Christian Marclay’s 24-hour filmic montage, The Clock, was a runaway international success last year, taking the Golden Lion at the 2011 Venice Biennale. Newsweek responded by calling him “one of the 10 most important artists” of the day.

The New Yorker offers a comprehensive profile of Marclay and examines how he “created the ultimate digital mosaic.”

Marclay’s prior work, Telephones, a 7 1/2-minute compilation of Hollywood film clips, demonstrates the transformative power of Marclay’s editing – and is on view in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s media gallery through June 24.