Sliding glass doors open onto a raised granite-floored reception area where a large, silent television plays a loop of videos from J recording artists like the rapper Busta Rhymes and the boy band O-Town.
The report conjured images of 8-month-olds strapped into bouncy chairs, forced to watch an endless loop of video flashcards while listening to the tinkling of classical piano.
What is playing on these stations is not a loop of upbeat midi video-game songs or some bombastic score written for the game, but Michael Jackson, Hall and Oates, Cutting Crew and Luther Vandross.
By the end of this elaborate but uninvolving 90-minute production, directed by Bob McGrath and featuring text by Warren Leight ("Side Man"), films by Bill Morrison, projections by Laurie Olinder and sets by Jim Findlay, I felt as if I were trapped in an endless perfume commercial from the 1970s or maybe a loop of Enya music videos from the 1990s.
Since 2010, the 18-floor High Line property in New York City has been using its elevator to screen a continuous loop of videos created by artist/director Marco Brambilla.
"Music/Video" at the Bronx Museum features a room with a loop of 17 short music videos by visual artists accompanied by a pair of outsize, fluffy, super-comfy beanbags.
The edited video shows a loop of Rubio reaching for the small Polar Spring bottle as Mach and Daddy sing "Pásame la botella, voy a beber en nombre de ella" -- "Pass me the bottle, I'm going to drink in her name".
The décor is moody and nostalgic, including a wall-mounted video monitor playing a loop of Cuban travel clips.
The entryway is designed to look as if you are stepping into a yacht; a video monitor plays a loop of what appear to be splashing Mediterranean waves.
Using a loop of footage from Hellicar & Lewis' documentation video of the performance, Le Goff created a software in Processing that would allow him to play every single line of pixels of the video at a slightly different speed.
"I use that footage like a palette of textures and go to work creating a closed loop of a video sketch, then refine it into a motion painting lots of masking," he said.
