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Exploring Early Computer Art, 1950-1980
Mark Wilson, “Untitled Gray Ground & Untitled Light Gray Ground” (1973) (click to enlarge)Personal computing may have begun in the 1980s but the history of computer art started much earlier during...
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Does Cao Fei’s “Rabid Dogs” (2002) Age Well?
Cao Fei, “Rabid Dogs” (2002). Single channel video, sound, 8 minutes. Asia Society, NY: Promised Gift of Harold and Ruth Newman. (Image courtesy artist & Lombard-Freid Projects, NY)An image from...
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Paying Attention at Moving Image 2011
The entrance to Moving Image (all photos by author)The first thing that I noticed about Moving Image, an art fair based entirely around video works, was the relative calm. Gone were the crowds, gone...
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Video Art as a Multivalent Medium
Nayda Collazo-Llorens, “Unfolding the Triangle (NYC)” (2011) (all photos by author)Video art is still in the process of establishing itself. Despite the fact that art has been created through the...
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Why Are So Many Museums Buying Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”?
Christian Marclay's “The Clock” (2010) (image via folksonomy.co)Geoff Edgers reports that the Boston MFA is buying Christian Marclay’s epic movie mash-up “The Clock” (2010) (recently on view in NYC)...
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Nam June Paik’s “Electronic Space Opera #1”
It seems fitting to kick off our Videodrome day of art videos with one from Nam June Paik, an early video artist from Korea whose multimedia sculptures and installations challenged the boundaries of...
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Cory Arcangel’s Surrealist Super Mario
New media and internet artist Cory Arcangel often appropriates artifacts from earlier digital times for his artwork. In a series of videos, Arcangel hacks cartridges of the original Nintendo game Super...
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General Idea Tells You to Shut the Fuck Up
There’s something about General Idea that always felt ahead of its time. Videos like “Shut the Fuck Up” (1984) foreshadows the mashup culture of today but with a decidedly anti-establishment feel, even...
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Ryan Trecartin Makes a Movie Trailer
Still from Trecartin's “ANY EVER” trailer (capture by author)In advance of Ryan Trecartin’s upcoming exhibition at PS1, the artist has released a trailer teaser to get us all excited for a new batch of...
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Walking Into the Matrix on Park Avenue
A Ryoji Ikeda poster at the Armory (all photos by author)Entering Japanese artist/composer Ryoji Ikeda’s new installation “the transfinite,” which is currently showing at the Park Avenue Armory, feels...
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Standard Video Art at The Standard Hotel
StandART opening at The Standard Hotel (all photos by author)If you happen to stay at one of Andre Balazs’s Standard Hotels, you may notice that the televisions aren’t exactly playing standard...
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Narration Is The Devil: Ryan Trecartin’s Any Ever @ PS1
Global Korea, the jet-setting corporate diva from K-CoreaINC.K (section a) (captured by author)Discussion of Ryan Trecartin’s work usually brims with a recurring set of buzz words: nonlinear,...
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The Father of 视频艺术
A still from Zhang Peili's "30x30" (1991). Latex gloves feature prominently in much of his work. Image courtesy Minsheng Art Museum.Zhang Peili (张培力), frequently dubbed the father of Chinese video art...
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Proenza Schouler Meets Harmony Korine with Questionable Results (And Possibly...
What happens when the suave gentlemen of the New York-based womenswear and accessories brand Proenza Schouler cross paths with the provocative trash-humping auteur Harmony Korine? This shit,...
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Convulse: Exploring the Healing Powers of Shaking
A still from Diana Heise's video "Commands" (2010)…good chemistry, good common man, what Of that angelic sword? Creature of Ten times ten times dynamite, Convulsive Angel, convulsive shatterer,… Still,...
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The Fine Line Between Sexy and Sickness
Images from Monet Clark's "Poisoning/Phoenix Performance Document" (2001/2007) (Photo courtesy of Krowswork)SAN FRANCISCO — Monet Clark’s current exhibition at Krowswork Gallery in Oakland, California...
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Scripted Wars, Towers of Power
Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander, and David Thorne, “9 Scripts from a Nation at War” (2007): details: “Veteran: I am thinking I should put on my uniform” (left); “Source: I...
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Mark Boulos at MoMA: “All that Is Solid Melts into Air”
Mark Boulos, “All that Is Solid Melts into Air” (2008). All photos by the author.Mark Boulos’ two-projector video installation at MoMA, “All that Is Solid Melts into Air” (2008), is a chilling...
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Sympathy for the Devil
Claudia Joskowicz, “Round and Round and Consumed by Fire” (2009), video still (all images courtesy the artist unless otherwise noted)Claudia Joskowicz is the master of the tracking shot. In her video...
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Gauging the Hollowness of Computer Graphics Through Video and Poetry
Still from Ed Atkins’s “Warm, Warm, Warm Spring Mouth” (2013) (Image courtesy MoMA PS1)To pin meanings onto British artist Ed Atkins’s semi-narrative video works is a difficult assignment. Throughout...
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