Eric Nakamura (Giant Robot) & Saelee Oh discuss their animated paper art video piece that is currently featured in Scion’s Installation 6: Video national art tour. They give great insight into how they painstakingly created their short over 2 days – lots of freestyle scissor work, late nights, complaining and fun. (It was Eric’s first stop motion animation.) The piece also has music from Goh Nakamura.

Now in its 6th year, this revolutionary art tour, designed to expose established and emerging artists and their work to audiences across the country. The tour focuses on the video medium, which emerged in the 1960s and has since expanded galleries into more experimental, kinetic and interactive spaces. “Installation 6: Video” challenged 10 artists to create non-narrative video installations that will eventually transform five unique exhibitions around the country. Look for the tour in your area here.

Also check out these stop motion videos: Deadline – Post-It Stop Motion and Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection. BTW – this video is not connected to Marie Digby’s album Breathing Underwater.

Breathing Underwater

More about Eric Nakamura
Eric Nakamura got his start in magazine making through a stint at the Palisadian Post newspaper and Larry Flynt Publications, but worked on numerous punk rock zines in the early 90s. In addition to founding and publishing issues of Giant Robot magazine since 1994, curating the art galleries, and picking products for the shops, located in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City, Nakamura has made an independent movie called Sunsets in 1997. He consults companies on Asian popular culture and designs t-shirts for the Giant Robot brand. Recently, Nakamura curated a museum show, “Giant Robot Biennale” at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, and continues to work on projects outside of Giant Robot for different communities and entities. Giant Robot continues to be a leading source of Asian popular culture and is often considered a lifestyle magazine and store for the fans of animation, art, and design.

More about Saelee Oh
Saelee Oh graduated from Art Center College of Design in 2003 and has Been working in Los Angeles, CA in the field of illustration and fine art. Her work incorporates nature imagery to tell roughly autobiographical stories of connectedness, alienation and the female experience. A mix of materials are used to make both 2D and 3D work. She has been featured in Juxtapoz and Giant Robot magazine and has had exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Portland, Tokyo in many galleries including Jonathan Levine Gallery, Sloan Fine Art, New Image Art, GR2 and Tinlark.