A homage to Len Lye.

Terra Incognita is a hand drawn animated abstraction in three parts. Soundtrack designed by Jerry Summers.

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DANIELLE YE
[Beijing·China]

Danielle Ye graduated from California Institute of the Arts (CALARTS) School of Film/Video with a master degree in filmmaking.

As an Artist/Filmmaker her work has been shown internationally at places such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MOMA) or Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Currently she is the managing director in the graduate program of experimental film/video in Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), in Beijing. She lives and works in both Beijing and Los Angeles.

Terra Incognita
Danielle Ye
2003 · 6’30’’ · color · drawing · Los Angeles·US



Q&A con Danielle Ye en el Silent Movie Theater, Los Angeles, 2 de diciembre 2008

Patience as the foundation stone of any process. Semi·literary narration (black over white) using the mere pass of time as a plot and the wait as the creator of dramatic tension creator.

It is also a portrait of Karim in his absence, and of his necessity of being absolutely modern.

The song is “Patience” by Micah P. Hinson.

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JAVIER CALVO FERNÁNDEZ
[Barcelona·Spain 1979]

Visual director with broad expectations and narrow starting points who has directed some works dealing with the technical possibilities of stop·motion; with a natural capacity for wasting his time and the liking of false documentaries and light Spanish and Italian music.

The result: diverse animations like this and that. Unpunctual, traveller, journalist, cook, queer, TV-watcher, poetry reader, driving school student and affectionate guy.

Abstract animation in response to an existing musical composition.

The soundtrack features granular synthesized sound activated by MIDI.

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LOU COHEN
[New York·USA 1937]

Composer since 1948. Algorithmic composer since 1960.

Software engineering since 1959. Computer animator since 2004.

Experimental video based on looping image and sound sequences, creating a hypnotic milieu inspired on the mantras. The technique is the blow-up and modification of video images using edition software. The music was composed by Rafal Miralles in his computer using sound loops.

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RAFAEL MIRALLES SÁNCHEZ
[Alicante·Spain 1964]

Mainly formed as a painter, he starts exhibiting his work in 1985. Since the year 2000 he lives in Barcelona, where he experiments with new technologies including video-creation as a fundamental part of his work.

His work has been exhibited on numerous occasions and taken part in video festivals and screenings all over Spain.

The artist’s goal is to empty the image of all content by constant repetition, thus inducing the audience into an altered state of consciousness that won’t allow them to interpret what they see.

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XAVIER GUIX BONÁS
[Barcelona·Spain 1952]

After studying Computer Science he undertakes various studies ranging from Psychology and Musical Pedagogy and Dalcroze Rhythmic, sound recording, cinema direction and Image Synthesis. Since 1987 he’s an audiovisual director at multinational SOLVAY.

In the artistic domain he’s author and director of different artistic projects, ranging from theatre-dance performances and multimedia installations to short·films.

He’s collaborated among many others with Ooff Company, designing the visual band for Jessica Walter’s “No Hamlet” and directing Enric Casasses’ video-promo “Monòleg del perdó”.

Part of the triptych video installation entitled “Works of Great Historical Importance in Public Understanding of Abstract Scientific Concepts”. Designed to be shown looped on an individual monitor, it is a tongue-in-cheek exploration of the interface between art, science and technology; made using deliberately clunky, lo-fi technology to highlight the fact that we are not really as advanced biotechnologically as we might sometimes like to think, and that, actually, we still have very little awareness of the processes taking place in the ironically man-made environment we inhabit.

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IAN NESBITT
[Seria·Brunei 1976]

Studied Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, graduated 2004 – 1st class hons. Set up Stand Assembly – 20 artist studio collective in Nottingham, also home to Moot. Organised Sideshow in response to British Art Show 6, 2006. His personal work has been shown worldwide including at Liverpool Biennial, London Nunnery Gallery, Glasgow CCA and Moscow Centre for Contemporary Art.

An existing narrative plot, a condensed film, vectorised and fragmented, becomes the basis for an apparently random matrix.

The soundtrack features “watch” by Foraudiofans: Javier Navinés and Andreas Frey.


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NICO JUAREZ 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.

Experiment with light and homemade analog filters. The soundtrack was produced separately from the video using heavily edited field recordings.

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MATTIAS ARVASTSSON
[Sweden 1975]

Active part in the Electronic Arts scene in Malmö before he moved to Norway.

He is currently studying Fine Arts at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts.

A somewhat chaotic melody with frequent timbrical changes that defy rhythm. The author uses the digital-analogic synthesis of sound, the live visualization of sound in an oscilloscope and then, the sequentiation of notes and improvisation of synthesis parameters. Audio and video were recording with a miniDV camera in front of the oscilloscope. The soundtrack was designed by the author himself.

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ALBERT CALLEJO AMAT
[Barcelona·Spain 1968]

Self-taught musician, he works as a VJ since 1998. Currently he focuses on live audiovisual performances.

Phollymorph is an experiment in layered creation that goes back and forth between the sound and the image, each previous “layer” informing the next one.

Both imagery and sound consist of “loops”, but the interaction during the composition/animation produces unique results per section. The name puns on “folly”, and the piece was presented on “April Fool’s” day.

The soundtrack was created by the animator with sound loops as part of the animation/composition process.

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JOAQUIN KINO GIL
[Costa Rica 1952]

One of the fortunate alumni of the legendary “Conservatorio Castella” in Costa Rica, Joaquin found himself attracted to art almost as much as technology and science. With formal studies in biology, fine arts, music, architecture, physics and anthropology he continued his studies at California Institute of the Arts, where he graduated from the Experimental Animation program while also pursuing studies in Electro-Acoustic music composition and the Live Action program of the Film School.

After a short run of free-lance animation jobs around Hollywood he worked for animation pioneers Wavefront Tech, and created custom work for Silicon Graphics and Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Los Angeles facility. He currently works in his own production company in California, where he is giving the finishing touches to his new feature “e-Film” THE OUTSIDER.

Many of the visuals from this piece are built using software which interprets an audio signal and then converts it to a stroboscopic set of visuals. These visuals were originally too patterned for the author, so he used a "wave generator" filter to modify the results. Bailey has restricted himself to a colour scheme almost exclusively associated with "punk rock" subculture.

This piece is a kind of test / challenge for the audience: will they notice the cultural hints right away, or will they be able to ignore them and ascribe their own meaning? This piece asks which is more important: identification with a cultural tribe, or personal, individual immersion in pure sight and sound.

The soundtrack was designed by Bailey.

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THOMAS BEY WILLIAM BAILEY
[Wisconsin·USA 1977]

Thomas is a multi-disciplinary artist specializing in synaesthetic sound design and intense / threshold experiences. He records and performs under the name "The Domestic Front", making a style of electronic sound sculpture which ironically uses cutting edge technology to reacquaint humans with principles of nature, and to question notions of constant progress.

Visual and sound footage create a suggestive non-narrative atmosphere, that allows the spectator to make his/her own story through association with certain archetypical symbols.

Scratched and painted 16 mm film; soundtrack designed by Chino Cob and Giancarlo Tassara.

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NASHLA ABDELNOUR
[Costa Rica 1981]

Nashla studied visual communication and graphic design at the Italian Academy of Florence.

She's currently studying design at La Escuela Massana in Barcelona, Spain.

A visual exploration of the construction and potential of a circle. The soundtrack features an originally recorded and crafted soundscape of tactile sounds to root the visuals.

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LAURIE GIBBS
[Kingscoat·UK 1985]

He’s been studying media and animation since 2001. Animation has always amazed him because it provides the possibility for anything that can be imagined to be created.

It is only through the experience of making his own work that he learns thousands of practical issues that must be considered and overcome to turn conceptual ideas into completed productions.

http://lauriegibbs.moonfruit.com/