Takeshi Murata is one of the pioneers of glitch art, the man who turned a failed download into a whole aesthetic. Around 2003, a movie he tried to pirate came through with dropped keyframes and mangled compression, and instead of deleting it he saw a door. The New York-based artist has been building extraordinary digital work ever since, from datamoshing to hyperreal CGI still lifes, all of it a meditation on how images live, decay and haunt us. His work is held in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Smithsonian, SFMOMA and the Hirshhorn, which holds Pink Dot, and has shown at Tate Modern and beyond.
At Kinomural he’s showing that very work, Pink Dot. Murata takes footage from the 1982 Sylvester Stallone film Rambo: First Blood and drags it into a churning mass of electronic abstraction. Under his meticulous digital reprocessing, the action decomposes and dissolves into an almost tangible cascade of digital sludge, all of it presided over by a single hypnotically pulsing pink dot.
