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Jubal Brown (born 〔) is a video producer and multi-media artist based in Toronto, Canada. He gained notoriety in 1996 when he deliberately vomited primary colours on paintings in the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.〔〔 Brown has made a number of videos, many of which have been screened in North America and Europe.〔 ''Canadian Art'' magazine called Brown "the dark prince of Toronto art".〔 ==Biography== Jubal Brown graduated at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and is a founding member of the famefame media-art collective. Brown has made a number of videos that have been screened in North America and Europe.〔 His works have been well received in London,〔 and ''Canadian Art'' magazine called some of them "the most provocative and intelligent (and often very funny) video works to come out of Toronto in years".〔 Many of his videos are made up of hundreds of brief samples taken from mainstream media, all packed together to create a "hyper-dense, jittery, relentless (and often deeply disturbing) audiovisual assault".〔 Brown said that his intention was to "push the ideas of mass media to their logical and ridiculous conclusions: sex, death, speed, power".〔 He believes that there is a lot of "useless information" in films, and his videos condense the material into "its one telling moment". He said that "our generation is raised on media and we can therefore eat a lot more, much more quickly."〔 ''The Blob'' (9 min) is a video Brown released in 2000 which includes cut-ups of the 1958 science fiction/horror film, ''The Blob'', its 1988 remake, plus many other media sources themed on paranoia. ''Operation'' (1999) is a 10-minute recording of Brown performing surgery on himself. In the spirit of body-art mutilation, he attempts to remove a lump of fat on his torso with a pocket knife.〔 When ''Operation'' was shown in London, many viewers had to look away, which is the effect the video set out to achieve.〔 ''Life Is Pornography'' (2005, 23 min) includes clips of genocides rated as video game scores, stills of "horrible" images, like a picture of someone's eye with a nail through it, and a rework of fragments of the Britney Spears video, ''Toxic''. A voice-over calls pornography the "reduction of human culture into exploitable parts". Mike Hoolboom writing in ''Practical Dreamers: Conversations With Movie Artists'' called ''Life Is Pornography'' "a deeply wounded, romantic and despairing tape". Brown released his longest video, ''Total War'' (53 min) in 2008. He said it "brings together a lot of the ideas, emotionally and technically, I've been developing over the past 10 years".〔 The video highlights the media excesses that modern warfare evokes. Brown believes Iraq was the first "YouTube war",〔 and ''Total War'' includes YouTube clips, network news clips, action film scenes, TV sitcom fragments, and other "found-footage".〔 ''ArtUS'' described ''Total War'' as Brown's first "breakout work", with elements of streams of consciousness, in contrast to his previous fast-paced, trance-like mashups.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jubal Brown」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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