LookingOutwards – 04

Christian Marclay is an artist and composer with a strong interest in collages. In 2018, he used Snapchat videos and audio to compose and visualize a series of projects made up of a collage of video cuts. In one project a collection of phones hanging from the ceiling; as people speak to them the software matches the frequency of their voice to Snapchat videos and displays them on the screen as a reply. In another, a piano’s keys are connected to sound clippings from Snapchat videos, and as a player presses the keys videos and their sound display on a large screen. All the projects in this collection are interactive; I think this makes it more interesting because Snapchat is an app most people are familiar with and his project series allows them to use it in an entirely different way.