Tag: Video Art
Artists Eva and Franco Mattes have just launched a new project crowdsourcing a massive body of performance video work. There are several online services where you can pay people to do things on camera. Some of them aren’t even erotic. And now, it’s art. For project BEFNOED, the creative duo pays webcam workers to perform specific actions. The “Balaklava Snacks” series […]
Artist Jon Rafman’s video A Man Digging uses video captured inside Max Payne 3, the notoriously experiential killing-based video game, and reworks it into a short film. In it, Payne, the troubled and traumatized former NYPD detective, now a vigilante São Paulo, realizes he exists, but exists in a designed and very limited space. He narrates various scenes, just after carnage. “Payne […]
Artist Stuart Atteberry remixed a selection of Mondrian and Rothko paintings using Gimp and GlitchSort, reorganizing the pixels by brightness and then animating the sorting, so they “cascade dreamily.” Artist Kim Asendorf coined the term “pixel sorting” for this type of algorithmic image manipulation process in 2010. Atteberry explains the very basic idea behind his project: “Many old artists helped to push humanity along the […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Eva Papamargariti – architecture and time-based media artist currently based in Greece — presents her digital video RandomAccessData, influenced by radical utopian groups of the ’60s, post-internet art theory, Isaac Asimov and “minimalist in a rapper’s body” Kanye West. The idea […]
“If you are not familiar with noise as an art form — it’s a different way of appreciating and creating sound, with a decidedly idiosyncratic hands-on approach, often leading to unique and profound results,” Bob Bellerue explains on the Ende Tymes IV Festival of Noise and Experimental Liberation IndieGoGo campaign page. The venue/artist studio complex Silent Barn is hosting the third […]
The art fairs are upon us! Follow ANIMAL as we stumble strategically through most of most of them. Next up, The Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair, a favorite. That gyrating form above is a low-res gif version of Rollin Leonard’s new video installation. Now imagine looking down at it in 4K Ultra High-definition. To create the moving image, Leonard built […]
Video art is a fairly overlooked medium. Collectors don’t collect it very much and museums hide it in their archives. These days getting people to recognize net art and animated GIFs as legit seems like a bigger challenge, but it was video art that helped lay the groundwork for those platforms and it has never really […]
Earlier today, Nadya Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and others were brutally attacked by Cossacks in Sochi, 20 miles from the Olympic Park, while performing a Pussy Riot action. The Cossacks are part of Sochi’s internal security force, beefed up for the Olympics. Shortly after, the IOC denied violations of the Olympic Charter as it was a “local” Sochi issue […]
Ubu Web, the massive, Kenneth Goldsmith-helmed database of avant-garde art, can be difficult to dive into. That’s why Marie von Heyl and Joao Flux created Ubu Roulette, a site that randomly selects one of the many video artworks hosted on Ubu and plays it back for you. “Organize your own Ubu Roulette party…random art is a […]
On January 28, Miles Pflanz will be holding a retrospective screening of his 2013 films at Silent Barn. Pflanz — founder of the now defunct Fitness Center for Arts and Tactics — is a video and performance artist based in Brooklyn. His non-narrative films are documents of “public provocations, the aimless rage of youth counter […]
