TV made from 625 remote controls

What do you get when you come across 625 remote controls? Nope, not a salvage yard or a creep old guy’s workshop – but an actual operational television set.

Well, that’s the general gist of the latest installation by interactive artist Chris Shen, opening this Thursday at 18 Hewett Street gallery. His piece – INFRA – repurposes 625 old, found, discarded and gifted remote controls to create one corresponding TV set, using complex codes and infrared viewing goggles. This, as far as we know, has (quite understandably) never been done before and certainly makes for some interesting viewing!