A hanging lightbulb socket suspended from a ceiling is shown from three different viewpoints. Each shot is separated by black. The shadow of the empty lightsocket and the black screen suggest the ‘lightbulb’ of the title is in fact offscreen.
lightbulb (2001)
Other works by Dick Whyte
![John Cage - 4'33" [Removal]](/images/255x165/images/videos/stills/36875732.jpg)
Dick Whyte
John Cage - 4'33" [Removal] (2010)
Whyte references the YouTube copyright algorhythm that seeks to protect authorship from appropriation and reinvention.
Tao Wells / Dick Whyte
The Happy Bene (2011)
A video by Dick Whyte and Tao Wells documenting the installation/performance The Beneficiary's Office (2010).
Dick Whyte
The Ghost in the Machine (Lumiere Super Cinema) (2010)
An experimental film that superimposes seven of Lumiere's first films over top of one another.
![Untitled [Matrix 4 John Whitney]](/images/255x165/images/videos/stills/47830486.jpg)
Dick Whyte
Untitled [Matrix 4 John Whitney] (2010)
A work made from found footage of Atari music videos, combined with slowed down Atari 8-bit music.