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iota News July 26 to Aug 15, 2010

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iotaCenter 2010 Membership Program

iotaCenter is proud to launch our 2010 Membership Program! After soliciting feedback from the members of our Advisory Council, we have formulated a plan to drive forward our mission by creating a tiered set of membership options tailored to the needs of our current community.

Membership levels include Basic, Artist, Academic, and Institutional

All members are eligible to participate in our forthcoming Online Auction! Join at ANY LEVEL to be able to participate and bid on artwork and special events!

iotaCenter/Neon MONA Collaboration Event – GET ILLUMINATED! Moving Light Forum on Abstract Film and Animation – August 22, 2010 at 2:00pm

iotaCenter and the Museum of Neon Art in downtown Los Angeles team up to present a collection of film works by contemporary and historical visual artists that will provide an overview of kinetic experimental filmmakers Hy Hirsh, John Whitney, “the father of Computer Graphics,” Pat O’Neill, and Jules Engel. Los Angeles-based artist Joaquin “Kino” Gil will also be in available for a Q & A after the screening.

The iotaWeekly – August 9-15, 2010

Clip of the Week
“Calculated Movements” (1985) by Larry CubaFeatured as an exclusive benefit of iotaCenter’s new 2010 Membership Program, this excerpt from “Calculated Movements” (1985) includes commentary from the animator and iotaCenter director Larry Cuba.

The full version of this film with commentary is available only to iotaCenter institutional members. Join here.

Site of the Week
iotaCenter 2010 Membership ProgramiotaCenter is proud to launch our 2010 Membership Program! After soliciting feedback from the members of our Advisory Council, we have formulated a plan to drive forward our mission by creating a tiered set of membership options tailored to the needs of our current community.

Membership levels include Basic, Artist, Academic, and Institutional

All members are eligible to participate in our forthcoming Online Auction! Join at ANY LEVEL to be able to participate and bid on artwork and special events!

Artist of the Week
Michel GagnéBorn in Québec, Canada and studying classical animation at Sheridan College School of Visual Arts in Ontario, Michel Gagné began a successful animation career in 1985. Since then, his works have played in festivals throughout the world, and he was honored by the International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, with four Annie Award nominations.

Gagné works in various forms of animation, from feature films to video games to graphic novels. His animation segments can be found in popular Disney, Pixar, & Warner Bros. films, including Ratatouille, The Iron Giant, and Osmosis Jones, as well as in shows on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. He continues to create animation, special effects and conceptual designs for companies all over the world, and experiments with his various art projects, including painting, sculpting, and mixed-media works for gallery exhibition.

Gagné lives in the pacific northwest region of the United States with his family. For more information about Michel Gagné and his work, please visit his website.

iotaCenter Artists at Pacific Design Center!

Writer and video art scholar Paul Young‘s most recent curatorial efforts at West Hollywood’s Pacific Design Center, Surface Tension and Amok Strategies: The 80s Show feature works from iotaCenter artists Jeffers Egan and Audri Phillips.

Surface Tension and Amok Strategies: The 80s Show are on exhibit at PDC until August 30th. To view photos from the exhibits’ openings, click here.

iotaCenter is excited to plan future collaborations with Paul Young at his galleries at the Pacific Design Center.

L’art de la fuga

This new submission from Daniel Pitarch Fernandez studies perspective and how it changes through the animation of still photographs of an edifice. “L’art de la fuga (The Art of the Fugue)” (2009) won second prize in the Official Competition of the 2009 Punto y Raya Festival.

L’art de la fuga: 3min, DVD, Color, 2009

The iotaWeekly – August 2-8, 2010

Clip of the Week
“Look Out (he’s got a knife)” (2002) by Michael BetancourtWe continue our focus on works from Volume 1 of the “Visual Music from iota” compilation with a selection from Michael Betancourt’s “Look Out (he’s got a knife)” (2002), which explores traditions of abstract film by examining the rhythmic and visual possibilities of editing based on a pre-existing musical composition.

To view more of Michael Betancourt’s work, please visit his website.

Site of the Week
Montclair State University College of the ArtsWhether it’s film, animation, art, design, music, dance, or theatre, Montclair State University College of the Arts offers quality programs taught by some of the finest artist-teachers in the New York metropolitan area. The College also features various art and cultural programs, as well as galleries and broadcast centers that allow for students and faculty to showcase and promote their work.

Montclair State University College of the Arts is also home to iotaCenter board member and experimental filmmaker Professor Roberta Friedman.

Artist of the Week
Joan C. Gratz“An accomplished director, artist, and animator, Joan Gratz pioneered the animation technique known as claypainting. Working with bits of clay she blends colors and etches fine lines to create a seamless flow of images…Joan developed her animated painting when she was an architecture student, then shifted
from paint to clay while working with Will Vinton Studios from 1977-1987.
During that time her work included design and animation for Academy-Award
Nominees Return to Oz, Rip Van Winkle, and The Creation.

Since establishing her own studio, Gratzfilm in 1987, she has received many
honors for independent short films and commercials, including a Clio for
Coca-Cola, a Bronze Lion at Cannes for Knorr Recipe Sauces, and First Prize
at the London International Film Festival for United Airlines. Gratz is represented by LAIKA/house for commercial work…

Gratz travels extensively and has served on international animation festivals in
Zagreb, Croatia 1994; Hiroshima, Japan 2002; Castelli Animati, Italy 2003; Seoul,
Korea 2004: Hangzhou, China 2006; Changzhou, China 2008. Most recently
Joan taught claypainting to animation students in Tehran, Iran.”– from Gratzfilm

For more information about Joan Gratz and her work, please visit her website.

Selected Videos from Barbara Doser and Parallel Media

Barbara Doser and Parallel Media bring several short experimentations with abstract colors, shapes, lines, and patterns created from video feedback material, producing a reflexive organic phenomenon that stimulates the viewer’s sensory perception.

Her book “Video Feedback – Lyricism in Patterns of Light,” contains comprehensive insights and essays on Doser’s 15-year body of work and processes dealing with video feedback. It is accompanied by a DVD compilation of her work, and may be viewed in our book library.

zart_B: 7min, DVD, B&W, 2010
evolverevolve 01: 10min, DVD, Color, 2008
frameframer: 5min, DVD, B&W, 2009
even odd even/ distilled: 4min, DVD, B&W, 2007
dream’sdreams: 13min, DVD, B&W, 2007
image[s] … loss: 6min, DVD, B&W, 2003

Yoga-Sutras by Peter Mays –

Psychedelic experimental filmmaker and Single Wing Turquoise Bird member Peter Mays takes viewers on a sensual journey of spiritual symbology in this new intriguing work.

“Yoga-Sutras” was recently featured as “Clip of the Week” in The iotaWeekly. To view a short excerpt from this new film, please click here.

Yoga-Sutras: 17min, DVD, Color, 2010

The iotaWeekly – July 26-August 1, 2010

Clip of the Week
“Tranquility & Stimulation” (2004) by Emile TobenfeldRecorded as a live video mix in concert with the Boston-based improvisational electro-acoustic band Lothars, “Tranquility & Stimulation” (2004) by Emile Tobenfeld creates tension by oscillating between peaceful and energetic moods to a dark, electric soundtrack. This selection comes from Volume 1 of the “Visual Music for iota” compilation, which can be purchased through the iotaStore.

To view more of Emile Tobenfeld’s work, please visit his YouTube Channel and his Flickr page.

Site of the Week
The IntegratronDescribed as “the fusion of art, science, and magic…an acoustically perfect tabernacle and energy machine sited on a powerful geomagnetic vortex in the magical Mojave Desert,” The Integratron is a giant dome located near Joshua Tree, California where visitors flock to relax the mind and body while experiencing the Integratron’s enhanced energy fields and unique Sound Bath.

The Integratron will host a Perseid Meteor Shower Party on Friday, Aug. 13 from 8:00pm to 12:00am.

Artist of the Week
Lewis KlahrLewis Klahr has been creating experimental films since 1977, and has since become labeled the “reigning proponent of cut and paste” by critic J. Hoberman of the Village Voice. Klahr’s films are predominantly collagist, dealing with materiality of objects and their associations with people, places, memory, and history.

Klahr’s work is in the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and has been included in the Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Musuem of American Art. Commercially, he has created special effects and animation for television show openings, music videos, commercials, and documentary works, and even co-re-wrote the feature film The Mothman Prophecies. He also teaches directing and screenwriting at CalArts.