Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti, co-founders of Microscope Gallery in New York, speak about educating the art world on the value of the moving image and building systems of support for artists.
Microscope Gallery is the rare commercial space in New York dedicated to exhibiting the moving image. It was founded by artists-curators Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti to address the long-existing divide between the value conferred on works for gallery spaces and works meant for screening spaces. Their mission is to support the so-called time-based arts, or moving image arts, and the list of artists and estates they represent is an impressive roll call of accomplished practitioners: Peggy Ahwesh, Ayanna Dozier, Narcisa Hirsch, Jonas Mekas among others.
Currently on view at Microscope Gallery is a solo exhibition of the work of Copper Frances Giloth, a groundbreaking computer artist who was active in the 1970s and 1980s. The artist has work in the exhibition Digital Witness: Art and Design: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film, currently on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). On the occasion of the 15-year anniversary of their space we spoke with Burchill and Monti about the educational nature of their work, the evolving landscape of moving images and why some people still do not believe that film is art.
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