LYAM 3D

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Object Details

Artist

Kota Ezawa, born Cologne, Germany 1969

Exhibition Label

Kota Ezawa samples imagery from a broad range of sources, including news media, popular cinema, and the history of art, which he then distills into flattened landscapes of pure form. LYAM 3D refigures Alain Resnais's French New Wave film, L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad), released in 1961. Here, the animated actors are divorced from texture and the camera's presence is replaced by Ezawa's hand, rendering only the essential shapes. Resnais's cinematic masterpiece is stripped clean of any romance or narrative arc, but Ezawa adds the American "oomph of 3D," updating it for a contemporary audience.

Watch This!: Revelations in Media Art, 2015

Credit Line

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible through Deaccession Funds

Copyright

Date

2008

Object number

2010.23

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

Media Arts

Medium

digital animation, color, silent; 04:00 minutes

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Department

Time-Based Media Art

Data Source

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7391428f6-aa5a-411d-a162-55f527fc91be

Record ID

saam_2010.23