Peter Burr
Brooklyn artist making immersive, cinematic works with video game industry tools
Biography
Peter Burr was born in 1980 in Brooklyn, New York, where he is based. He makes immersive, cinematic artworks using tools from the video game industry. He previously worked under the alias Hooliganship and founded the video label Cartune Xprez, which produced live multimedia exhibitions and touring programs for experimental animation artists. His work has been presented at Documenta 14 in Athens (2017), MoMA PS1 in New York and the Barbican Centre in London. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital grant and a Sundance New Frontier Fellowship. Sunshine Monument is made of seven animated architectures, one for each weekday, that turn the text and images of the Whitney website into abstract buildings with wandering figures around a round sun icon. It includes text the artist generated with AI.
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