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Kyung Woo Han was born in Seoul Korea. He has graduated from Seoul National University with a BFA in sculpture and has MFA in Film,Video and New Media at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has won Asian Cultural Council Rockefeller Brothers Fund 2006, AHL foundation visual arts grant 2007 and part of AIM artist in Bronx Museum 2008. Han’s work has been exhibited at White Box in Chelsea, Bronx Museum, Smith College Museum, Gallery Two, LG space, Seoul Arts Center and GANA Art Center in Seoul Korea. He has recently chosen for Smack Mellon Hot Picks 2009. He is now living and working in Brooklyn NY.
Naufrage lists fears: the narration stops at the frozen instant. But "Naufrage" relates something. What is it talking about ? We don’t know... perhaps an accident, a depression, an explosion ? This scene might be the summit of a catastrophe scenario : the moment of physical emotion. However, nothing in the sequence of events tries to explain this state of things.
Young artist, Clorinde Durand was born in Ollioules (France) in 1984. She graduated in 2007 from Superior Art School of Aix-en-Provence ( France ) where she explored her practice around video medias and drawing. She pursued her research at the Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains, where she realised the art video "Naufrage".
In this short video rather than the figure moving through space, the space moves around the figure.
Born in 1985 in Houston, TX. Graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2008 with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Arts. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Flatform is a group of artists based in Milan (I) and founded in 2006. The group works on video and video based installations including mobile installations. Their works have been featured in several exhibitions in museums and istitutions including, among others, the Wexner Center for the Arts - Columbus Ohio and the Centre Pompidou - Paris. One of their videos has been awarded the second best video award at the Oslo Screen Festival in 2008. The n.9 Wolphin DVD edition (september 2009) includes their video ‘’ Sunday 6th April, 11 :42 a.m.’’.
These words are all true. These words are all used. This is the way the wind is blowing. This is the wind of the reality in which we live. All words are already spoken. All things are already said. Nothing is original. Nothing is new.
J. Tobias Anderson was born in 1971 and grew up on Gotland in the Baltic Sea. His education includes the University Collage of Arts Crafts & Design as well as the Royal Collage of Art, both in Stockholm. He lives in Nacka just outside of Stockholm. Working mainly with video and animation Anderson has moved between narrative and non-narrative works and through the years he has created almost 40 films. He has also been experimenting with different forms of music and sound installations. Notable exhibitions include P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, Kunst-Werke Berlin, CaixaForum in Barcelona and Museo de Colecciones ICO in Madrid, as well as solo exhibitions at MMC Luka in Pula Croatia, ak28 in Stockholm and Uppsala Art Museum in Uppsala, Sweden. He is collaborating with Filmform Foundation in Stockholm and Espaivisor in Valencia, Spain.
Remixed footage of the legendary final showdown between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro from Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island.
Jon Rafman is a Montreal-born film-maker and new media artist. He holds a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Philosophy and Literature from McGill University. Jon is presently working on a feature length film about professional video gaming with the support of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts.
"Moholy-Nagy and the early constructivism inspire this film. Through mirroring, dislocations and projections, Max Hattler parses the possibilities of manual-analogue creation of space on the surface."
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Max Hattler is an animation filmmaker and media artist and graduated from Royal College of Art.
He is interested in the space between abstraction and figuration in the moving image, where storytelling
is freed from the constraints of traditional narrative. His work contemplates microcosms, moments, atmospheres: Close-ups as reflections on the big picture; aesthetics as reflections on politics. Hattler's work has been shown in festivals and exhibitions worldwide.
www.maxhattler.com
A 45-minute protest speech edited down to 4 minutes based on the tone of the speakers, the emotion of the sign language interpreter and the crowds' reaction.
Rebecca Loyche is a conceptual artist working primarily in photography, video, sound and film. Some of her recent projects explore the environment, objects, sights, and sounds that question taboos in society, media saturation and the afterlife of an event. Loyche recently did an artist residency in Reykjavik, Iceland and is now working on a video piece about the protests against the Icelandic government. She holds an MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College, NYC and a BFA from Pratt Institute in New York.
According to the Belgian philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-) humanity carries out three types of exchange: first, of women among the families of each tribe; second, to the service of the economy; and the last one through linguistic messages. The objective of the project Balbuceos (Mumbles) is to exchange voices that are emitted freely without a phonetic sense, insisting on the variations in the pronunciation during a minute. For the making of each animation I asked different people to improvise voices freely, in the form of a conversation with me. According to their tones, rhythms and volumes, I imagined freely the forms of the phonemes and I interpreted with drawings each syllable, creating thus animations that resort to the viewer's imagination.
Jiro Suzuki was born in Ibaraki, Japan (1976) He lives and works in México City since 2003, where he studied his BFA at the National School of Fine Arts ENAP. This year he had his first solo exhibition at Nina Menocal gallery where he'd shown his series Rizobe . He was selected among more than 100 artists to present his work at the gallery of La Esmeralda in which he presented a selection of his most recent work. In October, 2009 Jiro will present some of his videos in a curated video presentation at "La Otra", Bogota’s Fair of Contemporary Art.
Jiro Suzuki was born in Ibaraki, Japan (1976) He lives and works in México City since 2003, where he studied his BFA at the National School of Fine Arts ENAP. This year he had his first solo exhibition at Nina Menocal gallery where he'd shown his series Rizobe . He was selected among more than 100 artists to present his work at the gallery of La Esmeralda in which he presented a selection of his most recent work. In October, 2009 Jiro will present some of his videos in a curated video presentation at "La Otra", Bogota’s Fair of Contemporary Art.
Smith has shown his work extensively around the US and Europe at a variety of venues including museums, galleries, universities, festivals, night clubs, on television and in the streets. In New York City he has had solo shows and screenings at The Whitney Museum, The New Museum, The Christine Burgin Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art. In 2007-08 Smith’s retrospective “Mike’s World: Solo and Collaborative Works by Michael Smith and Joshua White (& other collaborators)” was exhibited at the Blanton Museum in Austin and at The ICA in Philadelphia. This Fall 2009, "The Voyage of Growth and Discovery", a large -scale video installation made in collaboration with Mike Kelley, is on view at the Sculpture Center in Long Island City, New York.