Oneohtrix Point Never - Problem Areas

What this video is

Released in August 2013 as a preview single for Oneohtrix Point Never's R Plus Seven — his debut album on Warp Records — 'Problem Areas' arrived at the intersection of experimental electronic music and post-internet visual art. The video is rooted in Murata's 2012 'Synthesizers' CGI series and reflects a broader early-2010s art world preoccupation with consumer objects, digital materiality, and the uncanny. R Plus…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of post-internet experimental electronic music visuals, the video exemplifies the early-2010s tendency to pair MIDI/synth-based abstract composition with object-oriented CGI art, bypassing performance entirely. It helped establish a template for concept-driven,…

The director

Takeshi Murata (b. 1974, Chicago, IL) is an American contemporary digital media artist who works across video, animation, datamoshing, and CGI. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997 with a B.F.A. in Film/Video/Animation. A pioneer of…