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Art and Art History Student Work
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Work Title (display):
GIF GIF GIF
Image Title:
installation view; reanimated GIFs
Work Description:
Artist Statement: re-Animated GIF’s: Installation for 2 16mm film loops. Artist statement: "The GIF's novelty is by virtue of its deficiency. Because the GIF was invented for small bandwidth networks, it cannot accurately render color or smooth shapes. This produces an image that is heavily pixelated and brightly saturated. This inability of representation reveals the pictures condition of being and this revelation of its image-ness breaks our suspension of dis-belief in the reality and objectivity of the image. These glitches constantly remind us of the act of looking itself. Like the whir of a projector, these glitches point our awareness towards the mechanics of the cinema: the screen and its ability to feign motion. It is the technology, not the image that serves as proxy for the act of perception itself, hence the impulse to name a genre "philosophical toys". This simulated condition between the still and the moving, along with the technology that makes it possible, is the source of fascination in the GIF. / Elaborating on "that which fascinates", the GIF bears historical similarities to the technologies of early cinema in that it is an exhibition format arising concurrently with new technological innovations -- digital computing and mechanical reproduction respectively -- which because of their newness are seen as novel and interesting in and of themselves. Tom Gunning holds that early cinema, operated as "a way of presenting a series of views to an audience, fascinating because of their illusory power (whether the realistic illusion of motion offered to the first audiences by Lumiere, or the magical illusion concocted by Melies), and exoticism." / Eric Stewart is a multi media artist working predominantly with 16mm film. His practice uses photochemical and darkroom processes to investigate landscape, place and, cultural identity in the American West."
Work Dates (display):
2016
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Eric Stewart (American, born 1985)
Work Creator gender:
male
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Work Creator notes (display):
Written thesis: https://aahvrc.colo
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
MFA 2016, Art and Art History
Work Creator memberOf:
Film (IMAP) student, Art and Art History, CU Boulder
Work Creator memberOf notes:
IMAP: Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices
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culture
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identity
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installations (visual works)
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installations (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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films (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
films
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films
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Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
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Work Material and Technique (display):
16mm film, projectors
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
University of Colorado, Boulder. Art Museum
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
exhibition
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Boulder, Colorado
Image Source Reproduction refid:
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Image Rights (display):
© Eric Stewart
Work Rights (display):
© Eric Stewart
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Holding Institution:
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Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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