It's time to take an Art Break with our partners MTV! This week's video, G.O.L. by Christine Sun Kim is an animation in the same style as the Atari game Breakout and investigates sign language interpretation and the metaphorical echo created by the interpreter.
From her own worlds: “An echo is what happens when a sound hits a surface and repeats, sometimes from a different direction, and sometimes compromised or distorted. This video considers how sign language interpreters process information and how Deaf people receive information from and through these interpreters. Interpreters repeat what they hear, enacting a constant echo or series of visual echoes.”
Check back next week for the third installment of Art Breaks! And don’t forget to check out the full length videos on @mtv and in Times Square at 1515 Broadway.
Animation by Jan Joost Verhoe, sound by Matt Karmil
