What It Is, What It Was: Music Video as Art

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.

"What It Is, What It Was: Music Video As Art" explores the capacity of the music video, a popular and commercial form since the 1980s, to transcend and transform the limits of the genre - repetitiveness, visual eye candy, and the primacy of the singer performing their latest hit single - and to make a short film that traffics in the melodic, rhythmic, and lyrical structures of a song while extending the experience of the viewer beyond the song and into a world-not-yet-seen.

The approximately forty videos that comprise the exhibition are at turns compelling, beautiful, hypnotic, thought-provoking, dark, rich, textured, layered, meaningful, or challenging. From the simple, and simply achieved, poignancy of Gary Jules' "Mad World" to the kinetic fusing of found elements in U2's "Window in the Skies" to the brilliant decaying choreography of XX's "Islands," the videos in this exhibition transcend the well-worn confines of the genre and reveal that artistic vision and creativity thrives beyond the mass-media commercial universe of MTV and VH1.
 

With the exception of the University of Maryland's Thanksgiving break from November 22 – November 25, the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, December 14, 2012. For more information, click here or contact John Shipman.