Daniel Crooks
Pan No.7 (strange attractor)
digital video, 16:9, colour, stereo sounds, 1 from an edition of 3
with certificate of authenticity signed, dated and inscribed by the artist
Price on Application
Provenance:
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 21 October 2010
Exhibitions:
stand D10, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, 4-8th August 2010
'Perhaps the most technically distinctive work produced in Australian video art over the past decade has been made by Daniel Crooks. Something of an 'image scientist', Crooks is unusual in his exploration of the materiality of digital imagery. Using his renowned 'timeslice' technique - which involves manipulating slivers of video frames - he transforms everyday sights such as trains and city streets into wide-screen meditations on perception, motion, urbanity and the speed of life.
Objects and people shrink and expand, merge and disappear, and move constantly and rhythmically backwards and forwards simultaneously, yet appear to stay smoothly still against speeding molten backgrounds.' (Daniel Palmer, 'Australian Video Art since 2000' in M Perkins, J Conomos, E Galimberti, A Marsh, S Jones, J Millner, D Tofts & D Palmer, Video Void - Australian Video Art, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014, p.107)
