New Media Art Videos

216 prepared dc-motors / filler wire 1.0mm (2009, 10 MB, 36 sec.) by Swiss artist Zimoun.

Colorado (2008, 93 MB, 8:41 min) Massif (2009, 142 MB, 110:13 min) Continuing a line of thought, of work, which seemed to begin with his 2007 piece A Rough Mix Rick Silva creates two new pieces in the wholly original style he has forged over the past few years. (Contemplate those last words it s a rare claim to be able to make) The two big themes seem to be landscape/environment various remixing practices ( of which Silva, of course, under various pseudonyms, is a we-are-not-worthy master). Thre s a lot of greatly well-intentioned and almost equally dull environmental art around, it being so zeitgeisty and all, but if this is how is could be I want more. Big downloads but, even if you re on a slowish connection, well worth the wait. (The movies here are obviously compressed reduced in size -I would love to see them full on in a gallery context!)

Author: lilyhonglei Keywords: lily&honglei new-media-art Second-life-art contemporary-art Added: November 8, 2009

my great movie #1 (2007, 12 MB, 56 sec.) By Chris Collins.

The Yes Men Fix The World (2009, 37 MB, 2:30 min) Coming to theaters in October, The Yes Men Fix The World. They have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate. Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits, the Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in ever more extreme ways basically doing everything that they can to wake up their audiences to the danger of letting greed run our world. More vids here and here.

Gas Zappers (2007, 61 MB, 5:45 min) “My friend Gemma advises me to create a video in order to design the game characters and figure out how the game should go so I did it. The video is done and I would love to show it to all of you guys but it all of a sudden got in the 2008 Sundance Film Festival so unfortunately I cannot show you now due to the contract. Please wait a bit. Synopsis Gas Zappers is a short animation about climate change. The main character, the ironically overappropriated and fuzzy polar bear, abruptly finds itself in a position to save its home living environment through dextrous maneuvers in an Al-e Gore-ical world. The idiom of the video game is exploited to challenge and illuminate the simplistic notion of quick fixes to environmental issues. Aesthetically, graphical and musical styles from the glory days of video games conjure the triumph and delight of virtual success. As the bear progresses with celebrity companions through different climate change scenarios such as Venice underwater, confrontations with bulldozers, and anthropomorphized killer oil derricks, it narrowly succeeds each time thanks to its renewable energy defenses. A narrative unfolds that, like the artists’ previous works, waggishly interrogates the spectacular mode of ecological policy. By Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung. Music by Noah Vawter.

Woodworms I (2009, 8 MB, 26 sec.) Wind Styrofoam I (2009, 10 MB, 29 sec.) A couple of installations by Swiss artist Zimoun. Woodworms I is a sound installation based on live sounds of woodworms. In Wind Styrofoam I, 5 stations generate unpredictable movements of Styrofoam balls.

Gold Medal Match (2009, 58.5MB 1:32 min) Original editorial