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.
Watch This!: Revelations in Media Art, 2015
Watch This!: Revelations in Media Art, 2015
- Title
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Monster Movie
- Artist
- Sound
- Date
- 2005
- Location
- Not on view
- Copyright
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© 2005, Takeshi Murata
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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
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2013.71
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
