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About the artists and works
Cory Arcangel/Beige
Cory Arcangel works with early computers and video game systems. He is best
known for his Nintendo game cartridge hacks, and his subversive reworking
of obsolete computer systems of the 1970s and Ô80s, such as the Commodore
64. Arcangel often works with art collective/record label Beige, an ensemble
of artists and programmers who work in digital media, including video, Web
projects, and albums of electronic music. The Making of Super Mario
Clouds documents the construction of his video game cartridge piece,
Super Mario Clouds, in which he hacked a "Mario Brothers" cartridge,
erasing everything but the clouds.
Cheryl Donegan
Cheryl Donegan defines a generation of artists, many of whom are women,
who engage in a new conceptual art practice. Her work integrates the time-based,
gestural forms of performance and video with forms such as painting, drawing,
and installation. Provocative and irreverent, her video works put investigate
issues relating to gender, art-making, and pop culture. In Channeling,
Donegan juxtaposes psychedelic restagings of an Ann-Margret scene from The
Who's rock opera Tommy, to explore how media cannibalizes, revises, and
resurrects itself.
Ken Jacobs
Ken Jacobs is an essential figure in the history of American avant-garde
film. A leader in cinematic experimentation since the late 1950s, he explores
the mechanics of the moving image. Jacobs investigates the cinematic experience
in its entirety, from production to projection. Focusing in recent years
on electronic media, his new works explore video technology and the digital
image. Tom Tom Chaser is JacobsÕ silent, poetic riff on the transformation
of his classic film Tom Tom the PiperÕs Son from chemical to electronic
form during the telecine process.
Kristin Lucas
Kristin Lucas is one of a new generation of young artists working in video,
installation, performance, and interactive Web projects. Constructing virtual
relationships with computers, television, and electronic media, her work
explores the isolation and alienation of contemporary culture. Celebrations
for Breaking Routine is an alternative to corporate music videos that
mass-market young female musicians. Lucas documents girl bands in Liverpool
recording original songs about the future, commissioned by the artist. These
collaborations resulted in alternative visions of female empowerment and
identity in a media-driven culture.
Tony Oursler
Tony Oursler's video and multimedia works take the form of an expressionistic
theater that is singular in contemporary art. His psychodramatic landscapes
are fabricated from the ironic vernacular of pop culture and the detritus
and artifacts of mass culture. Oursler's Synesthesia project features
interviews with legendary figures in the downtown underground music, performance
and art scenes, from pre-punk innovators to post-punk icons. Here he interviews
Kim Gordon, co-founder of the innovative rock band Sonic Youth, artist and
cultural critic Dan Graham, and Genesis P-Orridge, performance artist and
founder of the seminal industrial band Throbbing Gristle.
Paper Rad
Artist collective Paper Rad synthesizes popular material from television,
video games, and advertising, reprogramming these references with an exuberantly
neo-primitivist digital aesthetic. As member Jacob Ciocci writes, "In the
'70s and '80s cartoons and consumer electronics were bigger and trashier
than ever and freaked kids out... Now these kids are getting older and are
freaking everybody else out by using this same throw-away trash." Tux
Dog, which began as a cartoon character drawn by a Paper Rad member
as a child, is an open source Web project hosted by EAI.
Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist burst onto the art scene with visually lush installations,
performances and video works that explore female sexuality and media culture
in tense remixes of fantasy and the everyday. In the 1980s and Ô90s, Rist
made a series of tapes in which she subverted the form of the music video
to explore the female voice and body in pop cultural representations. Merging
music, electronic manipulation and performance, these works draw on RistÕs
background with the Swiss rock group "Les Reines Prochaines."
Stan VanDerBeek
A pioneer in the development of experimental film and live-action animation
techniques, Stan VanDerBeek was a visionary of avant-garde and expanded
cinema. Advocating a utopian fusion of art and technology, he produced theatrical,
multimedia experiments that included projection systems, dance, planetarium
events and the exploration of early computer graphics and image-processing
systems. Visibles is a collection of VanDerBeek's seminal film
works, from his early surrealist collage animation to his utopian experiments
in expanded cinema.
About EAI
Founded in 1971, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is one of the worldÕs leading nonprofit resources for video art and interactive media. As a pioneer and advocate of the media arts and artists, EAI's core program is the international distribution of a major collection of new and historical media works by artists. EAIÕs leadership position in the media arts extends to our preservation program, viewing access, educational services, online resources, exhibitions and events. The Online Catalogue provides a comprehensive resource on the 175 artists and 3,000 works in the EAI collection, including artists' biographies, descriptions of works, QuickTime excerpts, research materials, Web projects, and online ordering.http://www.eai.org
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