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General Idea Tells You to Shut the Fuck Up
There’s something about General Idea that always felt ahead of its time. Videos like “Shut the Fuck Up” (1984) foreshadows the mashup culture of today but with a decidedly anti-establishment feel, even though they were obviously designed for the capitalist art market.
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An Idiot’s Guide to the Steins
A YouTube video narrated by the Metropolitan Museum’s associate curator Rebecca Rabinow gives us a quick primer on the Steins, starring Gertrude and Leo. Rabinow tells us the takeaway on one of art history’s greatest collecting families.
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Soviet Celluloid Treasures on YouTube
If you’ve studied the history of cinema than you’ve heard of Mosfilm, the renowned film studio that is reputedly the largest and oldest in Europe. Established in 1923, Mosfilm has been responsible for countless cinematic masterpieces, including many of the films created by masters Sergei Eisenstein and Andrei Tarkovsky. Now, the film studio has placed its historic flicks on YouTube for your viewing pleasure.
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Cory Arcangel’s Surrealist Super Mario
New media and internet artist Cory Arcangel often appropriates artifacts from earlier digital times for his artwork. In a series of videos, Arcangel hacks cartridges of the original Nintendo game Super Mario Bros., twisting the game’s graphics into surreal reinterpretations.
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When Ads Could Be Avant-garde
We often forget that many cutting-edge modern artists found funding and support by making ads. The work of New Zealand avant-garde filmmaker Len Lye is a case in point.
His films, like “Rainbow Dance” (1936) or the beautifully abstract “Colour Flight” (1938), were commissioned as advertisements to be shown at the cinema. The former was created for Post Office Savings Bank and the latter for Imperial Airlines.
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Quayola Fractures a Roman Cathedral
Quayola is a multimedia artist based in London whose hybrid projects blur the line between photography and animation, the digital and the real. In this video, the artist filmed a cathedral in extreme high resolution, then used custom-programmed algorithms to fracture the image.
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Curb Dance with Harmony Korine
Dedicated to legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, Korine’s “Curb Dancing” (2011) video feels like opening a trunk in a strange attic to discover an unfinished short story and a dusty music box.
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Takeshi Murata’s Glitched-Out “Monster Movie”
Artist Takeshi Murata is known for making digital works that at first glance might not look like art at all. His abstract videos take an appropriated source, here, a movie clip of a monster rising out of a pool, and distort it into something almost unrecognizable: a free for all of color, pattern and digital noise.
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Death Cab For Cutie’s “Home Is A Fire” by Shepard Fairey
This video for Death Cab for Cutie’s new song was art directed by Shepard Fairey and reveals a lot of the street art maestro’s touch. The mood of the video is subdued and when explaining the concept for the video on his blog Fairey offers some thoughts about street art in general …
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Nam June Paik’s “Electronic Space Opera #1”
It seems fitting to kick off our Videodrome day of art videos with one from Nam June Paik, an early video artist from Korea whose multimedia sculptures and installations challenged the boundaries of art making in the 60s and 70s. Here, check out Paik’s “Electronic Opera #1”.
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Today on Hyperallergic … Welcome to Videodrome
Today, Hyperallergic will be presenting a series of video clips in something we’re calling Videodrome. Join us for a video journey that will conjure up the bizarre, educational, surreal, manipulative and magical.