Abstract Birds (italy)

Abstract birds are Pedro Mari and Natan Sinigaglia, two visual music artists. Their work combines images with sounds through the use of musical instruments interfaced with generative systems dedicated to audiovisual creation in real time. The musical aesthetic is rooted both in the tradition of classical music and in the well-established tradition of jazz, drawing in particular from the latter the improvisatory nature of execution, which is crucial in the work of Abstract Birds. The visual aesthetic is abstract, with a conscious use of shapes and colors, although the dynamics of the audiovisual world take inspiration from the natural world.

www.abstractbirds.com

AlbiNOI (canada)

Eduardo Noya, creator of Montreal’s 8bit psych-rock band NOIA, introduces his newest musical experience, AlbiNOI. Weaving together delicate songs from effervescent tones and sparkling waves of slow-flowing echoes, the musician transports his listeners into the shimmering depths of a vast ambient landscape, where they are playfully engulfed by a warm, gentle view of lost and forgotten fragments of child-like joy.

www.soundcloud.com/noia

Alexandra Dahlström (sweden)

Dahlström gained international attention in 1998, after starring as “Elin” in the film Show Me Love. For this, she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress, together with Rebecka Liljeberg. Despite receiving numerous offers to act in other films, she declined, stating that she wanted to concentrate on finishing school. When once asked when she was younger what she wanted to be when she grew up, Dahlström stated: “Serial killer, or rockstar.” In 2002, Dahlström acted as assistant director and Russian translator, alongside Show Me Love director Lukas Moodysson, with his film Lilya 4-ever. In 2007 Dahlström had a small role in the Dutch soap opera Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden on RTL 4. She played a Swedish exchange student named Skylar Nilsson. On April 18, 2008 she returned to this role for a short period.

www.alexandradahlstrom.net

Anna Taratiel aka OVNI (spain)

Anna Taratiel aka OVNI creates her own landscapes by transforming movements into visible forms. Her personal experiences develop their own dynamics; they become energy, movement, new forms and colours. The organic and the static, the two poles which make up our life, flow into OVNI´s work. These poles communicate with each other, unite, work against each other, change fronts, disappear and surprise in completely unexpected place and order. She pushes people and objects, machines, antagonisms and similarities to exchange, to communication. Without orientation, detached from former meanings, characteristics, valuations and determinations, OVNI commits herself and her works to the forces and their new statements being released in this process. Like the big bang, the organic and the static assemble new constellations with new rules and laws; they create new worlds. OVNI travels through the incoherent world of labyrinths, of paths and black holes to show that the dimensions, the horizons and the infinite are real. The limits that we are subordinated to are just created by our mind to feed our doubts and fears.

www.taratiel.com

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Ass (sweden)

After half a decade of living room recordings whilst backing up the Swedish top list artists, versatile punk rocker and instrumentalist Andreas Söderström has made his debut as a solo artist under the name Ass. It´s a mainly instrumental folktronic journey into a soundscape of multilayers performed entirely by himself. Selftutored amongst the jungle of strings in his father’s bouzoki factory, Andreas is a familiar bearded face in the Swedish alternative music scene. Over the past years Andreas has played bass with multi-awarded pop princess Jenny Wilson, trumpet and lapsteel with the international renowned electronica project Tape, harmonium, key harp and guitar with the folk orchestras Barr, Pallin, Blood Music and Taken By Trees, the latest incarnation of former Concretes singer Victoria Bergsman.

www.myspace.com/assmyass

B.Fleischmann (austria)

Bernhard Fleischmann. Born 1975 in Vienna, is an austrian producer who has successfully established himself as a crucial element to the European electronic experimental scene producing very digital, very German-sounding, electronic soundscapes with spacial electro beats and synthesized noise – all created on one device. His sound is summed up with different electronic “instruments” creating harmonies and fine melodies within a unique blend of soundscapes. The different kinds of generated noise should not disturb the harmonies of the songs, but should find their way to communicate with the other sounds – tracks to cruise to, during a long night, where the next morning is already near.

www.bfleischmann.com

Basavizi (brazil)

Basavizi was formed in 2008 by André Damião Bandeira, Fernando Visockis e Sérgio Abdala with the aim of developing a research on free improvisation as a form of creative and compositional process, which also resulted concomitantly in a study on the use of digital and analog technology for live-performance. Formed by this trio of São Paulo, the group developed several instrumental arrangements always focused on the interaction between traditional instruments and technology, high and low-tech.

www.myspace.com/basavizi

Batman Zavareze (brazil)

Graduated in graphic design in Rio de Janeiro, Batman Zavareze started his professional life on MTV- RJ in 1992 and expanded his knowledge as a resident on “Fabrica” (Benneton Communication and Research Centre), an incubator of artists coordinated by the photographer Oliviero Toscani. Zavareze stood out in his career because of his multidisciplinary works connected to images and audiovisuals, like shows, theatre plays, expositions, installations, fashion events, among others. In his curriculum accumulate important clients like MTV Brazil, Multishow, GNT, Discovery, Futura, People & Arts. His material were published and exposed in a lot of cities in Brazil and abroad, like: Italy, Germany, Japan, Costa Rica, Portugal, France, China and Russia. Batman is the creator, director and curator of Multiplicidade_Imagem_Som_inusitados Festival, conducting performances of digital art and advanced music, regularly, for the seventh consecutive year, in Oi Futuro (Technology & Art Museum) and Oi Casa Grande Theatre.

www.multiplicidade.com

Beast (sweden)

Beast is a analog techno duo of Henrik Kihlberg & David Hagberg.
Already an installation in the north of Europe.
Obligatory dance.

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Checho Gonzales (bolivia)

When he met the oriental cuisine, the Bolivian Checho Gonzales began to get interested in food. He was 22 and since then started to study the subject, in addition to cooking at home informally to friends. In 1996, close to turning 30, Checho decided to think about cooking as a profession. Therefore, his first restaurant, Brancaleone, in Sao Paulo, started. Three years later he was invited by the chef and friend Alex Atala to join his team in the restaurants Na Mesa and D.O.M. Restless researcher, Checho traveled to Salamanca, where he worked in Zazu restaurant, completing his tour in Barcelona in search of news from the rising Spanish cuisine. Since 2000 in Rio, Checho Gonzales has been responsible for commanding the kitchens of Zaza Bistro, Toguo and 00. In 2001 and 2002, respectively, he won Chef’s revelation by Gula Magazine and Danusia Barbara’s Guide. In 2004, fully used to Rio’s lifestyle, the Chef opened his own restaurant, Pecado. In 2008 he moved back to Sao Paulo, where he started the project for “Aji” restaurant. Currently working as consultant he is the central focus of the campaign for Danubio dairy. His oriental cuisine is inspired by Latin culture. He says it’s a search for the unusual and the union of flavors, which are changed into unique and original dishes. His creations are signed.

Clemens Behr (germany)

German artist Clemens Behr uses the simplest materials to create complex ephemeral architectures, which fill gallery spaces with origami-like structures. Working with recycled materials and basic geometric forms, Behr dreams up installations that result in subtle confusions between 2D painting and 3D objects. Not content with the confines of gallery spaces, Behr has taken his work into the public sphere, building peculiar appendages in metro cars and erecting detailed miniature cities on street corners. At their best, his installations are feats of optical trickery, disorienting architectures reminiscent of German expressionist film sets. At their worst, they look like a creative kid ran amok with a bunch of moving boxes and a vat of paint. Behr belongs to a crop of artists, who take inspiration from childlike forms of expression, a naive, innocent aesthetic befitting a generation of Peter Pans…

www.clemensbehr.com

Craig “KR” Costello (usa)

A terrible art student, a semi-successful vandal, and an entrepreneur who learned everything the hard way. KR grew up in Queens in the ‘80s surrounded by graffiti writers, skaters, punks and B-boys. Graf was a part of the attitude as much as it was the landscape. Everything was very DIY: steal paint, illegal spots, make markers, emphasize your style, experiment with multiple tools and methods. A lot of it was also based in economy (or lack thereof): sharing and stealing were simply a necessary part of the creative process. In the early ‘90s KR moved to San Francisco. The scene he found there was thriving, yet different. Most writing took place in parking lots and specified spots. He arrived with a whole different attitude regarding materials and styles. Ignoring designated areas, he used the streets of SF as his very own research and development lab, experimenting with a lot of different tools and techniques to create bigger, drippy marker tags. He also began making his own inks, allowing him to get up bigger, bolder and, now armed with an endless supply of ink, much, much more. From these trials and errors, KR’s ink, or Krink, was created. He shared his concoction with a few friends and soon it’s silver markings dominated the city. In 1998 KR returned to NY and brought Krink back with him. Before long, it’s signature style was covering the streets of NY as well. This was around the same time writers began realizing they didn’t need to trade in their lifestyle in order to make a living. The Alife Store had just opened and was quickly becoming a Mecca for street art. They told KR that if he would bottle and sell Krink, people would buy it and they offered to help: it was more of a creative project than a business plan, something to work on collaboratively. It sold and people liked it and it just kept growing from there.

www.krink.com

Cristopher Cichocki (usa)

Cristopher Cichocki lives and works in the desert of Southern California’s Coachella Valley. His core of influences spans diverse territories including: Earthworks, Minimalism, Arte Povera, DADA, quantum physics, guerilla art, punk, and experimental music. Encompassing painting, photography, video, sculpture, sound, installation, and performance, Cichocki accents the constant flux and sublime entropy within the everday. Throughout his exploration of sites off the beaten path he inserts his vision onto subjects of decay and abandonment. The scope of Cichocki’s practice amplifies the world around us, illuminating the ephemeral, continually shifting nature of existence.

www.cristophersea.com

David Quiles Guilló (spain)

Since ROJO® was born in March 2001, David has created an international emotional working structure of associated directors, more than 1000 art contributors and a distribution network in 37 countries. David has curated and produced more than 100 art exhibitions, promoted more than 900 events worldwide, as well as created more than 120 special ROJO®projects and events to explore different medias in order for artists to join, grow and enjoy. David has given lectures about ROJO®, its creative networks and projects in Instituto Cervantes in New York City, International Art Fair ARCO in Madrid, Hagaram Design Museum in Seoul, Elisava School for Arts Barcelona, University of Cuenca/Ecuador, SESC Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, European Cultural Foundation in Rotterdam, University of Málaga , Casino Luxembourg, Instituto Europeo Di Design in Madrid, Instituto Cervantes in Casablanca, MIS Museum for Image and Sound in São Paulo and EAV Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro. Based in Barcelona for the past 15 years, and after traveling around the world with ROJO® for the last 10, David recently settled his new home and ROJO®’s international creative headquarters in the exciting city of São Paulo. David is creative director and head curator of NOVA Contemporary Culture.

www.rojo-projects.com

Elen Nas (brazil)

Elen Nas, multidisciplinar artist, purposes with her performance, to amplify the senses from the body to beyond the visible space. The voice as a masterpiece of technology, the sound design leading to imagination, the body as sculpture and a main instrument- ressource. Turning symbolic elements into reality. Born in Rio de Janeiro, started doing art-performance on the streets since very young, the same in theatres, events and collectiv-politics-contest. From performance-poetry as a child, to participating in small courses of dance and theatre, she did study music theory and classical singing and have a bachelor degree in Social Science. Started her both “career” wining a prize: from a statistics research of the local culture to singing-performances. With the choice on the art field, she did venture to the world byherself with the only cash earned on the a prize from the “Petrobras Festival”, by the end of 90′s. About this one, surprisingly the audacious performance conquered the whole audience, so then, the jury could not make another choice even if it was a kind of contemporary-performance-invasion in a traditional music festival. Always an entrepreneur that one have to be if is working on the innovative expressions field, sometimes she desappears from the scene to write exhaustively new projects and purposes. Doing, as well music composing, sound design, dj-remixes, opera-self-training and new languages in technology research focused on performances and instalations.

www.sereialab.com

Eltono (france)

Eltono, Spanish for “the tone”, is an artist who is known for painting a uniquely geometric and abstract version of a tuning fork as graffiti. Eltono, beginning in Madrid in 1999, has spread his work all over Europe, South America, and Korea painting buildings, walls, rail sides, and any other surface you can find in a modern city. When many people think of graffiti, they envision bright colors and big shapes that can be overpowering. Eltono’s work is a statement against this type of graffiti — his work is subtle and understated. Eltono does such a wonderful job of keeping his work simple that it’s possible you could walk by it and never notice it. Part of the reason that Eltono’s work is so different from other street artists is that he uses a different technique. While many of his contemporaries use spray paint, which usually renders art that is bulbous and rounded, Eltono uses plastic paint and masking tape. These materials allow him to create art that is linear and geometric, making his work stylistically unique. Once Eltono has discovered his canvas, he will paint a variety of geometric shapes and straight lines to draw illustrate the inherent discrepancies of the surface. But his work is in sharp contrast to graffiti because it is so subtle, and this characteristic may be the reason Eltono has received wide international recognition.

www.eltono.com

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Erik Bünger (sweden)

Erik Bünger is a Swedish artist, composer, musician and writer living in Berlin and Stockholm. He works with recontextualising and remixing media – appropriated from existing music and film – in performances, installations and web projects. Music is never treated as something pure, absolute or abstract but on the contrary, as a parasite feasting on our collective, cultural unconscious. His performance pieces, installations and videos have been shown at The Impakt Festival, The Lincoln Centre in New York, Queen Elisabeth Hall in London, The Perth Institute for Contemporary Art, HMKV in Dortmund, Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm, Transmediale in Berlin and The Werkleitz Biennal in Halle.

www.erikbunger.com

Evan Voytas (usa)

Evan Voytas is an LA-based singer/multi-instrumentalist. Hailing from rural Pennsylvania, Evan grew up listening to cassettes of ‘60s and ‘70s pop. Throughout his high school years he traveled to Philadelphia to study with Acid Jazz luminaries Steve Giordano and Pat Martino. He continued his studies when he moved to New York at age 18, becoming interested in classical theory and atonalism. His interest in jazz diminished as he became more reclusive, immersing himself in various religious texts and 70’s new age paperbacks. Disappearing in New Mexico for a time, he reemerged in New York and was recruited to play lead guitar for big name pop acts, touring the world playing arenas and the television circuit. Three years later, Voytas returned to his roots and moved to a farmhouse on a dirt road in Pennsylvania where the solitude inspired him to start recording his debut EP. His music then led him to Los Angeles, where he currently resides. With influences ranging from T. Rex to Daft Punk, Evan’s music evolved into a new sound. Reverting to a spare, minimal pop format, Voytas writes an instantly familiar tune, but frames it with a sonic landscape that simultaneously references ’70s pop and ’90s rap. Evan is currently playing guitar and keyboards in the live bands of Gonjasufi and Flying Lotus, collaborating with rappers Blu and Danny Brown, and touring with his own backing band.

www.evanvoytas.com

Frank Kalero & Isaac Niemand (spain)

Frank Kalero & Isaac Niemand. Photographer & filmmaker. Licensed on Media Communication at Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. With a degree in Documental Photography at the International Center of Photography (New York). He was a resident at Fabrica de Benetton (Italia), and the founder and director of the OjodePez magazine (Spain). He co-founded Invaliden1 art Gallery and in 2009 he also founded the World according to magazine, both in Berlin. At present he is in charge of the upcoming pan-asiatic photography magazine, Punctum & directing the Ojodepez Photo Meeting Barcelona, the new must for the professionals and lovers of documentary photography. As a filmmaker he’s been doing below the line music videos, animation clips, and a couple of documentaries. He lives between Berlin and New Delhi.

www.elementarypenguinsingingharekrishna.blogspot.com

Gabriela Maciel (brazil)

Multimedia artist and co-founder of TechArtLab Art and Technology, Brazil. Born in Rio de Janeiro 1977. Lives and works in many countries. Graduated in Art and Design at Central Saint Martins University of Art and Design, London. Participated in several exhibitions in museums, art residencies, art fairs and multimedia art festivals such as Currents Art and Music Beijing, DotMov Multimedia Sapporo, Rumos Itaú Cultural São Paulo, Area 10 Multimedia Workshop London, OFFF Madrid, Paris Fashion Week, Museum of Modern Art Shanghai, amongst others.

www.gabrielamaciel.net

Gugga (brazil)

By the end of 90’s after a short tour through Europe, Gugga started working with party promotion, producing and DJing for contributing significantly to the development of the underground scene in Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. Later he was for 3 years – the artist director and host of e!ship live online radio show featuring DJs from around the world. In 2004 he jumped from the dancefloor to the back office of music as A&R for independent record labels and content coordinator for the largest digital aggregator in Latin America. Has been invited to be one of the judges of the first Brazilian Digital Music Awards and had a great time preparing customized playlists for stores and special occasions. After 6 years he is back outdoors looking for fresh air and shifting towards art, producing and mounting scenarios for art exhibitions and live performance. Gugga participates as NOVA stage director, and conducts all art and audiovisual madness happening at FCFB spaces.

Guto Nóbrega (brazil)

Guto Nóbrega is Doctor of Philosophy by The Planetary Collegium, based on the School of Art and Media, University of Plymouth (UK), where he developed 4 years of research under supervision of Prof. Roy Ascott. His doctoral thesis, funded by Capes–Brazil, is a transdisciplinary research in the fields of art, science, technology and nature that investigates how the confluence of these domains (in special in the last decades) has informed the creation of new aesthetics experiences. As a result of this study it was developed a theoretical-practical intervention in the field of arts with focus on the ideas of interactivity, telematics, field theories, and the most recent theories of biophotons. During this process it was developed a series of artworks that encompasses drawings, photos, videos and robotics systems.

www.gutonobrega.co.uk

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Hans Appelqvist (sweden)

Hans Appelqvist is a multiinstrumentalist working with sounds in many different ways. The album “Bremort” was a story about a small city, a narrative where every track was a single song in itself as well as a chapter in the story. In 2010 Appelqvist formed a duo and now perform together with his singing doll, Corfitz.

www.hapna.com

Hapax (brazil)

Hapax is composed by artists Daniel Castanheira, Ericson Pires and Ricardo Cutz. With training and careers in several areas – poetry, music, theatre, film and visual arts – the group is defined as a collective of art. Use as a tool in their work a broad mosaic of technological, hi-tech and low-tech: samplers, sensors, synths, electronic drum machines, uhf radios, and virtually all electro-electronic devices capable of producing sound, is part of repertoire triggered by the group. Hapax means the instant?s instantaneousness. From a more academic edge, or as defined by the old Aurelio dictionary, “the single vocable of an extinct language used in Greek under an abbreviated form, hapax lego menon, something that has only been said once.”

www.hapax.com.br

Henrique Fogarça (brazil)

Henrique Fogaça, 37, is Piracicabano, but he was a little boy when he moved to Ribeirao Preto. ?Became really interested in cooking whith 22 years when he came to live in São Paulo with her sister. Alone, had to make their own food and recipes sought for mother and grandmother, because I always liked to eat well. During this period he was studying international trade, his second college, the first was architecture. Discouraged by the studies, I knew the courses of food that came in São Paulo and decided to venture. He enrolled in the course of executive chef of the FMU in 2001. ?Henrique did during college internships in large restaurants in Sao Paulo. In 2005, after a year working at the now defunct NAMESA and doing small events had the opportunity to open a small café on Galeria Vermelho, Sal gastronomia.? Fogaça was there that he began his practice in real food and began to build their professional identity. He fell in love with the rhythm of the kitchen and the discovery of flavors. Salt was very small initially accommodated 16 people. He gradually put more tables and two years after Henry had to expand his restaurant in the demand function and comfort that would provide customers. Today remains small with only 30 seats “to maintain quality,” he says. His cuisine is marked by sharp flavor and quality of ingredients and a strong defining features is its not being afraid to make mistakes and dare. ?Recognition came quickly and he was elected in 2008 as chef revelation by VEJA magazine and prazeres da mesa magazine in 2009. ?In 2008 it was 1 month traineeship in Belgium. ?After six years heading the kitchen of Sal ,Henrique continues with the same energy and willingness to learn and discover new flavors.

Hildur Guðnadóttir (finland)

Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir (b. 1982) is a cellist and composer. Best known for her collaborations with múm and guest appearances with Pan Sonic, she has a rich catalogue of collaborations and varied projects behind her. Guðnadóttir began playing cello as a child, entered the Reykjavík Music Academy and then moved on to musical studies/composition and new media at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and Universitat der Kunste in Berlin. Back in Iceland, she became very active in the neu-Iceland scene as a member of Kitchen Motors, a Reykjavík based think tank, record label and an art collective along with internationally renowned composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. In 2004, she started playing with the band Angel (Ilpo Väisänen and Dirk Dresslehaus). Around that time she made an album with Dirk (Mr. Schmuck´s farm), and went on to play live Pan Sonic, later collaborating on their album Cathodephase. She released her first solo album, Mount A, under the artist name Lost in the Hildurness, on the Reykjavík based label 12 Tónar in 2006. The album was recorded in New York City, and at ‘Hólar in Hjaltadalur’, a historic spot in Iceland with a house named Audunarstofa. The old house is constructed from Norwegian wood and was chosen for its excellent cello acoustics. Guðnadóttir played all the instruments on the album – vibraphone, viola da gamba, harp and vocals. Guðnadóttir is a member of Storsveit Nix Noltes (The Nix Noltes Big Band), a rotating cast of 7 to 10 Icelanders playing traditional Bulgarian and Greek dance music. The group has toured the US twice supporting Animal Collective. She has also played frequently with field recording artist and performer BJ Nilsen; delicate duets that conjure somber rapture of multi tracked cello – Guðnadóttir’s live playing augmented by laptop loops. Guðnadóttir has collaborated, played and recorded with other artists such as Skúli Sverrisson, Hilmar Jensson, Hafler Trio, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Nico Muhly, Valgeir Sigurdsson, Angel, Schneider™, Ben Frost and Stilluppsteypa. As a composer she has written music for plays, dance performances and films, pieces for chamber orchestras, various instruments, voices and electronics. Guðnadóttir likes to explore the nature and movement of sound, and often turns her experiments into sound and visual installations. She recently co-composed a live soundtrack to Derek Jarman’s 1980 film In The Shadow of The Sun with legends Throbbing Gristle, arranged choir for performances by them in Austria and London.

www.hildurness.com

isan (uk)

Robin Saville and Antony Ryan’s releases as isan are characterized by simple rhythms, pop-inflected song structures, and strong, committedly analog melodies. Originally from Reading, England, the duo emerged from the electronica underground in the mid-’90s, at a time when groups like Autechre and Aphex Twin were bringing increasing levels of abstraction and disjunction to electronic post-techno. Dodging that approach, isan joined artists such as Solvent, B. Fleischmann, Sweden’s Pluxus, and Krautrock-electronica fusionists To Rococo Rot in making their music warm, inviting, and accessible. Like many of those artists, isan (perhaps inadvertently) draw on the ’70s and ’80s electronic experiments of Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Jean-Michel Jarre, early new wave, and Another Green World-era Brian Eno. Releases on indie-hybrid labels like Static Caravan, Liquefaction Empire, and Foundary — among them several limited-edition and hard to find 7″s — earned isan a crossover audience from the start. The group’s profile got a boost in 1999 when it contributed a remix of Seefeel’s “When Face Was Face” to the Warp label’s tenth anniversary release Remixes. Several albums for Morr Music followed, including 2001′s Lucky Cat, 2004′s Meet Next Life, 2006′s Plans Drawn in Pencil, and 2010′s Glow in the Dark Safari Set, this last one “premiered” at ®NOVA São Paulo in 2010.

www.isan.co.uk

Jeffers Egan (usa)

Jeffers Egan’s Live Audio/Visual performance intertwines the worlds of abstract painting and electronic music, creating an advanced, dynamic relationship between the audio and visuals. Egan’s visuals are handcrafted abstractions developed entirely within the realm of the digital. By utilizing custom algorithms and animation software and without the use of prerecorded video or still footage, Egan’s works result in a hyperreal fluidity of audio and image mutations, ranging from tightly synchronized passages, to moments of free improvisation. Viewing Live AV as a platform for experimentation, Egan’s sets explore the inscription of sight and sound in time, suggesting new methods of viewer ship based upon the molecular parameters of Deleuzean “pure perception”. The static world of the cinematic frame is now replaced with dynamic movement that revitalizes video/film and enables the medium to address the mediatization of both culture and sign.

www.jeffersegan.com

Karl Kliem aka Dienststelle (germany)

Karl Kliem aka Dienststelle is known for his minimalist music visualizations. He has worked together with Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto as well as Jan Jelinek, Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars, Thomas Brinkmann, Thomas Köner and Sleeparchive.

www.dienststelle.de

Lucy McRae (australia)

Lucy McRae is an Australian artist straddling the worlds of fashion, technology and the body. As a body Architect she invents and builds structures on the skin that re-shape the human silhouette. Her provocative and often grotesquely beautiful imagery suggests a new breed; a future human archetype existing in an alternate world. Trained as a classical ballerina and architect her work inherently fascinates with the human body. The media call her inventor, friends call her a trailblazer. Either way, she relies on instinct to evolve an extraordinary visual path that is powerful, primal – and uniquely Lucy McRae.

www.lucymcrae.net

Marcio Shimabukuro aka Shima (brazil)

Since 2005, daily life and performance art are the main source of Shima’s research and art pieces. While in work Shima deconstructs ordinary quotidian practice to analyze patterns and traditional schemes of doing things. The performance art platform (time x space x action x context) is a powerful tool for Shima to think the process and the final result, which can be installations, objects, video, photography and also performance pieces. Shima likes to create unusual ways to see the common things, combining different disciplines and playing with it’s similarities, differences, contrasts and harmony, to purpose new lenses to see/feel/think reality.

www.shima.art.br

Mark Jenkins (usa)

Mark Jenkins is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using box sealing tape. His work has been featured in various publications including Time, The Washington Post, Reuters, The Independent and on the street art blog Wooster Collective. He has shown indoors in galleries in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Brazil and is represented by various galleries including Lazarides Gallery in London. He maintains the Website tapesculpture.org and teaches his tape casting process in workshops in the cities he visits. Mark Jenkins said the following about the illegal aspects of street art during an interview with art critic Brian Sherwin, “There is opposition, and risk, but I think that just shows that street art is the sort of frontier where the leading edge really does have to chew through the ice. And it’s good for people to remember public space is a battleground, with the government, advertisers and artists all mixing and mashing, and even now the strange cross-pollination taking place as street artists sometimes become brands, and brands camouflaging as street art creating complex hybrids or impersonators. I think it’s understanding the strangeness of the playing field where you’ll realize that painting street artists, writers, as the bad guys is a shallow view. As for the old bronzes, I really don’t see them as part of what’s going on in the dialogue unless addressed by a new intervention.“

www.xmarkjenkinsx.com

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Mathias Holmberg (sweden)

Mathias Holmberg produces and curates Full Pull, an organization for electronic/experimental music, art and associated projects. The aim of the organization is to encourageindividuals and institutions alike, as well as stimulate collaborations and networks for the exchange of artistic practice andknowledge. Full Pull has organized sound and visual art related exhibitions and events in the Öresound region since 2004. Full Pull has brought new and quality music to Malmö and the Öresound region, as well as built a network between creative organizations and educational institutions, professionals and students as well as linked regional and international artists and cultural projects.

www.full-pull.org

Max Hattler & Makesiha Teller (germany)

Max Hattler is an animator and experimental filmmaker best-known for his 2005 abstract political short film “Collision”, and his experimental animation works “Drift” and “Aanaatt”. Max Hattler was born in 1976 in Ulm, Germany. He is the son of Hellmut Hattler from Krautrock band Kraan. Max Hattler graduated from Goldsmiths in 2001, and with a Master of Arts in Animation from the Royal College of Art in 2005. He lives in London and Germany. Hattler’s films have been screened internationally, including Edinburgh, Melbourne, San Francisco, Rotterdam, Onedotzero, Resfest, The Animation Show, Annecy Animation Festival, Zagreb Animation Festival, Image Forum Festival and the European Media Art Festival. His short ?lm “Collision” (2005) won several prizes including the LUX Award for Best Experimental Film, and the Award for Best Film at 700IS Festival in Iceland. It was awarded a Prädikat Wertvoll by the Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden, Germany. Hattler’s “Drift” (2007) won Best Digital Film at London International Animation Festival, and Best Experimental Film at Muuuvi International Short Film Festival, Romania. “Aanaatt” (2008) won the Host Award at Videofestival Bochum, Germany, and Best Design at Eksjo Animation Festival, among others. Hattler also works extensively in the field of audiovisual live performance, and has created concert visuals for The Egg and Basement Jaxx.

www.maxhattler.com

Michael Vorfeld (germany)

Michael started playing music when he was fourteen, after hitch-hiking to the next bigger city and buying a pair of bongos. Increasing his percussion set, he had his first groups. After school Michael worked in a studio for photography in Cologne. At the same time he got more and more interested in improvised and experimental music. As a member of the artist group ‘Heinrich Mucken’, founded in 1982, Michael got involved in site specific art projects. He studied art in Cologne and Visual Communication in Kassel(MA). His visual interest shifted towards the use of light in three dimensional spaces. Now Michael Vorfeld is living in Berlin, working as musician and visual artist.

www.vorfeld.org

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Midaircondo (sweden)

The Swedish duo Midaircondo made their debut with the celebrated album Shopping For Images (Type Records 2005), which received overwhelming reactions from both critics and audiences worldwide. The group has toured internationally ever since. Midaircondo are renowned for their extraordinary live performances of imaginative music fused with experimental visuals. Using highly diverse sound sources and a great deal of improvisation, they create dreamy and evocative soundscapes that leave no one untouched. The second album Curtain Call was released by Midaircondo’s own label Twin Seed Recordings in 2009. On Curtain Call, Midaircondo?s wonderfully original improvisation skills and innovative composing have been developed into a new and more solemn sound. Classical instruments and delicate deliveries of poetic lyrics marry in Midaircondo?s electronic world. Quirky field recordings from the band?s travels around the world create backdrops of sounds that invite you to enter into Midaircondo?s unique musical sphere. Lisa Nordstro?m: vocals, bass flute, flute, zither, kalimba, percussion, electronics, visuals. Lisen Rylander Lo?ve: vocals, tenor sax, bass clarinet, kalimba, piano, percussion, electronics.

www.midaircondo.com

Miltos Manetas (greece)

Miltos Manetas, born October 6, 1964 in Athens, is a greek painter and multimedia artist. Manetas has created Internet Art as well as paintings of cables, computers, video games and Internet websites. His work has been collected by Charles Saatchi. He is also the founder of “Neen”, an Internet-based art movement.

www.manetas.com

MOMO (usa)

MOMO is known for tagging his name the width of Manhattan, creating over sized collage, faking a New Yorker magazine cover, and building a totem pole in the East River, a computer script which makes his art for him, a mural project with Melissa Brown that destroys their art for them. Tide powered sculpture with Eltono, and prints, paintings, and videos that rely on chance for fun and substance. In 2009 ROJO® published his first monograph “3am-6am”, and Y-3 created the MOMO shoes. MOMO grew up in San Francisco and traveled extensively, before settling in New York. He joined a graffiti crew in 1999 while living in Spain, found his use of color while employed in the Caribbean, and fell for outside art while living outside; in a cave for a year, in a truck for a year, in a tent for a year. He just recently moved to New Orleans.

www.momoshowpalace.com

Mulheres Barbadas (brazil)

Mulheres Barbadas, aka the Bearded Ladies, are Henrique Lima and Julio Zukerman, in that order. Working together since 2006, they joined forces to fill any empty spaces they come across with monochromatic doodles. They are known for their extremely busy black and white line drawings, and for having most of their work available online for download so people can print them out and do whatever they want with it. They have been part of various projects from many different countries, and worked for clients like Coca-Cola, MTV, Nestlé and Nike, among others. Also featured in publications like IdN, Clone and Empty, even being picked by Computer Arts UK as one of the most influential up and coming illustrators in 2007. In 2008 they had their first solo show in São Paulo at ROJO Artspace. They later were part of the group exhibitions Lapis Lapin, at Surface2Air and Ocho, once again at ROJO Artspace. In 2009 they worked on a partnership with furniture overlords MiCasa, where they drew on many pieces of furniture like custom freezers, saarinen chairs and even a Mini Cooper. They also spent a week drawing on all the 4 walls and ceiling of a room, and had their audience keep up with the work live, via webcam, on their website. Their work now varies between digital mediums, ink on paper and installations, but always with too much information and very little colors.

www.mulheresbarbadas.com

Novi_sad (greece)

Thanasis Kaproulias aka Novi_sad is the mutated body that stands on the tips of it’s toes to look over a wall of white noise. It reaches the edge, almost getting a glimpse of what is on the other side. It almost sees. And when it almost sees, then it hears. And when it hears, it hears the sudden attack of static. And as it hears it looks: the sky is static and falls like a sonic ceiling collapsing on its sole inhabitant: Novi_sad is the sound of the shadow of the body that faces the wall of sound. The mutated body steps back from the wall. It is not a wall, it is a mirror. The mutated body looks at itself. It sees: an open mouth that is shouting to itself and is not heard, it sees closed ears bleeding for themselves that do not hear. It says: lift sonic ceilings up over my head, push them up over the sky, as far as my arms can reach, as far as my eyes can see. I will hear, I will here.

www.novi-sad.net

Objeto Amarelo (brazil)

Objeto Amarelo’s spirit unfolds in ambience and sound abstractions. The concrete result spreads between composition and noise. There is no fixed formation and it got lost in the middle of many events in the last ten years. Shows and albums follow different motivations. Records use studio like a tool and are not reproduced alive, while performances are thought specifically from site to site. João Gilberto did not listen to OA. Besides, he knows Faust people won a Panzertunel.

www.myspace.com/objetoamarelo

OCA (brazil)

OCA is a way of working inspired by the house of our indians, a house collectively built. In our case, this collective process is made by designers, photographers and video makers. Our work is a tribute to the city of Rio de Janeiro, a permanent source of inspiration for us. It is made of waves, ordinary people, birds in the sky, children playing, surfers. Anything, everyone. The horizon between Arpoador and Leblon. A day of contemplation. Harmonic randomness and fragmentation. The contemporary everyday life. Cycles. New beginnings, different endings.

www.osklen.com

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OHAYO (sweden)

Andreas So?derstro?m (ASS), Johan Berthling (Tape), and Per Eklund makes the music of OHAYO. At the end of a tour as backing band for swedish artist El Perro del Mar these three musicians decided on forming a new band and make music on their own. They started with just improvising in the studio and after several sessions their sound started to form. A soft, somnambule music with underlying threats. Guitars intertwine with each other, hammondorgan, drums, double bass and trumpet creates space in the music. A music that plays itself, that speaks for itself. Andreas So?derstro?m has released three albums with his project Ass, Johan Berthling has worked with the band Tape since 2000 and has the group Fire! together with Mats Gustafsson and Andreas Werliin. Per Eklund is a drummer extraordinaire who ?s played with many swedish artists.

Optical Machines (netherlands)

[SHIFT] the second installation by Optical Machines in which homemade equipment is used to build up an abstract play of light. The soundtrack is created in an interactive play with the intensity of light. The first (untitled) performance by Optical Machines made an impression thanks to the way in which image and sound were created. Rikkert Brok and Maarten Halmans do not like to take a static position, but prefer to allow the spectator a glimpse behind the scenes. A kind of laboratory setup of modified record players, pattern models, lamps, cameras and an analogue synthesizer linked to them was used to make a both hypnotic and amusing show. For their second performance (SHIFT), this approach has been retained more or less the same. The way in which they work can also easily be followed and is a significant part of the performance, while the equipment is again manufactured by them. A kind of Pandora’s Box, an ingenious case with a battery of lights, forms the basis of a play with interfering patterns and abstract animation. [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

Paula Trabulsi (brazil)

Partner of BOSSANOVAFILMS, Paula Trabulsi is a director with eleven short films in her curriculum, and more than 2,300 commercials, shot throughout the world. The short film “Dejeuner du Matin” won a gold medal at The New York Festival, competing with 2127 films, from 32 countries. It also draw attention in other major festivals around the world and is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. ASTRO is her first feature film. Paula chose this project, and the city of Rio de Janeiro, for her identification with the intense subtlety of the original idea of David Quiles Guillo, curator of ROJO®Nova Exhibition. The making of this movie is a chance to exercise her strengths as a director: to imprint a human touch in accord with an accurate aesthetic sense, as also to integrate talented people and technology, mixing live action with post-production techniques.

www.bossanovafilms.com.br

Quayola (italy)

Quayola is a visual artist based in London. His work simultaneously focuses on multiple forms exploring the space between video, audio, photography, installation, live performance and print. Quayola creates worlds where real substance, such as natural or architectural matter, constantly mutates into ephemeral objects, enabling the real and the artificial to coexist harmoniously. Integrating computer-generated material with recorded sources, he explores the ambiguity of realism in the digital realm. Working in both the artistic and the commercial field, Quayola intelligently experiment with mediums traditionally perceived as separate. Currently active as Visual Artist, Graphic Designer and Director, he constantly collaborates with a diverse range of musicians, animators, computer programmers and architects. Quayola creates hybrid works blurring the boundaries between art, design and filmmaking.

www.quayola.com

Rafael Pereira (peru)

Rafael Pereira Denegri is a multi disciplinary artist from Lima, Peru. He started his studies in Plastic Arts in Lima, specializing later in Visual Communication in London, UK. Motion grapher, graphic designer, vj and sound producer, his work in non-narrative film making has taken a step into 3d space, integrating video into 3d sculptures. These pieces and collaborations have been exhibited in several festivals and galleries in Peru, Argentina, Brazil and UK. Co-founder of peruvian based audiovisual collective, Auxiliar, he has collaborated with artists and engineers to create audiovisual installations where sound, space, geometry and light synchronize, generating unique atmospheres.

www.colectivoauxiliar.com

Rafaël Rozendaal (netherlands)

Rafaël Rozendaal (Amsterdam 1980) is an artist who uses the internet as his canvas. He makes (interactive) animations each placed in a single domain name. In his works he explores the relation of the viewer and the screen, the oceans of time we all spend clicking and the effect this has on us. He is influenced by the vast history of painting and animated cartoons and works in the space between them. Rafaël Rozendaal, a member of the first art movement of the 21st century: NEEN, founded in the year 2000. Lives and works on the internet.

www.newrafael.com

Raphael Grisey (france)

Raphael Grisey was born in 1979 in Les Lilas, France. He studied in both Paris and Berlin where he now lives and works. In his exclusively video and photographic works Grisey examines various places, which are interconnected by collective and historical memories. The photographic series “Where is Rosa L.”, for example, was the result of an intensive study of the traces or ghosts that communism and other political regimes have left in Berliner public spaces. His films, using diverse documentary, fictional or essayist forms deals also with social and political issues of the day such as immigration in France. He worked in Mali around the experience of an agricultural cooperative founded in the 70s by former african migrants workers in France (Cooperative 2008). More recent films lead him to work in Budapest (national motives 2010), in french students´ strikes situations (the indians 2010) or in Rio de Janeiro around the social housing complex Pedregulho (Minhocão 2010). His work include also collaboration projects such as the films Prvi Deo and Red Star (2006) made with Florence Lazar and the project Cooperative (2008) with Bouba Touré. His work was shown in international film festivals (FID Marseille, Hotdocs Toronto, Berlinale) art spaces and museums (Kunsthalle Budapest, Art center Les Eglises Chelles, Centre Georges Pompidou).

Rebecca Ward (usa)

Rebecca Ward’s installations are site-specific works dependent upon the space they occupy. Utilizing existing lines, beams, and angles, each piece Rebecca creates is informed by the individual site and its unique linear movement. Thus, her installations are inherently architectural. She chooses patterns and shapes according to detailed measurements of the installation site. Ideally these patterns are numerically symmetrical or somehow numerically balanced, producing a dialogue between line and space. Rebecca initially began working with tape because of the broad range of colors in which it is available. Additionally, She have always been drawn to its unique textural qualities. She began making videos to create a dialogue with the tape installations. Rebecca sees the videos as a way to animate the tape installations, and further explore my architectural manipulation of space. When using tape, rather than leaving evenly-placed two-dimensional lines upon a wall, she expands upon the material’s sculptural potential and bring these installations into a third dimension. When using video, Rebecca angles projectors and use multiple intersecting projections to create animated, two-dimensional shapes. This creates an illusionary space, a perceptual play of pattern, color, light, and texture that is realized by the viewer’s experience of, and interaction with the work.

www.rebeccasward.com

Rosa Menkman (netherlands)

Every technology has its own accidents. Rosa Menkman is a Dutch visualist who focuses on visual artifacts created by accidents in digital media. The visuals she makes are the result of glitches, compressions, feedback and other forms of noise. Although many people perceive these accidents as negative experiences, Rosa emphasizes their positive consequences. By combining both her practical as well as an academic background, she merges her abstract pieces within a grand theory artifacts (a glitch studies), in which she strives for new forms of conceptual synthesis of the two.

www.rosa-menkman.blogspot.com

Sebastien Preschoux (france)

Sébastien Preschoux is a self-taught artist born in 1974, follower of the « do it yourself ».?Sensitive in the optical art and in the teachings of the Bauhaus, Sebastien Preschoux produces manually, by means of tools and traditional materials, what a machine or a computer could realize infallibly in some seconds. Using primary geometrical forms circle, triangle, square he slows down them, transforms them, stacks them so giving rise to hypnotic, often complex productions and having the effect of sending back the spectator to an interrogation on the value of the past to be produced. His work declines as well in 2 dimensions, thanks to its drawings with ink on paper, as in 3 dimensions with its thread installations in natural environment.

www.m-vs-m.com

Sophie Gateau (france)

Sophie Gateau studied architecture and art history for 8 years in Paris and Berlin before to focus on graphic design and film direction at the parisian school Ecole des Arts Décoratifs. Her short film “I love Paris”, shot at the end of her studies, was exhibited at the Sonar Festival in 2004 and in 2005 in Barcelona, and published in the book “A+A: Architecturanimation”. She started to work as a graphic artist on top-tier feature films like The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Alexander the Great, and Wong Kar-Wai`s 2046. She’s now working as a commercial and music video director and in collaboration with graphic designers, fashion designers and musicians. She effortlessly mixes live action, animation and visual effects.

www.sophiegateau.com

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The Magic State aka Nadine Byrne (sweden)

Nadine Byrne is a visual artist and musician lving in Stockholm, Sweden. Her solo project, The Magic State, is an audiovisual ongoing process initiated in 2008. Every concert is a screening and every screening is a concert. The Magic State is sound and moving images, suspension of time, transcendence, mysticism, rituals and poetry. A magical state of mind and a physical sovereign place. Besides her solo projects she also form the duo Ectoplasm Girls with her sister Tanya.

www.nadinebyrne.com

This Time (japan/argentina)

This Time is a sound, video and performance project by Lolo and Sosaku Miyazaki formed in 2006, looking for a light from boat in a forgotten memory. It is in between painting and noise, sound and music, sculpture and instrument, metal and strings, hear and listen, time and distance, awake and dream, formless and shape, new and future. This Time is making original instruments in this moment of time to find out something new under a law of nature.

Tofer Chin (usa)

Visual artist Tofer Chin has put a youth-impacted spin on contemporary art, imagery, and photography. His carefully stylized paintings capture the controlled and the insane with a uniquely identifiable, rainbow-hued aesthetic. Tofer’s artistic accomplishments range from designing urban art installations in Sao Paolo to working with of-the-moment interior designer Kelly Wearstler, who commissioned him to create original works for Los Angeles’ Avalon Hotel and Miami’s Viceroy Hotel. He’s also finished painting a life-sized sculpture for Wearstler’s personal collection. In 2006, Tofer published his first book of photography, and in 2008 published a highly anticipated follow-up, “Vacation Standards”, a photographic portfolio of the beautiful and grotesque. His works appear in The Los Angeles Times, Flaunt, Nylon, Trace, Big, Vice, ROJO®, and Idn among many others.

www.toferchin.com

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Yochai Matos (israel)

Yochai Matos Born 1977, Lives and works in Tel Aviv. Graduated in 2004 at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. His work deals with the public space as a property, taking place in both fields; on the streets and inside the established Art world – searching the cross points between the two disciplines. Matos uses in his works basic and simple images derived from the Modern Culture; images which already contain layers of replication and recycling – an evolution which leads both to the depletion and the over-readability of these images. By dealing with pop and kitsch icons (such as sunsets; flames of fire; a heart; a couple of dolphins jumping over the water; or even the nostalgic logo of the television series Fame) Matos wishes to touch once again the romantic, authentic and lost emotions, suggesting a simple and comforting way of confronting the contemporary disease of emotional disability. Furthermore the hypnotic WOW effect of the flickering fluorescent lights functions as a warm welcoming hand to join and feel and experience the artifact and simultaneously alienates the viewer (on stage or at the Museum) by literally dazzling and flattening the space – this ambiguous sensation reflects and emphasizes our atmosphere, the way our surrounding culture progresses, emotionally, physically and virtually. Matos has exhibited solo shows and has attended in group shows in Europe, US and in Israel.

www.yochaimatos.com