Guy Ben-Ner, Berkeley’s Island (still), 1999; single-channel video; 17 minutes; courtesy Postmasters Gallery, New York

Screen Space and the Conviction of “Dick Smart”


Cynthia Chris


On March 31 and again on April 7 of the year 2000, the Grand Rapids, Michigan, public access station known as GRTV (Grand Rapids Television) aired an episode of a show called Tim’s Area of Control in a half-hour time slot beginning at 10:30 p.m. The nonprofit Community Media Center of Grand Rapids operates GRTV on the local Comcast franchise’s channel 25, which then reached about 46,000 cable subscribers.1 The episode of Tim’s Area of Control that aired on those dates was the series’ sixty-eighth episode, and it included a...

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