PyR2011 Archive at Museo Reina Sofía·Madrid by Noel Palazzo

Punto y Raya Festival is the brainchild of the Barcelonan non-profit association MAD [Moviment D’Alliberament Digital]. The proposal is as simple as universal: “No representation, only dots and lines. Can you take it?”. This was the challenge launched in 2007 through our first call for entries (distributed entirely via the Internet). To our amazement, we received near 90 dot·line films from 20 countries. The participants turned out to be animation students, renown animators, filmmakers, video-artists, special FX designers, scientists, architects, composers, Vj’s, anthropologists, graphic designers… We soon realized that the concept’s universality had aroused the interest of various collectives; it was self-evident that the dot and the line affected the way everybody interested in the creative process thinks of representation. Under the motto “Back to basics”, Punto y Raya reflects upon what constitutes the essence of form and movement, and explores these building blocks as ends in themselves. From Beijing to Vancouver, from Reykjavik to Buenos Aires, thousands of people were able to attend the festival’s reruns organized in each city thanks to our associated groups and venues. In barely two years of existence, we had already gained the recognition of the experimental audiovisual community and the critic. An article published in Seattle (WA·USA), has described our festival as “a broad spectrum of works of powerful imagery, which will make us wonder about the essence of time and space beyond language itself”. And in 2008, the Japanese press gave us the title of “most abstract festival in the world”. Punto y Raya now constitutes a creative platform based in over 35 cities all over the world. It has four editions under its belt: · · · ·

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M A N I F E S T This festival explores the ultimate synthesis of the form·movement duality in different spheres of art, science and thought. Due to the simplicity of its criteria, it uses abstraction's prime matter to reveal the limitations and achievements of our representation systems. The dot·line is the ultimate grain of our universe and of the sense we make of it; it's the primordial identification of all that exists; the essence of that which is matterless but builds up matter, of what is imperceptible but allows us to recognize all perceptible things. But in the symbolic dimension the dot·line ceases to be an end in itself to become a representation of human thought.

The dot·line dwells beyond religion, sociocultural environment, age, gender and language. We invite people from all over the world to explore the creative possibilities of these two basic elements, which make human expression and communication possible.

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SCREANINGS PyR 2011 OFFICIAL COMPETITION We received 368 films from 111 cities (42 countries). 109 have been selected to participate in our 2011 official competition. The screenings were organized in seven reels, with a running time of 55’ each.

REEL Lines for Clarinet John Osborne 4'47'' · cgi · b&w 2011 · Edmonton·AB, Canada In my garden Nicolás Juárez Latimer-Knowles_Iconish 2'35'' · cgi · color 2011 · Barcelona, Spain 1:1 Richard Roger Reeves 2'30'' · scratch · color 2001 · Pender Island·BC, Canada Hexagrama Arístides Job García Hernández_Lasal 5'24'' · cgi · color 2011 · Berlin, Germany p.e.r.f.o.r.m.a.n.c.e Karolina Glusiec 2'20'' · video composition · color 2011 · London, UK Videolightwork ten Clemente Calvo Muñoz 1'22'' · cgi · video composition · b&w 2011 · Zaragoza, Spain Sensorium Karen Aqua 5'00'' · drawing · color 2007 · Cambridge·MA, USA A Diamond forms under pressure Paul O' Donoghue_Ocusonic 6'12'' · cgi · color 2008 · Dublin, Ireland Vortex Eneko Amezaga Angulo_Dormonorov 0'44'' · drawing · color 2011 · Bilbao, Spain Rhythmus 25 Clint Enns 1'29'' · video composition · color 2010 · Winnipeg, Canada Din Da Da Sonja Kohl _eSKagrafie 1'50'' · cgi · drawing · b&n 2009 · Solingen, Germany

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.::. .::. .::. | [dust] Mariska de Groot 8'49'' · cgi · color 2011 · The Hague, Netherlands Tiny Pizzas Chris Casady_Tile Nut 2'00'' · drawing · color 2010 · Los Angeles·CA, USA Black and White Landscape 2010 Benjamin Rowley 1'55'' · op-art · b&w 2010 · Canterbury, UK AE Marcin Gizycki 3'15'' · drawing · color 2011 · Warsaw, Poland Rain-Death Variations (Pisces) Ying Tan 2'00'' · cgi · color 2011 · Eugene·OR, USA

REEL Dust Breedings Jan Goldfuß _goaj 2'51'' · cgi · b&w 2010 · Berlin, Germany Rites Robert Lyons 3'07'' · scratch · color 2005 · Philadelphia, Brooklyn, USA Watercolor Angela Anastasia Diamos 2'00'' · cgi · color 2011 · Santa Clarita·CA, USA Light Activation Feedback Ian Helliwell 6'50'' · video composition · color 2010 · Brighton, UK Coming Through Ned Resnikoff 1'58'' · cgi · color 2011 · Boston·MA, USA Study No. 14 W. S. Cheng 6'30'' · cgi · color 2010 · Lawrence·KS, USA Supercollider Dreamtime Aaron Ross 1'35'' · cgi · color 2011 · San Francisco·CA, USA

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Entropy001 Chris White_Alpha Channel 4'58'' · video composition · color 2011 · Hereford, UK ST/ Pintura y rayones sobre celuloide Cristina Ezquerra Campos 0'48'' · drawing · color 2011 · Bilbao, Spain Music Interaction Ashley Willess 2'00'' · cgi · color 2010 · Richardson·TX, USA Second Atmospheric Study Mark Stephen Linnane 1'59'' · cgi · b&w 2010 · Dublin, Ireland (commercial wallpaper) silence Matthias Fitz 1'11'' · video composition · color 2010 · Berlin, Germany Bermuda Calvin Frederick 4'02'' · cgi · stop-motion · color 2011 · Valencia, USA Indicios Cristian Patricio Soto Pacheco 2'25'' · stop-motion · color 2011 · Punta Arenas, Chile Relief Gabrielle Li_Gabbie Li 1'49'' · drawing · color 2010 · Boston·MA, USA Sinus Aestum Bret Battey 8'30'' · cgi · color 2009 · Leicester, UK

REEL Sweeping Chris Casady_Tile Nut 1'20'' · drawing · color 2005 · Los Angeles·CA, USA 1 C A a 01x David Muth 7'47'' · cgi · b&w 2010 · Turku, Finland Untitled 246 Eduardo Omine 2'24'' · cgi · color 2009 · São Paulo, Brazil

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Rad Plaid Jodie Mack 6'03'' · stop-motion · color 2010 · Chicago, USA Ballad of the Respirocyte Fermín Cimadevilla_Nomeno 5'05'' · video composition · color 2010 · Caracas | Barcelona | Rejkyavík Forms & Shapes Matas Zaloga 0'21'' · video composition · color 2011 · Derby, UK Mandel quiet Javier Romañach Cabrero 3'52'' · cgi · color 2010 · Madrid, Spain xx2 Evgen Vaschenko_V4W.ENKO 2'52'' · cgi · color 2009 · Kyiv, Ukraine M Train to Brooklyn Sonja Kohl_eSKagrafie 1'30'' · cgi · b&w 2010 · Düsseldorf, Germany Implosion of Light and Sound 1: I'll be at the Bottom of the Ocean Huckleberry Lain_Paul Shepherd 3'38'' · cgi · color 2010 · Los Angeles·CA, USA Overpass James Snazell 3'40'' · video composition · color 2010 · Manchester, UK Module Juha & Vesa Vehviläinen_Pink Twins 6'30'' · cgi · color 2008 · Helsinki, Finland The OI Project István Balogh_Konceptofon 3'54'' · cgi · color 2011 · Budapest, Hungary Irrigation Urbaine Cumulus 1'24'' · video composition · color 2010 · Lyon, France Rymden // Ode to Kymatica Peder Norrby_Rymden 1'55'' · cgi · color 2010 · Stockholm, Sweden Broken Caleb Wood 1'23'' · drawing · b&w 2011 · Grand Rapds·MI, USA

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REEL Videolightwork nine Clemente Calvo Muñoz 1'19'' · video composition · color 2011 · Zaragoza, Spain Flyscreen Richard Tuohy 8'16'' · scratch · op-art · b&w 2010 · Melbourne, Australia La isla Lina María Crespo Torres_VerdeViento 0'43'' · cgi · drawing · color 2011 · Medellín, Colombia Amplifier No. 5 Chih-Ming Fan 3'00'' · video composition · color 2011 · Cologne, Germany Slur Hunter Ewen 2'51'' · cgi · video composition · color 2009 · Westminster, USA Procesión Etienne López Aranda 3'30'' · drawing · color 2011 · Bilbao, Spain Op Hop Benjamin Rowley 2'26'' · op-art · color 2010 · Canterbury, UK Mutaciones de la partícula Enrique Piñuel Martín 3'51'' · video composition · color 2011 · Madrid, Spain Alfa Omega Alfa Ozan Turkkan 4'12'' · cgi · color 2011 · Barcelona, Spain Off The Beaten Things Joaquín Gil_Kino 6'06'' · cgi · color 2011 · Los Angeles·CA, USA Universo NºXn: Creación-Destrucción Joel Martínez Villena_Sphunkgrafix 3'16'' · video composition · b&w 2011 · Barcelona, Spain Windspiel Wilfried Jentzsch 2'20'' · cgi · color 2010 · Dueren, Germany The Night After I Kicked It Jane Cassidy 8'00'' · cgi · color 2008 · Dublin, Ireland

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No Alejandra Bueno de Santiago_Ale 3'41'' · video composition · color 2011 · Bilbao, Spain

REEL Rogx Candas Sisman 6’23” · cgi · video composition · color 2009 · Eskisehir, Turkey Divide Matt Abbiss 1'33'' · drawing · color 2011 · London, Cairo, UK, Egypt sinestesia>1 Eva Granados_Outside Bonus 4'26'' · cgi · color 2011 · Cáceres, Spain Abstracted Reflections Sabrina Schmid 3'35'' · cgi · color 2011 · Middlesbrough, UK (commercial wallpaper) hit swish whoosh Matthias Fitz 0'35'' · video composition · color 2010 · Berlin, Germany Plenitude Nigel Power 3'15'' · cgi · b&w 2001 · Bangkok, Thailand Balls & Cues Jean-Michel Rolland 3'22'' · video composition · color 2011 · Paris, France r-evolution Jordi Biendicho Vidal 3'10'' · cgi · color 2011 · Tarragona, Spain Gridworks_textanimation_2010 A. Bill Miller_Gridworks1 5'22'' · video composition · b&w 2010 · Milwaukee·WI, USA Night Shades Ben Edwards 1'20'' · video composition · color 2010 · Bangkok, Thailand Angels All Fire Inga Krikciukaite 2'29'' · video composition · color 2009 · Cardiff, UK

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Chasma - m13 Konstantin Palyanov_Papa Bender 3'53'' · cgi · video composition · color 2010 · Moscow, Russia Océanes Jean Piché_Ethrop 9'00'' · cgi · color 2011 · Montréal, Canada Citylights Mario Brauer_Algoriddim 1'20'' · cgi · video composition · b&w 2010 · Aarhus, Denmark ParadoX 2.0 Bruno Costarelli_Dstance.net 3'16'' · video composition · color 2010 · London, UK

REEL Sensology Michel Gagné 6'00'' · cgi · color 2010 · Belligham·WA, USA Argi distira Zaloa Ipiña Bidaurrazaga 1'30'' · stop-motion · color 2011 · Bilbao, Spain Candy Annapurna Kumar 0'28'' · cgi · color 2010 · Richmond·VA, USA ICE 653 Johannes Raffael LDC Guerreiro 1'07'' · video composition · color 2009 · Cologne, Germany Visual Music for ten voices Steven Woloshen 3'28'' · video composition · color 2011 · Montréal·QC, Canada Scottsville Improvisation Charles Bandla 1'38'' · cgi · drawing · color 2011 · Scottsville·NY, USA ...¨... Alots Arregi Izagirre 3'27'' · drawing · b&w 2011 · Azkoitia, Spain Midnight At Loch Ness Donald Craig 7'57'' · cgi · color 2011 · Seattle·WA, USA

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Landing Anne Lister_Annemmu 1'17'' · video composition · color 2011 · Wilmslow, UK Hommage to Cage/Cunningham Petronio Bendito 4'59'' · cgi · color 2011 · Lafayette·IN, USA Triple Echo Warren Stringer 3'33'' · video composition · b&w 2011 · San Francisco·CA, USA Machinalement (v.31) Jean Detheux 6'00'' · cgi · color 2010 · Montréal·QC, Canada Linhas de reverberação Bárbara de Azevedo 1'00'' · video composition · b&w 2009 · São Paulo, Brazil Standing in Lines Matthew Pfliiger_Matto 6'54'' · cgi · color 2011 · Portland·OR, USA Lonitt Candas Sisman 3’52” · cgi · video composition · color 2007 · Izmir, Turkey

REEL Paral·lel 16 Sales Miragall Cebolla 5'14'' · cgi · b&w 2011 · Barcelona, Spain Peacock Lee Deborah Bower 7'09'' · scratch · op-art · color 2011 · Berlin, Germany Harmonic Ratio: Statement1__03 Evgen Vaschenko_V4W.ENKO 2'35'' · cgi · color 2009 · Kyiv, Ukraine Beyond Between Simon Muskitta 2'42'' · video composition · color 2009 · Hilversum, Netherlands Flood Basalt and the Guillotine Benton-C Bainbridge_Benton-C 1'05'' · video composition · color 2010 · Nashville·TN, USA

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Bloom Bill Hsu 2'35'' · cgi · color 2011 · San Francisco, USA - Berlin, Karlsrühe, Germany Ether Borja Fernández Alexandre_Alex Sonom 3'00'' · video composition · b&w 2009 · Barcelona, Spain Water Moon Mirror Flower Tianran Duan 3'44'' · video composition · color 2010 · Los Angeles, USA Hooray Moritz Uebele 3'19'' · scratch · drawing · color 2010 · Berlin, Germany Metempsychosis Shogo Tsurii 1'00'' · video composition · color 2011 · Osaka, Japan zart_B Barbara Doser - Kurt Hofstetter 7'00'' · video composition · b&w 2010 · Vienna, Austria Ttakun Nagore Etxabe 0'27'' · video composition · color 2011 · Zumaia, Spain Congruence Christoph Eggener 3'00'' · cgi · color 2009 · Düsseldorf, Germany Neón. El fuego en las ciudades Lisi Prada 3'14'' · video composition · color 2011 · Madrid, Spain Folding Pattern_Zero Cristina Ghetti - Emanuele Mazza 5'00'' · cgi · color 2011 · Valencia, Spain Slipstream Engine Dax Norman 2'01'' · drawing · color 2011 · Austin·TX, USA

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AWARDED FILMS FIRST Prize

SECOND Prize

THIRD Prize

AUDIENCE Award

Chasma - m13

Lines for Clarinet John Osborne

Sensology Michel Gagné

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2010 · USA

Neón. El fuego en las ciudades Lisi Prada

Konstantin Palyanov

2010 · Russia

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HONORABLE MENTIONS

(commercial wallpaper) hit swish whoosh Matthias Fitz

2010 · Germany

Midnight At Loch Ness Donald Craig

2011 · USA

Visual Music for ten voices Steven Woloshen

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The Night After I Kicked It Jane Cassidy

2008 · Ireland

JURY E U G E N I B O N E T [Barcelona·Spain 1954] Eugeni Bonet is active in the areas of film, video and digital media as a writer, curator and artist. His filmography includes 133 (1979), Duchamp (retard en vídeo) (1986-87), USession (2002) and a 35mm feature film, Tira tu reloj al agua (2004). He’s currently working on his new feature film eGolem, among other works-inprogress. As a curator, his activities include the touring program Calculated Cinema (1999 and 2001), the performance and screening series Coming Soon: Lettrist Cinema, in between of discrepancy and uprising (2005), and the Val del Omar Overflow (2010-2011) exhibition. www.vimeo.com/boneteria

P A U L G L A B I C K I [U.S.A 1951] His career and creative work have been characterized by highly interdisciplinary activity centered in painting, drawing, and filmmaking, and extending into photography, installation art, video art, sound, and electronic media. His educational background includes a B.F.A. in Painting from Carnegie Mellon University, and two M.F.A. degrees (Painting, Filmmaking) at Ohio University. His exhibition career has included major film festivals, numerous individual and group screenings, national / international museum and gallery exhibitions. He has also taught and lectured as a visiting artist at institutions throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. Much of his work has been involved with issues of time, motion (actual or

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implied), temporal experience, perception, analytical observation, thresholds of figurative and abstract representation, language systems and semiotics, methods of analysis and interpretation, and transformation of found images or actual sites. The body of his experimental animation work for film synthesized drawing and painting processes with sound, optical light play, cinematic form, and simultaneous relay of multiple layers of information. These films were carefully crafted by means of thousands of hand-drawn images on paper – each drawing representing both a frame of film and a unique complete work on paper.

LAURA GINÉS & PERE GINARD_LABORATORIUM [Girona · Palma de Mallorca, España 1975] Illustrators, filmmakers and founders of Laboratorium, a micro-factory which combines filmmaking and handmade publications with illustration and graphic design commissions for the press and TV. Their specialty is experimenting with perpetual movement and variations on the Lumière brothers’ machine; including silent phantasmagorias with automatons and melancholic representations of mourning, triumph, monsters, miracles and mystical ecstasy, as well as their observations -sometimes unfinished- on things that turn towards the sun and people with blond curly hair with a tendency towards boldness. http://laboratorium.cat

B Ä R B E L N E U B A U E R [Klagenfurt·Austria 1950] Bärbel studied stage design and film at the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. In 1987 she moved to Munich, Germany, where she currently lives and works. Since 1980, Bärbel has made over 40 animation and experimental films. She's been composing music and film scores since 1991, and working in various formats such as 35mm film, 70mm IMAX film, digital video for 3 monitors/screens and live performance. Her animations from the 90’s are mostly direct-on-film abstract works, that she painted, stamped and scratched on 35mm film stock. Since 2000 she's been working on digital "motion painting in image and sound", creating -among others- "Flockenspiel I-IV" with different techniques. Her films were screened at numerous international Animation/Film Festivals and received international recognition. She teaches workshops and courses at various Colleges, Universities and festivals in Europe and the US. Commercial releases include "Absolut Neubauer" (as part of the Absolut Panushka Project) and "Falter Spot 7", part of the Falter Spot Series, among others. www.spiralsmorphs.de

V L A D I S L A V S E V E R T S E V [Moscú, Rusia 1964] Vlad Severtsev has come a long way from being an aspiring musician and a radio DJ and music editor at the infamous Moscow based "Ptyuch" magazine in the 90’s to promoting top international DJs and artists in Russia. He developed the first ever “multimedia” festivals Megapolis Pulse and Nokialab in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg in early 2000’s. In 2006 he co-founded Kefir Production to eventually become one of the leading independent production houses for national TV networks in Russia. Vlad is also the head of Force Media, a leading Russian audiovisual arts group and creative community responsible for projects such as AudioVisual Academya (a free online educational course which boasts almost 5000 registered students in under 7 months), Cyberbrothers and Russian Visual Artists.

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CEREMONY AWARD AND ROUND TABLE - PHOTOS

ROUND TABLE with artists in the competition: Cristina Ghetti, Javier Romañach, Paul O'Donoghue, Jan Goldfuß, John Osborne, Lisi Prada, Karolina Glusiec, Anne Lister, Sabrina Schmid, Ozan Turkkan, Jane Cassidy, Zaloa Ipiña & Ying Tan. 2011 · www.puntoyrayafestival.com

Bärbel Neubauer RETROSPECTIVE November 4th, 2011 · Auditorio Sabatini Introduced by the author in person Composer, animator, professor and a member of our deluxe jury in our three editions, Bärbel will introduce us to her amazing work, including her most recent film (unreleased) with fractals. Algorithmen 3'17'' · color · 35mm · 1994 · München·Germany Cameraless: painted and stamped on transparent filmstock.

Mondlicht 4'11'' · color · 35mm · 1997 · München·Germany Cameraless: scratched on black filmstock.

Feuerhaus 5'25'' · color · 35mm · 1998 · München·Germany Cameraless: Objects placed printed on negative film using flashlights · 35mm

Passage 8'02'' · color · 35mm · 2001 · München·Germany Cameraless: scratch on black film. Flockenspiel I 3'29'' · color · DVD · 2003 · München·Germany Motion painting on image and sound tracks.

Flockenspiel III 6'49'' · color · DVD · 2003 · München·Germany Animated digital painting. Flockenspiel IV 7'09'' · color · DVD · 2004 · München·Germanu Digital Animation. Morphs of Pegasus 4'00'' (excerpt) · color · DVD · 2005-09 · München·Germany Digital Animation. Fractal Cycles 8'00'' (excerpt) · color · BluRay/DVD · 2010 · München·Germany Digital abstract animation, motion paiting on image and sound tracksd.

With the collaboration of the Goethe Institut in Madrid.

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l’Alternativa GUEST SECTION November 5th, 2011 · Auditorio Sabatini Selection of dot·line films curated by the l’Alternativa Independent Film Festival of Barcelona. The Snail on the Slope Vladimir Todorovic 8'00'' · cgi · b&nw 2009 · Serbia & Montenegro 1923 (aka Heaven) Max Hattler 2'00'' · cgi · color 2010 · Denmark, Germany, UK M Félix Dufour-Laperrière 8'00'' · color 2009 · Canada Night Fishing with Cormorants Betsy Kopmar 4'21'' · cgi · color 2009 · Berkeley·CA, USA

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David Daniels RETROSPECTIVE November 5th, 2011 · Auditorio Sabatini Introduced by the artist in person. Graphic designer and animator, David will introduces us to his work exploring the relation between image and sound. The screening features his abstract commercial work + 14 short films. www.davedaniels.co.uk "Honda FRV" & Vh1 idents cgi · drawing · color · London, UK

Visuals for Led Zeppelin (extract) · cgi · color · 2010 · London, UK

Visuals for Bryan Adams (extract) · cgi · color · 2011 · London, UK

Vortex 4'42'' · cgi · color · 2007 · London, UK

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062 2'29'' · drawing · video comp. · color · 2010 · London, UK

Slowly Open 3'40'' · cgi · color · 2007 · London, UK

Tulip 8 6'00'' · video comp. · stop motion · color · 2011 · London, UK

Dot (extract) · cgi · color · 2008 · London, UK

061 1'15'' · drawing · video comp. · color · 2010 · London, UK

Kurofone (extract) · cgi · color · 2011 · London, UK

Variations of Static 1 5'37'' · drawing · video comp. · color · 2010 · London, UK

Line (extract) · cgi · b&w · 2008 · London, UK

Polska of Despair 1'00'' · cgi · drawing · color · 2004 · London, UK

Tulip 5 5'44'' · video comp. · stop-motion · color · 2011 · London, UK

Little Shimmy 0'41'' · cgi · color · 2008 · London, UK

Variations of Static 2 5'37'' · video comp. · stop-motion · color · 2010 · London, UK

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DAVID DANIELS RETROSPECTIVE

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iotaCenter RETROSPECTIVA Noviembre 5h, 2011 · Auditorio Sabatini Curated by the iotaCenter –a Los Angeles-based non-profit association devoted to the preservation and screening of Visual Music – this retrospective features dot·line classic’s made with various techniques. The copies marked as (*) are a courtesy of the Hollywood Academy Archive.

Studie n. 7 Oskar Fischinger 2'50'' · drawing · b&w 1931 · Germany Studie n. 11 Oskar Fischinger 4'00'' · drawing · b&w 1932 · Germany Kaleidoscope Len Lye 4'00''· scratch · color 1935 · UK Please don't stop Stephanie Maxwell 5'00'' · scratch · drawing · color 1988 · USA Celery stalks at midnight John Whitney (Sr.) 3'00'' · drawing · op·art · color 1952 · USA Yantra James Whitney 8'00'' · drawing · op art · color 1957 · USA Rhythm in Light * Mary Ellen Bute 4'00'' · op·art · b&w 1935 · USA Beethoven Machinery * David Brody 5'00'' · cgi · color 1989 · USA Feng Huang * Robert Darroll 10'00'' · drawing · color 1988 · Hamburg, Germany Eneri * Hy Hirsh 7'00''· oscilloscope · op·art · color 1953 · USA Aura Corona * Sky David 4'00'' · drawing · color 1974 · USA

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Spheres * Norman McLaren 7'21'' · drawing · color 1969 · Canada Evolution of the Red Star * Adam Beckett 7'00'' · drawing · op·art · color 1974 · USA

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iotaCenter RETROSPECTIVE

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PYRFORMANCES Guest artists explore the dot ad the line in real time, creating sounds and imagery intervened by the audience, the venue’s specifications and of course, chance.

A L B A G . C O R R A L + E S C O R T S E R V I C E (Spain) November 3d, 2011 · Auditorio Sabatini Alba G. Corral proposes a visual interpretation of the work by fine artist Víctor Pérez-Porro. Music by Escort Service, a trio comprised of Lucía Orejana (cello), Natan Nexus (viola) and Tocho Guisado (piano). www.albagcorral.com

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H A T O R I Y U M I (Italy) November 4th, 2011 路 Auditorio 200 (Nouvel Building) Born 1984 in Palermo [Italy] where lives and works. He graduated in Musicology and Music History in Palermo and works in various fields: music, graphic-design and video. He started as a bass and guitar player in bands and in an electro-punk project. His influences ranged from noise-rock to punk, before buying a midi-controller and moving on to creating electronic music. vimeo.com/hatoriyumi

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T H I N G S H A P P E N + S E R C H (Spain) November 5th, 2011 路 Auditorio 200 (Nouvel Building) Things happen explores new ways of visual landscaping, realtime video and AV sessions, constantly seeking to broaden the possibilities of live visuals as a new communication medium with the spectator. Their common interest in aesthetics, communication, art, new performatic and entertaining formats and the implementation of technology, is the starting point for their explorations and the principle behind all their projects. www.thingshappen.es

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O P T I C A L M A C H I N E S (Netherlands) November 6th, 2011 路 Auditorio 200 (Nouvel Building) (SHIFT) is a real live show with light images that are generated, manipulated, mixed and projected on the spot. The interaction between image and sound is twofold: the soundtrack influences the image and vice versa. www.opticalmachines.nl

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CONFERENCES

VÍCTOR PÉREZ-PORRO November 3d, 2011 · Auditorio Sabatini A journey through his pictorial work Catalan fine artist Víctor Pérez-Porro introduces us to his creative process, his relationship with abstraction and his pictorial work in various formats. Moderated by Alba G. Corral Since the beginning, Pérez-Porro was fascinated with the relation between the artwork and its installation space, between representation and abstraction; an interest that drove him to work in various formats such as murals, archigraphy, sculpture and painting with mixed techniques. http://victorperezporro.com

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JAVIER ROMAÑACH November 4th, 2011 · Auditorio Sabatini “Chaos & order: Two representations of the same reality” The dot and the line are two representation symbols of Chaos and Order. Dots scattered randomly in space are ideal to represent Chaos visually. However, the connection of dots through a straight line or stroke, is the beginning of Order: the basic tool for human and mathematical constructions. Both lines and dots can represent Order, but only the dots –or in some cases, curve and disordered lines- can represent Chaos. This conference will start form this premise to propose that Chaos and Order are nothing but two representations of the same reality. Javier Romañach has a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Madrid. Thinker, writer, social activist and a fractals and visual mathematics freak. He's one of the founders of the Diverty and Independent Living Forum.

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WORKSHOP FOR KIDS "OPTICAL EXPERIMENTATION" by Laboratoria November, Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th, 2011 · Aula Taller This workshop is open to children between 6 and 12 years old, and will start with a brief visit to the abstract art collection at the Reina Sofía Museum, making a first approach to great abstract classic’s that will boost the kids’ imagination for their own experimentations. We propose the realization of a stop-motion animation, turning the Dot and the Line into scenic elements. For this, we’ll use various translucent and reflective surfaces and matte materials, light sources, filters and volumetric objects. We’ll videotape and photograph the obtained imagery and record sounds produced by the children and the various objects featured in the animation. Finally, we’ll edit the images and sounds with digital editing software. Laboratoria is a collective of artists based in Madrid, who work in various areas like education, design and the fine arts. Their methodology is participative, focusing in the discovery of the world and the arts through the dialog and experimentation. www.tallereslaboratoria.blogspot.com

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MAD is a non-profit association based in Barcelona. For over nine years we've been working on cultural engineering through projects development involving art, science and technology. We curate experimental cinema & animation screenings, as well as live cinema performances at various venues in Spain and abroad. We also develop social projects such as the Sound Library for the “Digital Alphabetization Plan at the Catalonian Penal Centers”, coordinated by the Justice Department. : we devise new ways of maximizing technologic resources and applications in various contexts. : we digitally release documents/works through the development of a creative and collaborative platform addressed to all audiences. : we facilitate the access of minority groups to various resources and tools through the organization of workshops and the development of new technological applications. : mad is based on the Internet, where it keeps record of its various projects and actions. MAD are: Ana Santos. BA in Graphic Design and Photography. She works as a freelance art director and web designer. Founder member of MAD. Nöel Palazzo. Feature film and animation serial's writer. She also writes narrative, mostly sci-fi and gothic fantasy novels. She has a couple of internationally awarded films and occasionally lectures and writes articles as a film critic. 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. pyr@mad-actions.com | www.mad-actions.com

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