Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Chutes
Alternate Title:
Falls
Image View:
Detail, view of TV monitors, stacked and playing DVD images
Creator:
Alexandre Castonguay (Canadian installation artist, born 1968)
Location:
repository: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada) 2006.482
Location Note:
National Battlefields Park; 179 Grande Allée Ouest; Pierre Lassonde Pavilion
GPS:
46.801106-71.225064
Date:
1995-2003 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Canadian
Style Period:
Twenty-first century
Work Type 1:
installation (visual work)
Work Type 2:
multimedia work
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
eight-channel video installation; 28 TV monitors, eight DVD players and eight DVDs
Technique:
assemblage (sculpture technique)
Measurements:
230 cm (height) x 350 cm (width) x 240 cm (depth)
Subjects:
allegory; contemporary (1960 to present); landscape; Television; technology; DVD images
Description:
Alexandre Castonguay is a Canadian media artist. He is known for his use of electronic and open-source technologies in his artworks. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-CASTON-E-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Chutes