In February of 2009, the US will force a mandatory end to analog television broadcasts, in a regulated move towards digital upgrade. The shift will ultimately generate an enormous amount of e-waste when old monitors are discarded as useless. Portland-based artists,The Video Gentelman, wonder, “What residue, ghost-images, or other artifacts will persist in the nooks and crannies of this technocultural turn-over?” They’ve organized an exhibition, in their city’s New American Art Union, to anticipate the theme of the afterlife of “dead media.” From March 19-April 27, “BYOTV” will be the preemptive channel for “a series of audio-visual works, presentations, performances, workshops, and panels that remix, retell, reimagine, rewire, and/or reclaim electromagnetic modes of cultural production.”