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 The iotaWeekly  – January 25-January 31, 2010

 

 

Clip of the Week
“Floating Point” (2009) by Audri Phillips

Watch a clip from “Floating Point,” a unique combination of abstract animation and poetry by Audri Phillips who created both the words and the visuals.”Floating Point” was featured in the January 7th iotaSalon: “Text and Speech in Abstraction.”
Site of the Week
CriterionForum.orgFeeling out of the loop on when the second Brakhage volume will be released? Are you looking for an additional critical outlet to supplement the iota Yahoo Discussion group?For the latest news and gossip in the art house and avant-garde cinema on home-video visit CriterionForum.org.

Furies

 Artist of the Week
Sara PettySara Petty grew up in Texas and studied painting and animation at UCLA and at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Her film FURIES (1975), described as a study in movement and composition and an exploration of the mysterious consciousness, won 14 first place awards at international festivals, including the Ottawa and Chicago Film Festivals. Her subsequent work, PRELUDES IN MAGICAL TIME (1988), won the Independent Animation Award at the 1989 Animation Celebration Festival.

The iotaWeekly – January 18-24, 2010

 

 

Clip of the Week
“Impasse” (1978) by Frank & Caroline Mouris

Watch a clip from “Impasse” by Frank & Caroline Mouris, a classic of abstract animation that follows a tiny red arrow’s journey through a multitude of spirals of white and waterfalls of color.
Site of the Week
Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard UniversityCheck out the latest in what’s happening in the visual arts in Cambridge by visiting Harvard University’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. From January 28-February 14, The Carpenter Center presents Frame by Frame: Animated at Harvard, “an exhibition showcasing Harvard’s animation history: rarely-seen films retrieved from the Harvard Film Archive, works by world-renowned recent animation faculty, and a survey of films by current and former students of the department.”
Artist of the Week
Deborah JohnsonDeborah Johnson’s film “The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake” (2007) was featured in the Official Competition of the 2009 Punto y Raya Festival.”Deborah Johnson, aka CandyStations, is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in Brooklyn·NY. She primarily designs and performs live visual projections, working with groups such as Sufjan Stevens, Wilco, Calexico, M. Ward, and Lambchop in such venues as Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Fillmore, The Ryman, and Wiener Konzerthaus. She has exhibited worldwide in group and solo shows, screens her work at film festivals and performs either as a solo VJ or with other artists and musicians. For this video, she collaborated with New York based artist/programmer Siebren Versteeg.”–Punto y Raya Festival

The iotaWeekly – January 11-17, 2010

 

 

Clip of the Week
“Unperceived Dimensions” (2006) by Sylvia Pengilly
Music by Michael RhoadesWatch a clip from “Unperceived Dimensions” by Sylvia Pengilly, a retired professor of music theory, composition and electronic music who previously taught at Loyola University in New Orleans and currently resides in California.Her collaborations with musician Michael Rhoades yielded four of the works found on her DVD collection, “Six Videos,” available from The iotaStore.
Site of the Week
CalArts Experimental Animation: Showcase 2009An incredible online exhibition of a streaming selection of this year’s most innovative and moving student films from the famed Experimental Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. The site is also a great launching point to the student showcases from 2004 to 2008 as well as the 20 Year Retrospective that culls the cream of the CalArts crop from 1970-1990.
Artist of the Week
Astrid HagenguthCongratulations to Astrid Hagenguth! Her film “Stoppages” (2007) won third prize in the Official Competition of the 2009 Punto y Raya Festival.”Astrid Hagenguth studied Animation under Professor Paul Driessen in Kassel, and graduated in 2005. She is currently attending the Masterclass of “Klangkunst” at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Braunschweig under Professor Ulrich Eller. She lives and works in Hannover, where she also teaches animation.”–Punto y Raya Festival

The iotaCenter Salon – Presented by The iotaCenter and UCLA Design | Media Art Department

 

 The next iotaSalon will be held on January 7th in the Broad Art Center on campus, first floor at the EDA screening space. The theme for this screening is “Text and Speech.” Join us!

For more information and program line up, please visit The iotaSalons 2010 page.

When: Thursday, January 7th, 2010, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Where: UCLA Design | Media Art Department, 1st Floor Broad Art Center (EDA), Westwood, CA

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The iotaWeekly – January 4-10, 2010
Happy New Year!

 

 

Clip of the Week
“White Noise” (2007) by Dennis H. Miller

Watch a clip from “White Noise” by Dennis H. Miller, animator, musician, Northeastern University professor and a major force behind the annual Visual Music Marathon. “White Noise” was created with Maxon’s Cinema 4D 3D modeling with the intention “to evoke reflections on the chaos and interruptions that permeate everyday life.”A selection of Miller’s earlier work can be found on his DVD collection “Seven Animations,” available from The iotaStore.For more information about the artist and his work, please visit his website.
Site of the Week
Animation World NetworkIf by some incredible twist of fate you aren’t aware of the most comprehensive online collection of information, articles, and features about the industry and craft of the multiple facets of animation, let this week’s “Site of the Week” close that gap.Visit the Animation World Network host to archival material on visual music and ground-braking artists like Jules Engel and John Whitney.
Mary Ellen Bute Artist of the Week
Mary Ellen Bute
(1906-1983)In the mid 1930s, Mary Ellen Bute was the first American to make abstract motion pictures, and in the early 1950s along with Norman McLaren and Hy Hirsh was among the first to explore electronic imagery in film.Starting as a Rosa Bonheur-style painter in Texas, she came east at age 15 to study painting in Philadelphia (where she first saw Kandinsky’s work); later she studied stage lighting at Yale (in the first class to which women were admitted); made a round-the-world dance and drama tour as a teacher-lecturer; worked with Joseph Schillinger on his mathematical projections and with Leon Theremin on his electronic musical invention. Her first attempt with abstract film was in collaboration with Joseph Schillinger and Lewis Jacobs on the unfinished Synchronization in 1932. Bute’s introduction to Ted Nemeth (who became her husband in 1940) led to a partnership that produced 12 short musical “seeing-sound” abstract films, several commercial TV ventures, a live-action featurette and a full-length film version of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.–Cecile Starr, in Articulated LightBute’s “Mood Contrasts” (1956) recently screened as part of the November 17th iotaSalon.

The iotaWeekly – January 3-9, 2010

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