Video art was a suspicious, outsider's medium not long ago. To be sure, it has paradigms, heroes, and conventions — which new generations are feeling confident enough to subvert — but from the ancient perspective of the art-historical canon, it's an adolescent. Perhaps due to this aura of youthfulness, or maybe because video-based art is very like tiny, short movies, we can't get enough of it. And at the center of all the fuss is Art Cinema author Paul Young, whose current LA exhibition, culled from the LOOP Video Art Fair, is the equivalent of an indie blockbuster.
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Inspired by New York City's "unexpected contours" and "elegant geometry," street artist Aakash Nihalani uses brightly colored sticker tape to highlight unlikely urban beauty in his work. Our friends over at Babelgum join Nihalani as he brings 3D to his creations for the first time, and discusses why impermanence is important to the acceptance of street art.
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