I've been waiting for this website for years. Stills do nothing to convey the nature of a moving image work. And while, for example, one of Alex Monteith's elaborately choreographed multi-channel works doesn't feel anywhere near the same on my laptop screen as it did in the gallery space, being able to re-watch and pass the work on to others is wonderful.
There are about 40 artists and a couple of hundred works on the site now, with more to come. I have to say, I'd love to see the rights to the Len Lye archive negotiated in such a way that his moving image works could be mixed in here - it feels right, somehow.
In the meantime, a few picks:
Steve Carr’s ‘Dive Pool’
Steve Carr’s ‘Tyson’
Steve Carr's 'Burn-out'
Alex Monteith’s ‘Composition with RNZAF Red Checkers’
Alex Monteith’s ‘Composition with RNZAF 3 Squadron Exercise Blackbird for three-channel video installation’
Daniel von Sturmer’s ‘Materials from another medium (Sequence Two)'
3 comments:
I was looking forward to this site when I first heard about it, but I think that conceptually it's a mess. It reads like a film person's take on art, never a happy ending where those extremely different sensibilities meet.
Hey Courtney, thanks for the kind words - Len Lye study page on the way!
Interesting comment James... do you think the two worlds are mutually exclusive? How could the site be better shaped?
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