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Doll Face follows a machine’s struggle to construct its own identity. The machine with a doll face mimics images presented on a television screen and ultimately self-destructs from its inability to adopt a satisfactory visage. Created in its entirety by Andy Huang, Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.

Genre: Animation
Running Time: 4:12
Location: Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Doll Face : Christina Frenzel
Producer: Andy Huang
Screenwriter: Andy Huang
Director of Photography: Andy Huang
Editor: Andy Huang

Check out this really neat website. It definately brings out our inner Jackson Pollock. Have fun with it and let the splatter consume you.

Did you know…

“It is what his imitators could never do, and why there are no successful Pollock forgeries: they always end up looking like…spaghetti, whereas Pollock–in his best work–had an almost preternatural control over the total effect of those skeins and receding depths of paint. In them, the light is always right. Nor are they absolutely spontaneous; he would often retouch the drip with a brush.”

No. 5, 1948

A trend I’ve noticed during my travels through Europe is, Installation Art is probably the hottest genre (or movement?) at the moment judging from waves of exhibitions at modern art museums such as Centre Pompidou, MUMOK, Stedelijk, etc.

Installation art incorporates almost any media to create a visceral and/or conceptual experience in a particular environment. Materials used in contemporary installation art range from everyday and natural materials to new media such as video, sound, performance, computers and the internet. Some installations are site-specific in that they are designed to only exist in the space for which they were created.

Completely surreal. Dim the lights, turn up the volume, take a deep breath as you take a journey into Valstar Barbie, 2003, Claude Levêque’s latest installation at Le Mouvement des Images exhibition at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Simply amazing.

July 8 - October 22
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Guest-curated exclusively for the AGO by film director David Cronenberg, Andy Warhol / Supernova: Stars, Deaths and Disasters, 1962-1964 focuses on one of the most influential periods in the artist’s life. Combining both paintings and films, the exhibition features not only well-known serial images of Jackie Kennedy, Elvis Presley and Elizabeth Taylor, but also disturbing disaster imagery that includes car crashes, criminals and electric chairs. The AGO is the only venue that combines Warhol’s rarely seen underground films with his painted works.