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Aitken's recent work "The Source" (2012) explores the root of creativity. Six projections in a pavilion designed by David Adjaye, cycle through many more interviews with artists, architects, and musicians such as Adjaye, Liz Diller, William Eggleston, Philippe Parreno, Paolo Soleri, Tilda Swinton, and Beck among others. Wikipedia

Bio:

Doug Aitken [previously] was born in California in 1968. He lives and works in Los Angeles and New York. Widely known for his innovative fine art installations, Doug Aitken is at the forefront of 21st century communication. Utilizing a wide array of media and artistic approaches, his eye leads us into a world where time, space, and memory are fluid concepts.

Aitken’s body of work ranges from photography, sculpture, and architectural interventions, to films, sound, single and multi-channel video works, and installations. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, in such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Vienna Secession, the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. He participated in the Whitney Biennial 1997 and 2000 and earned the International Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1999 for the installation “electric earth”.

Aitken’s “Sleepwalkers” exhibition at MoMA in 2007 transformed an entire block of Manhattan into an expansive cinematic experience as he covered the museum’s exteriors walls with projections. In 2009, his Sonic Pavilion opened to the public in the forested hills of Brazil at the new cultural foundation INHOTIM. Continuing his work in innovative outdoor projects, Aitken presented his large-scale film and architecture installation, “Frontier”, on Rome’s Isola Tiberina in November 2009 and at Art Basel Unlimited in 2010. Recently, Aitken’s multiform artwork “Black Mirror” engaged a site-specific multi-channel video installation and a live theatre performance on a uniquely designed barge floating off Athens and Hydra Island, Greece.

From Wikipedia:

Aitken’s body of work ranges from photography, print media, sculpture, and architectural interventions, to narrative films, sound, single and multi-channel video works, installations, and live performance. Aitken's video works have taken place in such culturally loaded sites as Jonestown in Guyana, Africa's diamond mines, and India's Bollywood. Aitken has collaborated on his films with a wide variety of musicians, from hip hop artist André 3000 of Outkast, who was in Aitken’s 2002 multiscreen Interiors to indie bands like Lichens and No Age, which contributed to his score for his 2008 film Migration and 2011's Black Mirror, respectively.

Explore* The Source by Topic:
Process
Patterns
Chaos
Motion
Place

Or by Subject:
Aaron Koblin
Alice Waters
Beck
David Adjaye
Devendra Banhart
Jack Pierson
Jack White
Jacques Herzog
James Murphy
James Turrell
Liz Diller
Liz Glynn
Lucky Dragons
Mike Kelley
Paolo Soleri
Philippe Parreno
Richard Phillips
Ryan Trecartin
Stephen Shore
Theaster Gates
Thomas Demand
Tilda Swinton
William Eggleston

* I'm not linking directly to the topics or subjects because the exploration and discovery are the point of the project.

Elsewhere:

NYT T Magazine: Q & A Doug Aitken Unveils the Source, a Collective Meditation on the Nature of Creativity
Smithsonian: Doug Aitken is Redefining How We Experience Art
Interview Magazine: Exclusive Preview and Interview: 'The Source (Evolving),' Doug Aitken
Artist Website: Selected Works
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