The human form—endlessly fascinating to us all, especially teenage boys—and its representation in 3D form is the subject for the New Museum’s latest online exhibition for their series First Look: New Art Online.
Exploring the territory “beyond Pixar, Adult Swim, or the default avatars of video games” this series of four animations Aboveground Animation: 3D-Form—running now through October 17th—showcases the experimental possibilities of the 3D human form from artists Barry Doupé, Kathleen Daniel, Ryan Whittier Hale, and Jacolby Satterwhite.
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The animations, taken from the archive of online art site and community Aboveground Animation, are created in a range of animation software and take you on a journey into the weird. “Post-human” is a term that comes to mind when watching them, as they blur sci-fi, the aesthetics of gaming, and strange erotica, inspired by things as diverse as one of the artist’s mother’s drawings, androgynous synthetic life-forms, and the broken translation of manga animation.
