{{Short description|American artist}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = <!-- include middle initial, if not specified in birth_name --> | honorific_suffix = | image = Peter Burr.jpg | alt = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different than name --> | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1980}} | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, United States | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline}} --> | nationality = | education = | alma_mater = Carnegie Mellon University | occupation = Digital artist, new media artist | known_for = Animation, installation art | notable_works = | style = | movement = | spouse = | partner = | awards = <!-- {{awd|award|year|title|role|name}} (optional) --> | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website = <!-- {{URL|Example.com}} --> | module = | caption = Burr in 2014 }} '''Peter Burr''' (born 1980) is an American digital and new media artist. He specializes in animation and installation. He was also a touring member of the collective MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE;{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}} and founded the video production company, '''Cartune Xprez'''. He is based in Brooklyn, New York.
== Career == Peter Burr was born in 1980 in Brooklyn, New York.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018 |title=Peter Burr with Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Biography |url=https://icavcu.org/artist/burr/ |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=Institute for Contemporary Art |language=en-US}}</ref> He received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-01-09 |title=Alumni Deborah Kass and Peter Burr Among ARTFCITY's "The Best of Everything 2016!"{{!}} Carnegie Mellon University |url=http://www.art.cmu.edu/2017/01/09/alumni-deborah-kass-peter-burr-among-artfcity-the-best-of-everything-2016/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728160313/http://www.art.cmu.edu/2017/01/09/alumni-deborah-kass-peter-burr-among-artfcity-the-best-of-everything-2016/ |archive-date=2017-07-28 |access-date=2017-07-20 |website=School of Art {{!}} Carnegie Mellon University}}</ref>
He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2018), a Sundance New Frontier Story Lab Fellowship (2016),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/2016-new-frontier-story-lab#/|title=Sundance Institute's New Frontier Story Lab Explores the Future with Six Creative Teams and Projects|website=www.sundance.org|access-date=2018-07-24}}</ref> a Creative Capital Award (2016),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.creative-capital.org/index.php?url=grantees/view/803/project:845|title=Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future|website=www.creative-capital.org|language=en|access-date=2017-07-20}}</ref> and film/video prizes at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, among others.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}} He was an artist-in-residence at MacDowell Colony and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
His work has been exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art,<ref>{{Cite web |title=New digital art commission by Peter Burr launches on whitney.org |url=https://artdaily.com/news/159671/New-digital-art-commission-by-Peter-Burr-launches-on-whitney-org |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=artdaily.com}}</ref> The Museum of Modern Art,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pierpont |first=Madeleine |date=Oct 3, 2023 |title=MoMA Postcard: Collaboration and Creativity on Blockchain |url=https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/953 |access-date=February 22, 2024 |website=MoMA.org}}</ref> 3-Legged Dog in New York,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blog.3ldnyc.org/post/117134509083/cave-exits-an-immersive-video-installation-by|title=3LDNYC — CAVE EXITS An immersive video installation by...|website=3LDNYC|access-date=2017-07-20|archive-date=2017-07-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728180729/http://blog.3ldnyc.org/post/117134509083/cave-exits-an-immersive-video-installation-by|url-status=dead}}</ref> San Francisco Cinematheque's experimental festival CROSSROADS,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://48hills.org/2017/05/16/crossroads-cinematheque-sfmoma/|title=A leap for CROSSROADS|last=Ficks|first=Jesse Hawthorne|date=2017-05-16|website=48 hills|access-date=2017-07-20}}</ref> Supernova Digital Animation Festival in Denver,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://filmfreeway.com/festival/Supernova|title=Supernova Digital Animation Festival|website=FilmFreeway|language=en|access-date=2017-07-20}}</ref> Documenta 14 in Athens,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.documenta14.de/en/notes-and-works/23337/hallucinations-live-cinema-festival|title=Hallucinations / Live / Cinema / Festival|access-date=2017-07-20|language=en}}</ref> and Centre Pompidou in Paris.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://iffr.com/en/persons/peter-burr|title=Peter Burr|date=2015-09-04|work=IFFR|access-date=2017-07-20|language=en|archive-date=2017-07-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728162013/https://iffr.com/en/persons/peter-burr|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2005, he founded the video label and touring animation roadshow Cartune Xprez.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://badatsports.com/2011/the-dream-outside-an-interview-with-peter-burr-about-cartune-xprez/|title=The Dream Outside: An Interview with Peter Burr about Cartune Xprez {{!}} Bad at Sports|website=badatsports.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-07-20}}</ref> In 2015, he was named one of the "best unrepresented artists." by The AFC.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2015-12-28 |title=The Best Unrepresented Artists of 2015 |url=http://artfcity.com/2015/12/28/the-best-unrepresented-artists-of-2015/ |access-date=2017-07-20 |website=Art F City |archive-date=2017-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728160211/http://artfcity.com/2015/12/28/the-best-unrepresented-artists-of-2015/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Works == Burr's works integrate video game design into new media and digital art. His projects often blend cinema with interactive elements to explore themes of alienation, urbanism, and the social influence of internet technologies.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}} ''Special Effect'' is a live cinema performance that was presented at 50 different venues across the world from 2012 to 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.realtimearts.net/article/113/10961|title=RealTime Arts - Magazine - issue 113 - 70s dystopia in 2013 via 80s & 90s tv|website=www.realtimearts.net|language=en|access-date=2017-07-20}}</ref> ''Cave Exits'' is an art installation described as a living structure inside a 4-channel video cube, premiering at the Images Festival in Toronto in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thepluspaper.com/2015/04/28/cave-exits/|title=Cave Exits|date=2015-04-28|website=The Plus Paper|access-date=2017-07-20}}</ref> He continued that collaboration with an interactive artwork entitled ''Dirtscraper'' that premiered at the inaugural exhibition of the ICA at VCU.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://hyperallergic.com/439629/new-virginia-commonwealth-university-institute-contemporary-art-inaugural-exhibition-declaration/|title=A New Contemporary Art Museum in Virginia Leads with Politics|date=2018-04-24|work=Hyperallergic|access-date=2018-07-24|language=en-US}}</ref> 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 continue that body of work through a Virtual Reality piece. The result of that commission was the project ''Arcology'', a "portrait of a woman navigating a living labyrinth."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/artists-vr|title=Artists' VR|website=www.newmuseum.org|language=en|access-date=2017-07-21}}</ref>
In May 2018, Burr's ongoing work ''Pattern Language'' was exhibited at Times Square as the monthly installment of the Midnight Moments series. The display involved digital art on advertising screens.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://arts.timessquarenyc.org/times-square-arts/projects/midnight-moment/pattern-language/index.aspx|title=Times Square Arts: Pattern Language|website=arts.timessquarenyc.org|language=en|access-date=2018-07-24}}</ref>
In January, 2021, his project ''Responsive Eye'' was exhibited at Telematic Media Arts and Minnesota Street Project. It is a collection of multimedia artworks that examine ways we endure contemporary life in gridded simulations. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Responsive Eye - Peter Burr |url=https://www.tttelematiccc.com/responsive-eye |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=T e l e m a t i c |language=en-US}}</ref>
In December, 2022, his artwork ''Boom Town'' launched at Feral File. It explores the cyclical nature of boom and bust economies within virtual landscapes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BOOM TOWN: An Art and Digital-Centric Talk With Peter Burr – CAP 74024 Magazine |url=https://www.cap74024.com/boom-town-peter-burr/ |access-date=2024-02-22 |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222164411/https://www.cap74024.com/boom-town-peter-burr/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In July, 2023, His project ''Sunshine Monument'' premiered at The Whitney Museum. It is an exploration of dystopian themes through architectural constructs within virtual spaces reflecting on the museum structure that houses it both literally and symbolically.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Peter Burr: Sunshine Monument |url=https://whitney.org/exhibitions/peter-burr |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=whitney.org |language=en}}</ref>
== Works == * Sunshine Monument (2023)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Peter Burr |url=https://whitney.org/artists/20783 |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=whitney.org |language=en}}</ref> * Boom Town (2022)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Feral File - Exhibiting, Curating, and Collecting Digital Art |url=https://feralfile.com/ |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=Feral File |language=en}}</ref> * Black Square (2020)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Living In the Gap: In Conversation with Peter Burr |url=https://www.headlands.org/article/living-in-the-gap-in-conversation-with-peter-burr/ |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=Headlands Center for the Arts |date=25 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref> * Dirtscraper (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rvamag.com/tags/dirtscraper|title=Dirtscraper|website=rvamag.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-07-24}}</ref> *''Pattern Language'' (2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blog.3ldnyc.org/search/pattern+language?og=1|title=3LDNYC|access-date=2017-07-20|archive-date=2018-05-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180519033031/http://blog.3ldnyc.org/search/pattern+language?og=1|url-status=dead}}</ref> *The Mess (2016)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://iffr.com/en/2016/films/the-mess|title=The Mess|date=2016-01-18|work=IFFR|access-date=2018-07-24|language=en}}</ref> * Cave Exits (2015)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blog.3ldnyc.org/post/117134509083/cave-exits-an-immersive-video-installation-by|title=3LDNYC — CAVE EXITS An immersive video installation by...|website=3LDNYC|access-date=2017-07-20|archive-date=2017-07-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728180729/http://blog.3ldnyc.org/post/117134509083/cave-exits-an-immersive-video-installation-by|url-status=dead}}</ref> * ''Special Effect'' (2012)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.undervolt.co/Peter-Burr|title=Peter Burr - Undervolt & Co|website=www.undervolt.co|language=en|access-date=2017-07-20}}</ref> * ''Green I Red'' (2012)<ref>{{Citation|last=hooliganship|title=green {{!}} red {{!}} tunnel - live documentation|date=2012-05-13|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxv172Re2UI|accessdate=2017-07-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.undervolt.co/Peter-Burr|title=Peter Burr - Undervolt & Co|website=www.undervolt.co|language=en|access-date=2017-07-20}}</ref> *''Alone With The Moon'' (2012)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.25fps.hr/en/film/alone-with-the-moon|title=Alone with the Moon :: 25 FPS|website=www.25fps.hr|access-date=2018-07-24}}</ref>
== Awards == * Guggenheim Fellowship (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/peter-burr/|title=Guggenheim Fellow|last=Burr|first=Peter|date=2018-07-24|website=Guggenheim Foundation|access-date=2018-07-24|archive-date=2022-08-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812070531/https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/peter-burr/|url-status=dead}}</ref> *Brooklyn Art Fund Grant (2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/2572|title=2017 Grantees|website=Brooklyn Arts Council|language=en-US|access-date=2017-07-20}}</ref> *Creative Capital Award in Emerging Fields (2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.creative-capital.org/projects/view/845|title=Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future|website=www.creative-capital.org|language=en|access-date=2017-07-20|archive-date=2017-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911105204/http://www.creative-capital.org/projects/view/845|url-status=dead}}</ref> * Sundance Institute's New Frontier Story Lab Fellowship (2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/2016-new-frontier-story-lab|title=Sundance Institute's New Frontier Story Lab Explores the Future with Six Creative Teams and Projects|website=www.sundance.org|access-date=2017-07-20}}</ref> * Supernova Digital Arts Festival Grand Prize (2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://filmfreeway.com/festival/Supernova|title=Supernova Digital Animation Festival|website=FilmFreeway|language=en|access-date=2017-07-20}}</ref> * 25FPS International Experimental Film/Video Festival Critics Choice Award and Critics Jury Award (2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://shorts.cineuropa.org/sh.aspx?t=article&t2=news&did=318181|title=The Mess triumphs at 25FPS|website=Cineuropa Shorts|access-date=2017-07-20|archive-date=2017-03-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311153437/http://shorts.cineuropa.org//sh.aspx?t=article&t2=news&did=318181|url-status=dead}}</ref> * NYFA Fellowship (2015)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nyfa.org/Content/Show/Artists%27%20Fellowships|title=New York Foundation for the Arts|website=www.nyfa.org|access-date=2017-07-20|archive-date=2017-07-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728180423/https://www.nyfa.org/Content/Show/Artists%27%20Fellowships|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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