Posted by tracey on: Wed 5th Sep, 2012

via the site Flavorpill.com

Santa Barbara-based Petra Cortright is one of the most alluring web artists to ever exhibit at the New Museum. Alright, her manipulated YouTube videos are just damn mesmerizing. At a particularly poignant moment in her career, her early work VVEBCAM was censored from YouTube for her endless use of offensive keywords like ”sex” “fuck” “orgy” “slut,” even though the content was rather innocent — a passive self-portrait interrupted by the shuffling of random, cartoon-ish web imagery as it was “consumed” by the artist. It is now backed up on Rhizome, and the incident is immortalized in academic circles.

http://www.petracortright.com/sparkling_one_and_two.html

 

It's nice to be reminded that not all Santa Barbara art is 1st Thursday-esque. 

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