Takeshi Murata's guest appearances

Takeshi Murata

Bad at Sports

Talks

Minters & Makers by Art Blocks

Spencer Finch

Pablo Helguera

Jeremy Deller

Kota Ezawa

Patricia Unbury

Christian Jankowski

Beatriz Santiago Munoz

Katya Grokhovsky

Zachary Dodson

Alireza Khatami

Lisa Lapinski

Anastasia Tinari

Maryam Taghavi

Jessie McLaughlin

Allison Glenn

OwlTail

Jen Stark

Christopher Rutledge

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Guests: <a href="https://twitter.com/rich_lord" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@rich_lord</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/Jen_Stark" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@Jen_Stark</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/MurataNFT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@MurataNFT</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/tokyomegaplex" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@tokyomegaplex</a> Discord: <a href="http://discord.gg/artblocks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://discord.gg/artblocks</a> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/artblocks_io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/artblocks_io</a> Newsletter: <a href="https://artblocksinc.eo.page/subscribe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://artblocksinc.eo.page/subscribe</a>

Rich Lord, Jen Stark, Takeshi Murata and Christopher Rutledge

Robert Beatty

This week: San Francisco checks in with a great interview. Bad at Sports contributors Brian Andrews and Patricia Maloney sat down with artist Takeshi Murata and sound designer Robert Beatty on November 9, 2013, at Ratio 3, in San Francisco, to discuss Murata’s most recent digitally animated video, OM Rider (2013). OM Rider follows two animated creatures: a wizened old man that Andrews describes as “half the Curious George Man in the Yellow Suit, half like the butler from Rocky Horror Picture Show,” and a hipster wolf, which rides a moped through a barren landscape and performs other aimless tasks. The video begins with the creature playing a synthesizer that gives the video its title. Om Rider contains Murata’s characteristic absurd humor and aesthetic, which mixes highly attuned lighting and composition with more retro modeling and minimalist, almost antiseptic spaces.    Takeshi Murata was born in 1974 in Chicago. In 1997, he graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied film, video, and animation. He currently lives and works in Saugerties, New York. Murata has exhibited at the New Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; Sikemma Jenkins &amp; Co., New York; Gladstone Gallery, New York; and Salon 94, New York. Murata’s work is featured in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; and The Smithsonian Museum of American Art. FYI, AP will post an excerpted text version of this interview on Dec. 3, and the link for that conversation should be: http://www.artpractical.com/column/interview-with-takeshi-murata/   And here is a related review Brian wrote for his previous show: http://www.artpractical.com/review/get_your_ass_to_mars_andrews/

This week: San Francisco checks in with a great interview. Bad at Sports contributors Brian Andrews and Patricia Maloney sat down with artist Takeshi Murata and sound designer Robert Beatty on November 9, 2013, at Ratio 3, in San Francisco, to discuss Murata’s most recent digitally animated video, OM Rider (2013). OM Rider follows two animated creatures: a wizened old man that Andrews describes as “half the Curious George Man in the Yellow Suit, half like the butler from Rocky Horror Picture Show,” and a hipster wolf, which rides a moped through a barren landscape and performs other aimless tasks. The video begins with the creature playing a synthesizer that gives the video its title. Om Rider contains Murata’s characteristic absurd humor and aesthetic, which mixes highly attuned lighting and composition with more retro modeling and minimalist, almost antiseptic spaces. Takeshi Murata was born in 1974 in Chicago. In 1997, he graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied film, video, and animation. He currently lives and works in Saugerties, New York. Murata has exhibited at the New Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; Sikemma Jenkins &amp; Co., New York; Gladstone Gallery, New York; and Salon 94, New York. Murata’s work is featured in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; and The Smithsonian Museum of American Art. FYI, AP will post an excerpted text version of this interview on Dec. 3, and the link for that conversation should be: <a href="http://www.artpractical.com/column/interview-with-takeshi-murata/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.artpractical.com/column/interview-with-takeshi-murata/</a> And here is a related review Brian wrote for his previous show: <a href="http://www.artpractical.com/review/get_your_ass_to_mars_andrews/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.artpractical.com/review/get_your_ass_to_mars_andrews/</a>

Bad at Sports Episode 431: Takeshi Murata and Robert Beatty 

Associate Curator Kelly Gordon talks with artist Takeshi Murata about his upcoming Black Box exhibition and the techniques he uses to create the "electronic painting" effect of his short films.

Takeshi Murata: In Conversation