In his new commission “Get Life/Love’s Work,” artist Ed Atkins reflects on how technologies designed to facilitate connection and representation can, paradoxically, expose loss and underscore separation 🗣💻 The central work is a CG animation recorded using motion- and facial-capture technologies documenting an interview between the artist and his mother, which was shot during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown. The installation, which also includes embroideries, paintings, and text compositions, ex

Ed Atkins “Old Food” at Gropiusbau: Ed Atkins creates computer-generated films that have a heightened artificiality, depicting protagonists who are shabby, disarmingly intimate and lonely. His works feel like prefabricated animations, showing new digital media itself, as well as the synthetics of computer-generated figures and their worlds. www.gropiusbau.de/atkins #EdAtkins #Immersion #Gropiusbau Video: © Heidtke | Gropius Bau

1️⃣ Minute 1️⃣ Work with Ed Atkins: The British artist sits down to discuss his innovative video ‘The worm.’ Watch on to discover how the work uses motion-capture technology to reimagine and transform a conversation between Atkins and his mother. | Art Basel

Experience Ed Atkins’s powerful blend of digital art and emotion, exploring intimacy, love and loss through computer-generated videos and animations. | Tate