Comments on: Why You Should Always Caption Your Photos & Videos Properly http://hyperallergic.com/5895/why-you-should-always-caption-your-photos-videos-properly/ Sensitive to Art and its Discontents Wed, 23 May 2012 01:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Hrag Vartanianhttp://hyperallergic.com/5895/why-you-should-always-caption-your-photos-videos-properly/comment-page-1/#comment-1213 Hrag Vartanian Tue, 04 May 2010 16:26:21 +0000 http://hyperallergic.com/?p=5895#comment-1213 It seems to suggest that there is a bigger audience for some art than artists realize but many are too busy concentrating on galleries and traditional modes of distribution to explore new and exciting possibilities. It seems to suggest that there is a bigger audience for some art than artists realize but many are too busy concentrating on galleries and traditional modes of distribution to explore new and exciting possibilities.

]]> By: Mores McWreathhttp://hyperallergic.com/5895/why-you-should-always-caption-your-photos-videos-properly/comment-page-1/#comment-1212 Mores McWreath Tue, 04 May 2010 15:51:55 +0000 http://hyperallergic.com/?p=5895#comment-1212 This is really interesting. I used to work for Kent Gallery where Leandro used to show and I've helped move and install his work. He's a great guy and I'm glad to see this work getting a larger audience. It's a real crowd-pleaser of a piece and a lot of his work deals with this kind of perceptual play. 6 Million views is huge considering that even the most popular video art pieces on YT have well under 1 million (I'm pointing to Tom Rubnitz's Pickle Surprise here). This really does show you that the right labeling (or wrong labeling) can help catapult an artwork into public view. At the very least they're seeing a document of the original work. Usually you see an artist getting "referenced" in a commercial clip or ad and that's just some art director freely "borrowing" ideas (the Honda commercial that copied Fischli and Weiss's The Way Things Go or the floating plastic bag scene from American Beauty that is clearly taken from Jem Cohen's Lost Book Found). It does take posts like this though to connect the artist with his work but I guess that's just how it goes with the internet. This is really interesting. I used to work for Kent Gallery where Leandro used to show and I’ve helped move and install his work. He’s a great guy and I’m glad to see this work getting a larger audience. It’s a real crowd-pleaser of a piece and a lot of his work deals with this kind of perceptual play. 6 Million views is huge considering that even the most popular video art pieces on YT have well under 1 million (I’m pointing to Tom Rubnitz’s Pickle Surprise here). This really does show you that the right labeling (or wrong labeling) can help catapult an artwork into public view. At the very least they’re seeing a document of the original work. Usually you see an artist getting “referenced” in a commercial clip or ad and that’s just some art director freely “borrowing” ideas (the Honda commercial that copied Fischli and Weiss’s The Way Things Go or the floating plastic bag scene from American Beauty that is clearly taken from Jem Cohen’s Lost Book Found).

It does take posts like this though to connect the artist with his work but I guess that’s just how it goes with the internet.

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