Max Headroom

I was stalking Ms.Stratford's twitter account and noticed her icon was of her impression of Max Headroom. When I looked it up on youtube, I noticed while it was accurate for the aesthetic I was researching, it also included makeshift effects by having someone rotate metal in the background. Which looked like a special effect in the youtube thumbnail. Regardless the guerrilla attitude of the footage combined with the 80s aesthetic probably influenced Telefantasy's videos.

Max Headroom is originally an AI created as a tv host. And he would have a distorted voice, and would be accompanied by flashy motion graphics in the background. The entire Max Headroom tv series was on around the late 1980s, and has this interesting avant garde  edge to it.

Looking at this made me think that if I observed the influences more, I could connect the studio's videos to its influences which were essentially influenced by their machines, since video synthesizers and video feedback art was not necessarily a popular medium. (But was rapidly getting popular once the 80s hit)

Max Headroom Clip

Max Headroom Incident (Pirating Incident)