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Brett Favre's record of endurance is legendary. As quarterback of the Green Bay Packers he has started every game from 1991 to the present, an unprecedented accomplishment in football history. The concept of the Favre Era Cyclorama calls attention to a profound shared experience that has emerged parallel to his continuous game streak. Technology has made it possible for a community of poeple in Wisconsin, and throughout the world, to participate in Favre's ongoing career by experiencing the games not only in stadiums, but also on the radio, over the internet, and particularly through local and satellite television. This is an experience unique to our time, an ongoing event captured in minute detail and beamed around the world. The Favre Era Cyclorama is composed of a 360-degree bank of television screens, one television for each game of his career. The configuration of televisions, stacked 16-feet high, creates a large circular space, which surrounds the viewer. The audience ascends a ramp or staircase and enters the Cyclorama through a passageway in the floor. The installation of over 200 televisions may be experienced in silence, or with audio content for each of the games, which is available through a wireless headset and keypad. The video content is the complete original broadcast of every game in Favre's careerone game per screen. Because it includes every second of every game, rather than simply highlights or only the best games, the Favre Cyclorama is a time capsule of popular culture and sports history from 1991 to the present. Through the inclusion of commercials the video content reflects the passage of time, evidenced by changing fads and fashions while Favre's participation in the sport is constant. Television editing, commentary, and advertising, all createand constantly reaffirma mythology about the sports hero by framing their careers in terms of winning moments, celebrity status, scandals, and lucrative contracts and endorsements. The Favre Era Cyclorama on one hand embraces the spectacle of sports, and on the other offers something different: a catalogue of every momentwinning, losing, thrilling, mundane, embarrassing or legendary. In the Cyclorama, each game holds equal weight and serves as a building block, both literally and visually, in Brett Favre's career and a televsion spectacle many fans have experienced. |
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