INPUT / … / … / Tempo: Is television fast enough?

'Speed is the triumph of efect over cause, the triumph of instantaneity over time as depth, the triumph of the surface and pure and objectality over the profundity of desire... Triump of forgetting over memory, an uncultivated, amnesic intoxication.' ('America,' Jean Baudrillard) Is a clever choice of media, images or content sufficient? 'Blow them away' with an arsenal of cinematic firepower or 'Kill them softly' with aesthetic and exotics characters? Three very different programs that create an argument about which direction we may be going. As competition scalates between the entertaiment media in our homes, television must devise new ways to 'intoxicate' the viewers, keep them tuned in and away from their internet, computers games, DVDs and Play Station. Zap! Glicht! On!