Paul Garrin

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Paul Garrin (* 1957 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American video and multimedia artist.

life and work

Garrin studied in 1977 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and from 1978 until his bachelor's degree in 1982 at the Cooper Union School of Arts in New York City with Vito Acconci and Hans Haacke . Since 1973 he worked for Nam June Paik and produced video works for him as well as for Shigeko Kubota . In 1981 he became Paik's assistant, where he was primarily responsible for electrical engineering.

Since 1985 he has concentrated on his own video films, in which he dealt with social conditions in the USA. To depict the “American nightmare”, he used original recordings of race riots and street riots, police dogs ( “Art That Barks” ) and serial killers. In 1988 he filmed the street battles and police attacks on Tompkins Square in New York with a camcorder and converted the recordings into the video film "Man with a Videocamera" . It was broadcast on current news programs on television stations in the USA and made the artist known nationwide. In 1992 Garrin showed the computer-controlled, interactive video installation “White Devil” at the “Mediale” in Hamburg.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1989: Museum Folkwang, Essen (together with Rainer Ganahl)
  • 1991: ZKM, Karlsruhe: Multimedia 2
  • 1996: Third Biennale de Lyon 1995
  • 2003: Neue Galerie, Graz: M_ARS - Art and War
  • 2004: NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf: VIDEO - Imagery of the 21st Century ; Völklinger Hütte, Völklingen, GameArt
  • 2005: ZKM, Karlsruhe: Screening War

Work

  • 1994-1996: Border Patrol
  • 1992-1993: White Devil
  • 1990: By Any Means Necessary
  • 1990: Home (less) Is Where The Revolution 1s
  • 1990: Reverse Big Brother
  • 1989–1990: Yuppie Ghetto with Wedding
  • 1989: Man with a Video Camera
  • 1988: Free Society

Awards (selection)

  • 1988 Special Prize of the Videonale, Bonn
  • 1992 Siemens Media Art Prize, Karlsruhe

Literature (selection)

  • Dieter Daniels: Paul Garrin - Videotapes 195-1989, Rainer Ganahl - Virtue in objects (exhibition Folkwang Museum, Essen), in: Kunstforum, Cologne, vol. 105, Jan./Feb. 1990, pp. 336-337

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Weibel: Paul Garrin - electronics virtuoso and social worker . Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe 1992
  2. ^ Ruhrberg, Schneckenburger et al.: Art of the 20th century . Taschen, 1998. 2nd volume ISBN 3-8228-8802-8 . P. 725

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personal data
SURNAME Garrin, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American video artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , USA