Punto y Raya Festival

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PUNTO Y RAYA FESTIVAL 2014

RVM · PUNTO Y RAYA FESTIVAL 4th Festival Edition

MAD and RCVM (Reykjavík Center for Visual Music) join forces to create the greatest abstract Film & Visual Music event yet. The RVM · PYR Festival took place from January 30th through February 2nd 2014 at HARPA Reykjavík Concert Hall (Iceland). The fifth PyR international competition brought together nearly 500 artists from 46 countries, and the activities programme included live performances by renowned figures such as Ryoji Ikeda and Ryoichi Kurokawa; opening concerts -especially commissioned for the occasion by RCVM- by Bret Battey + Hugi Guðmundsson y Sigurður Guðjónsson + Anna Þorvalsdóttir; guest national panoramas from Austria and Poland, and for the first time, a PyRformance competition featuring artists like D·Fuse and Max Hattler.

Parallel activities included the educational Academy Programme and the Cadences of Line and Colour exhibition at Listasafn Reykjavíkur (February 1st- April13th).

Activities Programme

Official Short Film Competition

In our fifth Call for Entries, we've received 371 films from 46 countries in 5 continents.
These are the 96 selected works, structured in seven 50' modules.

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Official Short Film Competition

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Official Short Film Competition

Screening Programmes > Competition

GUEST SCREENINGS

Curated and presented by Ania Głowińska and Thomas Renoldner, these panoramas will introduce us into the history and evolution of experimental abstract cinema in their respective countries.

Polish Short Film Panorama

Anna Głowińska I Olga Wroniewicz

February 01, 2014 / 16:30h

Austrian Short Film Panorama

Thomas Renoldner

February 02, 2014 / 16:30h

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Polish Short Film Panorama

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Austrian Short Film Panorama

GUEST PYRFORMANCES

We're opening the festival with deluxe concerts commissioned specially by RCVM (Reykjavík Center for Visual Music) to Bret Battey + Hugi Guðmundsson & Sigurður Guðjónsson + Anna Þorvaldsdóttir. The acclaimed Ryoichi Kurokawa and Ryoji Ikeda will conquer our senses with their overwhelming guest sessions.

Trajectories

Anna þorvaldsdóttir I Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir I Sigurður Guðjónsson

January 30, 2014 / 22:00h

Triptych Unfolding

Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir I Bret Battey I Hugi Guðmundsson

January 30, 2014 / 22:00h

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Ryoichi Kurokawa

January 31, 2014 / 22:30h

datamatics [ver.2.0]

Ryoji Ikeda

February 01, 2014 / 22:30h

LIVE SET COMPETITION

Through the first Reykjavík Visual Music call for entries we have received 102 proposals from 30 countries. It wasn't an easy task for the selection committee, but here are the four finalists, which participated in the festival.

Tektōn

Paul Mumford I D-FUSE

January 31, 2014 / 18:30h

usaginingen Live

usaginingen

January 31, 2014 / 19:00h

Hattlerizer 2.0

Jordi Baldó I Max Hattler

February 01, 2014 / 19:00h

Combustion

Robin Kobrynski

February 01, 2014 / 19:30h

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“Tektōn” by D-Fuse + Labmeta

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Usaginingen Live 2014

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“Hattlerizer 2.0” by Max Hattler + VerperOn

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"Combustion" by RKO

OPEN ACADEMY

Masterclasses, presentations and additional screenings, with free admission and open to audience participation.

Dot Matrix

Richard Tuohy

January 31, 2014 / 21:00h

Improvising Abstract Film

Marcin Giżycki

February 01, 2014 / 10:30h

Animations by NID students

Ajay Kumar Tiwari I Jignesh Khakhar

February 02, 2014 / 12:30h

ACADEMY FOR STUDENTS

On January 29th & 30 2014, music, design, architecture and fine art students will participate in the animation, code programming and real·time visuals Workshops at Listasafn Reykjavíkur.

Mapping and Light-Drawing on Location

Juanjo Fernández

29 - 30 of January, 2014

Abstract Animation exploring Icelandic Music

Olga Wroniewicz

29 - 30 of January, 2014

Moving Dots & Lines in Processing

Kike Ramírez

January 29, 2014 / 16:00h

Tengia: co-creating mixed-media animation

Ajay Kumar Tiwari I Jignesh Khakhar

January 29, 2014 / 16:00h

Sinthesizing Live Visual Music

Warren Stringer

January 30, 2014 / 16:00h

Visual Music in the Digital Age

Bret Battey

January 31, 2014 / 12:30h

Organiser

Ana Santos

Direction, Production & Communication

BA in Graphic Design and Photography. She manages web content & design, and curates animation-themed showcases for various Spanish institutions.

Founder member of MAD, for over 15 years she's been developing projects related to Arts, Science and Technology.

Nöel Palazzo

Direction, Production & Communication

Screenwriter and researcher. She occasionally delves into making experimental videos and animations, and lectures and writes essays as a film critic. A couple of her short films have been awarded internationally.

Since 2008 she's been a member of the iotaCenter's Advisory Council (Los Angeles, CA) and coordinator of the Spanish speaking community at the Visual Music Village.

She acts as a juror for various international film & animation festivals, and curates special programmes of avantgarde animation.

Friðrik Steinn Kristjánsson

Direction & Production

Entrepreneur, marketing director and amateur musician, his passion for Visual Music turned him into some kind of a patron in the genre, creating the Reykjavík Visual Music Festival, the first Visual Music event in the world devoted to abstract live cinema.

Íris Stefánsdóttir

Production, Communication & Marketing

Finished an art degree from MHÍ in Iceland in 1998, and studied Marketing and Operations Management at Reykjavik University in 2012. She's been a director at i8 Gallery until 2012, and currently works as an independent art consultant and project manager.

Óscar Testón

Technical Coordinator

Filmmaker, creator of visual settings, mapping artist. Creator and CEO of VjSpain, the greatest online network for visualists and mapping artists in the Spanish Speaking World.

Kike Ramírez

Technical Coordinator

BA in Telecommunications Engineering from the UMA. Responsible of International Communication at vjspain.com.

Author of Visual, Interactive & Augmented Reality installations. Hardware & Software Designer / Generative Graphics and Creative Coding programmer.

Juanjo Fernández

Technical Coordinator

Juanjo Fernández Rivero is a creator, who conscientiously searches for the right channels for his contents. Throughout his career, the meticulous formal aspect of his work might lead us to believe, wrongly, 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.

Venue

HARPA Reykjavík Concert Hall & Conference Center

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Harpa opened its doors in May 2011 and is home to the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Icelandic Opera. It also hosts a myriad of concerts spanning all musical genres, and numerous events, meetings and conferences.
Its Silfurberg room can accommodate over 1.000 people.

Silfurberg # A

With a capacity of 400 people, this portion of the Silfurberg Room will host the live sets in the competition.

Silfurberg # B

With 200 seats, this portion of the Silfurberg room will host the Short·Film Screenings.

Silfurberg Hall

With a capacity of 100 people, this hall is located in front of the Silfurberg room's access. It is a dynamic space, a meeting point, where we'll carry out our HUB activities, including talks, round tables and master classes.

Silfurberg Room

This room will host the guest live sets. The sections #A & #B will merge for the guest Live Cinema Sessions, with a total capacity of over 1.000 people.

Rima Room

An extra space for intimate presentations and masterclasses with guest artists.

Listasafn Reykjavíkur Reykjavík Art Museum

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Founded in 1973, the Reykjav?k Art Museum is the largest visual art institution in Iceland. Its mission is to present contemporary art in its many manifestations. The Hafnarhus research and experimentation center is located 300m. away from HARPA. This is where the Visual Music exhibit and some of the 2014 Academy activities took place.

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We heartily thank

Our deluxe jury and all the volunteers for their kind work.