{"id":37998,"date":"2017-09-15T22:13:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T04:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=37998"},"modified":"2023-11-23T09:55:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T15:55:58","slug":"the-degradation-of-justin-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/the-degradation-of-justin-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Degradation of Justin Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postmetadata\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"entry\">Like microplastics, Justin Watson seems to be everywhere these days. There was \u201cThe Fountain of Youth,\u201d his video installation at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bdac.org\/2017-schedule\">Bountiful\/Davis Art Center<\/a>, that came down recently, and currently you can see his piece\u00a0<em>|human|<\/em>\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502719782304_16054\">at Nox Contemporary\u00a0and the exhibition<em>\u00a0. . . the future is the past is the future is the past<\/em>\u00a0at\u00a0Finch Lane, which features several of his work.\u00a0<\/span>When he\u2019s not busy recycling your plastics (seriously, he runs a recycling business), this \u201csystems artist\u201d is recycling old video footage, or creating new ones that are so overloaded they look recycled. In this short video interview, recorded as part of our 35\u00d735 exhibit last year, Watson talks about his work and process.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Justin Watson\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/234044704\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-ratio=\"0.5624\" data-width=\"1250\" data-height=\"703\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like microplastics, Justin Watson seems to be everywhere these days. There was \u201cThe Fountain of Youth,\u201d his video installation at\u00a0Bountiful\/Davis Art Center, that came down recently, and currently you can see his piece\u00a0|human|\u00a0at Nox Contemporary\u00a0and the exhibition\u00a0. . . the future is the past is the future is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[2504,3233],"class_list":["post-37998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition_reviews","category-visual_arts","tag-bountiful-davis-art-center","tag-justin-watson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screen-shot-2017-09-15-at-12.55.15-PM-1085x600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 12:50:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72240,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37998\/revisions\/72240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}