VSSTV - Very Slow Scan Television

Gebhard Sengmuller (A).

VSSTV uses broadcasts from the historic public domain TV system --available anytime over freely accessible frequencies-- and regular bubble wrap to construct an analogous system in which the packing material works as the aperture mask.

A plotter-like device fills a sheet of bubble wrap with pigments in the 3 primary CRT colors (red, blue, green), turning them into pixels on the VSSTV "screen". Observed from a distance, the cluster of pixels/bubbles will merge into the transmitted image.

A patient observer can witness the extremely slow transformation of the "blank" bubble wrap into an image over the course of 10 hours.