Oneohtrix Point Never - Boring Angel

What this video is

Released December 2013 alongside Oneohtrix Point Never's critically acclaimed R Plus Seven (Warp Records), 'Boring Angel' arrived at the precise cultural inflection point when emoji transitioned from niche mobile communication shorthand into a widely recognized visual language. Director John Michael Boling, a veteran of the Nasty Nets post-internet surfing club and former Associate Director of Rhizome, brought a…

Why it matters

A canonical artifact of post-internet experimental music video practice. The video's formal radicalism — zero human presence, zero camera, zero editing in the conventional sense — anticipated later minimalist and concept-driven approaches to music video. As one of the earliest music videos to use…

The director

John Michael Boling is an American net artist and digital media practitioner born in Rome, Georgia in 1983. He earned a BFA in digital media from the University of Georgia. He served as Associate Director of Rhizome, co-founded the influential internet…