Winston Hacking
 SD; digital file; 2:49 minutes; 2018 Winston HackingOntario, Canada ARTIST BIOWinston Hacking is a moving image artist originally from Peterborough, Ontario. His work often combines found footage, collage, green screen and puppeteering. Hacking’s work is economical, both in terms of his use of found materials and the techniques used. Despite his thrifty approach, his works are daedal due to his ability to transform the mundane into the sublime through creative re-contextualization. Hacking has made music videos for Flying Lotus, Run The Jewels, Animal Collective and Andy Shauf, as well as creating transitional moving collages for Flying Lotus’ controversial feature length horror film Kuso (2017). His works have screened at Rochester Museum of Fine Arts (Rochester, New York), Belvedere 21 (Vienna, Austria), Ottawa International Animation Festival (Ottawa, Ontario), Pop Montreal (Montreal, Quebec), EXIS (Seoul,Korea), Pleasure Dome (Toronto, Ontario), and at many other microcinemas and festivals. His short film Erodium Thunk (2018) won Best Non-Narrative at Ottawa International Film Festival in 2018 and he has received research and development grants from The Canada Arts Council. He recently completed a virtual residency for The Petman Foundation where he created augmented reality animations for a virtual museum in both Toronto and Vienna. His collages are available in two limited edition risograph zines distributed by Colour Code Printing: No Sweat! (2018) and Flayed Mainframe (2016). CONTACTExamples of Collage in MotionErodium ThunkSD; digital file; 2:50 minutes; 2018 The film was made specifically for a group show in Vienna (curated by Clint Enns and Madi Piller) titled From A to Z, that reflects on Michael Snow’s 1956 animated film of the same name, and his multiplicity of approaches which fluidly transition between media and form. The piece is an endless barrage of hyperlinked cable television commercials. With equal doses of satire and nostalgia, the promised pleasures of late consumer capitalism are deconstructed through a contemporary form of détournement. Directed, Animated, Edited By: Winston Hacking Andy Shauf – The MagicianHD; digital file; 3:52 minutes; 2016 Directed By: Winston Hacking |