Bruno Di Marino's Book Explores Art and Music Video Intersections

Bruno Di Marino's book 'Segni sogni suoni' (Meltemi, 2018) examines the relationship between contemporary art and music videos. It highlights Andy Warhol's early music video work, including 'Hello Again' for Cars (1984) and 'Misfit' for Curiosity Killed The Kat (1987), and his satisfaction with these projects despite their seeming banality. The book categorizes artist-music video interactions into three modes: artists directing videos (Damien Hirst for Blur, the Chapman brothers for Spiritualized and PJ Harvey, John Currin for Pulp), artists influencing video aesthetics (James Turrell in 'Hotline Bling', Erwin Wurm in 'Can't Stop'), and musicians who are also visual artists directing their own videos (Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Brian Eno). A fourth category includes video directors embraced by the art world, such as Chris Cunningham, who exhibited at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001 curated by Harald Szeemann. The book also discusses Björk's 'Black Lake' (2015), a dual-screen installation at MoMA later adapted into a music video, directed by Thomas Andrew Huang with 3D effects by David Benjamin. Di Marino, a professor at Accademia di Belle Arti di Frosinone, provides a comprehensive analysis of this cross-pollination.