Chase ATM emitting blue smoke, Bank of America ATM emitting red smoke, TD Bank ATM emitting green smoke was shot in the American Southwest at Mid-century modern architectural structures that were built to house regional independent banks and have since been bought up by Chase, Bank of America, and TD Bank. The video utilizes transparency and opacity effects in multimedia software to question the perceptibility of finance. It offers a complex metaphor (toxic assets, emergency flares, house/mortgage on fire) about the financial sector and the effects of the ‘crisis’ that led to the disappearance (and the ghostly memory) of many local and regional banks.
Andrew Norman Wilson is an artist, curator, and filmmaker whose practice is mostly based in research and documentary. His works—ranging from videos, sculptures, drawings, and performance lectures, to photography and mixed-media—investigate and critique the aesthetics and inequalities of the corporate world and the myths of technology. He often explores the effects of globalization in the realms of labor, capital, and information, highlighting cases that involve misconduct. The aesthetics of his work often knowingly employ the same digital mechanisms produced by the corporate systems he critiques. Gaining access to and exposing the internal systems of corporations is a key element for the artist’s earlier work. His most well known work that investigates these themes is Workers Leaving the Googleplex (2011). In his most recent works, Wilson has taken an interest in nonhuman entities, including mosquitos, dinosaurs, puppets, and oil pumps—using them as stand-ins for humans to explore human morality from a more “objective” perspective. They are often presented in endless loops to break the linearity of a traditional model of time, in which past, present, and future follow each other in a consecutive fashion.
In Andrew Norman Wilson’s work Kodak the artist uses computer-generated imagery to create narratives that question the reliability of images in the age of post-production...
New on ArtsEquator in 2021: Hot List, Teaser Tuesday and Cakap-Cakap | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints December 4, 2020 ArtsEquator is introducing three new series in 2021 – Hot List, Teaser Tuesday and Cakap-Cakap – to help promote shows, events and other arts and culture programmes in Singapore and the rest of Southeast Asia...
In Andrew Norman Wilson’s work Kodak the artist uses computer-generated imagery to create narratives that question the reliability of images in the age of post-production...
Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: Lavender Town Syndrome by Andrew Norman Wilson is a multi-channel video that uses three different imaging technologies—a photographic lens, photorealistic ray tracing animations, and fractal ray-marching animations—to travel through three constructed environments...
On the first day of the Covid-19 lockdown in New York, Andrew Norman Wilson was evicted from his sublet and decided to board a $30 flight to Los Angeles that evening...
Vietnam to Ban Gratuitous Smoking in Movies, Stage Productions (via Saigoneer) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles October 22, 2018 Starting from November, filmmakers will need to carefully deliberate their decision to include smoking in their works or risk the ire of the culture ministry...
While most of Ashmina Ranjit’s work has been large-scale installations, often immersive and site-specific, the series Hair Warp – Travel Through Strand of Universe is a brilliant concentration of both her beliefs and aesthetic...
Future Gestalt re-imagines a large-scale sculpture “ Smoke” by Tony Smith as embodying a futuristic intelligence that communicates with a group of communitarians undergoing experimental psychotherapy...