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
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

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 (3 items)

Cory Arcangel, Video Painting, 2008, unique VHS tape, color, silent; 120:00 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible through Deaccession Funds, 2010.5, © 2008, Cory Arcangel
Video Painting
Date2008
unique VHS tape, color, silent; 120:00 minutes
Not on view
Cory Arcangel, Beach Boys/Geto Boys, 2004, 4:13 minutes, color, sound, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the Ford Motor Company, 2007.33.5, © 2004 Cory Arcangel. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix, NY
Beach Boys/​Geto Boys
Date2004
4:13 minutes, color, sound
Not on view

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