Duplicate Content splices 1960s video art with today’s TikToks
Irish artist Niall de Buitléar’s eight-minute found-footage piece Duplicate Content splices video art from the mid-1960s through mid-1970s together with recent social-media clips — most of them, in his words, “people alone in a room filming themselves performing for the camera.”
De Buitléar notes that early video artists “frequently asked the question ‘w…
