ILUVU.TV an online persona project that poked fun at Celebrity, New Age movements, TV Nostalgia and Pop Media Culture at large.
Visitors are encouraged to visit the holographic online presence of the Oracle and receive wisdom channeled from tv shows. Or visitors can fill out a personality profile in order to be in the running to be the next TVOracle. After filling out the form they receive a personality profile via e-mail based on certain character archetypes: The Island Dreamer, Deep Sea Thinker, Puppy Lover, Fire Starter, Hidden Hero. Contestants are included online as well in order for visitors to vote on a winner.
http://www.iluvu.tv
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More about the project can be found here: http://www.studiomagik.com/2012/?p=107 or http://magma.name or http://iluvu.tv/about.htm
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- Year Created: 2004
- Submitted to ArtBase: Sunday Aug 4th, 2013
- Original Url: http://www.iluvu.tv/
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Work Credits:
- margaretpenney, primary creator
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Here is an excerpt from the original press release:
ILUVU.TV LAUNCHES FIRST INTERNET TELEVISION ORACLE
In a World Without Television There Is No Hope
New York, NY January 1, 2004 — ILUVU.TV launches the first ever Internet-based television channeling prophet, the TVORACLE. Similar to the Oracle at Delphi, who delivered cryptic prophecies to the Greeks through the pungent fumes at the Great Temple of Apollo, the TVOracle divines messages for the people through tv sitcoms, news broadcasts, and talk shows.
In a semi-lucid Wellbutrin-enhanced state, the TVOracle is able to channel tv messages with amazing personal accuracy and acute vision. How she does this is through a combination of methodologies involving her blue-blocking wrap-around shades and the ILUVU.TV proprietary technique called Th(m)eme Mapping, which uses the remote control as a tool for harnessing the meta stories inside the television set, channeling, as it were, the samples of wisdom between the tv scan lines.
Online divinations have begun! So don’t delay in receiving your own personal reading. In these confusing and conflicted media-driven times, don’t U feel U need a little personal TV guidance?
