Machine Melancholia

In “Get Life/Love’s Work,” his exhibition on view at the New Museum in New York through October 3, Ed Atkins considers the subject of distance—particularly in the Covid-19 era—via the medium for which he is best known: computer-generated, high-definition figurative videos. The British-born, Copenhagen-based artist and poet has created a new CG animation using footage from an interview between himself and his mother that he recorded during lockdown. This video, along