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An Interesting Take on Emoji’s

An Interesting Take on Emoji’s

Have you ever looked at a word and realized how amazing written language actually is? How did all this come from, and what do emojis have to do with the earliest forms of written language?

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The Evolution of CGI

The Evolution of CGI

You might say there is something off about the final fight scene in the movie black panther. It kind of feels like you are watching a computer game, right? So, why is it that some visual effects artists convince with their use of CGI and others don’t?

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A THEORY that Changes the Way we Watch

A THEORY that Changes the Way we Watch

As we were going through the comment sections we noticed that you guys want us to do videos on anime, video games, and comics. So we figured let’s combine them all into one video. How? By focusing on something called color theory.

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The Power and Danger of Good Political Cartoons

The Power and Danger of Good Political Cartoons

Sometimes an image can be so powerful, so profound... that it has the power to convey the complexity of an entire political era in a single frame. That’s exactly the reason why our school books and newspapers are filled with political cartoons. But where do they come from.. and how are they linked to 16th and 17th-century satire and propaganda?

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Hidden Jokes of Great Artists and Their Meaning

Hidden Jokes of Great Artists and Their Meaning

What’s E.T. doing in Star Wars Episode 1, the Phantom Menace? And why is there always a fly on this 400 year old painting? Are you watching closely? Because in this episode, we’re hunting for easter eggs!

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Monsters: From Ancient Mythology to Modern Cinema

Monsters: From Ancient Mythology to Modern Cinema

Monsters are everywhere. Under our beds, in our closets, lurking in the dark and ever present in our nightmares. But how unique are these monsters? And what makes up a good demon? We’ll take you on a journey through 2.500 years of monster design.

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How McDonalds is Using Art Principles to Sell Their Food

How McDonalds is Using Art Principles to Sell Their Food

Do the burgers you buy look anything like this? Probably not. But why and how do these restaurants succeed in making food look so tasty in the photos? Although the answer to this question might seem easy, this has challenged artists for centuries.

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Thiago Rocha Pitta: Heritage

Thiago Rocha Pitta: Heritage

Thiago Rocha Pitta is best known for his “collaborations” with nature, outdoor interventions that harness its forces, processes, and beauty. He has created an inverted fountain by the side of a lake, a performance and video of a small floating boat engulfed in flames, and an installation of mirrors on a cliff to grant viewers the experience walking on the sky.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

Simon Faithfull: Going Nowhere 2

Simon Faithfull: Going Nowhere 2

Going Nowhere 2 presents a walk through a landscape at the bottom of the Adriatic Sea. A figure dressed in jeans and a white shirt walks purposefully away from the camera and steps laboriously through a landscape of fish, rocks and watery light until he disappears into the murky distance.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Joe Hamilton: Stream

Joe Hamilton: Stream

Stream is a work that explores the well known analogy of water flow and the flow of data on the internet. The structure and movement in the browser window becomes a rigid framework that contains and shifts an array of found images and video of water. Waterfalls, torrents, rivers, creeks and streams of data flow down the screen. An interplay of fluidity and rigidness.

Duration : 2m
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Irene Fenara: Praticare la Vertigine

Irene Fenara: Praticare la Vertigine

The feeling of emptiness as a quiet place where anything can happen, causes an anguish which is similar to the feeling of instability and disorientation of vertigo in front of things around us and those bigger than us, physically, as can be a mountain or the sea, and emotionally, as may be the insecurity of making a choice. Vertigo is a distortion of sensory perception that affects the movement of a person giving him a wrong perception of movement in space, characterized by loss of balance.

Duration : 9m
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Felipe Barros: Todo Silencio me Incomoda

Felipe Barros: Todo Silencio me Incomoda

Felipe Pereira Barros is a Brazilian artist. In this video, Todo Silencio me Incomoda (Silence is disturbing), a fish bowl is is left on the seashore, waiting for the tide to return to its home.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Christiane Geoffroy: Angels of the Seas

Christiane Geoffroy: Angels of the Seas

Sea angels (scientific name: Clione limacina) are only a few centimetres long. Their bodies are transparent, apart from orange-red of the digestive apparatus. The live in deep water under the Arctic ice cap and drift with the current. These fragile-looking creatures fly through the water. They are extremely beautiful and delicately elegant. Christiane Geoffroy chose the sea angel as a poetic emblem of the struggle against rising acid levels in the oceans.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Isabelle Hayeur: Castaway

Isabelle Hayeur: Castaway

This video explores man-made landscapes and the effects of human intervention on the environment. The work draws a parallel between the lush golf courses of Palm Desert and the desolate landscapes surrounding the Salton Sea. It investigates how water is used in California, where water rights are among the state’s divisive political issues.

Duration : 14m
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Leoni and Mastrangelo

Leoni and Mastrangelo

Enjoy more of their performances on their dedicated Channel

Duration : 3m
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Jean-Francois Rauzier: Beaux-Arts

Jean-Francois Rauzier: Beaux-Arts

Jean-Francois Rauzier is a french artist who for over thirty years explored different fields of visual arts, from painting to sculpture. In 2002 he becomes one of the first to digitally assemble images inventing the concept of the Hyperphoto. This technique consists of assembling hundreds (later thousands) of photos of existing places to create dreamlike images and settings.

Duration : 6m
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Fabienne Verdier

Fabienne Verdier

Discover the world of Fabienne Verdier under Channels.

Duration : 42s
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Shingo Yoshida - Heathrow Airport

Shingo Yoshida - Heathrow Airport

Shingo Yoshida documents dystopian reality in Heathrow Airport: Corona Diary, shot at the end of April 2020, while the artist was en-route to his native Japan, when many countries worldwide were still in lockdown.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Mariana Vassileva - Morning Mood

Mariana Vassileva - Morning Mood

Regarding how the Corona pandemic began, perhaps Mariana Vassileva’s Morning Mood says it all – if we are to believe that the virus originated from bats. Shot in Sydney, Australia, during the very days that MOMENTUM drew its first breaths with its inaugural event in Sydney, this portrait of the city’s remarkable bats already makes the jump between species.

Duration : 16m
Maturity Level : all

Thomas Eller - THE virus – SELBST (C0vid-20-Recovered)

Thomas Eller - THE virus – SELBST (C0vid-20-Recovered)

Thomas Eller’s THE virus was made during the Corona pandemic, while on lockdown in China. The artist re-duplicates himself, with each of his copies reciting the genetic code of one of the first strains of the SARS-CoV2 virus identified in Wuhan, where the COVID-19 outbreak began.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Nina E. Schönefeld - N.O.R.O.C.2.3

Nina E. Schönefeld - N.O.R.O.C.2.3

Nina E. Schönefeld’s N.O.R.O.C.2.3, made during the Corona lockdown in Berlin, is a dark depiction of our pandemic times, cast in the guise of dystopian science fiction. N.O.R.O.C.2.3 is a narrative video collage that takes the pulse of a pandemic in the digital age.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Doug Fishbone - Artificial Intelligence

Doug Fishbone - Artificial Intelligence

Making light of even the greatest darkness is a better survival mechanism than despair, and in that sense, Doug Fishbone’s Artifical Intelligence paints an oddly prescient portrait of our times, assembled from images found online.

Duration : 2m
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Map Office - VIRAL Operation

Map Office - VIRAL Operation

In Viral Operation the Hong Kong artist duo Map Office fly to Berlin from a Hong Kong ravaged by the SARS epidemic, this century’s first major viral outbreak, for a road trip crossing all possible European land borders on their way to the Venice Biennale. Wearing masks, they are treated as suspect Others, potential contaminants.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Shaarbek Amankul - Duba

Shaarbek Amankul - Duba

While western medicine is only now unveiling a vaccine and has so far failed to find a viable cure to the ravages of COVID-19, it is perhaps time to turn to the ancient shamanistic traditions of other cultures.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all