Panscan TV is my public access cable show. Panscan TV has been on for over 10 years, showing interviews, documentaries, short films, conceptual art projects, coverage of art openings, mail art, performance art and post-Flux related events and other things of interest to me.

It has the distinction of being the only show ever censored on Manhattan Neighborhood Network due to content that was by all accounts, beyond the understanding of the technicians at the station. Many shows are censored by the free-form, ultra-liberal “anything goes” network due to their prurient content-- for legal reasons-- but Panscan TV was the only show on the network ever censored for pushing the limits of what is acceptable television--when I showed, for the entire 28 minute program, an image of an old fashioned analog clock with a rotating second hand (as well as the slower-rotating minute and hour hands, synched with real time). At 59 minutes past the hour, 1 minute before the end of the show, the clock’s alarm was set to go off, giving this particular episode of Panscan TV everything a good television show or film should have: a visual component (rotating second hand) and audio (barely audible hum, leading to the scheduled activiation of the alarm) not to mention the suspense (optional for good viewing) of waiting for the alarm to go off, even thought this planned event would not have been known to the unsuspecting viewer. However, the show was famously removed from live air by an overzealous engineer about halfway through because, according to him, “nothing” was happening. For the reasons mentioned above, I begged to differ with him, called the station and insisted that he put it back on-- which he did. I told him that MNN had a written no censorship policy (except for pornography) and he had just violated it.

Thus, for the past several years, I have used Panscan TV as a completely experimental forum for my video output, broadcasting whatever suits my fancy while describing it mysteriously in the MNN program guide as “Tetragrammatonitic propaganda ecclesiology, metaphysical anti-scatalogical eschatology, phylogenetic systematics, morphogenetic externality, and wacky fun” but between me and you, it is really just an art show starring me as host, sometimes visible, sometimes audible, but usually not.

The motto of the show used to be “The Home of Irritainment” and while the censorship episode above fits into that category, the show is often comedic, clean and comprehensible in every way and only very slightly annoying and even that was not intentional.

In case you were wondering about the arcane description above, please note that Panscan TV is one of the many quadriliteral names of God, composed of five consonants and occuring over 28,561 times in the consonantal text of Panmodernism, sometimes referred to as unvocalized TV since it contains no vowel points other than the alpha and encompasses the study of the theological understanding of the church's role in salvation, its origin, its relationship to the historical messiah, its discipline, its destiny, and its leadership, the study of spirituality as a thing in itself and a part of theology and philosophy concerned with what is believed to be the final events in the history of the world, or the ultimate destiny of humanity, commonly referred to as the end of the world. While in mysticism the phrase refers metaphorically to the end of ordinary reality and reunion with the Divine, in many traditional religions it is taught as an actual future event prophesied in sacred texts or folklore. More broadly, Panscan may encompass related concepts such as the Messiah or Messianic Age, the end time, and the end of days, concerned as it is with the study of evolutionary relatedness among various groups of organisms (e.g., species, populations), which is discovered through molecular sequencing data and morphological data matrices, the physical processes that gives rise to the shape of an organism. It is one of three fundamental aspects of developmental biology along with the control of cell growth and cellular differentiation. In a competitive market, the existence of externalities would mean that either too much or too little of the good would be produced or consumed in terms of overall costs and benefits to society.