Tag: Video Art
Video artist and RISD professor Dennis Hlynsky films birds flying, then composites frames together so that we see their flight paths outlined — kind of like a mouse pointer with trails turned all the way up. The results are quietly gorgeous. According to Hlynsky, the video above, of starlings congregating os some power lines, “gets good […]
YouTube user Omni Verse does the hard work so you don’t have to, compiling every single episode of various cult-classic TV shows into mega-screens so you can watch every episode of, say The Twilight Zone, at the same time. His latest, above, pulls this trick with The A-Team. Omni Verse leaves the audio in place as well, so you’re […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week New York-based artists Mike Bailey-Gates and Claire Christerson share detailed storyboards and lists for their recent video piece The Cherub Garden, inspired by Marie Antoinette and Peter Greenaway. When we thought of this project, we were inspired by our collection […]
Earlier this year, the Shortest Video Art Ever Sold! project at the Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair in New York made a few headlines with the world’s first Vine sale (Shout out Angela Washko!) Ok, so there was a hacking of Vine involved, but the exciting part in the long-run is the ongoing conversation of a micro-collecting community and the work that artists […]
German television station ikono is hosting a twenty-four-hour video art festival, something that hasn’t ever been done before. While this is a completely new idea for a television station, notable video artists such as Bill Viola, Alfredo Jaar, and William Kentridge have already been conformed to be broadcasting their works on television as well as through an online […]
“Media Art is the art of today, the art that people will remember in the future,” director Unpainted Annette Doms tells ARTinfo. In January 2014, Unpainted will become Germany’s first-ever fair for new media and video art and will show “algorithmic plotter-drawings, computer animation, collages, photography, net-art, software art, interactive art, sculpture.” Artist Rafaël Rozendaal is slated to give “an […]
Artist Petra Cortright — along with Peter Gidal, Patricia Lennox-Boyd, Oraib Toukan, and Erika Vogt — has been selected as one this year’s recipients of the Frieze Film Foundation grant curated by Nicola Lees. The artist, whose artwork exists predominantly on YouTube is known for her “videos that intuitively play with online language and tropes, such as the representation […]
“The stairs will be steep and potentially slippery.” “You must be willing to stay for up to 10 hours.” “You will be asked to participate vocally, as well as to take part in some guided movement.” Legendary artist Matthew Barney is filming at the Brooklyn Navy Yard this Saturday, Art F City tells us. here’s still room for a small […]
Many of us remember Dante’s Inferno as a pleasant surprise in an otherwise dreary introductory lit course. Sex? Blood? A torrential downpour of shit? You’ve got my attention, professor! Obscenities aside, though, the first poem of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy continues to grip readers with its timeless relevance as an examination of humanity’s dark side. So it’s […]
Next week, Eyebeam Art+Technology Center — shout out Eyebeam! — will present video_dumbo’s eight annual moving image art festival. The ongoing exhibition will feature work from 106 international contemporary artists, including fourteen video screenings and eight works that make up the concurrent installation — Re-Return to Sender. The collection explores the history and metamorphosis of moving image as an artform, from […]
