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Derek haugen

09.09.2008

Jules Engel Tribute
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Virtual Event

Everyone is invited to post comments, start discussions, upload videos, or simply tell some stories about Jules, whether you personally knew Jules or not ... it's a day of remembrance to honor a mentor to four generations of students as the Founding Director of Experimental Animation at Cal Arts.

September 6, 2003 is the fifth-year anniversary of Jules' death. In null, on Saturday, September 13, 2008 please tell us a story you have to tell ... and many likely have one! Add to the discussion already started, start a new discussion thread, or post drawings or animations or photos or video tales to share with those who knew him and with those who did not. If you want to be inspired, re-read the AWN tribute edition from 2003.

Especially if you didn't have an opportunity to contribute to the AWN publication, contribute to this event.

PLEASE ENTER YOUR STORIES ON THE ENGEL APPRECIATION PAGE PAGE RATHER THAN THE EVENT PAGE.

If you are not a Facebook member and you don't want to be, please go to the IIACI site and enter stories to be told there in the Guestbook. Once julesengel.com launches in November, those comments on IIACI will be either duplicated or transferred to the dedicated Engel site to serve as a living archive.

Hope you'll participate!

[A Message From Dr. Janeann Dill]

When: September 13, 2008
Where: Facebook Event Page; The Engel Appreciation Page; Institute for Interdiscplinary Arts and Creative Intelligence Guestbook

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Derek haugen

09.05.2008

Edward Zajec: "ORPHICS"
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Exhibition at the WRO Art Center, Wrocław, Poland

"Orphics" is a two-decades old cycle of graphical compositions inspired by music. The works are interpretations of renowned 20th century composers (Satie, Bartók, Ravel) in terms of form and color, however, not in the manner of traditional animation, but through systemic transformation. The result is a relationship between elements in space and time: every frame of the compositions portrays exactly these two dimensions of sound organization of subsequent metres.

The exhibition also includes "glAmor," a visual ode to the powers making the geometry move us in emotional, cerebral and spiritual ways.

[WRO Art Center]

When: Opening: September 12, 2008, 6:30pm;
Exhibition: September 13, 2008 - October 11, 2008
Place: WRO Art Center, Wrocław, Poland
Website: WRO Art Center
Email: info@wrocenter.pl

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Larry cuba

08.05.2008

Northeastern University Visual Music
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Free Screening in Fort Wayne, IN

"Selections from the Northeastern University Visual Music Special Collection" will travel to Fort Wayne, IN this week. Concert #4 of the Sweetwater Electroacoustic Music Concert Series will be presented on Friday, August 8th @ 8:00 pm in the Performance Theater at the Sweetwater facility. The concert is free and the public is encouraged to attend. This program of innovative, cutting edge music videos was curated by Dennis Miller from NEU's special collection of visual music which grew out of his Visual Music Marathon held in April of last year.

Date: August 8, 2008
Time: 8:00 pm
Place: Sweetwater Performance Theater, Fort Wayne, IN
Website: Visual Music Marathon; Sweetwater Theater

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Larry cuba

07.14.2008

Happy Birthday Cecile Starr!
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Cecile Starr turns 87

Throughout her life Cecile has been a been a devoted guardian and advocate of independent film. Her writing, teaching, promoting, and preserving of independent film has helped pave the way for many artists, filmmakers, and writers working within independent cinema. She is perhaps best known to many for her invaluable text, Experimental Animation (1976, reprinted in 1988 and now out of print) co-written with Robert Russett. Her career began in the news industry, which led to writing about films. She soon realized that there were works – art films and shorts – that were being overshadowed and ignored; films by people such as Hans Richter, Len Lye, Mary Ellen Bute, and Oskar Fischinger.

Her love of such films and her spirited work to see that they have an audience and that they endure is her great gift to all of us.

We invite you all to raise a glass, light a candle, or perhaps project a film in her honor.

From your friends at iota - Happy Birthday Cecile!

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Dawn h

03.12.2008

New DVD Release from iota: Stephanie Maxwell, Animated Works (1984-2007)
Categories: [New Acquisition]

Audio-visual roller-coaster ride

iota is proud to announce its latest release in the Kinetica Video Library series:
Stephanie Maxwell, Animated Works (1984-2007)

This collection of short films is a testament to the artist's ingenuity. Experimental music scores by collaborators such as Allan Schindler and Greg Wilder, in tandem with Maxwell's propulsive vision, make for truly exhilarating viewing.

Full description and purchase information

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Dawn h

02.01.2008

Six Axioms
Categories: [New Acquisition]

Visual Music by Randy Jones

Six Axioms is an intricate work created using Max/MSP/Jitter. Working from the awe-inspiring experience of scientific discovery, Jones explores the overwhelming breadth and variety of the universe, based on the mathematical axiom. Six basic motives are mixed and matched to create this elegant visual music world.

DVD: 33min
Website: Randy Jones

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Dawn h

01.28.2008

Sabinium
Categories: [New Acquisition]

From the Artist's Website:

Sabinium is a short abstract animation loosely based on an early Roman mythological tale: the historical legend of the founding of Rome by Romulus and his followers.

DVD: 9min
Website: www.harveygoldman.com

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Dawn h

07.12.2007

Paul Glabicki - Four films (1978-85)
Categories: [New Acquisition]

Precision and perception

These early films by animator Paul Glabicki are unique examples of artistic exactitude. Glabicki immerses us in an analysis and breakdown of the world that surrounds us, deconstructing our understanding of form and motion. His 2D works display a meticulousness rarely seen in hand-drawn animation.

DVD: 54min
Website: Paul Glabicki

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Dawn h

07.10.2007

Three by Sara Petty
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Short animations by Sara Petty

In three films we get a glimpse of the early works of 2D animator, Sara Petty. At times playful, at times introspective, Petty's images are rich in texture as well as aesthetics. These works are beautiful motion studies that flow with quiet ease and grace that has not faded with age. Included are: Furies, Picture Window, and Shadrac

DVD: 9min

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Dawn h

07.09.2007

Films by Ying Tan
Categories: [New Acquisition]

Five works from 1998 to 1999

Ying Tan is an artist and professor at the University of Oregon whose visual computer artworks have been extensively screened worldwide. Frequently collaborating with composer Jeffrey Stolet, Tan's films are elegant both in design and spirit. This collection includes: Elements in Transformation nos. 1 & 2, Un Albor, Mi Vida, and A Swarm of Angry Bees.

DVD: 13min
Website: Ying Tan

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Dawn h

07.09.2007

NLoops
Categories: [New Acquisition]

Diverting and delightful

NLoops is an early work by computer animation artist Vibeke Sorensen, with music by Rand Steiger. In this joyful work Sorensen creates parallel spaces containing cycling shapes and patterns. Their dynamic movement turns happily in perfect harmony with the looping music to produce an elated counterpoint between eye and ear.

DVD: 7min
Website: Vibeke Sorensen

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Dawn h

07.07.2007

color + modulation
Categories: [New Acquisition]

Rob Tyler demonstrates the power of simplicity

This work is hand painted desktop computer enhanced 16mm film, consisting of simple shapes with modulating concentric colors. With a thoroughly moody musical soundtrack provided by Marc Fisher & Matthew Jones, Brad Ketchen, and Solar Marquardt, the fluctuation of these images can be compared to the hypnotic motion of clay on a potter’s wheel.

From Rob Tyler’s website:

“Color + Modulation is an alluring collection of eight 16mm films that have been painstakingly hand painted frame-by-frame and digitally manipulated on a desktop computer – creating an optically smooth ambient experience.

Described as both visually stunning and atmospherically beautiful, Color + Modulation transforms a television or video screen into an abstract canvas full of playful motion and smooth explosions of color and shape.”

DVD: 60 min
Website: www.vcr100.com

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Dawn h

07.06.2007

In the Key of Blue
Categories: [New Acquisition]

A collection of visual music shorts by Nancy Herman

Varying styles of music, ranging from Classical to Jazz to somewhere in between, serve as the backdrop to six short works. For In the Key of Blue Nancy Herman creates a geometric landscape which constantly shifts its designs and colors to evolve with these different musical pieces.

DVD: 20min
Website: www.nancyherman.com

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Dawn h

07.05.2007

SIGNALDRIFT: a day under the city
Categories: [New Acquisition]

A collage of image and electronic sound

Overlapping images of degraded film and video mixed with a distressing music score creating an overall environment of unease.

Excerpt from the DVD materials:

"A collaboration between video artist Brandon Bauer and electronic musician Franz Bucholtz, A DAY UNDER THE CITY is the result of digital versus analog fighting for space within a dense structure of sight and sounds."

DVD: 60min
Website: www.lowave.com

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Jeremy schwartz

06.30.2007

Arcs and Angles from Different Skies
Categories: [New Acquisition]

Different Skies is an annual meeting of electronic musicians in Acrosanti in the Arizona desert. Their music takes two forms -- precomposed material for debut performance and improvisation. The week-long workshop is designed to help usually solitary electronic musicians gain connections and form a community.

These performances are accompanied by visuals developed by viviographer David Tristram. He uses a combination of 3D computer graphics and prerecorded video to enhance the often serene and wandering music with stunning colorful visuals.

The DVD "Arcs and Angles" is comprised of recordings of 8 improvisations from the 2004 workshop, each accompanied by improvised visuals from David Tristram.

Website: Different Skies

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Dawn h

06.28.2007

Flame
Categories: [New Acquisition]

A digital lumia work by George O. Stadnik

With Flame, George Stadnik displays his skill as a lumia artist. Flame is evocative and delicate, where light undulates sinuously and ceaselessly as though trapped underwater. The images are perfectly matched to a calm ambient music track, creating an aesthetic universe unto itself.

DVD: 49min
Purchase: iota Store
Website: www.photonlightguitars.com

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Dawn h

06.27.2007

_grau
Categories: [New Acquisition]

Honorary award winner at the Kunst Film Biennale 2004

Excerpt from the DVD materials:

“_grau is a mesmerizing, beautiful and disturbing work of art that fuses dark and light to create organic forms and amorphous shapes. The scenes unfold slowly, elegantly revealing tensions between seemingly simple fragments of life. It feels like a long look at some primordial soup giving birth to some of the world's first life forms, or one-celled organisms that can't quite fully resolve themselves. The soundtrack, with its lonely drones rising and falling, makes us believe we are witnessing a dark creation. The director's most impressive accomplishment was in going beyond the technology of the computer to create something that feels as if it is made of real moments in time, inside a reality only slightly offset from our own.” -Motion Theory

“…_grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally. Various real sources were distorted, filtered and fitted into a sculptural structure to create not a plain abstract, but a very private snapshot of a whole life within its last seconds…” -Robert Seidel, on his inspiration for _grau

DVD 10 min
Website: Robert Seidel

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Dawn h

06.20.2007

Borealis
Categories: [New Acquisition]

Dimensional fluid light and sound for visual meditation and atmosphere

Lynn Augstein’s Borealis is a work that swirls with light and color from the entire spectrum. Its meditative images are reminiscent for the Northern Lights from which it derives its title. Accompanied by an eclectic music score ranging from synthesizers to acoustic instruments to Tuvan throat singers, Borealis is an otherworldly experience that both calms and invades the senses simultaneously.

Excerpt from the DVD materials:

Visual fluid light images supported
by vibrational music access our senses
through different channels.

When light images and sympathetic
sound vibrations mesh as one,
enlightened visceral experiences follow.

These experiences transport us to a place outside
our rational mind and daily thought patterns.
Time begines to fall away.

These transcendent moments are vehicles
to access other states of consciousness,
connecting us with universal creativity
and inspiration – quieting minds,
calming restless spirits and opening our hearts.

DVD 90min
Website: Cobalt Sun

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Jeremy schwartz

06.19.2007

Theater Games and Taming the Mind Ox
Categories: [New Acquisition]

Two works by Stephen Nachmanovitch

excerpt from the DVD materials:

Theater Games

"In June of 2005 I taught a workshop called "Gibberish, the Universal Language" in Seattle, as part of Unexpected Productions' Seattle International Festival of Improv. When several months later, the video arrived, I was inspired to play with this material and make an art piece of it. I took the 12 hours of video and sped them up to 10 minutes, rendered the fuzzy outlines into lollipop colors, and then added a score of electronic string music."

Taming the Mind Ox

"I composed an earlier version of Taming the Mind Ox in 1985 for a retrospective of my visual music pieces at the UCLA music department. That piece required two slide projectors, a dissolve unit and a multitrack reel-to-reel tape. Twenty years later, this subject is still compelling to me, and I wanted a fresh approach. This is a new version with new music, for violin and viola. The video is composed directly on the computer. The pictures [in this film] represent stages on the path of a spiritual journey to the mastery of one's mind-heart (shin). At the beginning, the young man is lost, looking everywhere for the essence of this mind-heart, and suddenly he finds himself chasing and wrestling with a wild ox or bull. Taming that wild, irrational, powerful creature, becoming one with it-- changing and being changed-- finding a still point in the midst of the hubbub of life-- is a lifelong effort and adventure."

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Dawn h

06.13.2007

Slither
Categories: [New Acquisition]

A stunning marriage of sight and sound

A collaboration by Jeffers Egan and Jake Mandell, Slither brings together elegant computer animation with a rich ambient music score. At once beautiful and unsettling, this world conceived by Egan and Mandell proves itself difficult to look away from. It is an overall powerful and visceral experience that certainly doesn’t disappoint.

DVD: 41min
Purchase: iota Store
Website: www.jeffersegan.com

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