Michael Robinson, video still, These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us, 2011. Single-channel digital video projection, color, sound; running time: 13 min. Courtesy of the artist and © the artist.
Michael Robinson, Cory Arcangel, Natalie Bookchin, Christian Marclay
MASHup: New Video Art
What do you get when you combine a maudlin scene from Little House on the Prairie with the Thompson Twins’s 1980s pop hit Hold Me Now? A mashup. A mashup recombines elements of two or more pre-existing songs or videos, usually by two different artists. Of course, mashing-up artwork is nothing new. Dadaists, and later beat generation authors, introduced […]
Feb 9 - May 19, 2013
What do you get when you combine a maudlin scene from Little House on the Prairie with the Thompson Twins’s 1980s pop hit Hold Me Now?
A mashup.
A mashup recombines elements of two or more pre-existing songs or videos, usually by two different artists. Of course, mashing-up artwork is nothing new. Dadaists, and later beat generation authors, introduced cutting up, i.e. combining non-related texts and rearranging them to create a new work. Today’s mash-ups mirror the ubiquity of popular culture, internet and memetics of the hive-mind. Artists Cory Arcangel, Natalie Bookchin, Christian Marclay and Michael Robinson’s artworks pay homage to mass media: film, music, television and YouTube videos.
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