While Ed Atkins's videos play with the dissonance between the very human scenes they depict and their hyperreal computerized rendering, their most striking elements are the monologues he crafts for…
From Hito Steyerl's latest solo show to a 14-and-a-half-hour film, these are the screen-based works that defined this year.
Museums keep taking up the relationship between art and the internet as a theme for group exhibitions, while neglecting to examine it with historical rigor.
Like many of New York’s noteworthy gallerists—think Leo Castelli, or Larry Gagosian—Gavin Brown is a transplant to the city. Brown, who has shown such artists as Piotr Uklański, Urs…
A look at the seventh edition of the annual showcase for video and experimental film
For Nøne Futbol Club‘s Work nº2B: La tonsure (after Marcel Duchamp), 2015, the French artist duo convinced retired soccer star Djibril Cissé, famous online for his coifs—an electric-blue…
“I am the mouth that produces waves,” intones a disembodied pair of lips, half-submerged in a rippling lagoon. “My words are the vibrations that produce waves of pressure and displacement.” When visit…
The Trick Brain, a video by the British artist Ed Atkins, has haunted me since I first saw it at the 2013 Venice Biennale. In it, the camera pans a room packed to the gills with tribal…
They cry, they smoke, they spout poetry