Monster Movie

Copied Takeshi Murata, Monster Movie, 2005, single-channel video, color, sound; 04:19 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2013.71, © 2005, Takeshi Murata

Artwork Details

Title
Monster Movie
Artist
Sound
Plate Tectonics
Date
2005
Location
Not on view
Copyright
© 2005, Takeshi Murata
Credit Line
Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
Mediums
Mediums Description
single-channel video, color, sound; 04:19 minutes
Classifications
Highlights
Object Number
2013.71
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2013.71

Artwork Description

Monster Movie is a mesmerizing digital video projection with an aggressive audio track. Murata sourced video from the 1981 B movie, Caveman and, beginning with a process called datamoshing, mixed the video’s compression into a kind of digital liquid. Murata punched virtual holes through the compressed video file, disrupting the video’s logic and revealing a monster beneath the surface of the image.


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