AVmotional – up:date

Fresh Best OF selection from Pictoplasma’s festivals 2008 and 2009, plus some new, never before screened material.

5 August, 21:30 h @ Teatrul de vara CAPITOL MMIX / © Save or Cancel

Free entrance!

The 70 min “Characters in Motion” screening specially curated for the AVmotional Association showcases highlights and fresh examples of a new generation of characters, bringing the style back into the world of animation.
Pictoplasma was conceived as a passion project ten years ago with the goal of championing the vibrant characters that are springing from the minds of today’s pioneering artists, whether it be animation, illustration, graphic art or toys.
Since then, the project has evolved into a multi-tasking operation. It has published a series of highly regarded compilations, including “The Character Encyclopaedia” and “Characters in Motion,” that have gone on to become pictorial bibles of character design. The project has also been hosting annual conferences, festivals and exhibitions since 2004, joining artists around the world to talk about characters in commercial and gallery art.

Links: www.pictoplasma.com

Partners: AFCN, Teatrul de vara CAPITOL MMIX / © Save or Cancel, Idea Highway

PICTOPLASMA – CHARACTERS IN MOTIO, 70 min

1) Intro Pictoplasma

David OReilly

music: Bob Gruen

2) Simple Song

Eun-Ha Paek

music: The Residents

3) Keepon Dancing

robotics: Marek Michalowski

music: Spoon

4)  I Can See You, Can You See Me

Eric Lerner

music: Rex The Dog

5)  Looking Through The B-Sides

Saiman Chow

6) Drygoni

Paul Rayment

music: Super Furry Animals

7) The Black Dog’s Progress

Stephen Irwin

8 ) Please Say Something

David OReilly

music: David Kamp / Bram Meindersma

9) LoveSport Paintball

Grant Orchard / StudioAKA

10)  I Want Nothing

Mashcomix

music: The Black Ghosts

11) Strasse Der Spezialisten

Studio Soi

music: Shantel

12)  Wamano

W+KTokyolab

music: Hifana

13) Buddi 1 – 4

Model Robot

14) The Inflatables

Joshua Allen Harris

15) Overtime

Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland, Damien Ferrié

16) Stare Into The Sun

Ian Stevenson

music: Jamie Scott and the Town

17) Play

Marco Morandi

music: Daniel Leopold

18) Bou

Satoru Ohno

music: MAS

19) Art Contemporain

Numero 6

20) Stayin Alive

Soundso

music: La Chose & Mirwais

21) Middle Dog Gets Angry

George Gendi

“Artista multimedia finlandeză stabilită în Berlin Mia Makela (SOLU) face o prezentare despre proiectul ei curatorial și de investigație ce vizează un nou concept, acela al cinema-ului live. Acesta se referă la crearea în timp real al unor materiale audiovizuale.”

de Iris Opris

Cititi articolul complet aici:

http://www.timeoutbucuresti.ro/arta/6350/4624882/avion-12-mia-makela-prezinta-cinema-live.html

Florian Sebald, membru al colectivului internaţional de design şi visuals Pfadfinderei, vorbeşte cu Time Out despre proiectul ultimului lor DVD, despre colaborarea cu Moderat şi despre cum se împacă arta cu proiectele comerciale.

De Iris Opriş şi Alex Roşu

Iris: Cât a durat munca la DVD-ul Moderat?

Florian: Ne-a luat aproape o lună să ne gândim la el, fără să facem nimic propriu-zis. Ne-a mai luat o lună să ne organizăm în grupuri şi să adunăm surse de inspiraţie, o lună să-l filmăm şi încă o lună să-l edităm.

Iris: Care au fost primele idei legate de concept?

Florian: Lucrăm foarte mult în format digital, mai ales la proiectele noastre comerciale. Clienţii le vor făcute în stilul pe care-l abordăm de zece ani încoace. Pfadfinderei are ca slogan “Treburi digitale de primă clasă” (en. “First class digital shit”), ceea ce înseamnă că facem totul pe computer. Chiar şi muzica techno de la care am pornit e digitală. Dar, când te ocupi de asta zi de zi, ajungi fie să te opreşti de tot, fie să cauţi o alternativă. Moderat au un album cald, romantic, care-ţi merge la suflet. Cerea ceva analog, de aceea am ales filmarea clasică. Ne-am dorit ca materialul să fie cât mai puţin sintetic şi vroiam să folosim cât mai puţine efecte digitale în producţia lui, de aceea am folosit lemnul, betonul şi toate culorile acelea naturale.

Varianta in limba romana: http://www.timeoutbucuresti.ro/arta/6350/4624661/pfadfinderei-munca-unor-cercetasi-in-arta-multimedia-la-nivel-inalt.html
Varianta in limba engleza: http://heathen-audio.blogspot.com/2009/07/spotlight-pfadfinderei-advanced.html

What is live cinema? According to the Transmediale festival1 press release for its live cinema program in 2005 the term “Live Cinema has hitherto been used primarily to describe the live musical accompaniment of silent movies. But that was yesterday. Live Cinema today stands for the simultaneous creation of sound and image in real-time by sonic and visual artists who collaborate on equal terms and with elaborate concepts. The traditional parameters of narrative cinema are expanded by a much broader conception of cinematographic space, the focus of which is no longer the photographic construction of reality as seen by the camera’s eye, or linear forms of narration. The term “Cinema” is now to be understood as embracing all forms of configuring moving images, beginning with the animation of painted or synthetic images.”

From “The Practice of Live Cinema” by Mia Makela

At AVion12, Mia Makela (SOLU) will give an introduction to LIVE CINEMA (realtime audiovisual creation) based on her theoretical and artistic work. She will talk about the background, basic concepts and genres of live visuals, present a showcase of works and give a general introduction to software. She will also talk about her own works and the ideas and techniques behind them.

July 8 2009, 19:00 h, CNDB, Sala Ronda

Free Entrance!

Mia Makela (SOLU) is finnish media+live cinema artist, teacher, investigator and curator residing in Berlin.
Her trajectory has led her from shamanistic studies to art. From art to media art and design.
From media art to organization of events and workshops on contemporary digital culture.
As part of fiftyfifty.org collective (until 2002), she organized Hacker Techniques workshops, Gameboy Sound Lab and Playtime event amongst other activities.
She started performing visuals in 2001 as SOLU at festivals around the world:
SONIC ACTS (Amsterdam), SONAR (Barcelona), TRANSMEDIALE (Berlin),
ZAGREB BIENNALE OF MUSIC, CIMATICS (Brussels), AVIT (Birmingham),
MAPPING (Geneve), TRANSIT_MX (Mexico City), Live Cinema Nights (San
Jose), Pixelache (Helsinki), ARS ELECTRONICA (Linz), BYTEME (Perth),
MONKEY TOWN (NYC), ROXY BAR & SCREEN (London), STATE OF IMAGE
(Arnhem), FESTIVAL POMLADI (Ljubljana), LARM (Stockholm)…. .

She has collaborated with many experimental musicians including ARBOL, Heidi
Mortenson, Dj Rupture and worked with theaters (Conservas, Dani Panullo Dance theater).
Her work has been described as “A dark delirium of images, a disintegrated
vision on a complex world – a digital version of William Blake’s poetry”.
Her style ranges from minimal abstractions to multilayered compositions following a dreamlike narrative journey.

She processes her visual material with MAX/MSP/JITTER, Isadora and Modul8.
She has given lectures and written articles on various themes including live
cinema, VJng, robots, audiovisual and digital culture and tactical sound. In 2006
she published her thesis on LIVE CINEMA language and elements, (Media
laboratory, Helsinki) which gathers her experience on real-time visuals.
The following year she edited widely distributed special issue on LIVE CINEMA for
a:minima magazine/ book.
Her latest workshop titled ”Audiovisual Real- time Creation” took place in Spain, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Finland and Mexico.

Links: www.solu.org
http://www.mediatecaonline.net/Obert/EP00067/eng/

Partners: CNDB, AFCN, Idea Highway

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