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Petra Cortright
smoking-vase-1

Like the webcam videos Cortright has been working on since 2007, “smoking-vase-1” was filmed with no post production, just live use of standard webcam software. Similar to Instagram or Snapchat videos, the effects are part of the original recording, but by contrast, “smoking-vase-1” is not part of a networked system designed for data mining and facial recognition. The looping animation is slow, simple, and with a focus on beauty, which led Cortright to her choice of subject as well as the obsolete filter. To shoot “smoking-vase-1,” Cortright used an old 2014 Mac OS, which gives the image a vintage flavor. A favorite subject of her digital paintings, flowers are featured here as a fragile metaphor of time passing, of a relationship between the real and digital sphere that is ever evolving, never the same.

Video (color, silent)
720 × 540 pixels
2 minutes 45 seconds
Edition Number 103 of 115

Information

Title:
smoking-vase-1
Artist(s):
Petra Cortright
Medium/MIME-type:
video
Blockchain:
Ethereum
Platform:
Feral File
Object URL:
Edition No.:
103/115
Date Acquired:
January 28, 2022
Date Minted:
December 15, 2021
Artworks by Petra Cortright in the NEW FLOAT collection: 1
Petra Cortright
smoking-vase-1
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