2’19’’ · stop-motion, op-art · b&w · 2009 · Lisbon, Portugal

This work’s main goal is illustrating the mutation of a point into a line… It’s almost like analyzing under a microscope the composition of the point to observe how it evolves, generating new forms that will eventually create the line; to observe the computer raw-data of a point while processing the codes for the visualization of the new forms. The video was made animating digital hand-drawn frames, processed with filters to granulize the images step by step... Each frame is the result of the filtering on the previous one in a decomposition and re-composition of pixels, bringing a fluid-randomness look to the video. It’s about ordering the chaos while respecting its nature...

Soundtrack design: idrioema

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Luigi Scotti & Teresa Aguas
_Idrioema
[Lisbon · Portugal]

Idrioema is a multimedia project of Luigi Scotti and Teresa Aguas, a married couple living in Portugal. Its goal is to explore sound using our sensorial organs not only as passive absorption tools, but giving them true organic conscience of what the sounds provoke interacting with themselves... To create a physical experience of the intellect...

www.myspace.com/idrioema

3’18’’ · video comp. · color · 2009 · Barcelona, Spain

"L'art de la fuga" has been created from the perspective photos of a building taken by the author. The editing process started with the conversion of each of the windows into video frames, fitting them into other windows on the same photo to build up the following video frame (no windows from different photos have been combined here). The order of the windows is sometime consecutive (a line or a column), but it may also follow other motifs or series. Briefly, it’s about deforming the lines of the fugue to create animation, which destroys the original perspective from where it started. It’s a re-framing and re-ordering process that allows for the static fugue to develop in time.

Soundtrack by Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Kunst der Fugue / Incarnadine: modulated_radio_static

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Daniel Pitarch Fernández
[Barcelona, Spain 1980]

Daniel Pitarch Fernández studies, teaches, researches, writes, does programming, watches, reads and imagines… all of it, once in a while.

3’03’’ · cgi · color · 2007 · Ludwigsburg, Germany

Herbstlaub is a coming-of-age-road-movie of a dot. During my studies, some colleagues and I sometimes met in the afternoon/night to sing, clear our heads from the projects and annoy other students with our voices. It was a short endeavor, but still fun. When I decided to make my own diploma film (in panic - I had 3 weeks left, because my main focus were two other, non-personal projects), I thought it would be a nice idea to gather the "choir" one last time. Two of the singers and I did some initial musical experimentation, then Philipp came along. He did the final score, and even agreed (reluctantly? ;) ) to using our non-professional voices for it. The rest was freestyle 3D animation...

Soundtrack by Philipp Noll
Philipp Noll plays piano, some cello and sings from time to time. He studied classical piano, music theory and new media at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, and after that, filmscoring and sound design at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. He composes and arranges for film and television.

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Oliver Vogel
[Karlsruhe, Germany 1979]

After an apprenticeship as a media designer, Oliver worked for a year as a sound engineer. Until 2007 he studied Animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Next to some weird short films he created, he specialized in VFX and enjoys playing with simple graphics and visual compositions. These preferences and the surprising rise -and unsurprising fall- of the Animation Institute's Choir 'Hölle, Hölle, Hölle, Hölle' led to the graduation film "Autumn Leaves".

www.dreidee.org

2’30’’ · cgi · b&w · 2009 · Barcelona, Spain

Life (and death) as seen through the microscope. Layers and layers of basic elements, cells that build up a complex unity.

Soundtrack by Javier Navinés_pantano
Musician and Composer, he’s worked for the cinema and advertising sectors.
www.myspace.com/pantanopantano

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Nico Juárez Latimer-Knowles
[León, Spain 1971]

Architect and Audiovisual Designer. He’s developed online and off-line projects for clients in the private and public sectors, creating and producing websites, interactive screens, motion graphics, animations and end titles for TV productions. He currently works as a creative designer. He also teaches Master classes in Motion Graphics at the BAU School and at the New Media School at IDEP, Barcelona. He collaborates with the Broad.cat platform as a guest editor.

4’30’’ · cgi · color · 2009 San Francisco·CA, USA - Barcelona, Spain

"Once upon a point" is a generative video piece created by code programming in Processing. It shows both the evolution of a dot and the evolution of its community. It’s about how communication and understanding make way to the formation of higher, more complex structures.

Soundtrack by Alex Gámez · Aleix Fernández
Behind the Asferico project hides Barcelonan Alex Gámez, a Dj since he was 15 and a producer since he was 17. His aliases are many: Dj deck, under which he creates minimal sessions, tech and experimental house; clase muzique, his project as a producer with Fran Palomo (Barcelona), which ranges from the most rhythmic to the most “cerebral” minimal. Alex Gámez is also the creator of the artists’ platform and electronic music festival Störung.
www.asferico.net

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Aleix Fernandez Curell
[Barcelona, Spain1980]

Aleix Fernández is a creative director at Onionlab Motion Graphic and Interactivity Studio. His commercial works include clients like Audi, Seat, Mango, ABC (American Broadcasting Company), Red Bull, Ikea and Ericsson. His experimental works include his audiovisual performance “Imaginary Soundtracks”, premiered at Sonar 06, published on the 2006 ADC*E (Art Directors Club Europa) and awarded a LAUS prize; his music clip for the Slovenian producer Umek, number 1 on MTV Adria, and his participation in the “‘Optronica’ : Hybridations sonores” exhibition at the Museum of Numerical Art Le Cube (Paris).

www.onionlab.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

4’30’’ · drawing, video comp. · color · 2007 · Hannover, Germany

Playful forms gather in front of a repeating pattern. They seem to mold, dance and react with the soundtrack. The technique used is Drawing with Graphic Tablet in combination with picture (Photoshop) and editing software.

Soundtrack by iso68
Band consisting of two Berlin-based musicians

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Astrid Hagenguth
[Königstein im Taunus, Germany 1978]

Astrid Hagenguth studied Animation under Professor Paul Driessen in Kassel, and graduated in 2005. She is currently attending the Masterclass of "Klangkunst" at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Braunschweig under Professor Ulrich Eller. She lives and works in Hannover, where she also teaches animation.