The New Museum: Part One, excerpt: 30 sec 2008. Single channel computer animation, 5 min, stereo sound. Music by jpls.
Kurt Schwitters spoke of ‘crystalline palaces of socialism’; what if these places now exist but are instead.... luxury objects. The story: The idea of a building that is a precious jewel-like object constructed by exclusive patrons of society. Avatar artists are drafted in to clean and maintain this great glass icon. A service elevator malfunctions: do they have the chance to finally go right to the top? Shall they crash the party? What horror do they discover instead? Using a language of formally repeating loops and actions 'The New Museum' constructs a conventional cinematic structure out of computer animated fragments. Lo-fi animation techniques assembled in an expressionistic manner retain all the mistakes of rendering resulting in avatars with anxious psychologies – manic and obsessive.
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