Natalie BookchinUS
Natalie Bookchin is an interdisciplinary artist widely recognized for her innovative media artworks. Over the last three decades she has made single and multi-channel video and sound installations, films, photographs, performances, texts, net art, online computer games, embroidery, drawing, and hacktivist public interventions.
She is a Professor Emerita from Rutgers University and CalArts, and currently lives some of the time in Brooklyn.
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Mass Ornament2017
Mass Ornament is a mass dance of solitary dancers composed of fragments of shared online videos of people dancing in their rooms. The dancers, moving together, each alone in front of their cameras and screens, seem to assert embodiment and publicness, in the face of their increasing decline.
“Natalie Bookchin’s video installation Mass Ornament choreographs hundreds of YouTube dance videos to create a dazzling artwork that also questions contemporary isolation and connection via screens, cameras and technology.” (KCET — Blur and Sharpen)
