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"The dream of creating a color music for the eye, comparable with auditory music for the ear, dates to antiquity…”
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February 8-14, 2010
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Clip of the Week
"From Pythagoras to Pixels: The Ongoing Trajectory of Visual Music" (2009) by Pamela Taylor Turner
Watch a clip from Pamela Taylor Turner's lecture "From Pythagoras to Pixels" delivered at SIGGRAPH 2009's Visual Music Day.
Turner's fascinating overview of the history of visual music was one of many "Visual Music Talks" delivered by contemporary scholars, artists and composers including Brian Evans, Stephanie Maxwell, and Bonnie Mitchell & Elainie Lillios.
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Internet Archive
In these tough economic times, free content is always welcome. Visit the Internet Archive, an online library celebrating "universal access to all knowledge," a store house of nearly 250,000 moving images, 74,000 concerts, 480,000 audio files, and 2 million texts...ALL FREE!
Explore the Archive's section devoted to Arts & Music Videos, featuring VJ Loops, or the section dedicated to Animation & Cartoons, featuring the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater.
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Hans Richter
German animator Hans Richter (1888-1976) began as a Cubist painter in Berlin. With artists Tristan Tzara and Jean Arp, he helped establish Dadaism in Zurich in 1916. Working in Germany with Viking Eggeling in the 1920s, he produced the short films RHYTHM 21 (1921), RHYTHM 23 (1923) and RHYTHM 25 (1925), as well as FILM STUDY (1926) and GHOSTS BEFORE BREAKFAST (1928). In the late 1920s and 1930s, Richter turned to advertising and lecturing before settling in New York in the 1940s and producing live-action experimental films. Between 1942 and 1957, he served as director of the Film Institute of the City College of New York.
For more information about Richter and his work, please visit his iotaCenter Profile or purchase the documentary "Hans Richter: Give Chance a Chance" from the iotaStore.
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February 1-7, 2010
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Clip of the Week
"Parallel" (2009) by Huckleberry Lain
Watch a clip from "Parallel" by Huckleberry Lain, "a journey of sound and image that will dazzle your senses. Raining colors pill out of the screen and electronic dreamy sounds fill the entire realm of perception."
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WRO Art Center
Since 1989, The WRO Art Center in Wrocław, Poland is the country's leading institution dedicated to contemporary art, media, and technology. Aside from organizing the International Media Art Biennale, WRO has published a collection of the work Józef Robakowski and continues to produce WIDOK: WRO Media Art Reader featuring a book of critical essays and work by artists like Viking Eggeling, Len Lye, Larry Cuba, and Hy Hirsh.
In 1999, animation scholar Dr. William Moritz delivered a series of lectures on visual music at the WRO Art Center. These lectures are available for viewing at the iotaCenter's Library & Study Center.
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Pat O'Neill
"Pat O’Neill has been deeply involved in Los Angeles culture since the late 1960’s. A founding father of the city’s avant-garde film scene, an influential professor at CalArts and an optical effects pioneer, he is best known for his short works from the early 1960’s onwards which are highly graphic, layered and reflexive assemblages based on a mastery of optical printing techniques.
In O’Neill’s films boundaries fade, narrative collapses and layers of imagery draw the viewer simultaneously towards and away from linear meaning. O’Neill has combined found footage with experimental montage and compositing techniques to create a graphic language that deals with how different, often disparate elements assembled together in the frame relate to one another. His innovative optical techniques anticipated our digital landscape well before its time."
--Lookout Mountain Studios
For more information about Pat O'Neill and his work, please visit his new website Lookout Mountain Studios and his iotaCenter Profile.
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January 25-January 31, 2010
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"Floating Point" (2009) by Audri Phillips
Watch a clip from "Floating Point," a unique combination of abstract animation and poetry by Audri Phillips who created both the words and the visuals.
"Floating Point" was featured in the January 7th iotaSalon: "Text and Speech in Abstraction."
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CriterionForum.org
Feeling out of the loop on when the second Brakhage volume will be released? Are you looking for an additional critical outlet to supplement the iota Yahoo Discussion group?
For the latest news and gossip in the art house and avant-garde cinema on home-video visit CriterionForum.org.
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 Furies | Artist of the Week
Sara Petty
Sara Petty grew up in Texas and studied painting and animation at UCLA and at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Her film FURIES (1975), described as a study in movement and composition and an exploration of the mysterious consciousness, won 14 first place awards at international festivals, including the Ottawa and Chicago Film Festivals. Her subsequent work, PRELUDES IN MAGICAL TIME (1988), won the Independent Animation Award at the 1989 Animation Celebration Festival.
For more information about Sara Petty, please visit her iotaCenter Profile.
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January 18-24, 2010
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Clip of the Week
"Impasse" (1978) by Frank & Caroline Mouris
Watch a clip from "Impasse" by Frank & Caroline Mouris, a classic of abstract animation that follows a tiny red arrow's journey through a multitude of spirals of white and waterfalls of color.
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Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
Check out the latest in what's happening in the visual arts in Cambridge by visiting Harvard University's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. From January 28-February 14, The Carpenter Center presents Frame by Frame: Animated at Harvard, "an exhibition showcasing Harvard’s animation history: rarely-seen films retrieved from the Harvard Film Archive, works by world-renowned recent animation faculty, and a survey of films by current and former students of the department."
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 The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake | Artist of the Week
Deborah Johnson
Deborah Johnson's film "The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake" (2007) was featured in the Official Competition of the 2009 Punto y Raya Festival.
"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."
--Punto y Raya Festival
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January 11-17, 2010
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Clip of the Week
"Unperceived Dimensions" (2006) by Sylvia Pengilly
Music by Michael Rhoades
Watch a clip from "Unperceived Dimensions" by Sylvia Pengilly, a retired professor of music theory, composition and electronic music who previously taught at Loyola University in New Orleans and currently resides in California.
Her collaborations with musician Michael Rhoades yielded four of the works found on her DVD collection, "Six Videos," available from The iotaStore.
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CalArts Experimental Animation: Showcase 2009
An incredible online exhibition of a streaming selection of this year's most innovative and moving student films from the famed Experimental Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. The site is also a great launching point to the student showcases from 2004 to 2008 as well as the 20 Year Retrospective that culls the cream of the CalArts crop from 1970-1990.
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Astrid Hagenguth
Congratulations to Astrid Hagenguth! Her film "Stoppages" (2007) won third prize in the Official Competition of the 2009 Punto y Raya Festival.
"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."
--Punto y Raya Festival
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The iotaCenter Salon
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Presented by The iotaCenter and UCLA Design | Media Art Department
The next iotaSalon will be held on January 7th in the Broad Art Center on campus, first floor at the EDA screening space. The theme for this screening is "Text and Speech." Join us!
For more information and program line up, please visit The iotaSalons 2010 page.
When: Thursday, January 7th, 2010, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Where: UCLA Design | Media Art Department, 1st Floor Broad Art Center (EDA), Westwood, CA
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January 4-10, 2010
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"White Noise" (2007) by Dennis H. Miller
Watch a clip from "White Noise" by Dennis H. Miller, animator, musician, Northeastern University professor and a major force behind the annual Visual Music Marathon. "White Noise" was created with Maxon's Cinema 4D 3D modeling with the intention "to evoke reflections on the chaos and interruptions that permeate everyday life."
A selection of Miller's earlier work can be found on his DVD collection "Seven Animations," available from The iotaStore.
For more information about the artist and his work, please visit his website.
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Animation World Network
If by some incredible twist of fate you aren't aware of the most comprehensive online collection of information, articles, and features about the industry and craft of the multiple facets of animation, let this week's "Site of the Week" close that gap.
Visit the Animation World Network host to archival material on visual music and ground-braking artists like Jules Engel and John Whitney.
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Mary Ellen Bute
(1906-1983)
In the mid 1930s, Mary Ellen Bute was the first American to make abstract motion pictures, and in the early 1950s along with Norman McLaren and Hy Hirsh was among the first to explore electronic imagery in film.
Starting as a Rosa Bonheur-style painter in Texas, she came east at age 15 to study painting in Philadelphia (where she first saw Kandinsky's work); later she studied stage lighting at Yale (in the first class to which women were admitted); made a round-the-world dance and drama tour as a teacher-lecturer; worked with Joseph Schillinger on his mathematical projections and with Leon Theremin on his electronic musical invention. Her first attempt with abstract film was in collaboration with Joseph Schillinger and Lewis Jacobs on the unfinished Synchronization in 1932. Bute's introduction to Ted Nemeth (who became her husband in 1940) led to a partnership that produced 12 short musical "seeing-sound" abstract films, several commercial TV ventures, a live-action featurette and a full-length film version of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
--Cecile Starr, in Articulated Light
Bute's "Mood Contrasts" (1956) recently screened as part of the November 17th iotaSalon. For more information about Mary Ellen Bute, please visit her iotaCenter profile.
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December 14-20, 2009
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"The Sound of Color (the trans-sensory metaphor)" (2009) by Brian Evans
Watch a clip from Brian Evans' lecture "The Sound of Color (the trans-sensory metaphor)" delivered at SIGGRAPH 2009's Visual Music Day.
Brian Evans' discussion of his process, works, and ideas was one of many "Visual Music Talks" delivered by contemporary scholars, artists and composers including Pamela Taylor Turner, Stephanie Maxwell, and Bonnie Mitchell & Elainie Lillios.
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CineFamily
An eclectic Los Angeles venue showcasing an international array of cult and avant-garde cinema, CineFamily was host to the Los Angeles stop on the US West Coast Tour of Punto y Raya.
Visit their website to discover the latest in alternative cinema as well as some classics you may have missed. Subscribe to their mailing list to hear about the latest screening events and filmmaker talks. See as many shocking, provocative, and engaging films as you want by becoming a member for only $25 a month (that's two movies and a bucket of popcorn).
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Daniel Pitarch Fernández
Congratulations to Daniel Pitarch Fernández! His film "L’art de la fuga (The Art of the Fugue)" (2009) won second prize in the Official Competition of the 2009 Punto y Raya Festival.
"Daniel Pitarch Fernández studies, teaches, researches, writes, does programming, watches, reads and imagines… all of it, once in a while."
--Punto y Raya Festival
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December 7-13, 2009
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Clip of the Week
"The Toy Shop" (1998) by Jules Engel
Music by Googe
Bring out some holiday cheer in the visual music vein with a clip from Jules Engel's utterly delightful "The Toy Shop," a celebration of color, movement and TOYS!
For that special visual music fan in your life, this work and many others are available on the KINETICA Video Library™ collection "Jules Engel: Selected Works, Volume I," available now from The iotaStore.
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J. Walt's Spontaneous Fantasia: The Omnicentric Universe
Come and see J. Walt Adamcyzk's "Spontaneous Fantasia: The Omnicentric Universe," an entirely new experience of cosmic exploration performed live in state-of-the-art immersive digital fulldome at Glendale Community College Planetarium!
Two performances left!
Friday, December 11, 8:00pm
Saturday, December 12, 6:30pm
For tickets and program information, please visit the Spontaneous Fantasia website.
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Oliver Vogel
Congratulations to Oliver Vogel of Ludwigsburg, Germany! His 2007 film "Herbstlaub" (Autumn Leaves), with music by Phillip Noll, won the coveted Audience Prize in the Official Competition of the 2009 Punto y Raya Festival.
"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.'"
--Punto y Raya Festival
For more information about Oliver Vogel, please visit his online portfolio.
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November 30-December 6, 2009
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Clip of the Week
"The Outer Edge of Possibility" (2005) by Sylvia Pengilly
Music by Michael Rhoades
Watch a clip from "The Outer Edge of Possibility" by Sylvia Pengilly, a retired professor of music theory, composition and electronic music who previously taught at Loyola University in New Orleans and currently resides in California.
Her collaborations with musician Michael Rhoades yielded four of the works found on her DVD collection, "Six Videos," available from The iotaStore.
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Maura McDonnell's Visual Music
Visit Maura McDonnell's blog Visual Music, a noteworthy entry in the heavily populated blogosphere that is dedicated to championing and promoting visual music with regular postings of sites, artists, and events of interest to the abstract animation community.
Become a follower and help spread the word about this in-depth and comprehensive online resource.
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Idrioema
Congratulations to Luigi Scotti and Teresa Aguas of Idrioema! Their film "Linearea" won first prize in the Official Competition of the 2009 Punto y Raya Festival.
"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..."
--Punto y Raya Festival
For more information about Idrioema, please visit their MySpace.
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2009 Punto y Raya Festival
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MAD-Actions and the iotaCenter present the renowned abstract animation festival dedicated to the "dot and line"
The festival "explores the ultimate synthesis of the form·movement duality in different spheres of human endeavor" and "uses abstraction's prime matter to reveal the limitations and achievements of our representation systems." This year's festival includes a special retrospective screening curated by the iotaCenter and hosted by Larry Cuba.
For more information and program line up, please visit the 2009 Punto y Raya Festival Official Website.
When: November 25-29, 2009
Where: Arts Santa Mònica, la Rambla, 7 · Barcelona, Spain
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November 23-29, 2009
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"Punto y Raya 2009: Retrospective Section" (2009) compiled by Noel Palazzo, MADactions
Watch the trailer for "PYR 2009: Retrospective Section," the 2009 Punto y Raya Festival's opening night screening dedicated to bringing visual music classics to a new audience.
Curated by the iotaCenter, the retrospective includes such classics as Larry Cuba's "3/78" and "Calculated Movements," Hy Hirsh's "Chasse des Touches," Frank & Caroline Mouris' "Impasse," and Jules Engel's "Train Landscape" and "Shapes and Gestures." The program will be presented by Larry Cuba.
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2009 Punto y Raya Festival
Get "back to basics" and visit the 2009 Punto y Raya Festival Official Website, your primary source for information about this year's abstraction-infused special events, "pyrformances," the iotaCenter curated Retrospective 09, and the Official Competition featuring an international selection of today's most innovative and exciting abstract animators. Hosted at Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona, the festival kicks off this Wednesday, November 25, and runs until Sunday, November 29.
Even if you are unable to attend the festival, the site is a fantastic window into the various colorful voices of contemporary abstract visuals.
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Rob Tyler, www.vcr100.com
 Color + Modulation #7 | Artist of the Week
Rob Tyler
"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."
--Punto y Raya Festival
Of particular interest to the abstract animation community is Tyler's Color + Modulation series, a fascinating and vividly colorful body of experimental films. Tyler's "Color + Modulation #7" screens as part of the 2009 Punto y Raya's Official Competition.
For more information about Rob Tyler, his "Color + Modulation" series, and his other work, please visit his website VCR100.
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November 16-22, 2009
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"Luma Nocturna" (1974) by Sky-David aka Dennis Pies
Watch a clip from the chilling and eerie "Luma Nocturna," an early Sky-David (the artist formerly known as Dennis Pies) masterpiece of abstract animation that turns vaguely familiar shapes into an uneasy realm of shifting biological forms complete with expanding, contracting, spiraling blues, blacks, and whites.
"This was my first exploration in luminance animation. Nacreous pigments on the polished deep black surface of the scratch board allow vibrant white lines and airbrushed life forms to dance until the city and the airport landing at night finish the piece. This is the first film that I made with a luminous tunnel and got the work doing the tunnels for the feature DREAMSCAPE. This was by far my most popular animated film and is still screened today."
--Sky-David
"Luma Nocturna" is also one of the films in Sky-David's recent donation to The iotaCenter and will be featured this week at the November 19th iotaSalon at UCLA.
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Experimental Cinema
Visit Experimental Cinema, a site dedicated to creating awareness as well as promoting the discussion of alternative film. The site is divided into three main sections: the main site, customizable by users who can add their own news, reviews, or information about films and filmmakers; the discussion board, where users can post their rants and raves about the avant-garde; and a catalog dedicated to books and films related to experimental cinema. Operated by Marcos Ortega, this site is a welcome harbinger of new and international visions in the 21st Century.
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Lillios with Larry Austin in Bowling Green, 2007, www.elillios.com | Artist of the Week
Elainie Lillios
"Elainie Lillios’s music focuses on the essence of sound and suspension of time, conveying different emotions and taking listeners on "sonic journeys". The sounds she uses for her music are varied--sometimes they are simple things like the human voice, cars, wind chimes, or water. Other times her sound material is less obvious, like crunching bits of branches, walking through snow, or pebbles shuffling in water."
--artist's website
Elainie's extraordinary music can be heard on "2BTextures," her collaboration with animator Bonnie Mitchell, an excerpt which can be found on iotaCenter's YouTube Channel. The film was also recently featured as part of the October 1st iotaSalon.
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The iotaCenter Salon
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Presented by The iotaCenter and UCLA Design | Media Art Department
After a successful October launch, The iotaSalon commences once again with the generous support of the UCLA Design | Media Art Department. The next iotaSalon will be held on November 19th in the Broad Art Center on campus, first floor at the EDA screening space. Join us!
For more information and program line up, please visit The iotaSalons 2009 page.
When: Thursday, November 19th, 2009, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Where: UCLA Design | Media Art Department, 1st Floor Broad Art Center (EDA), Westwood, CA
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November 9-15, 2009
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Clip of the Week
"Frankly Caroline" (1998) by Frank & Caroline Mouris
From the filmmakers that brought you the Academy Award-winning "Frank Film" (1973), comes "Frankly Caroline," a smorgasbord of autobiography and animation set to the narration of a bickering, but undoubtedly loving, married couple.
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Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive & CineFiles
Visit the website of the Pacific Film Archive, Northern California's reknowned working archive and exhibitor of essential art-house classics and important contemporary filmmakers. PFA also dedicates every Tuesday evening to Alternative Visions, its on-going showcase of avant-garde film.
Scholars and artists looking to expand their horizons will also find a great resource in CineFiles, an online selection of the over 95,000 documentation files housed at the PFA Library & Film Study Center.
The PFA Library & Study Center provides access to over 11,000 films as well as "8,000 books, 150 journal titles, 7,500 posters, 35,000 stills, and 1,500 audiotapes of filmmakers who have appeared at the Pacific Film Archive."
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Robert Darroll
Abstract animator Robert Darroll (1946- ) studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art and in 1970, he received a DAAD Scholarship to study in Germany with Kurt Kranz, a former Bauhaus student. Darroll's first independent work, "CENIT" was completed in 1973 and in the following years he and Krantz worked on experimental animations commissioned by ZDF (German TV). During 1983-84, Darroll lived in Song Kwang Sa in South Korea, after which he produced "The Korean Trilogy" from 1984 to 1990. In 1990, Darroll converted his studio to digital technology and began his first computer animation entitled "Memb," followed by other works including "Moé's Field" and "Stele." Since 2002, he has lived in Japan where he teaches Media Art at the Nagoya University of Art and Science.
Darroll's "Stele" (1999) recently screened as part of the October 1st iotaSalon and is featured on the KINETICA Video Library DVD "Robert Darroll: Digital Animations, 1990-2001," available for purchase at the iotaStore.
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November 2-8, 2009
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"GeomeTrio" (2005) by Joaquin "Kino" Gil
Watch a clip from "GeomeTrio" by Los Angeles based artist Joaquin "Kino" Gil, recently featured in the October 1st iotaSalon. You can learn more about the film and the artist's other work at his iotaCenter profile and his website, KINOdigital.
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Seeing Sound
For an exciting and in-depth view into the visual music community, visit the official website of Seeing Sound, the September 2009 symposium hosted by Bath Spa University’s Centre for Musical Research.
The two-day affair featured screenings of historical and contemporary visual music works as well as performances by contemporary artists and presentations by reknowned scholars working in the various fields of abstract animation.
Although the event has passed, the website's plethora of biographies, film notes, archived presentation slideshows, and external links continue to serve as a crucial community resource for artists and researchers interested in what is happening now in the world of visual music.
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Paul Glabicki
Described as one of the most innovative experimental animators working today, Paul Glabicki began making animated films in 1968. He studied painting at Carnegie Mellon University before receiving two MFA degrees (in painting and film) from Ohio University. Rooted in an abstract tradition, his films contain complex layered imagery and sound and, until recently, were all made by hand. The winner of dozens of awards, Glabicki teaches art at the University of Pittsburgh. His newest project, MEMORY SPACES, is a series of computer-generated environments for 3-D Stereo projection.
Glabicki's "Object Conversation" (1985) recently screened as part of the October 1st iotaSalon.
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October 26-November 1, 2009
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"2BTextures" (2008) by Bonnie Mitchell and Elainie Lillios
Watch a clip from the colorful and charged "2BTextures," recently featured in the October 1st iotaSalon. You can learn more about the film and the artists' other work at their website, Immersive Installation Art.
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Conversations at the Edge
"Conversations at the Edge (CATE) is a weekly series of screenings, artist talks, and performances by some of the most compelling media artists of yesterday and today.
CATE is organized by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Department of Film, Video, and New Media in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and the Video Data Bank.
Programs take place Thursdays at 6pm at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State / Chicago, IL / 312-846-2600), unless otherwise noted."
Conversations at the Edge is also home to Chicago-based curator Amy Beste who helped iota and Chicago-based animator Jodie Mack bring the recent screening "Calculations: Pioneers of Computer Animation" to Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles.
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Dwinell Grant
Dwinell Grant (1912-1991) graduated from the Dayton Art Institute in Ohio. Between 1935 and 1941, he taught art and drama at the Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He was a renowned abstract painter, with exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad, before he turned to filmmaking and moved to New York City in the 1940s. After his fifth abstract COMPOSITION film, he devoted himself to making medical and educational films, co-founding the Sturgis-Grant Production Company in New York.
For more information about Dwinell Grant and his work, please visit his iotaCenter profile. |
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October 19-25, 2009
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Chasse des Touches |
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"Chasse des Touches" (1959) by Hy Hirsh
"A whimsical abstract film produced in Paris using the oil wipes technique, by one of the leaders of the West Coast Experimental Film Movement."
--1975 Creative Film Society Catalog
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VJThoery.net
Answering to the "lack of written texts on the philosophies and theories related with VJing and realtime interaction," VJThoery.net "intends to develop a community actively discussing and reflecting on philosophy and theory related with Vjing and realtime interaction," providing VJs, fans, and scholars with a great resource of in-depth articles, interviews, and links related to this burgeoning medium.
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Stephanie Maxwell
Stephanie Maxwell has been creating stunningly beautiful and original experimental animation for over twenty years. As a film artist who specializes in hand painting and engraving directly onto the surface of 35mm film stock, Maxwell employs a wide variety of materials and tools, including paints, markers, bleach, stencils, engraving tools, airbrush and many more experimental techniques.
The result is an exuberant flurry of color, form, and sound. Multi-layered, vibrant and complex, her films reveal the artist's unique sensibility for crafting fine art in motion. Collected here are all fourteen of Maxwell’s major works from GA (1984) to Runa’s Spell (2007). These award-winning films have been exhibited at media festivals worldwide. Also included on the DVD is a new, fascinating documentary in which Maxwell demonstrates her unique and unusual techniques.
Purchase the Kinetica Video Library DVD "Stephanie Maxwell: Animated Works 1984-2007" at the iotaStore, here.
For more information about Stephanie Maxwell and her work, please visit her iotaCenter profile and her website. |
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October 12-18, 2009
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One |
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"One" (2007) by Michal Levy
"One is a visual journey into music. An electronic sound wave, growing as the drum beat increases, turns into a colorful metropolis of skyscrapers that rise and fall like pistons. Two skyscrapers detach from the ground and take off into an ecstatic flight of freedom, discovering new dimensions."
--Michal Levy
Alongside other selections of both historical and contemporary abstract animation, "One" was recently featured in the October 1st iotaSalon.
To learn more about the artist and her work, please visit her iotaCenter profile and her website.
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The Art|Sci Center at UCLA
"The Art|Sci Center is dedicated to pursuing and promoting the evolving 'Third Culture' by facilitating the infinite potential of collaborations between (media) arts and (bio/nano) sciences.
The center’s affiliation with the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) offers access to cutting edge researchers and their laboratories and a dedicated gallery for exhibitions. Here too the center hosts the Sci|Art NanoLab Summer Institute for high school students by introducing them to the vast possibilities in the quantum field of art|science for the present and future generations.
In cooperation with CNSI, the UCLA School of the Arts and the Department of Design | Media Arts, the Art|Sci Center supports visiting research scholars and artists in residency from around the world. The center presents lectures, mixers, and symposia to bring artists and scientists together in order to mesh these cultures and inspire individuals to think about art and science as already interrelated and relevant to our society."
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Harvey Goldman
"Harvey Goldman is a multidisciplinary artist. He has created critically acclaimed work in the fields of ceramics, digital imaging and music. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. Goldman received his BFA from the University of Illinois and his MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He teaches digital media in the Design Department at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he currently holds the position of Chancellor Professor of Design."
--artist's website
Goldman's work with musician James Bohn, "Undulation" (2007) was recently featured as "Clip of the Week" and screened at the October 1st iotaSalon. His work produced with musician Ken Ueno, "Sabinium" (2007) will be featured at the Smithsonian's Hirshorn Museum on October 15th as part of the Washington Project for the Arts Experimental MediaCompetition, 2009.
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October 5-11, 2009
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Respect for Red and Green |
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"Respect for Red and Green" (2009) by Neil Ira Needleman
"Playful and intense red-green rhythms joyfully bouncing, bopping flashing, and evolving. A newly refurbished tennis court that I've trained to dance via video editing. Or perhaps it's actually a large-scale hard-edge color field painting come to life under my feet. Tennis, anyone?"
--Neil Ira Needleman
To learn more about the artist and his work, please visit his YouTube Channel and his blog.
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Ottawa 09 International Animation Festival
October 14-18, 2009
"From October 14th to 18th, the nation's capital will once again become the center of the animation universe. The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) is the largest event of its kind in North America, a major film event attracting attendees from around the world. Film buffs, art lovers and cartoon fans won't want to miss this year's great line up of screenings taking place at ByTowne Cinema, National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Empire Theatres Rideau Centre and Arts Court Theatre."
Of particular interest to the abstract animation community at OIAF 09 is "A Stan VanDerBeek Retrospective" and a special event featuring the expanding medium of stereoscopic cinema, "The StereoLab at NFB: Exploring Three Dimensions."
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Kino
A CalArts alum and Los Angeles-based abstract animator, Kino has not only founded and continues to head his own digital film and production company, .KINO.digital, his digital film and CGI production company but continues to experiment and create innovative digital animations some of which have screened recently in the Punto y Raya Festival, presented by MADactions and The iotaCenter, as well as in October 1st's iotaSalon.
For more information about Kino and his work, please visit his iotaCenter profile and his website. |
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