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Krauss speaks about how the early works of video art are narcissistic in nature. They revolve around the artists and their bodies and the way they move in front of the camera. They shoot themselves, direct themselves, and make art about themselves. This also relates back to art before video where there are artists that […]

“I have been arguing that during the last century in and as cinema and other media technologies, capital, that is, leveraged exchange with productive labor for the purpose of profit, has undergone a metamorphosis” -Jonathan Beller Here Beller makes in interesting point about where the future of the entertainment and art industries are going. They’re […]

This article discusses the types of information we receive and how some could provide us with a whole lot of info like photography and how some force us to go further to find more information like a telephone. The sources that provide with very little information are referred to as “Cold Media”, and the one’s […]

For my final project in NMA 3010, I would like to create a short film that documents a man recalling and reflecting on memories that he has of his past. This will be started by him looking over past home movies on a projector, which will be done either by playing videos on a real […]

The piece by Peter Campus named “Three Transitions” tries to mess with your perception o space. He projects the video of himself going through the projection screen and it creates this weird feeling of disorientation while watching it. You can clearly tell that he’s moving through the screen and it’s a video on the paper, […]

Even though I have seen many exhibitions lately with multiple-screen video installations, Omer Fast has a knack at putting them to good use. I thoroughly enjoyed his exhibition at the James Cohan Gallery. I sat for some time in each of the three separate rooms to watch 5,000 Feet is the Best, Continuity, and Spring. […]

I found Omer Fast’s short film 5,000 Feet Is Best, one of the three films featured in the James Cohan exhibit to be the most fascinating of the three that were featured. I found it to be a very intriguing and intense film that keep me captivated throughout even though it would probably be considered to be fairly […]

What I like in the artist’s work is the camera perspective and the frames. The proportions of the frames were visually pleasing me. For example, in “Continuity” in one scene, the son and the father was walking towards the garage but you could also see the wall behind the corner and the door which was […]

Claire Bishop’s “Digital Divide” resonates greatly with Walter Benjamin’s “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”. She states, “faced with the infinite multiplicity of digital files, the uniqueness of the art object needs to be reasserted in the face of its infinite, uncontrollable dissemination via Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, etc.” Similarly, Benjamin states that while traditional […]