Telegeneric Realities
With Telegeneric Realities, Ken Feinstein addresses the issue of how television news uses its own set of compositional conventions. His collages are culled from news broadcasts available in Singapore. Primarily, Asia News Network, the BBC and CCTV from China. In combining images from these various sources, he is bringing to the fore how similar the compositions actually are. We accept conventionality in the creation of fiction work such as situation comedies or police procedural dramas, but ignore them in non-fiction settings. This series of works brings these conventions and the meanings found within them to the public’s attention