5’31’’ · color · drawing, cgi, scratch ·  1997-2006 · Portland·OR, USA

Color + Modulation is an alluring collection of eight 16mm films that have been painstakingly hand painted frame-by-frame and digitally manipulated on a desktop computer - creating an optically smooth ambient experience. Working with acrylic & metallic paints as well as with a pallet of permanent ink pens and spray paint canisters this film project took 7 years to complete. Described as both visually stunning and atmospherically beautiful, Color + Modulation transforms a television or video screen into an abstract canvas full of playful motion and smooth explosions of color and shape.

Soundtrack by In Support of Living
In Support of Living (Toronto·ON, Canada) is a music collective headed by Brad Ketchen of Hollowphonic and features a revolving door of musicians. Beats, drones, life.

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Rob Tyler
[Eureka·CA, USA 1974]

Rob Tyler is a filmmaker and artist living and working in Portland·OR, USA. He has created a handful of documentaries and short, abstract movies that have been exhibited around the world. Swimming in a world of painting, film, digital video, photography and sound, Rob Tyler's work sustains repeated viewings and invites metaphoric interpretation.

www.vcr100.com

3’30’’ · cgi · color · 2006 · London, UK

I've always wanted to play the piano, but I’m no good. This is the closest I can get. A graphic response to a piano composition by Jules Maxwell. Imagine your ears as eyes.

Soundtrack by Jules Maxwell
Born in Northern Ireland, Jules Maxwell is a songwriter and composer for dance, theatre, film, television and radio, who is best known as composer for the 1998 Oscar nominated short Dance Lexie Dance. His composition work for dance theatre draws upon minimalism and is often recorded, incorporating strong melodic montages of sampled sound influenced by the work of Gavin Bryars. He lives in London.

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David Daniels
[London, UK 1960]

BA and MA in Graphic Design. Graphic Designer and Animation Director represented by Tandem Films in London. Director of TV commercials for Honda cars, Nike, Nat West Bank, HSBC and Toyota, amongst others. Recent work includes design and animation of screen projections for the Led Zeppelin concert at the o2 in London. Away from his commercial work, he develops graphic books and films dealing with the relationship of sound and image. Imagine your ears as eyes.

www.davedaniels.co.uk

1’30’’ · drawing · color · 2008 · Los Angeles·CA, USA

Working with hand drawn lines encrypted as vectors to create Beziér tension and release feelings within a framework of 768 X 576 plus a cacophony of random sounds and noises.

Soundtrack by John Dentino and Fat Mason
Founder of the band "Fibonaccis".

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Chris Casady
[Los Angeles·CA, USA 1952]

He learned to animate by accident. He was hired to rotoscope explosions on large paper, so he spent hours and hours behind a black curtain tracing mattes around explosions frame by frame. After seeing dozens of explosions this way, he understood how to animate them.

He grew into an effects animator, added water, lightning, fire, shadows and bubbles to his repertoire and worked freelance on the fringes of Hollywood during the 80's and 90's.

He worked on the first 3 Star Wars films, also Airplane!, TRON, Beetle Juice, Highlander, among many others. He also made commercials for cigarettes, raisins and Michael Jackson, and directed a music video for the Beastie Boys.

Now he makes illustrations for the National Park Service. To him, animation is for fun only.

5’54’’ · cgi, video comp. · b&w · 2009 · Bremen, Germany

Fläche3 is an audiovisual real-time composition based on white circles on a plain black background. The circles are arranged on a fixed, invisible, rectangular grid of 44 x 44 center points. Their radii are modulated by data from sound analysis, such that organic patterns emerge in parallel with the music. The characteristic, quasi-spatial formality comes from a particular random function (Perlin noise). The movements are the result of both the sound analysis and live manipulation via knob controller.

Soundtrack by Thomas Werner · Norman Neumann

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Henrik Lippke
[Hamburg, Germany 1985]

Henrik Lippke studies Digital Media at the University of the Arts Bremen. His interests include visual music, interactive installations and physical computing.

1’50’’ · drawing, cgi · color · 2009 · Vancouver·BC, Canada

Combining hand-drawn ink and lines of turbulent flowing ink in water. The work is inspired by Chinese ink drawing techniques.

Soundtrack by Kenneth Newby

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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, Canadá 1956]

Kenneth Newbyis 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.

1’ · video comp. · b&w · 2005 · Valencia, Spain

Abstract stop-motion film created with sand and processed with digital animation techniques. The dot and the line are means for narrative expression.

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Carlos Smith
[Santa Marta, Colombia 1971].

Filmmaker and TV director focused on professional animation since 1993, creating experimental short-films. For years he’s been a teacher and Academic Coordinator at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.


Marcelo De matei
[Mercedes B., Argentina 1967]

Artist, Media Designer and Professor. His artistic production and areas of interest comprise audiovisual and interactive performances, animated short-films, interactive off and online pieces, graphic design, research and audiovisual production applying new technologies. His works have been exhibited internationally.


Eduardo Romaguera
[Valencia, Spain 1976]

A controversial figure, since 1999 he’s been participating in numerous individual and group exhibitions and in modern Art Festivals in Valencia, Mexico, Germany, USA, France and West Sahara. His main interests are music and poetry. He’s been internationally awarded in several occasions.
www.eduardoromaguera.com

5’17’’ · cgi · color · 2009 · Barcelona, Spain

A cluster of thousands of dots on a digital canvas. On certain days I’m in a particular kind of mood where I can create something much lighter or much heavier, something much smaller or much bigger than what I usually do. When I work on a piece, I must convey all of me. “All my pieces are like layers in a space ’continuum’; their duration is that of my own life” (paraphrasing Robert Motherwell)
Applied tool: Processing. Recorded in real time and later rendered with Camtasia Studio, including the title.

Soundtrack by Nikka
What comes most naturally to Nikka is being among machines: she plays and experiments with them with such familiarity and ease that she seems to have been born for it. She mirrors them, transmitting to the audience a complex mixture of sounds, rhythms and seemingly melancholic sensations, but with a strong character.

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Alba G. Corral
[Madrid, Spain 1977]

Visual code developer based in Barcelona. She uses real-time programming to create digital landscapes. She develops visual programming. She amalgamates form and technique, thus creating narrative atmospheres expressing meaning and color sensibility. Her life’s always been linked to digital creation. Her creative research is focused on real-time generative art. Her current expression tool is the programming language Processing.

www.albagcorral.com

1’ · cgi · color · 2009 · Barcelona, Spain

Dots and lines co-evolve with the music. Experimental composition and layer nesting. Created using Processing & Adobe After Effects.

Soundtrack by Röyksopp

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Carlos Antonio Nieves Angarita
[Gurí, Venezuela 1983]

In 1995, Carlos Antonio moves to Ciudad Guayana, where he studied and started playing the guitar and the organ. In 2000 he got his BA in Science at Colegio Loyola-Gumilla and travelled to Bremen, Germany, for a 5-month cultural exchange. In 2001 he lived in Melbourne, Australia, and studied at the Eltham High School. Between the years 2002 and 2007 he lived in Caracas, Venezuela, where he studied Mechanical Engineering at the Simón Bolívar University. Since 2007 he has studied Video Design at the Instituto Europeo di Design.

5’27’’ · cgi · color · 2007 · Montreal·QC, Canada

Wilfried Jentzsch's "Dream of B" music is like a Tsunami. It invades the listener in an inescapable way. But it also brings about a release, as if, after that powerful invasion, one were left cleansed, alive. The film attempts to make that experience visible, without any anecdotal means. It explores the “poetic” space that can/should exist "between" images and sound, a space that can be flattened/crushed so easily, or rendered irrelevant (if stretched out too much).

Soundtrack by Wilfried Jentzsch
Studied cello, composition and conducting (Dresden Musikhochschule and Berlin Akademie der Künste), electronic music (Musikhochschule, Cologne). Studied under Iannis Xenakis (Sorbonne), completed a Ph.D. in musical aesthetics, conducted digital sound synthesis research (IRCAM, CEMAMu, 1976-81). Founded a computer-music studio and taught at the Meistersinger (Nuremberg 1983) Konservatorium. Electronic studio director at the Hochschule für Musik (Dresden 1983). ISCM member, DegeM (German Society for Electroacoustic Music) funding member, Saxon Society for New Music Chairman (1995-2000). Composer in residence, Capital University Columbus (Ohio, 1998). In Java and Bali (2002) for musical study.

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Jean Detheux
[Liège, Belgium 1946]

Born in Belgium, graduated from the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts (Liège), Detheux immigrated to Canada in 1971 where he taught at various art schools (including in the U.S.). Exhibited his paintings and drawings in solo and group shows in Europe, Lebanon and the Americas, where his work is found in many private and public collections. Many articles (English & French) on art/animation, reviews of festivals, symposiums, books and software (published by AWN, Sage Publications, Int. Jnl Art & Technology, etc.). Forced by allergies to quit natural media, he embraced digital technology which brought him almost “naturally” to animated film. His films are now found in festivals around the globe.

www.vudici.net

2’56’’ · video comp. · color ·  2001 · London, UK

The London underground is powered by miles and miles of electrical cable and rail. All for the rapid transport of millions of people. As I rode along, I imagined myself as an electron racing my way to what ever destination. I turned my line of sight perpendicular so to imagine being on the actual journey, through the cables and on the Rails. To feel the distance and the material.

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

7’14’’ · video comp. · color · 2009 · Madrid, Spain

The cycle of geometric forms mirroring the universal energy. The sever of boundaries and monotony; dialectics of the species’ perpetuity: archetypical figures. Animation and sounds generated by a computer.

Soundtrack by Greta Rodríguez Valdés

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Greta Rodríguez Valdés
[La Habana, Cuba 1976]

Greta Rodríguez Valdés is a poet and video artist graduated in Visual Arts from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Cuba.

1’40’’ · cgi · color · 2008 · Winnipeg·MB, Canada

This video is the end result of a transformation from urban landscape to digital landscape. Images made on a circuit bent Atari.

Soundtrack by Clint Enns

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Clint Enns
[Winnipeg·MB, Canada 1980]

Clint Enns is a video artist and filmmaker from Winnipeg·MB, whose work primarily deals with moving images created with broken and/or outdated technologies. His work has been shown -both nationally and internationally- in installations, festival screenings, alternative spaces and mircocinemas. He is currently a Master's student in Mathematics at the University of Manitoba, and his interests include model theory of rings and modules, structuralist film and video, and mathematics in art.

3’27’’ · digital scratch · b/w · 2009 · Barcelona, Spain

Experimental video produced by capturing live real-time visuals. The technique is based on the video signal’s deconstruction through a series of video feedbacks. The mixer outputs the signal to input it again via another channel; it outputs it again through another channel, and inputs it back through another channel… thus creating a small set of serial feedback loops, which builds up the dot-line imagery that you see  on the video.

Soundtrack by Filastine
Deeply involved in the anti-globalization movement, his Infernal Noise Brigade (a 20-member band) set the beat to the anti-WTO protests in Seattle, as it left no questions about Grey Filastine’s political opinion. Based in Barcelona and internationally acclaimed, Filastine mixes most complex styles without any difficulty, taking the street-music to the most inhospitable corners of the world. Resourceful electronic music and a clear inclination towards percussion and ethnical sounds allow him to mix Bollywood, rhythms from the Balkan countries, breakcore and hip-hop… and get away with it.

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Omar Alvarez Calzada & Miki Arregui_Proletari Cratz

A Vj collective based in Barcelona, born from the union between Proletari Arts and Videocratz. Our activity’s been carried out independently until 2003, when we joined La Màquina de Turing collective to perform in their live music concerts.


Xavier Gibert Mateu_Off:://TV

Off://TV project. Real-time video mixing and manipulation. http://offtv.info
Telenoika is a non-profit Cultural Association and current live-visuals referential in Spain. Off/Tv and ProletariCratz are part of Telenoika’s community as real-time video projects.

www.telenoika.net