Andrew Norman Wilson
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Biography
Born in 1983 in the United States, he is a visual artist, filmmaker, curator, and lecturer based between Europe and the US. Working across video, sculpture, photography, and performance, Wilson received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. He is best known for Workers Leaving the Googleplex (2011), which critically examines Google’s labour practices. His work has been exhibited at MoMA New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Getty Museum, Centre Pompidou, LUMA Arles, MoMA PS1, and the Gwangju and Berlin Biennials. His films have screened at Sundance, the New York Film Festival, and IFFR. Wilson has lectured at Oxford University, Harvard University, Universität der Künste Berlin, and CalArts.
Known For
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Nightmare Paint

A text, some images, and an unstable arrangement of durations to which one can devote a fluctuating form of attention.
Screen Glare

An unhoused character impersonator on Los Angeles’ Hollywood Boulevard seeks connection to the world through radical, Hollywood-oriented conspiracy theories that they consume by way of a Bluetooth headset soldered into the helmet of their storm-trooper-like costume.
Impersonator

A semi-biographical fiction inspired by his father’s work at one of Kodak’s first processing labs, Wilson’s speculative gloss on the evolution of photochemical science entwines multiple perspectives and personas. Co-written by James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Kodak imagines a dialogue between a blind, mentally unstable former film technician and George Eastman himself, recordings of whom play out over a procession of photographs, home video footage, vintage Kodak ads, and animations.
Kodak
Due to his video- and interview-based investigations of a top-secret, marginalized class of book-scanning workers on the campus of Google headquarters, Andrew Norman Wilson was fired from his job there as a video editor. Workers Leaving the Googleplex is the result of these investigations.
Workers Leaving the Googleplex

New details on the drowning that inspired In the Air Tonight have emerged from someone who was close to Phil at the time.
In the Air Tonight

Silvesterchlausen is a mysterious tradition that takes place every New Year’s Eve in Switzerland’s Appenzell, the most conservative part of the country. Groups of six men dress in ornate costumes and engage in wordless, polyphonic yodeling and rhythmic bell clanging. The ritual has been performed for at least 500 years, but nobody knows how or why it began.
Silvesterchlausen

The first section employs a 75mm to 1500mm Canon telephoto lens developed for wildlife cinematography. This uncannily prolonged zoom moves from a cityscape view to details on a single balcony of Chicago's Marina City. The second section employs 8K photorealistic computer generated materials commonly used in architectural renders, video games, and the motion picture industry. The third section was procedurally generated using fractal software developed by the computer engineer Code Parade. Wilson worked with Code Parade to customize his programme towards heightened cinematic realism and render what look like infinite synthetic 3D landscapes constructed for something other than the human body.
Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: The Old Victrola

Animated loop by Andrew Norman Wilson.
A reason to wake up in the evening

In 2010 the physicist Aaron O’Connell and his colleagues proved that a strip of metal, visible to the naked human eye, can both oscillate and not oscillate at the same time. Essentially this means that objects, whatever their size, can be in two places at once. From here it starts to seem like existing means being inconsistent, while dying means becoming consistent.
Reality Models

Ode to Seekers 2012 is an infinite loop that celebrates the existence of mosquitoes, syringes and oil derricks via a translation of the formal techniques of John Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn from printed text to video.
Ode to Seekers 2012

Andrew Norman Wilson announces the streaming deal that he signed with Metrograph at home.
Metrograph Steaming Deal Announcement

What happens inside a Poké Ball with space and time? This is one of several questions we face in a tale told in amphetamine-fuelled voice-over. The repeated act of zooming into a multi-purpose residential skyscraper breaks open modern family domestics to reveal increasingly bizarre tableaux. A papier-mâché Pikachu stares ahead, knowing all the answers.
Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: Lavender Town Syndrome

The Uncertainty Seminars abstract corporate aesthetics across several sections, conflating modes of address from avant-garde cinema and video art with contemporary therapeutic and motivational techniques. The techniques involved address forms of uncertainty in personal, professional, and civil life.