SLIPKNOT Masks Featured In 'Vultus' Animated Sequence
September 13, 2010Two photographs of masks from the Iowa metal band SLIPKNOT will be featured in Vultus, an animated sequence of masks from Western Illinois University Professor of Art Bruce Walters, to be projected on a handful of art museums, galleries and centers at the end of October.
Vultus (Latin for "face" or for "appearance and expression") is a looped video of more than 100 masks (the video will be 10-15 minutes in length, but will run perpetually as a loop). Many of the masks are specific to Halloween, but a number of African, Asian and Native American cultural masks and sculptures of faces and masks are also included. All masks face directly forward and are aligned so they virtually morph from one into the other. Each mask is shown for about 8 seconds — including the transitions. The video is in high contrast black and white.
Vultus will be projected 50 feet in height on the exterior of the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa on October 28 and October 31; at the Peoria Contemporary Art Center in Peoria, Illinois on October 29; at the Quad City Arts Gallery in Rock Island, Illinois on October 29; at the UAY Center in downtown Iowa City and the ICON Contemporary Art Gallery in Fairfield, Iowa. There are also plans to show it at the Artery and possibly along the Halloween parade in Greenwich Village, New York City.
One of the above-mentioned SLIPKNOT photographs can be seen in the first of two videos below (around the 8-second mark).
(Thanks: Les Connelly)
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