15x15

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author

Richard Vickers

date

2007

format

online

genre

online mobile phone video art

project description

15x15 In 1968 Andy Warhol stated that; ‘In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes’. Considering the mass popularity of reality TV shows such as Big Brother & The X Factor, and the ability to publish your own video content via media sharing sites such as YouTube; Warhol’s statement seems more pertinent today than ever. Using Warhol’s statement as a premise, 15x15 advances the statement into the 21st century: Utilising new media technologies; the web and mobile cameraphones, 15x15 offers the opportunity for anyone, anywhere, to be world famous……. for 15 seconds. 15x15 is a world first, whereby anyone, anywhere in the world can contribute to the artistic project by sending a video clip directly from their mobile camera phone. The clips can be longer than 15 seconds but will be reduced to that length, participants can send as many clips as they wish. The clips can be portraits, experiential, vignettes, experimental, anything within reason, from the banal to the downright bizarre! The viewable artwork is an interface consisting of 15 individual rectangular screens, each individual screen displays a random video clip stored within the database for a 15 second duration: 15x15. In the 21st century art is being fundamentally realigned for anyone and everyone. 15x15 is a homage to Warhol, a realisation of the artistic utilisation of new media technology and the democratisation of art in the age of digital production.

artist bio

Richard is a Senior Lecturer in New Media at the Hull School of Art & Design. He previously worked as a freelance photographer and designer, before becoming interested in the possibilities of interactive multimedia in 1994. The emerging digital technologies had an immediate impact on his work as a photographer and he was an early exponent of the ‘digital darkroom’.