Gallery: An Art Breakthrough: $90,000 for Youtube Video, Animated GIF, and Other Internet Experiments

  • Alexandra Gorczynski's Plur Piece a print with two embedded tablets playing videos made by the artist sold for 9500....
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    Alexandra Gorczynski's *Plur Piece*, a print with two embedded tablets playing videos made by the artist, sold for $9,500. *Image: Phillips*
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    Clement Valla's prints, *Postcards From Google Earth*, document algorithmic oddities from Google's satellite photo archive. *Image: Phillips*
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    The auction's top-selling piece was Addie Wagenknecht's "Asymmetric Love Number 2," which sold for $16,000. *Image: Phillips*
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    Petra Cortright's *rgb,d-lay* was the show's sole YouTube video. *Image: Phillips*
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    A sample from Casey Reas' *Americans!*, a piece of custom software that scrambles live TV from major networks. It sold for $11,000. *Image: Phillips*
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    Joe Hamilton's *Hyper Geography* comprised a computer-generated video and an associated Tumblr. *Image: Phillips*
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    Jamie Zigelbaum's *Pixel* is a wall-mounted sculpture that represents the central unit of digital representation--the pixel--in gigantic, touchable form. *Image: Phillips*
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    Petra Cortright. Artwork photographed by Wild Don Lewis Photography,[email protected]
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    Petra Cortright's *r\_sept.psd #1*, a digital print on aluminum. *Image: Phillips*
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    Kate Steciw's *Abstract, Accent, Active, Blossom, Color, Competition, Decal, Decor, Design, Edge, Element, End, Equipment, Exercise, Faux, Finish, Frame, Goggles, Rock, Season, Stone, Shape, Shiny, Space, Sport, Start, Swim, Vacant, Water, Wealth, Wet* is a digital print comprised of three distorted, licensed stock images. *Image: Phillips*
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    Rafael Rozendaal's *Into Time,* an algorithmically lenticular painting that changes depending on the viewing angle. *Image: Phillips*
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    Molly Soda's *Inbox Full* is an eight-hour web cam video of the artist reading unread messages from her Tumblr inbox aloud. *Image: Phillips*
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    Sabrina Ratte's *Aurae* is a video of an animated photograph processed by a video synthesizer. *Image: Phillips*
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    Ilja Karilampi's *New York Minute* is a 60-second compiliation of a year's worth of experiences. *Image: Phillips*
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    Silvia Bianchi and Ricardo Juarez's "Turning the World Upside Down," a yoga swing made with digitally-printed fabric.
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