DIGICULT & VJCENTRAL.IT @ OPTRONICA FESTIVAL
Italians Do It Better
Installation @ Optronica Lounge Area
The DVDis curated by Digicult (Marco Mancuso) e Vjcentral.it (Silvia Bianchi)
Digicult and VJcentral.it have curated for Optronica Festival "ITALIANS DO IT BETTER", an overwiew of some of the most innovative Italian audiovisual artists working on the concept of AV experimental electronic synesthesia and the eclectic use of codes and softwares. The artists presented are: Elec , Kinotek , Mylicon/En , Tez , Quayola and Otolab.
In the last years, the Italian situation of audiovisual and multimedia live performances is radically changed. From the first pioneers to a wider range of electronic musicians, visual artists, graphic designers, digital animators, djs and vjs, the state of the art is at the moment very interesting and internationally renowed. Many new events, festivals and club nights is emerging all over the country, following the new trend around new media and digital art and communication forms. At the same time, many of these artists, for many inside reasons, have not many chances to show their projects and works outside of Italy, in the main international festivals and contests. We are not speaking about some few and spot chances of course, but of a whole and radical movement that in the last years grown up, had its experiences, shared its contents and that is now ready to show itself internationally.
The DVD for Optronica festival 2007, is made of 6 different videoclips, created by 6 different Italian audiovisual artists. Each videoclip will last about 4-5 minutes, so the DVD will last about 30 minutes globally. Each videoclip will be focused on the whole and radical link between audio and video, with an approach both minimal/graphic and narrative.
In IDNLNY by Elec, visual objects are programmed in actionscript while the audio signal is converted into numerical values that function as oscillators. In Kinotek 'sLinfa , the artist developed his own software for real-time video processing and sound analysis and in Portobeseno, artists Mylicon/En play with all manner of video stills, photographs and Super8 movies. CF#1_1 by Tez calls his work a "procedural video composition" in which custom software generates an ever-changing videopainting that reacts in real time to a multi-channel sound composition. 151.05 by Quayola is a video in which each layer of the 126bmp audio track has it's own specific animation. Finally, Otolab 'sField is a generative video in which the 3D space is formed from short-wave signals and interferences.
Welcome to Digicult, the online/offline cultural and editorial platform, created with the aim to spread digital art and culture. Digicult focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. Digicult was founded and is directed by Marco Mancuso, and is now based on the active participation of 40 professional people, who represent the first wide Italian Network of journalists, curators, artists and critics in the field.
To learn more about Digicult, you can read some deep online interviews did in the last months: the one taken from Lab For Culture, the one from Elektra Blog, the one from project Vj Theory and the last one from Russian magazine Art-Manager.
Here you find all the Credits and here our rich Archive of articles, and you can contact us at:redazione@digicult.it
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