MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture at the Vancouver Art Gallery
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| Event: | Exhibit featuring fanvids |
| Participants: | MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture at the Vancouver Art Gallery |
| Date(s): | February 20 to May 15, 2016 |
| Type: | museum exhibit |
| Fandom: | Multi-fandom |
| URL: | Vancouver Art Gallery, Archived version |
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MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture at the Vancouver Art Gallery was a museum exhibit that showcased 6 fanvids. It was held February 20 to May 15, 2016.
The collection contained 371 works of art from 156 artists, including Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and TS Eliot. The art gallery posted a video offering an overview of the exhibit on Youtube on Apr 19, 2016.[1]
The fanvids were included in the 3rd Floor collection titled: "The Post-War: Cut, Copy and Quotation in the Age of Mass Media: ANDY WARHOL TO DARA BIRNBAUM".
"In the years following the Second World War, an explosion of mass-produced consumer goods, dynamic marketing and the pervasive broadcasts of radio and television produced a second wave of mashup culture that amplified and escalated its growth globally and across media. Mashup methodology—inspired by pre-war collage, montage, assemblage and the readymade—spread rapidly to diverse fields of cultural production, initiating new modes of music, architecture, art, design, film and literature. Artists such as Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg not only pilfered advertising and popular culture for their imagery but also replicated the production processes of contemporary manufacturing. The use of found film footage and montage also proliferated in this period, as artists such as such as Guy Debord, Dara Birnbaum and Nam June Paik reconfigured images of mass media to produce a dynamic critique of modern culture. In music, artists such as Pierre Schaeffer and John Cage extended the principle of the readymade to their compositions, while advances in multi-track technology spawned dub, a fledgling remix style that continues to have a profound influence on international music production. With their embrace of consumer goods, advertising and mass media imagery, post-war artists radically transformed both the premise and practice of art making, increasingly blurring the line between art and life. By absorbing aspects of commodity culture into their practices, these artists created works that were both products and critiques of the post-industrial society from which they emerged."[2]
Among the fanvids shown were:
- Starships by bironic
- Both Sides Now by Kandy Fong
- Data's Dream by Gayle F
- The Test by Heresluck
- Flow by Lim
- Obsessive24
A description of the selection process and the exhibit: Mashup by bironic (published part of of the videlicet zine)