N O T...S T I L L...A R T

"The conflict between man and nature is constantly regrouping, but ultimately favors nature."

"...an exploration of a world of endless production and consumption where the players, each a modern Sisyphus, are bound to it by their participation."

"...a short experiment in which human communication is translated into audible frequencies."

"...made up of pictures taken from cameras of video survellance. Human life takes place in a specific linguistic context and I was interested in explaining this fact through an observation of social life."

Unrelated images are animated into a composition which reflects the reality of media life, if not the life of reality.

"The Magritte Report" 2:00

Daveed Shwartz animation and images
Christoph Baaden edit
Benjamin Peret poem "New Superstitions"
Lothar Wollech Rene Magritte photograph

"The assault of sounds, images and graphics an the blurred line between entertainment and hard news can make watching television news anywhere int he world a confusing and incomprehensible affair.
Maybe it's time for the real surreal global network."

This "short dreamscape vignette obliquely refers to psychological as well as environmental and social dislocations. "

"An abstract lyrical view of the complexity of the things around us.... Processed and then reprocessed... done using both antique analog video instruments and modern digital devices."

" A story about the imaginative process of painting, drawing and thinking, referring to Exupery's 'Draw Me a Sheep' and inspired by a Zen tale."

Stephanie Maxwell image and animation
Michaela Eremiasova music composition / sound design

"...an intricate mosaic of sequences of animated abstract images and musical passages that create a chaotic and tightly choreographed portrayal of figurative matter in perpetual decomposition."

Jaeyoon Park director / animator
Junho Yang music
Soo Myun Jeong music performance

"...a visual ode influenced by the poem 'Evocation', written by Kim So Wol. The poem consists of strong emotional conflicts that occur from losing a loved one. And these develop Han, ironic or paradoxical emotions, which I try to illustrate in this piece."

"...references the mysteries of the universe and the relationship that consciousness has with it. It is a mandala for our time."

"Poem and animation play out a parallel conversation, independent of but echoeing each other's concerns. The animation delineates a personal journey - a spiritual search among the landscapes of the mind. "

A navigation through cantilevered space and time. Defying observable physics, we careen and swerve in a static trance. An excerpt.

"Our paths are sometimes sublime, often scary as hell, and always mysterious. Path 1 can be seen as an incantation of resolve."

"A non-narrative montage of 3 abstracted and disconnected events. A lyrical poem, in motion."

Deborah Cornell images and virtual reality animation
Richard Cornell music composer
Boston Musica Viva, conducted by Richard Pittman music performance

American and Autralian desert imagery, plus cultural artifacts, are the virtual environment of this piece which is specially navigated for video on an Immersadesk. "Scale and position are relative and deceptive." The poignancy of the violin and piano duet correspond to the pathos we feel for the remnants of ancient cultures.
This is the excerpted last movement of the more extended piece.

Cosmic dust, background radiation of the universe, debris in space. Matter and light spiral on a broken chord of alietory, random acoustic music and sound design. There is no plan, no destination, but continual movement which somehow does not seem purposeless, in fact, seems totally plausable as outer or inner space. An excerpt from the opening a the longer piece.

Is this a Tango Palace in Berlin? NO - it's alien life with a groove. An excerpt.

"...a data driven, synthesized complex system, visualized and auralized as a computer animation and audio composition. Digital Elevation Model (DEM) datasets from the United States Geological Survery (USGS)... are sampled and woven together to generate a unified matrix of motion.... I am interested in making interpolations of statistics from sources humans neither own nor control.... What I found is a stream of order writhing through chaos."
An excerpt.

"XYZ" 4:10

László Zsolt Bordos / Ivó Kovács image and animation
Prxt Krisztián Prokob music

DEBUT

"We have chosen the title XYZ for the reason, that it expresses the aspiration for something timeless, something absolute, along the XYZ coordinates, appearing in our work in a relative time and playful manner. It is a way to experiment space."

"Infinite Range" 2:06

Erik Rasmussen animation
Thor Alvarez music

A hyper 2D-3D trajectory pulses with life without anthropomorphizing movement or form. The startling super-pop music whips and swings.

"The Rice Song" 3:00

Chris Casady image and animation
John Dentino, The Fibonaccis music
Maggie Song vocal

DEBUT

Western meets Eastern or an avatar's music video - or a flash in the rice paddy ...

"Static Ocean" 3:22

99Hooker video and poetry
Jason Misik music

DEBUT

99Hooker's cultural clairvoyance set to psychedelic bubbles.

"Amazilia" 2:15

Brian Evans music and graphics

"Everything reduces to data mapping and information design.... I take numeric models and see what songs and pictures they will make....
What palette of colors to use? What set of pitches? How long? How big? The artist chooses."

"Blueroom" 1:25

Kevi Louis-Johnson image and sound

"...this 'digital painting' simulates the frenzy of intense traffic and motion depicted in the style of futurist paintings of the early twentieth century."

"Turgator" 3:06

Marjan Moghaddam animation
Adam Caine Trio music
Adam Caine electric guitar
Ken Filiano bass
Phil Haynes drums

"3d environments that use sound files as direct triggers for dynamics in addition to keyframing....redefine and further explore abstraction, dissonance, movement, media-induced synaesthesia and non-linear visual narrative..." Powerful, fluid animation and relentless electric guitar.

All quotes are the artists' statements.