PROGRAM (35:23)
Liron Kroll (UK)
"High Expectations"
2011, 3:17 min, color, sound
Kelly Monico (USA)
“Hitchcock Heroine”
2009, 2:19 min, black/white, sound
Sonia Laura Armaniaco \\ aka svonica (Italy)
“INSIDE!”
2012, 8:49 min, blk/white/color, sound
visual concept §vonicå ~ soniALaura armaniaco
music concept Julien Bayle ~ Protofuse
Ulf Kristiansen (Norway)
"I feel You"
2012, 5:16 min, color, sound
Music arranged and performed by Michael Chang
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Yuko Takemura (UK)
“Space in Between”
2007, 5:02 min, color, sound
Payam Mofidi (Iran & Canada)
“Skin”
2013, 3:51 min, color, sound
Video by: Payam Mofidi and Ila Firouzabadi
Music: Armin Firouzabadi
Album: Music divided by 2
Alysse Stepanian (USA)
"FREY"
music by Philip Mantione
2009, 3:17 min, color, sound
Michael Douglas Hawk (Germany)
“RE-CREATION C (Slider C)”
2010, 3:00 min, color, silent |
“High Expectations”
2011, 3:17 min, color, sound |
Liron Kroll (London/UK)
BIO
Liron is a multidisciplinary Visual Artist and Motion Designer based in London. She studied visual communications at H.I.T, Israel graduating in 2006 with honors and in 2011 completed an MA in Communication Art and Design at the Royal College of Art, London.
She has worked on diverse projects that include motion graphics, animation as well as network branding and fashion photography productions (for a list of her clients see her website). Her work has been exhibited and featured in publications such as Motionographer, IDn magazine, Computer Arts magazine, Adobe Design Achievement awards, International woman's film festival and many more.
STATEMENT
I’m a London based multidisciplinary visual artist. The themes of my work are driven from the inherent contradiction of needing to belong to a social structure, but being simultaneously repulsed by it. I’m inspired by compromise, small tragedies and by the way people repress and carry on. The characters I direct and photograph exist in a gap between their idea of themselves as special people and the reality of being like everyone else.
I create uncanny photomontages that seem real but are actually invented realities and feed off the tension and dissonance created by staging mundane, average moments in life. |
“Hitchcock Heroine”
2009, 2:19 min, black/white, sound |
Kelly Monico (Colorado/USA)
BIO
Kelly Monico is an Assistant Professor of Art in the Communication Design program at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. She is an interdisciplinary artist and designer who received her BFA from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and her MFA from the Electronic Media Arts and Design program at the University of Denver. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including film, video, interactive design and installation. She has shown nationally and internationally at film, performance and interactive media festivals and exhibitions. Recent exhibitions and residencies include The Banff Centre, Banff Canada, Video Medeja Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia, and Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, Greensboro, N.C. Currently Kelly is producing an interactive project that draws on the cultural significances of indigenous dances in the annual celebration of the Guelaguetza in Oaxaca, Mexico.
STATEMENT
"I design interactive animations, video works, and multimedia objects, using the human figure and personal interaction as my medium. I explore public and personal issues of agency and identity through the creation of conceptually based net art and interactive installations. In these works I implement a combination of elements, such as conceptual exploration, cultural implications, personal narrative and humor." |
“INSIDE!”
2012, 8:49 min, blk/white/color, sound
visual concept §vonicå ~ soniALaura armaniaco
music concept Julien Bayle ~ Protofuse |
Sonia Laura Armaniaco \\ aka svonica (Genoa/Italy)
BIO
Sonia is an AudioVisual artist who sometime lives and work in Italy, otherwise where her laptop brings her. She has shown her audiovisual works worldwide since 1985. She started with 2 super8 s then homemade vhs’s. She has also been involved in live audiovisual performances and video installations, especially in the United States (NYC, Philadelphia and all over California). Music was her first passion. Because of this she has deep sympathy for her right side of the brain, and since the right side works nonlinearly she necessarily loves the kind of “editing” that happens in dreams. She considers dreams as investigation territories and cut\ips working, always looking for accidental beauty using serendipity patterns.
STATEMENT
art of remix \\ remix of art
The visuals of “Inside” and most of my video works since 1995 are associated with early twentieth century Futurist and Dadaist experiments with innovative forms of cut\paste\readymade\re-do… meant to be experienced outside of traditional meaning. Collage here is an assemblage of disparate parts that together form new work where its power and meaning lie in the juxtaposition of the various elements of the collage. Film footage not intended to go together is mixed in order to create new work. The elements used include found footage, animation, still imagery, and popular culture. |
"I feel You"
2012, 5:16 min, color, sound
Music arranged and performed by Michael Chang |
Ulf Kristiansen (Nesodden/Norway)
BIO
Ulf Kristiansen (born in Norway) is a painter and video-artist. Ulf Kristiansen currently lives in Nesodden, a peninsula outside of Oslo, Norway. While starting out as a figurative painter, Ulf is now mainly focusing on 3d animation and machinima. His films have partaken in numerous international video festivals and exhibitions.
STATEMENT
A found footage/animated musical art film. A chilling poetic tale about obsession, horror and death. |
“Space in Between”
2007, 5:02 min, color, sound |
Yuko Takemura (London/UK)
BIO/ STATEMENT
Born in Nagano, Japan, Takemura lives and works in London. Takemura has exhibited her work in the UK, Japan, and America. She writes, "I have been working in video and installation with specific concerns about perception and sensation which occur subconsciously within our bodies and minds. My ideas are often influenced by my own emotional experiences, which are sensuous, strange, but also disturbing. I always try to create something which would evoke a sense of tactility within our bodies, in order for viewers to be engaged with it visually and physically." |
“Skin”
2013, 3:51 min, color, sound
Video by: Payam Mofidi and Ila Firouzabadi
Music: Armin Firouzabadi |
Payam Mofidi (Iran & Montreal/Canada)
BIO
Payam Mofidi was born in Tehran, Iran. He studied graphic design at Azad University (Art and Architecture) in Tehran, and continued his education in animation in school of arts (l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) in Paris. Currently he makes short film animations, experiencing new methods in their creation.
There have been presentations of his recent animation, “poeticide (Shaer Koshi)” in several festivals world-wide, such as Festival « Temps d’images » in France; French animation festival in the Franco-Japanese Institute/Yokohama; Projection in the Short Films Evening, Prague; Projection in the short film evening "Iran Vs ..." Istanbul.
LYRICS
The voice that came out
from her bruised body
made my knees sore
no blood poured out
My skin is talking with itself
and sometimes with me myself
with swollen lips
it's enough
I don't want my skin
I will tear it apart
I'm seeking for that voice
her body is bruising
without any voice
I feel the pain |
"FREY"
music by Philip Mantione
2009, 3:17 min, color, sound |
Alysse Stepanian (USA)
BIO
See here...
STATEMENT
Television static engulfs the image of a woman rolling, crawling, and spastically retracing her own steps in an empty swimming pool. In a communication dead-end, nothing is broadcast. The mirroring effect comments upon the reflections of one's self echoing into nothing, never-ending....
Philip Mantione has created the music by manipulating samples recorded with contact microphones on various surfaces. Short sounds from the freesound.org project were also used by triggering them rhythmically and randomly from a MAX/Msp patch, enhancing the rich layering and repetitive energy of the images (see http://www.philipmantione.com).
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“RE-CREATION C (Slider C)”
(from Sliders A/B/C, 3 single channel video loops)
2010, 3:00 min, color, silent |
Michael Douglas Hawk (Rotenburg, Lower Saxony/Germany)
http://artnomad.blogspot.com
BIO
Michael Douglas Hawk (English, born in Ashton-under-Lyne, U.K.) lives and works in Rotenburg, Lower Saxony (Germany), visualizing contemporary time based art, digital photography and design as a freelancer. Awards / distinctions include: 2007 WATER QUALITY "Best of Show" at International Video Festival, MONA /Detroit, USA; 2008 WAVETIME (single panel HD video work) honor mention at "Voices of the Waters", Bangalore, India."
STATEMENT
Reflecting on the leisure & holiday industry’s services as a part of influences to society, which assist us staying in a state of superficial ‘sunshine of our mind’. By providing artificial, (in a more than true sense) recreated experiences with natural elements (like water, wind and others), we seemingly end up as existences who are content to be eternally gliding through parallel realities, constructed and following business models, which take strategic advantage of contemporary scientific researching of human basic needs. |
