{"id":7072,"date":"2017-11-18T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=7072"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:32:53","slug":"jonathan-monaghan-at-bitforms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/18\/jonathan-monaghan-at-bitforms-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Monaghan Animation at Bitforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Jonathan Monaghan\u2019s latest fantastical animation, Disco Beast, a unicorn is captured and drained of energy by a predatory cell phone charging station only to be reborn in a luxury building\u2019s hidden disco. Here, the unicorn is penned in by a ring of TSA scanners, an allusion to the Renaissance Unicorn Tapestries (which act as metaphor for marriage, among other things) and an update on the experience of being \u2018captured.\u2019 (On view at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitforms.com\/exhibitions\/monaghan-2017\">Bitforms<\/a> on the Lower East Side through Dec 10<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7073\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7073\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/18\/jonathan-monaghan-at-bitforms-2\/jonathan_monaghan\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7073\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7073\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jonathan_monaghan-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Monaghan, The Unicorn in Captivity, 3D printed 18K gold plated brass, 3D printed porcelain, acrylic, 15 x 23 x 8 inches, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Jonathan Monaghan\u2019s latest fantastical animation, Disco Beast, a unicorn is captured and drained of energy by a predatory cell phone charging station only to be reborn in a luxury building\u2019s hidden disco. Here, the unicorn is penned in by a ring of TSA scanners, an allusion to the Renaissance Unicorn Tapestries (which act as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/18\/jonathan-monaghan-at-bitforms-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jonathan Monaghan Animation at Bitforms&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,4695,7641,13,4694,431,7642,2753,16,7640],"class_list":["post-7072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-bitforms","tag-captivity","tag-gallery","tag-jonathan-monaghan","tag-lower-east-side","tag-scanners","tag-surveillance","tag-tour","tag-unicorn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1Q4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11680,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions\/11680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}