"Video Craft, currently on view at San Francisco's Museum of Craft and Design (MCD) through August 16, 2026, explores the formal and technical properties that video, film, and early moving image technologies share with more traditional craft media like ceramics, textiles, and glass. These practices have long been cut out of new media discourse, but this trend is in the process of being reversed."
"Through themes of encoding, looping, and sampling, the exhibition expands terms usually associated with media art to examine practices by artists using a wider range of materials and techniques, many of which are rooted in craft history. The artwork in Video Craft is loosely sorted into these three terms."
"Like the rhythm of pulling a knit stitch, looping emphasizes a shared physicality and a sense of joining between two media. Similar to montage, the artists whose work connects to sampling mine patterns found throughout material histories and resample them within the sensorial framework of video and film, changing the context, materiality, and composition of their sources."
Video Craft, on view at San Francisco's Museum of Craft and Design through August 16, 2026, examines the connections between video, film, and early moving image technologies with traditional craft practices. The exhibition is organized around three themes: encoding (translating ideas between mediums with structural transformation), looping (exploring tactile material connections and shared physicality between video and craft), and sampling (mining patterns from material histories and recontextualizing them within video and film). Curated by Sarah Mills and Ariel Zaccheo, the exhibition features 19 artists ranging from video production pioneers like Beryl Korot to emerging digital artists using diverse media.
Read at Hyperallergic
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]