Data, digital, and web art have inherited the tendency to demystify, détourne, and decode their medium’s dominion. The studied and stunning videos by the media-art duo Semiconductor observe a more optimistic bargain between information…
Shot length studies—the methodical statistical breakdown of entire films by the duration between cuts—are nothing new. But what was once painstakingly gleaned through the cranks of a Steenbeck is now done with mouse clicks and recorded online.
For a while now the focus of Site Specifics has been the cinematic enterprises and varied modes of moving image that are somehow indebted to, born from, or entirely made possible by the potentialities of this Internet thing. This…
Last issue we saw the fine art of theatrical trailers given due respect at Trailers From Hell. We now turn our browsers to another unsung craft-within-the-craft: the opening credit sequence. ArtoftheTitle.com has been reclaiming the grandeur of the textual…
Mutant spawn of multimedia artist Ryan Trecartin and Tumblr founder David Karp, riverofthe.net is a living collage and a strange new species of found-footage détournement. Consisting of little more than a forever-reloading splash page, the site is a randomly…
Brainchild of Casey Pugh, the crowdsourced masterpiece that is StarWarsUncut was realized with the help of a handful of developers and designers and hundreds of fanatical contributors. Pugh’s team parceled the original 121 minutes of “A New Hope” into…
