.MOV takes over the clocktower for the month of July! Curated by .MOV, this lineup highlights some of our favorite experimental animators—artists whose inventive approaches to movement, form, and storytelling embody the spirit of exploration that defines the medium.
Kelly Gallagher "Shifting"
Part of why I'm drawn to animation is because of its ability to remind us all that things are changeable. With this video projection, I wanted to focus on the power of transformation and movement. We are changeable, the world is changeable, and we can work together to shift and move things, to transform the world and ourselves.
Tom Nelson "Have a Look"
A different approach to the giant-monster-in-the-city genre, this piece introduces us to a more timid, wide-eyed creature that views the audience with curiosity instead of malice. In emerging from the vines he is letting both himself and the audience experience the wonderment of seeing and vulnerability of being seen.
KOKOFREAKBEAN "GYGAX"
GYGAX is a tender, feel-good, bite-sized abstract romantic comedy revolving around the eternal love affair between ideas and abject obscurity...and amorphous, interdimensional, fleshy blobs.
Kyle Evans "Machine Dreams of a Clocktower" (USA)
This work explores how artificial intelligence interprets and abstracts familiar forms. It reflects on the strange, often unpredictable logic behind AI-generated decisions—how they can feel both chaotic and unexpectedly organic. The creation process of this work began with AI-generated abstract images of the Daniels & Fisher Tower. These images were then used to create further abstracted 3D models, also generated by AI. The models are then manipulated and reshaped, revealing how the machine perceives and reconstructs structure.
Custom programming developed by the artist introduces a sense of time and movement to these forms, allowing their transformation to unfold gradually. This temporal layer exposes the multiple stages of interpretation embedded in the process. Influenced by glitch aesthetics, the work embraces digital errors and unintended outcomes as part of its visual language. The result is a dialogue between human memory and machine vision—between a historic landmark and its reimagining through artificial perception.
