A team of media archaeologists discover an abandoned television network on the desert and excavate to find out why. Questions of media representation are raised at each level of the glass, metal and electronic disassembly.
Did footage from (Erla Glesby's) Studio A: "represent the surrounding multi-culture or a shape-shifting mono-culture?" Did (John Grove's) Studio B: showing someone selling television door to door and later, diving down a sales graph, reveal a more or "less than neutral broadcast environment?"
Complex network and cultural values begin to unfold. Had TV's vast image manipulation technology, featured in (Ron Gorsline's) Studio C, corrupted inter-network communication? Had specialists behind (Susan Barton Tait's) control panel biased programming toward one segment of the multi-culture, undercutting the network's over-all market share? Or did one department appropriate income and bleed others dry?
Questions of how and to whose benefit the network ran day-to-day combine for a general meditation on TV culture as an ethical and technological environment.