Oneohtrix Point Never - Still Life (Excerpt)

What this video is

Released in 2013–2014 as a preview for Daniel Lopatin's R Plus Seven (Warp Records, 2013), the Still Life (Excerpt) video sits at a precise cultural intersection: the mainstreaming of post-internet art discourse, the emergence of CGI as a legitimate fine-art medium, and experimental electronic music's growing entanglement with gallery contexts. Boyce and Lopatin's long-term collaboration — rooted in the Reliquary…

Why it matters

Landmark example of fine-art CGI music video practice in the early 2010s experimental electronic scene. Demonstrates the dissolution of boundaries between gallery video art, music video, and audiovisual performance. Serves as a key document of the Boyce–Lopatin collaborative methodology and the…

The director

San Francisco-based moving image maker and sculptor born 1982 in Kansas City, Missouri. BFA from San Francisco Art Institute, 2006. Works at intersection of 3D modeling, analog video synthesis, and physical sculpture. Represented by Altman Siegel Gallery,…