Filmic vibrations : The contemporary legacy of Len Lye

Abstract

Rainforth writes of Len Lye as a "hugely influential New Zealander [who] gave birth to some of the first multimedia orphans; part paint, part celluloid and, in the narrow terms of their day, neither film nor art. Starting life without proper homes to go to or schools to belong to, they have grown up to be perpetual adolescents, claimed as the worlds first music videos and the denizens of YouTube. This article looks at Lye's work and its legacy - direct or otherwise - for a small yet stylistically diverse number of artists working with moving image".