Connor Gottfried Cartoon Acid For Sale

About this work

Connor Gottfried has emerged as one of the more compelling voices in contemporary new media art, distinguished by his refusal to treat technology as mere novelty. His practice interrogates the intersection of digital saturation and physical presence, creating objects that function simultaneously as sculpture, screen, and provocation. Gottfried's work has garnered increasing attention from collectors attuned to the evolving discourse around post-internet art and its material manifestations. Cartoon Acid exemplifies the artist's ongoing investigation into the aesthetics of overstimulation. The work encases a 19-inch IPS screen within aluminum composite panelling, secured by leather straps that evoke both industrial restraint and bodily containment. This tension between the clinical and the organic is central to Gottfried's visual language. The video component cycles through imagery that references the hypersaturated palette of animated entertainment, filtered through what the artist describes as a deliberately degraded digital consciousness. The result is an object that refuses easy categorization—neither purely sculptural nor simply a display device, it occupies an uncomfortable middle ground that mirrors contemporary experience of mediated reality. The leather strapping introduces an element of fetishistic restraint, suggesting that the screen itself requires binding, as though the content might otherwise escape its frame. At 32 by 23 by 7 inches, the work maintains a human scale that invites prolonged engagement while asserting its presence as a discrete object rather than an immersive environment. Gottfried's choice of materials demonstrates his characteristic precision in balancing industrial fabrication with handcrafted detail. For acquisition inquiries regarding Cartoon Acid, please contact Guy Hepner directly.