbait, and alternative facts era. Channel 01 offers a fragmented chronicle of mediatised hyperreality, a fractal story with all its multiple variants, all of them feasible, all of them credible. Channel 01 captures, reorganises, and projects a cascade of possible worlds, of alternative, dystopian, dreamlike events, resulting in an uncomfortable portrait, no longer of our reality, but of our fears or desires. In the post-truth era, the media no longer pursue or attempt to reflect reality. Hence, it matters little whether or not what is broadcast is fake news, but rather the level of impact that the broadcast has on the audience. These possible worlds, these alternate, dystopian, dreamlike events, are the ones portrayed or described by Channel 01, with their multiple variants, all of them possible, all of them credible. Channel 01 operates with a new type of automatic writing: the machinic narrative of hyperreality. Paraphrasing Tristan Tzara in the Dada manifesto, we could say that “thought is born in the mouth” and that today, the language of that mouth is the networks.
Gustavo Romano
Argentina
Active since the early nineties, he belongs to the pioneering generation in the experimentation of art on the Internet, from which have emerged, simultaneously in different cities around the world, numerous pioneering initiatives for contemporary art in which he has participated actively. He has received numerous awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Vida Award from the Fundación Telefónica in Spain. Born in Buenos Aires (1958), he has lived and worked in Madrid since 2009.