Ryan Trecartin's films feel like a YouTube-based theatre of the
absurd. They are oddly familiar amalgams of expressions, phrases
and montages, bundled together and sped up into a full-scale
sensory assault. Trecartin, a 28-year old video artist, has
swiftly made a name for himself since graduating from the Rhode
Island School of Design in 2004. Featured in the mixed-bag show
"The Generational: Younger Than Jesus" at the New Museum in New
York City (which just closed on July 12th), his work was
heralded as one of the "few magnetic stand-alone entries" by the
New York Times and its "star" by Peter Schjeldahl in the New
Yorker.  Although Trecartin’s videos employ dazzlingly
outlandish colours, make-up, costumes and montage, his works are
mystifyingly true to life, perhaps reflecting the world as we
experience it through the internet. "Seeing it is like being
patched into all of the computers in the world at once,"
observed Jerry Saltz in New York magazine.  Trecartin writes,
directs and stars in these unorthodox