{"id":3570,"date":"2018-03-23T21:26:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T21:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2024-04-14T11:30:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T11:30:25","slug":"the-human-body-as-an-alien-lifeforms-contemporary-moving-image-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/the-human-body-as-an-alien-lifeforms-contemporary-moving-image-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Metamorphosis of a Human Hand into an Alien Life-form"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/925362392?badge=0&#038;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"A human hand becoming an alien creature.\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Metamorphosis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video.      March 2018<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This video shows the way in which familiar objects can become disconcertedly unfamiliar and alien by removing them from their normal context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It shows a video of a hand in which the video is split and flipped as a mirror image in order to create a strikingly bizarre image resembling an unsettling and disturbing alien creature.<br>The video is an attempt to highlight the way that even the things that we treat as totally normal and mundane are in fact full of strangeness and wonder.<br>By using the very simple mirror image technique I&#8217;ve made something that&#8217;s as ridiculously familiar to us as our hands look ridiculously alien and disconcerting. Who&#8217;d have thought that you had such strange alien things stuck on the ends of your arms?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/metamorphosis-by-symmetry-hands-into-aliens.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary art - metamorphosis of a hand to become alien by reflection\" title=\"contemporary art - metamorphosis of a hand into an alien life-form\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metamorphosis Video. March 2018 This video shows the way in which familiar objects can become disconcertedly unfamiliar and alien by removing them from their normal context. It shows a video of a hand in which the video is split and flipped as a mirror image in order to create a strikingly bizarre image resembling an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,9],"tags":[60,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8731,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/8731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}