TESTCARD was a programme of artists moving-image that takes the format of a 24-hour TV variety show which included a combination of live and pre-recorded material to draw on the history of radical and public broadcasting, open publishing and transmission. The first TESTCARD event took the model of mid-late 1990’s and early 2000s popular TV variety programmes like ‘MTV’, ‘Diggit’, ‘TV with Ray Cathode’ and ‘Live and Kicking’, to create a single streamed event that counters the culture of on demand content and engaged in the history of artists' DIY broadcasting and transmission projects including TVX/London Art Lab, Paper Tiger TV,  Radio Anti and Convex TV.

TESTCARD was developed by Nastassja Simensky and Anneke Kampman, and made possible with support from LAHP, Primary, Jim Brouwer, Nicolas Helm-Grovas, Hugh Nicholson, Sophia Simensky and Alison Lloyd.

SCHEDULE


SATURDAY 24 SEPTEMBER

TESTCARD
02:00 / TV TESTCARD / Reactor

EARLY MORNING SHORTS
08:00 / Language as Meta-Technology / Disinformation
08.05 / Yoga 4 the Eyes / Cóilín O'Connell, Michelle Doyle and Eva Richardson McCrea  with Jenne Moore
08.30 / Concrete / SSTV / Nastassja Simensky
08.50 / Ph03nix Rising - The 3rd Son / Larry Achiampong

CHATSHOW
09:00 / The Fire Sermon / Sophia Simensky & Leslie Lawrence

DAYTIME TV
09:20 / CHOP CHOP CHOP TWO:The Classy Cutter with Kiwi Fruit / Frank Abbott
09:22 / CHOP CHOP CHOP THREE:The Super Shred 2000 with Carrot / Frank Abbott
09:25 / CHOP CHOP CHOP FOUR: The Egg Slice and and the Spong Bean Slicer / Frank Abbott
09:26 / CHOP CHOP CHOP FIVE: The Silver Star Fruit Parer with Pear and Apple / Frank Abbott
09:29 / CHOP CHOP CHOP SIX: The Rotato and Potato / Frank Abbott

AD-BREAK
09.30 / How Artists Live I / Hugh Nicholson
09:35 / Mini-break: One and Two / Susan Finlay
09:40 / Animation Monster / David Steans

MID MORNING SHORTS
09:45 / Snow Painting /  Vaishali Prazmari
10:45 / Mini-break: Three and Four / Susan Finlay
10:50 / Never Leave the Fruit / Sooyon Kim
10:56 / Humber Bridge / Roger Suckling
11:16 / A Shorthand for Violence / Katie Hare
11:24 / The Silver Star and Rotato/ Frank Abbott

TESTCARD
11:32 / TV TESTCARD / Reactor

CHATSHOW
12:30 / Esther Leslie & Sam Dolbear in conversation with Nicholas Helm-Grovas

LUNCHBOX SHORTS
13:30 / Mini-break: One to Eight / Susan Finlay
13:33  / The Extra's Ever-Moving Lips / Lucy Clout
13:39 / Humber Bridge / Roger Suckling
14:00 / Tips for Flourishing / In the Night Garden / A New Low / Eleanor Morgan

AD-BREAK
14:03 / Objektophilia / Susan Finlay
14:06 / How Artists Live II / Hugh Nicholson
14:09 / Yoga 4 the Eyes / Cóilín O'Connell, Michelle Doyle & Eva Richardson McCrea with Jenne Moore

INTERLUDE
14:35 / Coffee Pour Over / Jim Brouwer

AFTERNOON SHORTS
14:40  / Collaborating with Men / The House of the Eight Eyes / Eleanor Morgan
14:50 / Ph03nix Rising - The 3rd Son / Larry Achiampong
14:55 / Dreams of Safety I / Richard Whitby
15:10 / Final Forest / Sahej Rahal
15:20 / 3 Artists On Line In 3 Countries On Slow Scan TV 8.6.80 / Tom Klinkowstein
15:40 / Cooperation, Economy, Industry / Katie Hare

AD-BREAK
15:50 / SSTV  / Nastassja Simensky
16:00 / How Artists Live III / Hugh Nicholson

AFTERNOON SHORTS
16:03 / Listening to the Repairing Peat Gullies and Ourselves / Alison Lloyd
16:04 / Odysseus and Westfield/ Mike Brooks
16:35 / Minibreak: Seven and Eight / Susan Finlay
16:10 / Yellow Grass / Ash Reid
16:15 / Huddle and Clutch / Pete Ellis & Tom Harris
16:21 / Smile / Geraldine Snell
16:30 /Repairing Dry Stone Byre Malacleit North Uist September 2022 / Neil Davidson
16:50 / SSTV  / Nastassja Simensky

MUSIC SHOW
17:00 / From the Score Cupboard with Primary Music Group / Rebecca Lee, Frank Abbott & the Primary Music Group

DUSK SCREENING
17:30 / Boiled Dry / James Patrick Cox
17:52 / The Nightwatch / Francis Alÿs

COOKING SHOW
17:58 / Housewives Making Drugs / Mary Maggic

EVENING SHORTS
18:16 / Language as Meta-Technology / Disinformation
18:22 / As it Got Dark it Got Heavier / Katie Hare
18:45 / The Extra's Ever-Moving Lips / Lucy Clout
18:53 / Dead the Ends / Benedict Seymour
20:43 / Listening to the Repairing Peat Gullies and Ourselves / Alison Lloyd

AD-BREAK
20:48/ Animation Monster / David Steans
20:53 / Mini-break: One to Eight / Susan Finlay
21:05 / Smile / Geraldine Snell
21:11 / Coffee Pour Over / Jim Brouwer

MUSIC SHOW
21:16 / Riddles on Backstreet / Hardeep Pandhal
21:21 / LCTR N VRTHING / Benedict Drew [Courtesy of the artist and Matts Gallery]
21:31 / Sardonic Harmony / Hardeep Pandhal
21:36 / Science and Technology / Anneke Kampman
21:40 / Language as Meta-Technology / Disinformation

AD-BREAK
21:44 / Sleeping Lions / Anneke Kampman
21:47 / Technology Transformation / Dara Birnbaum

CHATSHOW
21:50 / Fear Death by Water / Sophia Simensky & Leslie Lawrence

LATE NIGHT
22:05 / Rishi Rich / Hardeep Pandhal
22.10 / Dreams of Safety II / Richard Whitby
22:25 / Madness Remixed / Rhea Storr
22:36/ Deep Love Sales : Bubbles of Time X Drop a Winner / Korallia Stergides
22.50 / Envisage / Benedict Drew [Courtesy of the artist and Matts Gallery]
22:54 / From the Score Cupboard with Primary Music Group / Rebecca Lee, Frank Abbott & the Primary Music Group
23:35 / Concrete / Nastassja Simensky
23:42 / Listening to the Repairing Peat Gullies and Ourselves / Alison Lloyd
23.43 / Sardonic Harmony / Hardeep Pandhal
23:46 / Objektophilia / Susan Finlay

SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER

TESTCARD
00:00 / TV TESTCARD / Reactor / 2022