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[You can read an extended multimedia version of this article at 2beMag #11, with video and gallery included!]

The capabilities of video of seeping into the thoughts and connecting with the memories or the emotions of the mind is an advantage of this art compared to other artistic expressions. Fabio Scacchioli, the Italian filmaker plays with these possibilities by focusing on the connections between memory, perception and thought.

Educated at the University of Perugia and at the University of Madrid, Scacchioli has projected his films and installations in exhibitions and festivals around the world including the United States, Cuba, Germany, United Kingdom, Serbia, Venezuela, Italy, etc. Lately, he has been seen in the Streaming Festival in Holland where he presented Nightlife in a puddle, a personal view after a stormy night. Currently participating in the exhibition Open 3 on S.a.L.E Docks – Magazzini del Sale of Venice with his latest work, From a land of ashes and mist, an experimental documentary about the history of a living between dreams, debris and memories.

His works are characterized by the use of modern technology together with old camcorders, and editing software combined with manual labor. A personal artistic method used to obtain images of low quality or damaged.

dead SEEquences – Fabio Scacchioli from Fabio Scacchioli on Vimeo.

The video that we present you and follows this article is titled: Dead SEEQuences , the image of a female body that appears and vanishes in the shadows and cuts. The artist is able to question the origin of the figure by asking if we visualize the woman from the parties represented or from the shadows to hide it, or if your image is defined by each frame individually or from the gap between each. It is at this point that the piece consisting of 3,770 frames becomes empty or dead. The artist is able to question the reality of everything represented by manipulating the image of a body, the tangible reality of the human being.

[You can read an extended multimedia version of this article at 2beMag #12, with video and gallery included!]

Originality in videosystems has always developed with technological innovations in projection devices. Since the eighties, different artists started to experiment with the many opportunities that these devices offered them. Tony Oursler made some videosystems where he projected talking heads over some egg- shaped ovals, and Bill Viola and Steve McQueen created monumental screened presentations in huge walls. The latest years, the 3D technique development and the searching for stunning methods for the show business and publicity have given place to a new communication technique using screening, the 3D mapping projection. This technique is characterized for screening third dimension images over surfaces such as huge building facades, big installations or objects etc. Agencies like the TCH Access Agency offer the maximum creativity to acquire incredible volume and depth effects.

From the success of the Samsung 3D projection on the historical building in Amsterdam, Beurs van Berlage, in May 2010, many brands like Mattel, Nike or Toyota have recourse to this technique. We present you one of the most successful projections that gave been lately created for the “Adidas is all in” campaign. This projection had place on the Palais du Pharo’s surface in Marseille, a big scale project orchestrated by DJ Cut Killer. This technique has also been used for fashion brands such as Ralph Lauren and, recently, we could see a good example during the new Santa Eulàlia store opening, a classic in the fashion business in Barcelona, placed in Paseo de Gracia.

[Article by Lorena Vilela for 2beMAG issue 12]

[You can read an extended multimedia version of this article at 2beMag #9, with the featured video!]

When the body loses its limits.

The use of new technologies in art production is a consolidated reality nowadays. Cinema, videoart, netart etc, they all use technology as a way of expression. But what happens when those technologies become the main character of the artpiece? Chunky Move is an Australian dance company founded in 1995 by artistic director Gideon Obarzanek. Since then, they have opened an amount of 25 shows around the world and have gained a great recognition because of its unpredictable and risky style. Its proposals show a perfect fusion between body and technology, the dancers moves while dancing become a dialogue, and they use resources such as lighting, beams of light and projections that go beyond any expectative.

The majority of the company’s proposals have as an objective to explore human’s behavior in view of their desires, conflicts and emotions. The lights and sounds build this way of confronting the world that is not always rational. Nowadays, some of its shows such as Glow, Connected or I like this, are being performed in really important cities like New York, Monaco or Melbourne. Now, we present you a video where is performed one of their most successful shows, Mortal Engine. A performance which combines dance, music, video and light beams and in which movement and sound together generate projections that distort the dancer’s body’s limits. The choreography responds to the beings moves without a specific form that try to connect and wrap themselves over and over again. It is an almost magic representation about the human’s figure’s metamorphosis.

[Article written for 2beMAG #9 by Lorena Vilela]

[You can read an extended multimedia version of this article at 2beMag #14, with video included!]

Ramon Guimaraes / Barcelona Spain. Degree in Fine Arts and Master in Interactive Audiovisual Communication at the University of Barcelona. He is developing his work in Barcelona. At 2009 realized Identity Code, an individual exposition at the Gallery Espace Ample. He had performances at Matadero (Madrid), at LA LABORAL (Gijón), at the MACBA, at the Joan Miró Foundation, at the Centre of Art Santa Mónica and at the Gallery Espace Ample of Barcelona, among others.

His project “Profile” was choosed by the creation space Off Ample to be the reference image of Project Gender IV “male universe”.

[You can read an extended multimedia version of this article at 2beMag #11, with video and gallery included!]

The influence of video in the world of film and video art is a constant reality that once again expands the horizons of these artistic expressions. Juanma Carrillo and Felix Fernandez demonstrate the impossibility of drawing such limits with their new work “This Leak”, the promotional video for the single Rubeck musician and composer of his LP “The incident”. A proposal defined by their own marketing strategies for their dual character between music and video art piece.

Juanma Carrillo renowned photographer and filmaker of short films like “The flowers also produce thorns” or “say” and Félix Fernández great performer and artist, returns to work together in this production along with musician Rubeck. The video treats the theme of the trilogy “Cover Me “, a draft video creation yet to finish by the three artists about the individual’s solitude and the search for loved ones.

THIS LEAK from Félix Fernández on Vimeo.

“This Leak” who participated last month in Region 0. The Latino Video Art Festival of New York, shows the cathartic process of a businessman from Wall Street to a new perspective for the future. The rigid attitude of the character contained in the geometry and the stress of New York is released by a dance under the open sky in the same city. Finally, shining in the evening light releases its hidden look to new horizons and discovers the extent of the surrounding space.

[Article by Lorena Vilela for 2beMAG issue 11]