“In Mark Leckey’s sculpture Inflatable Felix, a thirty-one-foot version of the mischievous cartoon cat sits slumped on the ground of the gallery in a kind of slacker repose. Little did we know that a three-dimensional doll-like version of this cartoon character was the subject of the first experimental television broadcast in 1928. As with all radio and television transmissions, this image of Felix is still travelling through the ether of deep space at the speed of light. It’s for this reason that Leckey has described Felix as a kind of avatar of the modern world, in which images and information are transmitted at a volume and speed that television broadcasting pioneers could not even imagine.” (source: Marciano Art Foundation)
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