Christian Marclay
born 1955
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Biography
Christian Ernest Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer. He holds both American and Swiss nationality.
Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film. A pioneer of using gramophone records and turntables as musical instruments to create sound collages, Marclay is, in the words of critic Thom Jurek, perhaps the "unwitting inventor of turntablism." His own use of turntables and records, beginning in the late 1970s, was developed independently of but roughly parallel to hip hop's use of the instrument.
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Live Performance by Christian Marclay, Sounds of Christmas at Tate Modern
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Talking Art - Christian Marclay
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Christian Marclay: Talking Art
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Electronic media
The most common examples of electronic media are video recordings, audio recordings, slide presentations, CD-ROM and online content
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Time-based media
Refers to art that is dependent on technology and has a durational dimension
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Sampling
In its most basic form sampling simply re-processes existing culture, usually technologically, in much the same way a collage does
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The luminous view: Recent Artists's Film and Video in Britain 2008-13
Tate Britain is staging an ambitious survey of artists' film and video which reflects the extraordinary blossoming and diversity of ...
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Tate, Centre Pompidou and Israel Museum jointly acquire Christian Marclay’s The Clock
3 Feb 2012
Press release: Tate, Centre Pompidou and Israel Museum jointly acquire Christian Marclay’s The Clock
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The art of noise
Almost 100 years ago, shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, the Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo proposed the ...
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