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Hypersalon des Refusés -- a thought experiment
This is some kind of Miami, art fair related conspiracy. Knock 'em dead, I guess. But it makes one (me) consider: What would a Hypersalon des Refusés look like?
Who are the artists not being covered by this group?
--bad
--"bad"
--rude
--physically unattractive
--MSPaint
--GIFs not translatable into screen art
--failed Maya experiments
--really skanky found porn
--politics not certifiably left-leaning
--gummy4 (this is just wrong)
--most of dump.fm
There is a niche here waiting to be exploited, if we (I) could only determine how to capitalize on it.
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play (drawing demo video), 2007-2014
Real-time X 9, MSPaintbrush drawing demo video (25 MB .mp4). The screenshot below, of the 900 x 676 vid, is scrunched here to fit a 650 pixel window. The mp4 at the above link is the highest "save-as" quality (there's still a bit of compression/softening but it's pretty sharp).
Actual size detail:
A YouTube version of this was put up by Guthrie in Jan 2007 (thx again) - through no fault of his, the image quality at 640 x 480 is pretty mushy. This may be a blessing to some. After almost 8 years this is now up to 4640 views, 12 upvotes, 2 downvotes, and 4 puzzled comments.
The drawing was based on a painting from 1989, 64 x 54 inches, acrylic and oil on canvas. The atom went missing in the '00s version.
old media roundup
Dinosaur, or soon to be dinosaur, products still being made and/or sold:
National Audio Company - High bias Chrome Plus audio cassette tape -- NAC's "own Audio Pro brand of labeled professional blank cassettes." Company based in Springfield MO that decided to stay in the cassette business and are apparently doing OK. Tapes come in 10-pack boxes. NAC has another version of this high-bias tape that you can print your own labels for, as well as all the supplies needed to print labels and "j-card" sleeves.
TASCAM audio cassette decks. Still being manufactured/sold.
MAM-A Gold CD-R - 650mb White Inkjet, Cake (50). CDs aren't quite as musty as cassettes but clearly on the way out, in favor of USB, or whatever incompatible standard Apple uses (thunderfuck? something like that). I've been mulling over DIY music marketing and bought some of these printable gold discs for prospective buyers -- the inket printing is good and supposedly these will last. Another US (!) company, based in Colorado Springs, CO.
JVC 17" Multi-Format CRT Color HDTV / SDTV Video Editing Monitor (not cheap - $1900) - "ideal for TV producers, broadcasters, & video pro's processing movie stock captured at 24 frames p.s" - a few of these are still being offered for sale new, despite being discontinued by JVC. That company looks to be completely out of the CRT business. LCD and LED etc flatscreens are certainly more convenient but they don't look as good as that ol' TV glow. This was a case of market forces completely overturning aesthetic considerations, with amazing speed.
gif interrogation of the day
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Started the day today with some comments over at ArtFCity.
First off, a reply to the assertion that a gallery using an animated GIF as a teaser for a video artist is an example of "galleries embracing animated GIFs." The subject matter is the vastly overrated Takeshi Murata -- curators seem to love him but what about the rest of us?
A gallery using a GIF to advertise isn't exactly "embracing the animated GIF." Salon 94 seems quite taken with Murata as a full-spectrum digital animation artist with "innovative and evolving processes rang[ing] from intricate hand-drawn animations to installations accenting the defects and broken codes of film, advertising and pop culture." (Always with the codes -- surely that stuff's been thoroughly decoded by now.) GIFs aren't mentioned in the press materials. The GIF you chose here falls more in the category of "clip from longer video" than anything inherently GIF-like. Murata got known in the new media world for his "datamoshing" style glitch art but by the time he appeared in the New Museum's "Free" show, he was doing bulbous Pixar style animation, which, it must [b]e said, was awkwardly paced and kind of terrible. A rubbery-looking werewolf riding a motorcycle through a wind farm isn't something we especially need to see in the gallery environment -- Disney and Dreamworks have this kind of material covered.
Next, some questions about an abstract animation that appears on a Smartphone -- essentially, is this phone art or GIF art and does it matter?
There might be some questions raised here about the relationship of the phone to the animation. Is the phone part of the GIF or is it an arbitrary static frame for the GIF? Is the "slow, methodical perspectival move back and forth in space" related to "swooping" or "swiping" movements on an Apple smartphone? Would it be possible to view this GIF fullscreen on an actual phone and have it look like this (with or without the viewer's hand movement interacting with it)? Or is this a purely fictional superimposing of an abstract GIF animation that could appear on a PC or other device into the familiar narrow, vertical rectangle of the phone? PC GIFs are often landscape because that's the screen orientation; this one is notably vertical -- is this indicative of a future shift in our animation-viewing habits or is it an arbitrary graft? That sort of thing.
top image: screenshot of animated GIF of video by Takeshi Murata
bottom image: screenshot of animated GIF by Kaja Cxzy Anderson/Fly Delta Tumblr