Methods of Art – Archive of Artists Interviews

I mean I really like working with physical objects and I really like working with code so I mean like, in that sense it becomes a medium. But the output material is, I guess it differs depending where you see it. So sometimes it is a file, sometimes its what the file generates and sometimes its a painting or sometimes its the exhibition space, the paintings have generated, so it really varies. But I like as much as possible to include craft in my work and I really like to hand build things and to take the longer harder route. Because it’s rewarding to me, not because I think it enhances the work, you know? I think it would be really fantastic if I outsourced everything and I was able to work ten times faster and I just took my to do list and just shipped it off to a manufacturer but I don’t find enjoyment through that so, I feel like there is a part of it that I enjoy doing and I try to introduce craft wherever I can, whereas it’s making the paintings you know, stretching the canvases, everything…it’s like, I really like it. I don’t want to preorder my mixed colors, I don’t want to outsource my web development. It’s not a control thing as much as it is a pleasure thing.
There is so much more that I’m being informed by, you know? So you are being informed by our history but then you are also informed by these constant conversations online, these new developments, these new ways of thinking, and so you’ve changed in your approach so often and I think that’s really exciting.

Anthony Antonellis / Material

Bio

* visual artist who is based on the internet in New York. He is a graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design, BFA in painting, and Bauhaus University, MFA in new artistic strategies. He is the creator of netartnet.net, an online-gallery listing and directory.Antonellis’ work has been exhibited internationally at venues including The Photographers’ Gallery London, Eyebeam and Transfer Gallery, New York, as well as at art fairs NADA and Untitled Miami Beach. His work has been featured in Artnet, The Creators Project, BLOUIN ARTINFO, and Interview Magazine as well as news outlets such as Wired, CNET, Discovery, The Atlantic, and BBC World Service.
WEB: http://www.anthonyantonellis.com

Credits

The interview was conducted on May 19 2014 at the artist’s studio in New York.

Interviewed by: Konstanze Schuetze
Filmed and recorded by: Konstanze Schuetze
Edited by: Paul Barsch
Transcript by: Wolfram Eggebrecht, Lea Hoßbach, Ella Tetrault
Produced by: University of Cologne (Cologne), Institut für Kunst&Kunsttheorie