Who’s Afraid of Blue, Red and Green?
online competition

From rachel@XXXXXXX.org

Who’s Afraid of Blue, Red and Green? is an online competition
and public art project by multimedia Austrian
artist Günther Selichar.
From January 21 – March 31, participants will be asked
to design 15-second abstract animations in an exercise
designed to explore the elementary visual
building blocks of digital display screens:
the colors blue, red,

From: Sarah Bacon
Creative Time

Who’s Afraid of Blue, Red and Green? is an online competition and public
art project by multimedia Austrian artist Günther Selichar. From January
21 – March 31, participants will be asked to design 15-second abstract
animations in an exercise designed to explore the elementary visual
building blocks of digital display screens: the colors blue, red, and
green. The online competition is presented in collaboration with the
Landesmuseum in Linz, Austria, host of a concurrent exhibition, January 21
– February 28, 2004 of Selichar’s work.

Who’s Afraid of Blue, Red and Green? is a direct reference to Barnett
Newman’s abstract expressionist painting, Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and
Blue? (1966-70), one of several paintings, including the "Zip" series, in
which Newman explored the nuanced relationship between proportion, scale,
and color. Drawing inspiration from this investigative process,
Selichar’s Who’s Afraid of Blue, Red and Green? charges participants to
employ traditional painterly compositional criteria on a display screen as
opposed to canvas.

A jury consisting of the artist, curators, academics and others in the
creative community will select three winners to be notified in May 2004.
The winners will be screened in rotation in Creative Time’s ongoing
series, The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision by
Panasonic as part of a group show of interactive projects in Times Square
from late June through September 2004.

We hope to disseminate information on the competition broadly, both
nationally and internationally, and thought that Rhizome and Media Lounge
subscribers might be interested in participating.

Thanks for your time and consideration.

Sarah Bacon
Director of Communications [close]