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last spring we invited Alex Itin<\/a> to be our first artist-in-residence at the institute. i first met Alex in the fall of 2000, during an art festival in Dumbo. he was set-up in a gallery painting portraits on pages of used books. i quite liked the paintings and got the perverse idea that it would be interesting to encourage someone who was using books in this way to work on an electronic book. i was working at Night Kitchen<\/a> at the time. we had just released the beta version of TK3, the software we made for authoring and reading media rich electronic books. we lent Alex a Mac and he made his first electronic piece, Zoodoo<\/a> – a series of paintings done on paperback pages which accompanied a beautiful Amiri Baraka poem. (if you first install the free TK3 Reader<\/a> you can download Zoodoo from this page.) Alex kept experimenting and over time began animating the surface of his scanned-in paintings. while there has been a long history of filmmakers<\/a> who painted on the surface of film, Alex was perhaps one of the first painters to integrate video into his paintings.<\/p>\n


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as a condition of his artist-in-residency we asked Alex to keep a blog<\/a> in which we hoped he would write about his work as he did it. we were amazed after a few days to realize that alex was beginning to use the blog<\/a> not as a way to talk about his work, but rather it was just another venue for his work. at first Alex posted paintings, drawings and photos sometimes with a text commentary. after a while he started to include animated gifs and sound. although the artist-in-residency ended almost a year ago, alex has been keeping up the blog<\/a>. in fact, he’s been on a creative tear the past few weeks. check out the last two entries — the “thousand year crane”<\/a> (be sure to start the music track) and the Chinese new year tree<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(disclaimer: i’ve been collecting Alex’s work for six years now, so my interest in his success is not purely altruistic)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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