#pxl-2000

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Fisher Price PXL-2000 (1987)

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Fisher Price PXL-2000 (1987)

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PIXELVISION: THE AFFINITIES WITH THE LOW-RES MATERIALITY OF THE WORLD

full article at -  http://desistfilm.com/pixelvision-the-affinities-with-the-low-res-materiality-of-the-world/

In the history of American alternative media, independent (or experimental) film & video-makers have been materializing their audiovisual language and forms in an uneasy relationship with mainstream media’s narrative and aesthetic conventions of reinforcing the sense of the reality built upon the dominant measures of seeing the world. Far beyond the mere inclusion of the sensorially distorting or semiotically elliptical sequences within the more accepted format and grammar, these artists endeavored to cast the alternative figures, sensations, tales, and documents of the world by turning to the format of medium itself and its materiality to challenge the ways of sensing the surface encircling the world that we believe to live in. In this vein, they were attracted also to low-resolution mediums – “poor mediums,” so to speak – such as Super 8, Pixelvision, ASCII, and VinylVideo that are no longer produced due to their technological inferiority for the commercial standards of taxonomizing and mapping the world. Pixelvision or the PXL 2000, initially conceived as children’s toy camcorder in 1987 by Fisher-Price Toy Company, was discontinued three years later for its unattractively noisy output due to its recording mediums: a myopic plastic camera and a regular audio cassette tape. However, some risk-taking independent artists in the ’90s tested this failed tool and utilized the unfashionably compressed, sandy, colorless imagery in hopes of attenuating the privileged realism of up-to-date media, concerning how media archives the portrayal and cartography of the world.

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The Art of Pixelvision - Underground Archives Volume 1 

https://archive.org/details/artofpixelvision

"The Art of Pixelvision" is an anthology that showcases videos created with the infamous discounted toy camera, PXL-2000. Originally developed in 1987 for children, it was swiftly pulled from the market due to lack of consumer interest, but years later artists began using the format to create experimental films. The camera is like no other, generating a creepy, lo-res, slow-motion type movement with plenty of drop-out and a disturbing, abstract effect. These cameras have become extremely difficult to find, and are thought to be close to extinction.

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I still want a PXL-2000

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“I’d like to blab a while about my duties on this Earth.”

Philosopher’s Union Member’s Mouthpiece: Emma Elizabeth Downing

Shot by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE with a PXL-2000 camera