ArtBabble: Video Art

Lauren Zoll: Something is

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:52:54 +0000

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Something is features a newly commissioned body of work by Indianapolis-based emerging artist Lauren Zoll that explores the intersections of painting and video. Numerous large-scale paintings, videos, and a collage affixed directly to the gallery wall will form an immersive and variable installation in the Carmen & Mark Holeman Gallery. Something is proposes an open-ended investigation—the title itself is the start of a phrase to be completed by exhibition visitors as they interpret the changing and foreign environment of the installation within the gallery.

Rineke Dijkstra: Almerisa Series

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:09:10 +0000

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
June 29–October 8, 2012

This video focuses on Rineke Dijkstra's series of portraits of Almerisa, whom the artist met as a child in a refugee center for Bosnian asylum seekers in the Netherlands. Dijkstra and Almerisa each describe the experience of taking their first photograph together and discuss how the series has evolved over the course of Almerisa's life as she grows from a young Bosnian girl into a Dutch woman with her own child.

Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:56:57 +0000

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
June 29–October 8, 2012

Aziz + Cucher: Some People Talk

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:57:48 +0000

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Collaborating since 1992, Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher are pioneers in the field of digital photography. Aziz + Cucher have created a new body of work for their immersive video exhibition at the IMA in the McCormack Forefront Galleries. Watch the artists in The Toby as they discuss their work.

Aziz + Cucher: Some People

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:14:52 +0000

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Aziz + Cucher: Some People features a new body of work by the New York-based collaborative of Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher. Working together since 1992, Aziz + Cucher are widely recognized as pioneers in the field of digital imaging. Through the use of digital animation, performance, video, and sound, Some People situates recent and current conflicts into a never-ending narrative that exists outside of a specific place and time. The outbreak of war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006 profoundly affected the artists, who have cultural and familial ties to the area.

The Tool at Hand- Nicola Probert

Chipstone — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:00:31 +0000

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Chipstone: The Tool at Hand

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Chipstone

In the Spring of 2011 the Chipstone Foundation and the Milwaukee Art Museum invited sixteen established artists from Britain and America to participate in an unusual experiment. Each artist was asked to lay aside his or her standard tool kit and craft a work of art with one tool alone. The challenge presented to the artists sounds simple: create a work of art with one tool. The material and tool were left open-ended with the purpose of encouraging creativity within the one-tool constraint.

A Line Describing the Sun

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:24:43 +0000

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Brooklyn-based artist William Lamson (b. 1977) forges a captivating exploration of forces of nature and the passage of time through his inventive, often poetic interventions into natural and man-made environments.

Tommy Hartung's Underground Movies

Art21 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:05:11 +0000

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New York Close Up

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Art21

How little does an artist need in a moving image to tell a story? In this film, artist Tommy Hartung employs minimal means and materials to create animated movies, performing a series of experiments in his basement studio in Ridgewood, Queens. Hartung’s remodeled underground space functions as a workshop—or in the words of a friend, an “arena”—with colored lights, dioramas, and puppet-like characters.

The Making of Yoshua Okón's Octopus

Hammer Museum — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:32:11 +0000

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Hammer Museum

We were invited behind-the-scenes at the shoot for Yoshua Okon's latest video Octopus. The piece, shot on location at a Los Angeles Home Depot store, explores the relationships among Guatemalan day laborers who at home fought on opposite sides of the Guatemalan civil war, yet here in the U.S. are working side-by-side in their efforts to find employment. The work was produced during Okon's residency with the Hammer. He explains more about the work in this video. (Run time: 8 minutes)

Shana Moulton's Portable Performance

Art21 — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:37:16 +0000

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New York Close Up

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Art21

Is being a performance artist just another job? In this film, artist Shana Moulton rehearses and performs Whispering Pines 7 in the exhibition Acting Out at the Bronx River Art Center. In her 14th floor studio at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace, an artist residency program of repurposed offices located in the heart of Wall Street, Moulton gathers up the essential tools of her trade — costume, wig, makeup, DVD — and takes the long uptown subway trip to the Mott Haven section of the Bronx.