Tag: museum of the moving image
On Friday, the Museum of The Moving Image begins a new 17-film retrospective on famed cinematographer Gordon Willis, the Astoria native who created the look for some of the most iconic films of the 1970s. Willis passed last May due to cancer. Speaking to ANIMAL about the retrospective, a part of the Museum’s “See it […]
“Video games exhibits kind of suck if you can’t actually play the games. That’s core to putting them in a show,” Associate Curator of Digital Media Jason Eppink tells ANIMAL. All of the “Indie Essentials: 25 Must-Play Video Games,” now on view at the Museum of the Moving Image, are playable and we played most of them, before dashing […]
Jeff Thompson has seen more Law & Order than you. In fact, the digital artist has seen all 456 episodes of the original, non-SVU or –CI version of the show, and while watching, he took a screenshot of every computer that appears onscreen. He’ll present his findings in Computers on Law & Order, a Rhizome-funded talk at the Museum of the […]
It seems once an element of pop culture is aged enough, curators deem it worthy of the museum. In 2010, Seattle Art Museum mounted “Kurt,” a completely serious exhibition on “Seattle’s greatest cultural export,” Kurt Cobain. Last week, Pac-Man and other arcade games opened at the MoMA. It’s been over a decade since MTV stopped […]
Artist Evan Roth has love for the GIF. Here’s his set of ten new One Gif Compositions, all created from single vintage GIF from the Heather’s Animations archive, chronicling early GIFs from as far back as 1999. You can see A Tribute To Heather in the lobby of the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, through June 30. They’re so pretty. […]
Yes, that lamp has DEER HOOF FEET. No, that’s not Twin Peaks. Remember Aram Bartholl’s digital art glory hole at the Museum of Moving Image in Queens? Volume 5 in launching today! Through March 14, bring your blank dvd to the DVD Dead Drop and it shall spit out the Best of Fach & Asendorf Gallery of net art, compiled by […]
