David Crawford / Studio Japanese
Online Studio

As part of Turbulence Artists’ Studios, this online studio features a collection of Internet art dating back to 1996. The earliest works are text-based. Next are a series of works focused on animated vector graphics, sound, and interaction. The most recent works use bitmaps and are cinematographic in their concerns.

Recent Works (*Turbulence commission)

Stop Motion Studies - Series 13
In this remix of footage originally shot for previous installments in London, Paris, Boston, New York, and Tokyo, each installment’s modular structure has provided a library of building blocks that have been edited into a linear animation approximately 7 minutes long. The speed of the transitions is based on network connection speed.


Stop Motion Studies - Series 8   Stop Motion Studies - Tokyo*
All imagery was shot in Tokyo, Japan between October 27 and October 29, 2003.
  Stop Motion Studies - Series 4   Stop Motion Studies - Series 4
All imagery was shot in Boston, USA between December 21 and December 22, 2002.
 
 
Stop Motion Studies - Series 7   Stop Motion Studies - Series 7
In this remix, I’ve taken previous material and added a meta-structure.
  Stop Motion Studies - Series 3   Stop Motion Studies - Series 3
All imagery was shot in Paris, France between November 8 and November 11, 2002.
 
 
Stop Motion Studies - Series 6   Stop Motion Studies - Series 6
All imagery was shot in New York City, USA on January 4, 2003.
  Stop Motion Studies - Series 2   Stop Motion Studies - Series 2
All imagery was shot in London, England between October 12 and October 15, 2002.
 
 
Stop Motion Studies - Series 5   Stop Motion Studies - Series 5
All imagery was shot in New York City, USA on January 3, 2003.
  Stop Motion Studies - Series 1   Stop Motion Studies - Series 1
All imagery was shot in Göteborg, Sweden between September 18 and October 7, 2002.
 
 
Dance to the Radio  
Dance to the Radio
A series of three Web-based music videos for music written by the legendary 80s post-punk band, Joy Division.
  I Am Not an Animal  
I Am Not an Animal
A series of three Web-based music videos for music written by both Missing Persons and The Ramones.
 

Early Works (*Turbulence commission)

Writing

Related Links Biography

David Crawford (1970-2009) studied film, video, and new media at the Massachusetts College of Art and received a BFA in 1997. He received several Turbulence.org Commissions, including Here and Now (1998), National Velvet (2000), and Stop Motion Studies - Tokyo (2003). In 2000, his Light of Speed project was a finalist for the SFMOMA Webby Prize for Excellence in Online Art. In 2003, Crawford’s Stop Motion Studies project received an Artport Gate Page Commission from the Whitney Museum of American Art, an Award of Distinction in the Net Vision category at the Prix Ars Electronica, and became part of the public collection of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm (SMS - Series 6). In 2004, he received an MSc from Chalmers University of Technology and taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Crawford received his PhD in 2009 from the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at Göteborg University in Sweden. His artwork has been featured by the Guardian and Leonardo. His writing has been published by Princeton Architectural Press and SpringerWienNewYork.
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