1’30’’ · video comp. · color · 2007 · Yamagata, Japan

Fireworks in the real world are beautiful. The same thing is never born. Computers can create many identical things by copying. I copied and pasted fireworks captured by a digital camera and created by a computer. I put together reality and cgi perfect points to create a new animated film expression.

Soundtrack by Kazuhiko Kobayashi

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Kazuhiko Kobayashi
[Shizuoka, Japan 1979]

MA in Media Arts at Tohoku University of Art and Design. Assistant professor at the Kanto Gakuin University. Awarded the 2005 Art Division Excellence Prize at the 9th Japan Media Arts Festival. Also awarded at the 2004 and 2005 ASIA DIGITAL ART AWARDS.

www.k-kobayashi.info

3’10’’ · op-art · color · 2009 · Leciñena·Zaragoza, Spain

The dot as a vibrating energy core, which moves and expands creating lines. The line as a living dot. The first part of the film is a recreation of the process taking place in what’s very small and what’s very big; the stars and the sub-atomic particles. Light and sound emissions of each “living dot” take place simultaneously and randomly. The second part includes a range of higher complexity. Images and sound have been generated separately, but they co-evolve, interfering with one another. They’re flashlights captured with low obturation speed and accompanied by hand bells playing as the flashlights move.

Soundtrack by Clemente Calvo

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Clemente Calvo Muñoz
[Zaragoza, Spain 1964]

Since 1984, Clemente has created experimental videos and films as a means to integrate all kinds of disciplines, recently including land-art. He explores the boundaries between static and still images in his Multiframe project. He composes electronic music and sound-art pieces, and performs as a Vj under the alias of VJ Lux·e.

www.hamacaonline.net

1’39’’ · cgi, video comp. · color · 2007 · Brooklyn·NY, USA

Here a constantly shifting tapestry of light transforms Sufjan Stevens' instrumental piece into the visual realm. As the short piece builds from its stately piano opening to its kinetic middle section, the screen is overtaken with blinding clusters of white, which then fall away again as the music winds down. It's mesmerizing stuff made for dreaming. The dots and lines were algorithmically generated and later composited using video editing software to form the final piece.

Animation Programmer: Siebren Versteeg

Soundtrack by Sufjan Stevens
American singer-songwriter and musician born in Detroit, Michigan.

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Deborah Johnson
[Jacksonville·FL, USA 1977]

Deborah Johnson, aka CandyStations, is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in Brooklyn·NY. She primarily designs and performs live visual projections, working with groups such as Sufjan Stevens, Wilco, Calexico, M. Ward, and Lambchop in such venues as Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Fillmore, The Ryman, and Wiener Konzerthaus. She has exhibited worldwide in group and solo shows, screens her work at film festivals and performs either as a solo VJ or with other artists and musicians. For this video, she collaborated with New York based artist/programmer Siebren Versteeg.

http://www.candystations.com

1’11’’ · video comp. · color · 2009 · Siglufjordor, Iceland

Over a white background lines fuse and interweave creating an optical effect of constant movement, sometimes smooth, sometimes turbulent. The film traces lines of light on water, working with perspective, distance and contrast to render the source of footage unapparent. The sound track is composed entirely from filtering different sounds of water, sounds that resonate with the shape, form and intensity of the visual lines.

Soundtrack by Dan Scott
Dan Scott is a sound artist and musician with a background in social anthropology. His current work focuses on the significance of ‘hidden’ soundmarks in constructing people’s experience of place and history. Dan has exhibited and carried out projects in Spain, the UK, the US, Portugal, Germany and Iceland. In 2004 he founded the Happy Band of Japan. He has released 3 albums and performed extensively throughout Europe.

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Trish Scott
[Kettering, UK 1980]

Trish Scott is a multimedia artist based between Barcelona and London. She has exhibited and carried out residencies in Spain, the UK, the US, Portugal, Germany and Iceland. Having initially trained in social anthropology and art history her work often takes a site specific angle, focusing on the interplay between people and place. For the last 3 years she has been living and working in Barcelona.

www.trishscott.org

7’47’’ · cgi · b&w· 2005 · Santiago, Chile

The concept is: What would happen if planet Earth had only two dimensions…? The author used Flash in the most simple and minimal way possible.

Soundtrack by Romina Nuñez
Romina Nuñez was born in 1978 in Santiago de Chile. In 2004 she graduated from the San Antonio de los Baños TV and Cinema School in Cuba and in 2006 she works for RTV (Spanish Radio and TV Broadcasting Co.). She also worked as a sound designer in Chile, Cuba and Spain, where she currently lives.

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Pedro Ignacio Vodanovic Rojas
[Santiago, Chile 1976]

In 2004 he graduates from the San Antonio de los Baños TV and Cinema School in Cuba and in 2006, he gets his MA in Screenwriting at the Fundación para la Investigación del Audiovisual de Valencia in Spain. Pedro has worked as a screenwriter in Chile, Cuba and Spain and has directed over 10 short-films exploring his own voice. He was also a teacher at the UNIACC University. Current member of the Short-Filmmakers Association in Chile, he works as a screenwriter and director at the Creative Agency Microfilms.

www.microfilms.cl

2’19’’ · drawing, cgi · color · 2008 · Vancouver·BC, Canada

In this work a performance-based intelligent system for visualization and signification is used to develop and expand the musical material played by the clarinet. The melodic line, as played by the clarinet, is used as the main compositional strategy for visualization and is based on calligraphic line drawing using artistic rendering: the computer-generated line is drawn in 3D space and rendered using expressive painterly and ink drawing style. The appearance of animated lines and textures portray a new artistic style that transforms a musical gesture onto a visual plane.

Soundtrack by François Houle & Keith Hammel
François Houle has established himself as one of Canada's finest musicians. His performances and recordings transcend the stylistic borders associated with his instrument in all of the diverse musical spheres he embraces: classical, jazz, new music, improvised music, and world music. Keith Hamel is a composer specializing in interactive computer music with numerous commissions and international performances to his credit.

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Aleksandra Dulic

Aleksandra Dulic is a media artist, theorist and experimental filmmaker working at the intersections of multimedia and live performance with research foci in computational poetics, interactive animation and cross-cultural media performance.

Kenneth Newby
[Vancouver·BC, Canada 1956]

Kenneth Newby is a media artist, composer-performer, educator, software designer and audio producer, whose creative practice explores the use of computational technology enabling new forms of media performances animations and installations.

2’28’’ · cgi · color · 2007 · Dallas·TX, USA

The dot pattern is dissected by the line changing the color and form of the composition.

Soundtrack by Mary Benedicto

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Mary Benedicto
[Valencia, Venezuela 1968]

Education Master of Fine Arts, Art and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson·TX, 2008. Bachelor of Fine Arts, East Texas State University, Commerce·TX, 1992. She’s participated in many group and individual exhibitions.

http://marybenedicto.com

4’12" · cgi · color · 2007 · Terrassa·Barcelona, Spain

Two abstract shapes appear and merge in some kind of embrace. Some times they attract each other; other times, they’re complete antagonists.

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Juanjo Fernández_Gnomalab
[Terrassa·Barcelona, Spain 1974]

“Juanjo Fernández Rivero is a creator, who conscientiously searches for the right channels for his contents; accurate vehicles for the discourse impregnating his work; if we take a quick look at his career, we can appreciate the strength of the formal aspect in formats such as video, which might mislead us to the point of stating that Rivero is a formal artist. The “how” is important to him, but the “what” is crucial. This misconception may arise from his constant formal experimentation.
He’s lived through the b&w TV to the cell-phone imaging; he’s played marbles and Playstation; he’s lived the political system’s manipulation and the arrival of the Internet. Juanjo Fernández Rivero collects this vital apprehension exploring his recurring themes: time, space, light, sound and ephemerality. And music, video, live-cinema, software programming and teaching (in a very particular way) are the means he mainly uses to make himself heard. His voice is self-taught, critical, committed, generous and particular, evading tendencies and the typical self-indulgence of the Arts Institution”. [Excerpt by Susana Medina, Project Manager at Terrassa Artes Visuales]

http://gnomalab.com/juanjofernandez

6’ · cgi · color ·  2009 · Fort Wayne·IN, USA

Jim Merz performed this video in real time as he listened to the soundtrack. While improvising the visuals Jim responds to themes in the music, while also exploring visual ideas using multiple similar elements to demarcate relationships in time and space. The software Jim uses is of his own design and as such is undergoing continual revision. Each new work, therefore, involves new programming along with the performance.

Soundtrack by Erik DeLuca
Erik DeLuca is an interdisciplinary artist that's specifically fond of natural sound phenomena. He writes and performs improvisatory electroacoustic music, improvises, teaches, and is an aspiring community art builder. He was awarded a Masters in Music from Florida International University, where he studied with Paula Matthusen and Kristine Burns. In 2009, a few of his pieces were programmed for Art Basel Miami, Wet Sounds (an underwater sound art gallery touring the UK,) SEAMUS in Fort Wayne, and ICMC in Montreal·QC, among others.

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Jim Merz
[Portland·OR, USA 1967]

Jim Merz has been creating software for performing video in real time since 1987.  He has performed in a variety of settings including with an orchestra and dancers. In addition, he has built self running versions for installations, and even used this video “instrument” with children at a local arts magnet school. In addition, Jim builds computer-controlled, kinetic sculptures. The generative computer code is the common foundation for both the sculpture and the video performance.

www.JimMerz.com

2’10’’ · cgi, video comp. · color · 1998 · London, UK

I photographed an abstract painting I was making; in all stages, from start to finish. I then input the images through a sound and image synth on my Amiga computer set to alternate between both sound and light frequencies as the paint I was doing kind of imploded on me.

Soundtrack by Marc St Aubin

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Marc St.Aubin
[Fredericton·NB, Canada 1959]

Born in Canada, lived in London (England) for twenty years as a professional musician, working with Bands The Rhythm Slaves O.co and Theatre Kathartic, recording and touring throughout Europe.
Now living in Toronto and working as a multi-media artist exhibiting photography, painting and performing live music with film as well as working as editor and production for other artists. Co-producing ScareCity (Hamburg Film Fest), About Vincent (straight 8 @ the Cannes Film Festival) as well as other projects for local film festivals and venues.

www.marcstaubin.net

4’58’’ · cgi ·  color · 2009 · Barcelona, Spain

The piece was created using self-made software that the author has been developing since 2007 and published on the IMPROVISA website. The ideal way to play this piece (and create new ones) is through this application. IMPROVISA allows you to create audiovisual compositions by touching your keyboard. Just select a sound and an animation folder (you can import your own folders to the application). Each folder has 26 files corresponding to the 26 keys on your keyboard. Each key produces a sound and an animation, and you can combine multiple keys to create your own compositions, control the volume, create pan effects, etc… while capturing your own compositions.

Soundtrack by Cristina Casanova Seuma
As a sound artist, she has produced and published 8 cd’s with the net label hazardrecords.org (with FMOL Trio, A Cunt on Fmol and others) and composed the soundtrack for Eugeni Bonet’s feature films “Tira tu reloj al agua” (2004) and “eGolem” (2009). In 2006 she started producing and directing the stage plays “Paisatges en divuit escenes”, premiered in 2007 at Caixafòrum Barcelona,; “El cuerpo de Sade” premiered in 2008 at the Festival Maçart de Cultura Contemporània in Girona, and “Sade de rerum naturae”, premiered in 2009 at the Teatro de la Abadía in Madrid.

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Cristina Casanova Seuma
[Lleida, Spain 1964]

In the year 2000 she creates the cultural association KTON Y CIA, where she develops and coordinates multimedia projects promoting and launching new tools for collective creation on the Internet. Her digital creation projects have been exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Sydney, Maracaibo, London, Paris, Lisbon, Lima, New York, Calgary, Beijing, Johannesburg, Brussels, Chicago, Mexico, etc. Since 2007 she started developing the online creative platform “Entorn a l’art visual i sonor”, featuring two main applications: IMPROVISA and DOCUMENTA.

www.ktonycia.com

2’22’’ · drawing, cgi · color · 2009 · Middlesbrough, UK

The animation experiments with variations of ‘dots and lines’ as drawn abstract marks made by digital pencil and use of primary colours. Some film based methods are transposed to the digital: an early animation technique of ‘frameless animation’ together with frame-by-frame drawing become ‘re-invented’ through digital means to give a ‘handmade’ aesthetic to the computer animation.

Soundtrack by Sebastian Castagna
Sebastian Castagna is a composer/sound artist from Buenos Aires based in England since 1990. The music is an excerpt from Sebastian Castagna’s work “Tiresias' Prophecy” (2008). In this “song without words” the composer explores the ways in which vocal sounds produce meaning when the semantic level of the words is removed. Viols, other early-music instruments and electroacoustic soundscapes “orchestrate” the vocal lines providing fresh contexts to articulate and conduct the musical discourse.

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Sabrina Schmid
[Vienna, Austria 1959]

Sabrina Schmid is animator/artist whose earlier independent animations produced in Australia have screened at several international film festivals (Ann Arbor, Hiroshima, Melbourne, Sydney, Stuttgart) and more recent work was shown at the AV Festival UK. Currently she lives in the UK teaching and practicing animation.

5’ · op-art, video comp. · b&w · 2009 · Vienna, Austria

A rotating video feedback event becomes a moving and transforming pattern by selecting a small image detail, multiply arranged in a matrix. Through the seriality in the horizontal lines and vertical columns of the matrix, the original circular movement will be transformed into a linear one. New forms in movement, and movement as form come into being. The Sound is generated by the video signals of the rotating video feedback, which are converted into audio signals and dubbed with the linear moving patterns. Therefore, the visual transformation of forms and movement is happening in an invariant sound space. The original rotating feedback video is hearable.
Video Feedback (video cam connected to a TV monitor), processed and edited with Adobe Premiere.

Soundtrack by:
Barbara Doser: Austrian video artist and painter
www. sunpendulum.at/barbaradoser
Hofstetter Kurt: Austrian media artist.
www.sunpendulum.at/hofstetterkurt
Norbert Math: Austrian media artist,
www.alien.mur.at/bios/biomath.html

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Barbara Doser
[Innsbruck·Vienna, Austria 1961]

Video artist and painter, Doser lives and works in Vienna.
Artistic domain: video feedback processed in experimental videos; video/media installations in the fields of painting and print.
Exhibitions and events: videos exhibited in more than 40 countries and at international film, video and new media festivals. She collaborates in international media art projects.

www.sunpendulum.at/barbaradoser