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Pixelator et la pixellisation du street art

Publié le 16 avril 2009 par Jérémy Dumont

A découvrir, "Pixelator",

un projet underground porté par Jason Eppink et Jen Small en collaboration avec la New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority et Clear Channel Communications qui consiste à poser des panneaux quadrillés de 45 pixels sur les écrans publicitaires LED afin de transformer leur message en une oeuvre de pixel art animée. Tous les détails en vidéo dans la suite !

Pixelator

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Pixelator is an unauthorized on-going video art performance collaboration with the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority, Clear Channel Communications, and its selected artists.

Since 2003, the MTA has made available for exhibition purposes 80 LED screens located at subway entrances across New York City. Unfortunately, the high cost of exhibiting (an estimated $274,000 per month per screen) prevents most artists from having access to these facilities. While the MTA's effort to create more opportunities for video art exhibition in public spaces is to be commended, selected works remain wholly fixated on commercial goods and media conglomerate events, a short-sighted curatorial choice that regrettably ignores the full potential of these promising exhibition spaces.

In an attempt to broaden the scope of MTA's video art series, Pixelator takes video pieces currently on display and diffuses them into a pleasant array of 45 blinking, color-changing squares. Since the project is an anonymous collaboration, the resulting video is almost entirely unplanned and unanticipated, with the original artists helping to create new works of art without any knowledge of their participation.

Artist : Jason Eppink with Jen Small
Exhibition Space : NYC MTA and Clear Channel
Videography and Installation Support : Ian Jones-Quartey, Heather Buelow, and Jenna Eppink
sources: TrendsNow
posté par: Floriane
posté sur: création


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