DIVA – Digital Video Art Fair New York

A few weeks ago, DIVA set up shipping crates around the Chelsea gallery area. The crates housed digital and video art installations from surrounding galleries like, Kenise Barnes Fine Arts and FRAME.  

Paper Deviations by David Caspe is one man’s tirade about his fears of getting married. The artist animates himself in underwear then video records the drawings in a flip book like style, the funniest and cleverest of the piece is the voice-over neurotic rant of a stereotypical New Yorker.

On the Homefront by Lisa Dahl, you step into a grassy container (Astroturf) with the faint smell of cut grass in the air, I was quickly shaken to my senses with the sounds of machines guns and shouting.  The artists’ video projects suburban homes with picket fences through the lenses of infrared goggles.  The artists’ commentary is on the war in Iraq.  It was pretty powerful, but loud and scary. Certainly a dose of reality.