Brian Springer (born 1959) is an American

documentarian A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in term ...

and new media artist who works primarily in video, sound, and performance. Springer spent a year searching for footage by intercepting raw network

satellite television Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna comm ...

feeds not intended for public consumption. The result of his research was ''

Spin Spin or spinning most often refers to: * Spinning (textiles), the creation of yarn or thread by twisting fibers together, traditionally by hand spinning * Spin, the rotation of an object around a central axis * Spin (propaganda), an intentionally b ...

''. This 1995 feature-length documentary provides insights into how television is used by the industry and by politicians to mold and distort the American public's view of reality. Springer produced ''Spin'' as a follow-up to ''Feed'' (1992), for which he also provided raw satellite footage. In 2007, Springer released another documentary, ''The Disappointment: Or, The Force of Credulity''. He earned a M.F.A. in art from the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...

and his works have been shown at the

Hammer Museum The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur- ...

in Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum in New York City, the

Institute of Contemporary Arts The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. Located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch, the ICA c ...

in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and

ZKM The ZKM , Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (until March 2016: ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology), a cultural institution, was founded in 1989. and since 1997 is located in a listed industrial building in Karlsruhe, Germany, a former muni ...

in Germany.Brian Springer — V2_Lab for the Unstable Media
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* 1959 births Living people American documentary filmmakers American television directors American film directors American multimedia artists University of California, Santa Barbara alumni {{US-film-director-1950s-stub