For a Time of Staying In, 23 Artworks to See and Hear Online
From essential absurdist sound pieces to screen-scrambling examples of net.art, here are works that can be seen and heard at home.
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Jason Hirata on the Art of Assisting Other Artists
For “Sometimes You’re Both,” I’m showing only videos that I helped make as work for hire. One student asked me if the show was like a demo reel, and I realized it totally is.
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In Ambitious New Book, Curator Barbara London Charts Video Art’s Rise as One of Today’s Dominant Mediums
Her new book historicizes video's first 50 years.
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Identity Binge: How Lex Brown Makes Television
Lex Brown highlights the reductive tendencies of mass media, which project assumed identities back onto us and underscore how, on social media, we are often reduced to types and appropriated for…
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Moving Target
Gretchen Bender likely knew better than anyone that her work would be mostly forgotten with time. Erasure was not just her fate, but her subject.
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Losers and Loss: Video Games at apexart
Nothing in "Dire Jank" could be played forever. The games are short or circular narratives of futility.
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Jonathan Horowitz
Jonathan Horowitz, who was trained in philosophy, often uses witty juxtapositions of appropriated imagery to emphasize the mutual interdependence of politics, entertainment, and consumerism. The…
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Tony Cokes
Art dealer Hannah Hoffman, recently turned the former house of Paul Revere Williams into a temporary exhibition space for a show of five video works by Tony Cokes. The context brought a particular…
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Alejandro Cesarco
Alejandro Cesarco's practice can be characterized as one of active reading, in which annotating, rearranging, translating, interpreting, and reframing existing texts and artworks are treated as…
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Daria Martin
London-based artist and filmmaker Daria Martin took as a starting point the dream diaries kept by her Jewish grandmother Susi Stiassni, whose family fled Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1938, when Stiassni…
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