Artist Research: Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl is a German filmmaker, visual artist, and writer. She was born in 1966 in Munich. She earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is currently a Professor of New Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts. Steyerl pushes the boundaries of video art while focusing on topics such as militarization, surveillance, and the effect of media on our lives.

I really enjoyed her video installation Factory of the Sun. Viewers sit on lawn chairs while watching a video on a large screen in a room that looks like something out of Tron. "Factory of the Sun uses the motifs of light and acceleration to explore what possibilities are still available for collective resistance when surveillance has become a mundane part of an increasingly virtual world. Factory of the Sun tells the surreal story of workers whose forced moves in a motion capture studio are turned into artificial sunshine."

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Project 1 Artist Statement

Everyone lives somewhere. Whether it is a house, an apartment, a dorm room, or a cardboard box, everyone has some place to go to at the end of the day. This place is familiar. It is reassuring and comforting. This space is so familiar, we often take it for granted. How aware of your surroundings are you? Can you describe your home in detail to someone who has never been there? Would you be able to tell if something in your home was missing or altered? If you could, how would you react? I want to explore these questions with this project. I want to alter the everyday events that occur in a house in order to make people appreciate and be more aware of what they have.

Artist Research: Peter Burr

Peter Burr was born in 1980 in Brooklyn, NY. He specializes in computer animation and creates abstract environments that draw inspiration from the immersive quality of video games. In the past, Burr produced art under the name Hooliganship and created a video label called Cartune Xprez. He has received many grants and awards such as a Guggenheim Fellowship (2018), a Creative Capital Grant (2016), and a Sundance New Frontier Fellowship (2016). He is currently a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for the Arts in Society. Burr's work Cave Exits premiered at Images Festival in 2015. This work plays on the idea of retro dungeon crawler video games. The viewer is surrounded by four screens with constantly changing abstract images and videos. This is a reference to the procedural generation of the levels of those video games. This work has been shown at Fenway Park in Boston, MA; 3-Legged Dog Art & Technology Center in New York, NY; and The Bank Hil

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