Monster Movie

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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Works by this artist (2 items)

Mildred Williams, Van Cortlandt Park Mansion, n.d., lithograph, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from D.C. Public Library, 1967.72.299
Van Cortlandt Park Mansion
Artist
Daten.d.
lithograph
Not on view
Mildred Williams, Winter, Central Park, 1935-1941, lithograph, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Evander Childs High School, Bronx, New York through the General Services Administration, 1975.83.99
Winter, Central Park
Artist
Date1935-1941
lithograph
Not on view

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