John Menick

My feature on Melvin Moti appears in the the latest (June) issue of Art in America. You’ll have to go to the nearest newsstand to read it, but if AiA isn’t sold in your orbit, then this interview might keep you satisfied in the meantime.

I have a new interview with Melvin Moti published on Art in America’s website. From the intro:

As film slips into obsolescence, it has increasingly found a home in the visual arts. By ‘film’ I don’t mean the general culture, but the actual thing: 8 through 70 millimeters, that slow, expensive medium wound in tight magazines and processed overnight. Since the early European avant-garde, artists have made obscure shorts seen mostly by enthusiasts and historians, but once HD made its game-changing appearance, more and more artists have paradoxically turned to celluloid. In many cases the choice is aesthetic: except 4K digital cameras, film still offers a more detailed image and a color spectrum unmatched by zeros-and-ones. But the decision is ideological as well.