The work infra_ reduces sound and space to an abstract synaesthesia. Experimentally it shows that the recipient himself composes complex narrative spaces.

Soundtrack design also by Judith Nothnagel.

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JUDITH NOTHNAGEL
[Düsseldorf·Germany 1960]

Judith Nothnagel works on the themes: identity, time and space. Her paintings, digital photografies and video art have been presented at numerous international museums, galleries and art festivals, for example: Museum Kunst Palast Duesseldorf, Luigi Pecci Museum Florence-Prato and Chungdam Art Festival in Seoul.

In 2006 she founded the media art platform globalscreen.org together with Hubert Baumann and Tobias Nothnagel, which is engaged in research on contemporary means of artistic expression and on collective forms of perception and dialogue.

http://www.globalscreen.org
http://www.judith-nothnagel.de

The same enigmatic landscape in different moments generates a visual equalizer. The author uses the errors in the texture mapping and the digital composition shifting in time. The soundtrack features “Velocity” by Foraudiofans: Javier Navinés and Andreas Frey.

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NICO JUÁREZ aka ICONISH
[Spain 1971]

Nico Juárez Latimer-Knowles, architect and audiovisual designer. He has developed several online and offline projects for public and private clients, creating and producing websites, interactive screens, CD-rom’s, videos, trailers and credits for television.

He currently works as a creative director and is a professor of the master in Motion Graphics at the Escuela BAU in Barcelona.

An animation of several artificial light-sources to the rhythm of a Syclops’ song remixed by Four Tet: “Mom, the video broke”.

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IVAN BAYO VIGO
[Huelva·Spain 1981]

After his BA in Journalism, he currently works as a photographer and graphic designer.

Symmetry is an animated film composed of visual representations of individual sounds that reflect the structure of the music through shape, movement and colour. It is a hybridisation of several traditions — English bell ringing tradition, the music of the gamelan orchestras of Java and the contemporary electro acoustic composition.

The core structure is provided by the rules that generate the complete set of permutations on a set of 6 tones. This structure is made manifest in the context of a layered set of microtonal lines of melody at varying densities and tempi. Each of the 6 tones has its own unique visual character that is comprised of a distinct shape, colour, movement and spatial arrangement.

The music was composed and performed by Kenneth Newby.


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ALEKS DULIC & KENNETH NEWBY

Aleksandra Dulic is a media artist, theorist and experimental animator working at the intersections of multimedia and live performance with research foci in computational poetics, animation and cross-cultural media performance. She is active as a curator, a writer, an educator and a lecturer, presenting and publishing papers.

Kenneth Newby, BA, MFA (Simon Fraser University), is a media artist, composer-performer, educator, software designer, and audio producer. His work is widely presented in concerts, festivals, and radio broadcasts and include compositions of electro-acoustic and acoustic music; interactive computer systems for live performance and installation; software tools for composition, new composition for Javanese and Balinese gamelan ensembles and interdisciplinary collaborations with composers and artists.

The demarcation between pure sense and nonsense through lines moving in space, generated with the Max/msp – Jitter.

The soundtrack was also designed by the author.

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MATEO MARIN aka iamblichi
[Berlin·Germany 1977]

Multidisciplinary artist working since his tender youth in project development regarding graphic design and visual and sound installations.

He takes part in several music projects and in the production and direction of video-art pieces.

Mercurius expands algorithmic animation techniques developed by the author himself; both the audio and visual components have no cuts or edits. What we hear is a continual transformation of one synthesis process, just as what we see is the continuous animation of nearly 12000 individual points. Traditionally the spiral or mandala form has been used to evoke the unity of a meditative state, but the spiral has symbolic associations not only with unity or creative energy but also with destructive forces. Mercurius ambiguously combines multiple sensibilities of the spiral. If there is a unity here, it expresses itself only over time as a single process exhibits rapid changes between a multitude of seemingly-conflicting states.


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BRET BATTEY
[Seattle·USA 1967]

Bret Battey creates electronic, acoustic and multimedia concert works and installations, synthesizing a diverse professional and educational background in music composition, computer science, graphic and web design and electronics.

He completed his Bachelors of Music in Electronic and Computer Music at Oberlin Conservatory and his masters and doctoral studies in Music Composition at University of Washington, where he also served as a Research Associate for the pioneering Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media. He is a Senior Lecturer with the Music, Technology, and Innovation Research Group at De Montfort University; Leicester, UK.
http://www.bathatmedia.com

Dots and lines move along two parallel planes generating a stroboscopic effect through various chromatic (white·black), spatial (high·low, left·right) and motion (flow·solid) contrapositions. The rhythm of Gabriele Mercadante’s “Morte della mosca” suggests the buzz of a fly and helps create the obsessive atmosphere of the video.

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MICHELE CASTELLI
[Palermo·Italy 1980]

Photographer, graphic designer and VJ, Castelli was born in Palermo in 1980, where he lives and works. In 2003 he receives the first prize in the category “Video-environment” at the VII National Conference of Environmental Agencies (Zona Porto Antico, Genova).

In 2005 he receives a special mention at a photographic contest and in 2007 he participates in the collective exhibition “Night of the living artists” at the Vucciria market in Palermo.

SoundToFrame deals with the direct relationship between image and sound. Each individual note in these videos is allocated to a particular bar code combination.

(FTF 2.1) National Anthem visualises the German National Anthem as a vertical code.

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MATTHIAS FITZ
[Oberfranken·Germany 1967]

An electronic engineer for communication, graduated also in Visual Communication and Experimental Media Creation.

Fitz works as a freelance media artist since 2003. His productions have been widely exhibited around Europe.

The lines are created as the original image on the film disappears or gets hidden. Thus, the original images transform in an abstract space, guiding the audience along a voyage through these landscapes of dots and lines. The soundtrack by Richardo del Pozo, was designed by modifying the speed of the sound produced by the 16mm projector, overimposing several tracks according to the sequence.


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IRIS JOVAL GRANOLLERS
[Barcelona·Spain 1981]

After obtaining her degree in Biology at Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (with a specialisation in biomedical investigation) Iris is currently a student of Art and Desing at La Escola Massana.

Tribute takes as its first and last frames interpretations of works of art using a conceptual framework based on palette, composition and psychological force.

Starting with Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Cross, New Mexico the piece subtlety transitions to Diamos’ Oblivion from the Quartzsite Arizona series. The original paintings are deconstructed in a complex code of bands of colours based on the prominence of each color in the originals.

The sound was generated with Muse-O-Matic, an interactive music toy. Words are provided and algorithmic music is generated based on the letters of that word.
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ANGELA ANASTASIA DIAMOS
[Arizona·USA]

Visual artist using the moving image.

BFA studio art California Institute of the Arts, MFA video /digital art California State University Northridge, Assistant Chair of Animation, Woodbury University Burbank California.

This video deals with the brainwashing element of mass-media and is based on a quote by Paul Virilio: “When you are talking about freedom of speech, you also have to talk about freedom of perception”.

The visual element is a stylisation of the TV screen itself, composed of small dots. The dots display single letters creating a hidden and deliberately false message, which becomes some sort of a brainwash itself.

The song is Plastikman’s Helicopter.


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PIERO GLINA
[Karlsrühe·Germany 1978]

Student of Communication Design since 2002, Founder of the independent Art-space “Telekolleg”, a place for art, music and company.
http://telekolleg.org

This work is one of the 14 chapters of “The moon's seas”, a project of emotional cartography, where the author uses the names of the moon's seas (either real or fictitious) to create different spaces·situations of perception.

The videocamera records live-action footage [particles of fire] with a low speed obturation. The soundtrack features remixed sounds recorded by the author himself.

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JUAN ALCÓN ALEGRE aka ANJú
[Madrid·Spain 1959]

He has developed several projects regarding the links between artistic languages in various fields of fine arts, media and design.

In 1980 he takes part in various projects at the Facultad de Bellas Artes in Madrid, organising exhibitions, performing and working on experimental short-films.

His interest in the integration between art and technology leads him to work as a professor of Media Art and in 1998 he creates the project ANJú as a platform for his work in video and visual poetry.

The author’s goal was to make a visually stunning sound piece using only the instrument as imagery.

Soundtrack designed by Bruno Gabiro.

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TOM JOBBINS
[UK 1980]

He has just finished his film/animation degree.

Experimental video of total abstraction.

Color lines surf the screen at high speed. Entirely realized with a computer and edited in FinalCut.

The soundtrack features Dave Clarke’s “I want it”.


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CALPURNIO
[Zaragoza·Spain 1959]

Calpurnio is a cartoonist, illustrator, VJ, screenwriter and director of animated films.
www.calpurnio.com