- Punto y Raya Festival

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- Punto y Raya Festival
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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La Casa Encendida (Madrid 2007) | www.puntoyrayafestival.com/mlce07_eng.php
Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona 2009) | www.puntoyrayafestival.com/masm09_eng.php
Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid 2011) | www.puntoyrayafestival.com/mmrs11_eng.php
CCCB (Barcelona 2012) | JUNIOR www.puntoyrayafestival.com/junior/mcccb12_eng.php
: W E B S I T E | www.puntoyrayafestival.com
: B L O G | www.puntoyrayafestival.com/blog (spanish · english)
All the information in the world of abstract art and various technological/scientific
applications related to abstraction.
: SOCIAL NETWORKS
www.facebook.com/puntoyrayafestival
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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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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
2011 · Canada
2010 · USA
Neón. El fuego en las
ciudades
Lisi Prada
Konstantin Palyanov
2010 · Russia
2011 · Spain
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
2011 · Canada
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.
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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
Curated by:
………………………………
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
Curated by:
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 · 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 · 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 · 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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PUNTO Y RAYA FESTIVAL 2011 · Reina Sofía Museum [Madrid]
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ORGANIZED BY
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
WITH THE COLLABORATION OF:
Eugeni Bonet | Jaume Bosch | Mario Carbajo | Alba G.Corral | Larry Cuba | Helena Febrés |
Anita García | Paul Glabicki | María Hermida | Laboratorium | Palmira Morán | Bärbel Neubauer |
Beatriz Palomo | María Revuelta | Javier Romañach | Vladislav Severtsev | Óscar Testón | David
Torrents Anabel Verdín
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