Peter Burr is a digital and new media artist based in

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, born August 3, 1980. Having received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002, Peter specializes in animation and installation. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Sundance New Frontier Story Lab Fellowship, a

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Award, and film/video prizes at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2016, among others. His work has been exhibited at The Zabludowicz Collection, The

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, 3-Legged Dog in New York,

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's experimental festival CROSSROADS, Supernova Digital Animation Festival in Denver,

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in Athens, and

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in Paris. He was also a touring member of the collective MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE. In 2005, he founded the video label and touring animation roadshow Cartune Xprez. He was an artist-in-residence at

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and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. In 2015, he was named one of the "best unrepresented artists."

Works

Peter Burr's works gain inspiration from

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. His project ''Special Effect'' is a live cinema performance that was presented at 50 different venues across the world from 2012 to 2014. ''Cave Exits'' (2015) is an art installation described as a living structure inside a 4-channel video cube. The work premiered at the

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in Toronto in 2015. He continued that collaboration with an interactive artwork entitled ''Dirtscraper'' that premiered at the inaugural exhibition of the ICA at VCU. The project employs the "video game concept of an endlessly mutating death labyrinth," exploring themes of alienated feminine bodies and feral architecture. Peter and Porpentine were commissioned by Rhizome to produce a Virtual Reality piece. Their project, ''Arcology'', was a "portrait of a woman navigating a living labyrinth." In May 2018, Peter's ongoing work ''Pattern Language'' was exhibited at

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as the monthly installment of the Midnight Moments series. The display involved digital art on advertising screens.

Selected works

* Dirtscraper (2018) *''Pattern Language'' (2016) *The Mess (2016) * Cave Exits (2015) * ''Special Effect'' (2012) * ''Green I Red'' (2012) *''Alone With The Moon'' (2012)

Awards

* Guggenheim Fellowship (2018) *Brooklyn Art Fund Grant (2017) *

Award in Emerging Fields (2016) * Sundance Institute's New Frontier Story Lab Fellowship (2016) * Supernova Digital Arts Festival Grand Prize (2016) * 25FPS International Experimental Film/Video Festival Critics Choice Award and Critics Jury Award (2016) * NYFA Fellowship (2015)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burr, Peter 1980 births American artists Living people Carnegie Mellon University alumni Sarah Lawrence College faculty