Have an analog TV? Then bring it to the funeral (I assume you own something black). This particular service will be held at the Berkeley Art Museum, Tuesday, February 17, at 7:00 PM°

They invite you to bring your Analog TV for display; they’ll be stacking the first 40 in memoriam (the remainder will be responsibly recycled). The guests/events at the ceremony include Author & Punisher performing a funeral dirge, Stanford Professor and media scholar Paul Saffo, and author Bruce Sterling who is set “to deliver the eulogy just before the analog signal winks out for the last time and the frequency wasteland is invaded by pirate TV artists. It’s rare that the entire nation gets a specific date on which one major medium dies and is replaced by another. This event will be a scholarly and artistic reflection on the passing of one of the dominant mediums and cultural influences of the late 20th century.”

Show up early and build your own pirate TV transmitters, which may get used for the funeral ceremony. Artists from Neighborhood Public Radio will teach attendees how to build small low-wattage analog TV transmitters that can accept input from computers and VCR’s.

Presented by the Long Now Foundation, Berkeley Center for New Media & Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive.

°Congress has debated changing the official date for the switch to digital television; however the event will proceed on Feb. 17 “because we prefer to bury a fresh corpse rather than wait for the walking dead to fall over.” You can also check out the FCC’s official page on the dtv transition with all the details.