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In collaboration with Mai 36 Galerie and Esther Schipper, Mitchell- Innes & Nash presents General Idea’s Test Pattern: T.V. Dinner Plates from the Miss General Idea Pavillion, 1988, which features three gigantic banks of surveillance monitors, each composed of 144 porcelain plates printed with the SMPTE color bars in television test patterns. Building on the collective’s 1979 video piece Test Tube, a parodic yet prescient meditation on the collapse and intermingling of popular and high culture through the mass media, Test Pattern employs the form of the television screen to comment on the …