Spin Cycle is a large-scale video work composed from hundreds of hours of time-lapse cable news footage. Presented as a wall of images and sound, the piece surrounds the viewer with an endless cycle of screens that power on, broadcast, and then fade back into darkness. The perpetual switching on and off becomes a choreography of attention, an architecture of media designed to hold the gaze even as its content evaporates.
The work reflects on the saturation of contemporary news and the collapse of distinction between information, entertainment, and spectacle. In compressing hours of broadcast into accelerated sequences, Spin Cycle exposes the mechanics of repetition, interruption, and distraction that govern the circulation of news. What emerges is not clarity but noise, not meaning but pattern — a visual and sonic residue of a system that thrives on overexposure.
At its core, the piece meditates on the attention economy, where visibility itself becomes currency and where endless streams of mediated content compete for duration in the viewer’s eye and ear. In this cycle of perpetual switching, nothing is allowed to rest, and nothing is allowed to endure.