The Not Still Art Festival
was created in 1996 to celebrate abstract and non-narrative video art and
its relationship to music and sound. This painterly motion art form, made
with electronic tools, is barely 25 years old.
Unlike film animation,
which is created in a "frame-by-frame" technique, electronic motion imaging
allows video artists to create in real time. This ability to make moving
images, much as a musician makes music (as the inspiration occurs), is
unprecedented in the history of animation. The Not Still Art Festival presents
work in which the visual uniqueness of the electronic medium is a determining
aesthetic element. It is concerned with the equal collaboration of image
and music/sound and with the abstract, non-verbal mode of expression that
this genre represents.
"These passionate [abstract] compositions are not
limited to the purely visual celebration of what pleases the eyes. They
reach beyond the world of the senses to symbolize the forces that activate
life and the physical world with all their overwhelming complexity." from
Rudolf Arnheim's essay "What Became of Abstraction?", p. 22, To The Rescue
of Art U. of CA Press, 1992. HR
