ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
Video Premiere for “Russian Mind”
The video for “Russian Mind” was created by Nate Boyce, a video artist and musician who lives and works in San Francisco.
Oneohtrix Point Never’s Daniel Lopatin had this to say about the video: “The physicality of Nate's work is what grabbed me, and the ways in which his videos seem to creep into your nervous system and trigger a wealth of retinal datatrash which is completely ancillary to the raw visual content presented in the videos on their own. In other words what you're experiencing is the pooled reality of your own internal psychedelic engine and Nate's. This isn't unlike the binaural brainwave effect of certain OPN recordings. Also I think that on some level, we're both invested in the idea that artistic pejoratives are largely contextual, and that by embedding fully-formed or culturally codified styles and technologies into our own personal systems, we strive to go beyond whats implicit about them historically.”
Video creator Nate Boyce has performed and exhibited his audio/visual work throughout the world including the New York Underground Film Festival, The Wattis Institute, Deitch Projects, Issue Project Room, Center For Contemporary Art, Glasgow, and The Exploratorium, among others. He also collaborates with musical acts Eats Tapes and Matmos with whom he has toured extensively.
“We're both interested in complicating the the way images and sounds read historically through remediation processes while going beyond any kind of nostalgic reductivism,” says Boyce. “The whole thing about using the Frank Stella paintings as a template for the forms in the video also ties into the idea of complicating the representational status of the image –– an abstract painting becomes a sculptural object in representational space. Also, I was interested in how the emotional and psychological resonance in Oneohtrix Point Never’s work is very elusive, which is what I was responding too by teasing out or tapping into a quasi mystical/fantasy/sci-fi undercurrent with Stella’s paintings."
“Russian Mind” is from Oneohtrix Point Never’s new double CD, Rifts, which is out now on No Fun Productions and available DIRECT via
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