{"id":937,"date":"2013-06-01T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/?p=937"},"modified":"2024-09-01T17:01:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T17:01:19","slug":"spectacle-the-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/spectacle-the-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Spectacle: The Music Video:’ Assembling the Innovative Interactive Museum Exhibit | DV Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grizzly Bear: “Ready, Able” (2009). Directed by Allison Schulnik. Part of the exhibition “Spectacle: The Music Video” on view at Museum of the Moving Image, April 3-June 16, 2013. Image courtesy of Contemporary Arts Center.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

DV magazine \u2014 June 2013<\/em>
‘Spectacle: The Music Video:’ Assembling the Innovative Interactive Museum Exhibit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The music video, a huge part of youth culture for just about anyone who grew up during the 1980s \u2014 the MTV Generation, as the demographic came to be branded \u2014 is celebrated as an art form in the exhibition Spectacle: The Music Video<\/em>, now at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibit, which runs in New York through June 23, originally opened in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Contemporary Arts Center, after which it traveled to S\u0101o Paulo, Brazil, where it was displayed at the Museum of Image and Sound. It will eventually migrate to Australia, where it will be on display at the Australian Centre for Moving Images in Melbourne from September 26 through March 2, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spectacle<\/em> features over 300 videos by directors including David Fincher, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Mark Romanek and Floria Sigismondi, set pieces and artifacts from videos, and other interactive installations that present the changing landscape of the art of the music video, highlighting the genre’s place at the forefront of creative technology and its role in pushing the boundaries of creative production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curated by Jonathan Wells and Meg Grey Wells of creative collective Flux, Spectacle <\/em>features important examples from music video history, from early pioneers like Devo, the Beastie Boys, Michael Jackson and Madonna, who used the medium to define their public identities, to artists such as Bj\u00f6rk and OK Go who follow in their footsteps today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve always had a dream to bring the work that we do to a bigger platform,\u201d says Meg, who, along with Jonathan, curates a video series at the Los Angeles Hammer Museum now in its sixth year. \u201cThe goal has been to showcase these cultural artifacts in a museum environment.\u201d (Read full story\u2026<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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