Ahir vaig tenir el plaer de donar una "lecture" sobre la meva recerca i treball de graduació "Synthesis" a la facultat de comunicació i diseny de media AVANS a Breda. Quina experiencia més positiva!! Els alumnes estaven interesadisim i els profesors també. Molt majos tots!

Lifeless past

Our last event at VROMm2.0: concert by Lifelest past!

VROMm2.0

Our ‘Grande Opening’ consisted of an exhibition with 5 installations by Den Haag based artists around the theme ” Subtle Technological Use” completed by a music performance program with bands as Phèdre, Keluar and Yes..PinkPink on Friday; Ji Youn Kang,Thinking is a Dance (Gaby & Moritz) and Gartmalen on Saturday. 

All pictures taken by Mary Ponomareva.

Judith van der Made and Sara Nuytemans presented Diffusing Structures, a site specific live installation, in which projected images are manipulated by a performer wearing a costume which is the extension of a one-sided mirrored screen. Evelina Rajca showed us her beautiful video-installation Explosive Conductor based on an experiment with carbon dioxide. Re-Synthesizeby Klara Ravat allowed us to perceive with many senses (audio, visual an olfactive) the portrait of a transformation towards synthetic communication. Virginie Dubois presented a sound installation which explores the sound stream of speech Phenomenon of the Syllable. And last but not least, Katarzyna Szugajew, who’s primarily interest is the nude body,its abilities  and its potentialities, delighted us with 3 wonderful enormous photo prints part of the collectionHorizon. 

Very glad how we arrenged everything, it look so need and beautiful!

back to Sonic Acts

Ya estoy de vuelta de una semana estupenda en Berlin! 
No he tenido internet en el apartamento así que no he podido actualizar hasta hoy.

Los dos días de la instalación "Eucariotic Punk" en Paradiso, Amsterdam, durante el festival Sonic Acts fueron bastante bien. Un gran aprendizaje. No pude ver nada más del festival ya que estuvimos todas las horas de nuestra instalación acompañando la. 

Como siempre, había gente entusiasmada por la pieza, otros que ni fu ni fa, gente que venía solo ha hablar con los demás en la sala, etc. Un poco de todo!

The Dark Universe Exhibition

Ayer estuve en el oppening de la exposición The Dark Universe la cual forma parte del festival Sonic Acts que se celebrará del 21 al 24 de Febrero de 2013, en Amsterdam. Normalmente el festival es bianual pero este año se han adelantado. He asistido 3 veces y tengo que decir que esta exposición es la que más me ha gustado. Todas las piezas son muy minimalistas, abstractas, todas basadas en el sistema perceptivo, sin concepto, la experiencia lo es todo. 

I'm a Cyborg but that's OK ArtScience fund raising party @ House of Music, The Hague.
It was very crowded and fun. also cachotic and after lot of planning very improvised!

"Ai Mi!" Screening

Screening Programme for kunstvlaai, Amsterdam

SAT 24.11.2012
19:45 WORM.FILMWERKPLAATS: HAND-MADE 16MM FILM PROGRAM

Initiative: Worm.filmwerkplaats

Location: Doubling Time (Artists' cinema)
Time: 19:45 - 21:00

Screening with a conversation between Worm.filmwerkplaats and Kunstvlaai curator Fleur van Muiswinkel

Esther Urlus, Deep Red (7:00)
Deep Red is an investigation into additive colour mixing on film. Handmade by a d-i-y silkscreen printing technique. Starting point are on black and white hi-con filmed trees shorn of their leaves. As if they're the reminiscent of branches seen flashing past in the night from the back seat of a car. Transformed into thirty six layer deep technicolour.

Klara Ravat, Ai Mi (1:30). Direct animation with printer sticker sheets taped direct on transparent film. A transfer of poses on Renaissance paintings.

Ferenc Sebök, Gebouwen (2:00). Made during a workshop by Tony Hill (UK). The workshop was about building (DIY) tools to get special effects. The film is made animation wise frame by frame. Going from far left 1 frame to far right 1 frame.

Daan de Bakker, Pinhole (5.:00). Daan make's camera films.All effects are in-camera effects. Shown are two films shot pinhole style: The camera has no lens, just a tiny little hole in a piece of tin-foil. Including some double exposure with different coloured filters in front of the pinhole.

Joost van Veen, Interlude (2:45). Originally shot on Super 8 in the Rotterdam zoo for a filmwerkplaats installation project. Blown-up to 16mm using cheap high contrast b/w material, treated with a no longer available Tetenal photographic kit officially made for reversing photographic papers; used on film, it does weird things. This film is entirely made in the filmwerkplaats; first Joost made a sound negative on our special printer, put this undeveloped material into the optical printer (J-K) and refilmed his material. The film was ultimately developed as b/w positive. It therefore only runs 2.30 minutes: the maximum we can hand-develop in a 30 meter tank. The film won the first price at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

Esther Urlus, Idyll (6:00). Using a printing technique in which negative and positive are printed on the same  piece of color material. The originals are black and white. Esther has been working for several years on color films based on original b/w footage, reinventing old film techniques from the beginning of (analog) film where color only could be created with experiments on b/w.

Dirk de Bruyn, Bridges (4:00). Australian artist Dirk de Bruyn knows how to make “cinema without costs”. Since there is few 16mm equipment available for artists in Australia (everything has to be shipped in and is therefore costly), he buys "found footage" from Ebay, bleaches away the original image  and makes direct animation-style films using tape, ink, stamps etc.

John Price, Portraits Project (2:00). Made for the “Starting from Scratch” program of the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2008. Filmmakers were invited to make a portrait of fellow filmmakers on 16mm. John created a self-portrait in his Rotterdam hotel room. Working as a camera operator for commercial film productions, he always shoots his work on left-over materials from his regular jobs or cheap print material that is not meant to be used in a camera. He always films subjects close to himself, using in-camera editing and hand processing. He could be called an obsessive  filmmaker who mostly sees the world through his camera’s viewfinder.

Lichun Tseng, Grass Tree (2:00). Shot on high-contrast b/w material to reach the extremes of black and white. All effects like double exposures and dissolves were done in-camera (on a Bolex wind-up).

Ingrid van den Boogaard, Providence (1:30). The negative of this film, shot during a camera try-out workshop, appeared to be a completely black. After scratching it so that it would gain at least some kind of visuals, the positive print came out with a romantic image that had been seen by the camera, latent on the footage, but too dark on the negative. An example of the enormous flexibility of film.

Helene Martin, Running Time (6:30). Made entirely in the darkroom with no equipment whatsoever except a torchlight and some color filters. Found footage originals. Won the jury prize at the $100 Film Festival.

Jutu van der Made, Pony Girl/NYC (pinhole film) (3:00). Made with Robert Schaller’s pinhole camera; a camera made from scrap materials. Jutu got obsessed with this DIY camera and has begun to make a whole pinhole film oeuvre.

Peter Max, Zeebra (2:00). Mathematical composition of a street crossing, with a certain number of frames filmed forward and some frames filmed backwards so that superimpositions appear.

Christelle Gualdi, Color Writing Me Out (6:30). The soundtrack is from her close friend’s band. The film is made by freaking with our optical  (J-K) printer late at night. Good that I wasn't there because it looks like she quite mishandled our precious printer. The original footage she used is from a film by Joris Ivens, a Dutch master of film. The film was found in the garbage.

Presentació

Opening "Que pensar" @ CaixaForum Barcelona.

yaham!

Aquí las pruebas de la primera paella!

más calor

Los culitos más sexys del verano!

melodías pizarras

Roll over Beethoven - Chuck Berry

Esto ha sido hoy mismo!

De izquierda a derecha Ruben, Cristina, Estela, Breno, Fanny, Javi, Noe, Nesa, Anne, David, Miriam y Eva! Unos acompañantes maravillosos para una paellita, piscinita y mojito! Hemos estado todos muy agusto, aquí en Valldoreix, en mi casa familiar.

La paellita ha tardado un poco en servirse, como casi a las 17h pero estaba riquisima y eso que es la primera que he preparado una, con el soporte del pinche Eva Ginard ;)

Y ayer...

Preparé un sushi de aguacate, pepino, palmito, atún, calamar, caviar, lenguado y salmón para mis padres, nenad preparó un postre delicioso, pero no tengo fotooo!

@ HOOP

The booklet showing the process of the films was very successful, people spend quite some time to look at it and after that they were going back to check the installation with more attention. 

under construction

IMMERSE is under construction, if you wanna contribute for the next one and help me with few hundred bugs it would look awesome.


Fucking expensive textiles.

spring festival

el jueves que viene.

ArtScience meets Lighthouse festival

eucariotic punk + forest coaster

korzo theater

Mañana

ARTSCIENCE INTERFACULTY

MEETS

LIGHTHOUSE FESTIVAL

Enjoy a diverse evening curated by the

Artscience Interfaculty.

“Artscience”, formerly known as the interfaculty of image and sound, is an interdisciplinary and cross-medial artstudy using research and inspiration from science to discover new boundaries in the realms of Media-,Performing- and finearts.

The evening will show installations, live-

performances and films from versatile backgrounds, aimed to be enjoyed with all your five senses.

Enter the foyer to see four works of the project

“pyramids”, a 5-week research project that took place in tirana, albania, investigating a transformed

society where the traces of political systems are

omnipresent.

see audio-visual performances by two of the six

artscience labs in the studio - collaborative live-

happenings by the “c0d3lab” and “recplay”. these will be alternating with

single & duo-performances in the club by students of the interfaculty, following a short Film Program and a party.

additionally we have two

continous installations in grote zaal, and go upstairs for a culinary kitchen-event by “groworld” -

a studentproject that investigated new imaginaries of a plant inspired culture.

at Paard

It's funny when you are "at the place to be" and it's nothing at all going on, so we spend the "night" at Paard's kitchen. There were two girls making cakes constantly!

mediamatic

Mushroom diner  @Mediamatic, Amsterdam with Tactile Reserach Lab.

Sonar 2011

Sonarmàtica es diu OFFFSonar aquest any.

"Sufferns from narcolepsy" - completamente yo estos días.