"Not Channel Zero...offers the most sophisticated and complex reading of the riots and the Holliday videotape to date."
- John Hanhardt, Whitney Museum 1993 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Not Channel Zero encourages viewers to locate and challenge the biases of television and other media.
- Laurie Oullette, Will the Revolution be Televised?
NCZ jars viewers' ordinarily passive acceptance of visual images and challenges them to form their own interpretations and, most important, their own opinions.
- LaRose Parris, American Visions
"An inventive New York media collective with an afrocentric perspective and a refreshing way of combining aesthetic imagination with political savvy."
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
The show has a hyperactive style that often jolts viewers into a stimulative, occasionally witty visual escapade.
- Ray Smith, New York Newsday
