Click Click Click
Click Click Click
Click. Click. Click. Copy. Paste. Drag. Drop. These are the new gestures of digital image making. Click Click Click is a survey of contemporary digital moving image practices that span GIFs, augmented performances, green screen keying, collage, appropriation, Processing, 3D renders and more.
Artists: Morehshin Allahyari, Claudia Bitran, Hannah Black, Gaby Cepeda and Adriana Minoliti, Jennifer Chan, Jennie Cole, Claire Evans, Dafna Ganani, Geraldine Juárez, Nicole Killian, Rachel Maclean, Claudia Maté, Jillian Mayer, Raquel Meyers, Lorna Mills, Eva Papamargariti, Sabrina Ratté, Erica Scourti, Tessa Siddle, V5MT, Giselle Zatonyl
Nicole Killian, Move It, 2013, 30 sec.
Move It is an excerpt from an ongoing investigation into getting the crowd pumped up and moving.
Lorna Mills, Jump Rope, 2011, GIF
Lorna Mills channels and trolls the internet through her assemblage GIFs. Searching the far reaching corners of the world wide web, Mills pulls out the most peculiar, inane, and baffling imagery and then recontextualizes it into her own carefully crafted compositions.
Claudia Bitran, The Zone: Action, 2013, 3:17 min
The Zone is a series of three trailers for movies that do not exist: a Korean horror film, a Latino action film, and a French drama film. In the Latino action trailer, I perform as Macarena de las Heras, a strong and determined woman who has to go through different adventures in order to enter “The Zone.” She rides motorcycles, fights gangsters, tries to get information from the gatas, and shoots guns while running through the desert and making out with hot guys.
Gaby Cepeda and Adriana Minoliti, Conspirativas (series), 2013, GIF
These collaborative images capture an intersection between the artists’ loving interrogations of celebrity culture (Cepeda) and pornography (Minoliti). The result is an image that tackles female sexuality in its vicissitudes.
Claudia Maté, Fill Shapes, 2012, 1:54 min.
Fill Shapes uses Processing and After Effects to make squares and circles dance across the screen in this brightly colored geometric fantasy.
V5MT, ARXITEKTON (series), 2013, GIFs
ARXITEKTON is inspired by architectural design and old school computer graphics and games design. The concept is to mix together the two opposing styles: 8-bit graphics aesthetic with 3D design, and retro computer graphics with contemporary techniques and trends. The result is a series of graphic, yet three-dimensional forms, resembling architectural blueprints, 80s computer games and children’s books illustrations—animated and presented in the mesh background.
Eva Papamargariti, RandomAccessData, 2014, 4:50 min.
RandomAccessData is a parallel visual and verbal narration between references; it is a stream of information that creates a tag cloud based on random thoughts about post- internet art, radical utopian groups of the ’60s, today’s virtual field, the definitive role of searching and tagging inside the cyberspace, terms like distribution and reproduction of image, constant data flow, internet immersion, real ID vs cyber ID and the notion of auto generated content.
Dafna Ganani, I Dream of I Dream of Jennie, 2013, 3:42 min.
I Dream of I Dream of Jennie is a mediated performance by the artist Dafna Ganani. It references the 70’s American TV series I Dream of Jeannie and uses glitched images of copyrights licenses, biopunked Barbara Eden in her Jeannie costume, dolphins, BIOS homepage to propose a cybernetics fantasy: beings with both organic and cybernetic parts.
Gaby Cepeda and Adriana Minoliti, Conspirativas (series), 2013, GIFs
Hannah Black, Intensive Care/Hot New Track, 2013, 5:36 min
Remixed fragments of what’s allowed to appear on the surface of the world: Rihanna/Chris Brown, US/Iraq, blackness/whiteness, pain/pleasure, money/body. “Love and shame are the theory and the practice.”
Lorna Mills, Garden Variety (series), 2013, GIF
Geraldine Juárez, Love Not Money, 2009, 1:06 min
In 2009, months after the stock market meltdown, i created a personal stock market to track my assets: desires, work, routines, expectations and emotions – and how the way i valued them felt closer to death, money or love.
The video is the output of four weeks of emotional capitalism, where my assets were collected in a notebook and mapped and visualized originally in Processing.
Claire Evans, Digital Decay: Meditation/Disintegration, 2011, 1:50 min
Meditation/Disintegration is an animation of individual video frames saved in incrementally lower file formats hundreds and hundreds of times. Where is the line at which compression ceases to preserve information entirely? The digital image washes away on the tide of its own preservation. The beach ball is the third eye.
Jillian Mayer, MakeUp Tutorial HOW TO HIDE FROM CAMERAS, 2013, 3:36 min
Mayer guides YouTuber users with a makeup tutorial that teaches viewers how to hide from cameras and facial recognizing algorithms. “We all know that cameras are watching our every step,” warns Mayer. The implementation of this makeup tutorial in your everyday life will be key to existing track free.
V5MT, ARXITEKTON (series), 2013, GIFs
Lorna Mills, Garden Variety (series), 2013, GIFs
Morehshin Allahyari, The Romantic Self-Exiles I, 2012, 5:06 min.
To build a land; an imaginary home. To push the limits of real and unreal, memory and imagination, locality and universality. To put together my most vivid memories on flat planes or 3D cubes. Inside and outside the empty rooms, rooms without bodies, rooms left behind. A reflection and presentation of emotional attachments. Collective and personal.
Erica Scourti, Body Scan, 2014, 3:36 min.
Body Scan by Erica Scourti makes visible the awkwardness of our fleshy, curved bodies being forced into the rectangular shapes of visual media. Both through a self-objectifying gaze of her own body with a cell phone camera that recalls sexting and reverse Google Image searches that make bodies and products nearly interchangable, Scourti confronts the way that media makes the body a thing.
Jennie Cole, a device of a special type, 2012, 3:32 min.
a device of special type investigates encounters with text in electronic media, in response to Donna Haraway’s assertion that writing is ‘pre-eminently the technology of cyborgs’. Exploring ideas of transhumanist possibility alongside the manipulations of identity suggested by the internet’s corporate ‘like’, the language in this video is at once page-based, screen-based, illuminated and infiltrated by symbols and logos.
V5MT, ARXITEKTON (series), 2013, GIFs
Lorna Mills, Garden Variety (series), 2013, GIFs
Tessa Siddle, Hexenhaus, 2010, 2:47 min.
Hexenhaus is a video fragment from a series of work about domestic ritual and relations between humans, houseplants, and animals. Following the collapse of a relationship a failed banishing ritual is performed with my pet houseplants/familiars. An attempt to convert loneliness into solitude results in only more loneliness.
Nicole Killian, Attention, 2013, 2:53 min.
Attention is a video exploring mall madness and meditation.
Gaby Cepeda and Adriana Minoliti, Conspirativas (series), 2013, GIFs
Giselle Zatonyl, The Harm of Coming into Existence, 2014, 1:57 min.
Zatonyl’s 3D rendered video juxtaposes glittery, soft colors with hard lines forming an imaginative factoy-like space that produces unknown, but assuredly delightful things.
Jennifer Chan, Boyfriend 男友 [Nanyou], 2014, 6:27 min.
BOYFRIEND combines YouTube-captured webcam videos with images of dominant East Asian masculinity. Headlined by a Mandarin cover of Justin Bieber’s pop hit Boyfriend, K-pop stars, J-pop stars, Taiwanese diaspora, and Canto-pop icons, are recut against confessional Asian American “dudes” to deliberate the superficial aspects of performing the archetypal romantic straight male partner in Asian culture.
Rachel Maclean, Germs, 2013, 3 min
Germs is a green-screen video, which follows a glamorous female protagonist through series of advertising tropes. Moving from a perfume to a bathroom cleaner commercial, she converses with a persuasive masked woman and becomes increasingly paranoid about the omnipresence of microscopic germs. Rachel plays every character in the piece.
Lorna Mills, Linguine Primavera, 2013, GIF
Lorna Mills, Kitty Fire, 2011, GIF
Raquel Meyers, 2SLEEP1 ❚❚❚❚❚❚❚ 002. MATSAMÖT, 2013, 3:23 min.
Matsamöt is part of 2SLEEP1, a playlist of audiovisual performances in text mode, designed to make you fall asleep. The music interface and the graphics are built up from text symbols (PETSCII). Made by Raquel Meyers and Goto80 using c-64.
Sabrina Ratté, The Land Behind, 2013, 4:56 min.
Traveling on an undefined territory where the illusion of a continuous tracking shot emphasizes an unreachable destination. Through the syncopated editing and multiple transitions, images of the area themselves become traveling entities, creating confusion on the level of the depicted space as much as with the level of its temporality.
Curated with Nora O’ Murchú.
Click Click Click has been presented by Whitebox Art Center (New York), Magic Lantern Cinema (Providence), Hannah Macclure Centre (Dundee), and Gray Area Art + Technology (San Francisco). Please note that each program has been slightly different.