{"id":1363,"date":"2021-11-29T11:47:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T11:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2021-11-29T23:27:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T23:27:29","slug":"art-in-america-february-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/2021\/11\/29\/art-in-america-february-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Art in America February 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Art in America February 1997<\/strong><br><em>Digital Video,&nbsp;720p<\/em> 5min<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ArtInAmericaFeb1997_sm.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This body of digital work uses the magazine\u00a0<em>Art in America<\/em>\u00a0as its starting point.\u00a0 This publication was the definitive guide to contemporary art in America in its time.\u00a0 It could make or break an emerging artist\u2019s career with just a few words.\u00a0 The writers, curators, academics, and editors who wrote for this publication were the gatekeepers of the art world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They would attempt to translate the rich and diverse works made by artists into a string of words that would often obscure, obfuscate, and sometimes completely miss the universal meaning in the works they were expounding upon. More often than not, an article would weave together muddled thoughts based on the critic\u2019s past experiences with a resulting article that was intentionally convoluted and mind-numbingly indirect. This product narcissistically showcased the writer\u2019s ability to turn the act of writing into a new form of \u201cart\u201d (or some type of word salad).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This series uses the magazine itself as the foundation for a new digital work of art.\u00a0 The pages are systematically scanned at a very high resolution and cropped. The tens of thousands of images are then sequenced in series and played back in time at 24 frames per second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every single inch of the magazine is put on display during the ~5 minute video, so the essence of the publication persists while its writing is no longer legible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This work calls attention to the unfair power structures in the world of contemporary art and shows that even the most powerful of gatekeepers will eventually lose their grasp on power given enough time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"781\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/A1g-zedDlDL-781x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/A1g-zedDlDL-781x1024.jpg 781w, https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/A1g-zedDlDL-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/A1g-zedDlDL-768x1007.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/A1g-zedDlDL-1172x1536.jpg 1172w, https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/A1g-zedDlDL.jpg 1953w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those purchasing the NFT will also get a signed copy of the actual magazine used to create the work along with a link to a full-sized high resolution digital file of the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art in America February 1997Digital Video,&nbsp;720p 5min This body of digital work uses the magazine\u00a0Art in America\u00a0as its starting point.\u00a0 This publication was the definitive guide to contemporary art in America in its time.\u00a0 It could make or break an emerging artist\u2019s career with just a few words.\u00a0 The writers, curators, academics, and editors who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfts","post_format-post-format-gallery","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianfaur.com\/NewSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}