Lorna Mills

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Minute 24, Episode 3 of Ways of Something
Minute 24, Episode 3 of Ways of Something, a networked remake of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, curated and compiled by Lorna Mills, 2016 (Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art)

Canadian artist, Lorna Mills has actively exhibited her work in both solo and group exhibitions since the early 1990's. Her practice has included obsessive Ilfochrome printing, obsessive painting, obsessive super 8 film & video, and obsessive on-line animated GIFs incorporated into restrained off-line installation work. Past exhibitions include “Dreamlands” at the Whitney Museum, NY, “Yellowwhirlaway” at the Museum of the Moving Image, NY, “The Great Code” at Transfer Gallery, NY and, currently, “Sea Change” at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.

She curated “Ways of Something”, a remake of the 1972 John Berger documentary “Ways of Seeing” episodes one through four, featuring over 115 networked artists and WellNow.wtf, a sprawling netart project co-curated with Faith Holland and Wade Wallerstein.

Her Gif collages have recently been included in PHAIDON's “Vitamin C+ Collage in Contemporary Art”, “Digital Art” (2023 edition) by Christiane Paul and Taschen’s “On NFTs” edited by Robert Alice.

Index

Danse du chimère

2024

Collection of the Royal Bank of Canada

Danse du chimère installed as a tall vertical screen in the RBC head office lobby, Toronto.
Installation view from the RBC head office in Toronto
Danse du chimère — a panoramic animated collage of shifting figures and textures.
Danse du chimère, 3840 x 720 px

Living in Loops

2024

Curated by Robert Seidel for tangente digital art, Jena, DE

Installation view at tangente digital art, Jena, with work shown on wall-mounted screens.
Frank’s Stylist is Me — a square animated collage of layered figures.
Frank’s Stylist is Me, 2023
Installation view at tangente digital art, Jena — vertical screen in the gallery.
Love Sugar — a tall animated collage in saturated colour.
Love Sugar, 2019
Installation view at tangente digital art, Jena — vertical screen in the gallery.
Universal Iris — a square animated collage built around a central eye motif.
Universal Iris, 2021
Installation view at tangente digital art, Jena — vertical screen in the gallery.
Return of Mom — a square animated collage of recombined domestic imagery.
Return of Mom, 2021
Installation view at tangente digital art, Jena — vertical screen in the gallery.
Legendary Weave — a square animated collage of interlacing forms.
Legendary Weave, 2025

Ungentrified

2014 – present

Six channel projection installation with multi-channel CRTs

Ungentrified installed as a multi-channel projection with banks of CRT monitors.
Front left projection from Ungentrified — animated collage.
Front left projection from installation
Front right projection from Ungentrified — animated collage.
Front right projection from installation
Top left panoramic channel from Ungentrified.
Top left panoramic GIF from installation
Bottom left panoramic channel from Ungentrified.
Bottom left panoramic GIF from installation
Top right panoramic channel from Ungentrified.
Top right panoramic GIF from installation
A further panoramic channel from Ungentrified.
Top right panoramic GIF from installation

Volare, Oh Oh

2015

Commissioned for First Look at the Museum of the Moving Image, NYC

Collection of EQBank

Volare, Oh Oh — animated collage commissioned for the Museum of the Moving Image.

Ethereal Imperial

2017

Six channel monitor installation

Commissioned for Giphy's 5th anniversary exhibition

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Petting Zoo: Epic Biblical

2020

Installed on the LED wall at NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Petting Zoo: Epic Biblical shown on a large LED wall at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
Petting Zoo: Epic Biblical — animated collage of layered figures and animals.

Petting Zoo: Noble Orphans

2020

Also curated by Erandy Vergara for ISEA 2020 "Why Sentience"

Collection of the Thoma Foundation

Petting Zoo: Noble Orphans installed as a wide horizontal band of screens.
Petting Zoo: Noble Orphans, first channel — animated collage.
Petting Zoo: Noble Orphans, second channel — animated collage.
Petting Zoo: Noble Orphans, third channel — animated collage.
Petting Zoo: Noble Orphans presented on a mobile screen mounted to a truck.

Yellowwhirlaway

2017

GIF commissioned by the Museum of the Moving Image, NY, and GIPHY

Collection of the Museum of the Moving Image

Yellowwhirlaway, ceiling screen — animated collage.
Yellowwhirlaway, right screen — animated collage.
Yellowwhirlaway, left screen — animated collage.
Yellowwhirlaway, center screen — animated collage.
Installation view from Arebyte Digital Art Centre, London, UK
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Ghost Jets

2019

Presented by Light Work Urban Video Project on the north facade of the Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY

Ghost Jets projected across the north facade of the Everson Museum, Syracuse.

Cerebralconcrete

2019

Part of Supersynthese, curated by Vincent Auvray and touring through Normandy, FR

Cerebralconcrete projected onto a building facade in Normandy.
Cerebralconcrete — a square animated collage of dense, layered imagery.
Cerebralconcrete projection seen at night during Supersynthese.
Cerebralconcrete projection across architecture during Supersynthese.

Honey, I blew up my Tits

2021

Animated GIF installation (HTML, GIFs), dimensions variable

Part of Pieces of Me, curated by Wade Wallerstein for TRANSFER

Installation view at A Rose is A Rose is A Rose Gallery, Amsterdam.
Installation view from @artablockchain at A Rose is A Rose is A Rose Gallery in Amsterdam, curated by Jan Robert Leegte and Stina gustafsson
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  • A magenta vibrator, a cartoon flower with a grinning face, and a figure in a blue t-shirt bent over with their trousers pulled down, cut out side by side.
  • A figure in a green puffer coat seen from behind with their shorts down, beside cut-outs of a couple having sex and a body in a tan suit.
  • Two nude figures flattened to bands of yellow-tan, overlapped by the head of a black and white cat.
  • Buttocks in bright pink leggings held by two manicured hands, on a flat magenta ground.
  • A nude man playing an acoustic guitar, posterised, stacked above a couple having sex.
  • Two people in inflatable dinosaur costumes dancing around a pole.
  • A hand working a chrome faucet above the head of a rooster, the two cut out and stacked.
  • A ginger cat sitting upright with a gold-toned bare torso collaged across its chest.
  • A tangle of nude figures arranged across a flat yellow ground.
  • A woman in a patterned headscarf in profile, facing a cluster of press microphones.

At play in the Fields of the Lord

2015

Documentation of At play in the Fields of the Lord.
Party Believer — a widescreen animated collage.
Party Believer
Where Music Is — a widescreen animated collage.
Where Music Is
Histokay — a widescreen animated collage.
Histokay
Love Itch — a widescreen animated collage.
Love Itch