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Kota Ezawa: City of Nature

Natalie Saltiel | Fri Apr 15th, 2011 10 a.m.

Kota Ezawa, City of Nature, 2011.

The artist Kota Ezawa meticulously transforms found footage from television, cinema, and art history into simplified two dimensional vector-based animations. In City of Nature, a video commission for Madison Square Art currently installed in Madison Square Park, Ezawa appropriates and deconstructs excerpts from popular films including Jaws, Fitzcarraldo, Deliverance, and Brokeback Mountain. Removing all human presence, Ezawa concentrates on nature as the work's subject, and its relationship with our visual representation of it. Decontextualized and stripped of any narrative content, the film clips are recognizable, yet untraceable, emphasizing the pervasive and subconscious influence of popular visual media on our collective unconscious. The installation of the four screens in the center of the park's natural but constructed environment further accentuates the dichotomy of real and artificial landscapes.

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goodbye farewell .com (2011) - Rafaël Rozendaal

Ceci Moss | Tue Feb 15th, 2011 1 p.m.

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Garbage Flowers (2010) - Tara Sinn

Ceci Moss | Tue Feb 8th, 2011 1 p.m.

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States (2010) - Laurel Schwulst

Ceci Moss | Fri Jan 28th, 2011 12:45 p.m.

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HTML5 and Actionscript experiments by Mr.doob

Ceci Moss | Tue Jan 11th, 2011 noon

Water - 01

Anaglyph Render

Cluttered Desk

Zoom blur - 03

For more, visit Mr.doob.

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into time .com (2010) - Rafaël Rozendaal

Ceci Moss | Tue Dec 14th, 2010 11 a.m.

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Trash Talking (2006) - Paper Rad

Ceci Moss | Thu Nov 4th, 2010 10 a.m.

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Required Reading

Ceci Moss | Mon Nov 1st, 2010 10 a.m.

Angelo Plessas, TheHistoryOfADecadeThatHasNotYetBeenNamed.com (still), 2007

Greek-Italian artist Angelo Plessas’ interactive websites (Angeloplessas.com) integrate elements of drawing, sound, Flash animation and innovative HTML coding. Each of his online two-dimensional “sculptures” is sealed with a domain name that playfully evokes the language of philosophy, literature and drama. Challenging concepts of space and ownership on the Internet, Plessas’ websites are, like graffiti bombed on a public wall, the acts of a guerrilla artist intervening in public space.

Plessas has come a long way since his first and ongoing aesthetic project: documenting face-like compositions he discovers in random configurations of objects and architecture (InternationalPortraitGallery.com). He officially launched his artistic career in 2001 when artist and curator Miltos Manetas selected his work for the Internet-inspired group show Biennale.net at Deitch Projects, New York. Now, the artist is exploring projects that take on a curatorial scope, including the recent one-day video projection extravaganza Bring Your Own Beamer at the Kunsthalle Athena.

With the lines between his online and offline work becoming increasingly blurred, Plessas is evolving in the manner of his medium. As the Internet expands, so does Plessas’ practice, and as the artist matures, perhaps he might shed light on where the Internet might take us. Sitting at his seaside apartment in Athens, Plessas takes me on a journey through his virtual universe, which ultimately leads right back to reality itself…whatever that might be, or could become.

-- FROM THE INTRODUCTION TO "ANGELO PLESSAS: LIFE THROUGH A WEB BROWSER" BY STEPHANIE BAILEY IN ART LIES, ISSUE 67

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