Video

ELEKTRA, Montréal

ELEKTRA is an international media and contemporary digital art organization based in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Since 1999, it has presented artists and works that combine creative technological genres, such as music, video, cinema, performance, design, audio, robotic, interactive and visual arts.

Formal Structures

Patrick Fabian Panetta (DE)

When watching Patrick Panetta’s films, their simplicity seems as banal as it is disturbing and hypnotic. Filmed off the computer screen, Panetta’s retro-constructivist photoshop files are organized in layers and animated by pressing the arrow buttons on the keyboard. A blue square moves up, a purple circle moves towards another purple circle, a red triangle approaches a black rectangle. Each film’s soundtrack represents what the artist was listening to on the radio when filming the moving shapes.

DSCHUNGEL

Alex Lazarov (AT)

DSCHUNGEL (JUNGLE) is a web series of five episodes (each about ten minutes long) that describes the last day of summer in the life of various teenagers in Vienna.

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Stefan Tiefengraber (AT)

Following the no-input approach, Stefan Tiefengraber is generating sound and video using only the inherent noise from two devices, a digital video mixer and a digital audio mixer. New and unexpected results are achieved – a continuous blast of pure noise and flickering images.

Sigils

Alix Desaubliaux (FR)

In Sigils, a speculative archeology takes place in an abandoned metal factory. Industrial blueprints gathered on the spot as well as exchanges between engineers and commercials, clients and operators host new fictions where obsolescence sets up a magical dimension. From those clues and artefacts, several videographic and plastic objects are conceived: aluminum sheets laser-engraved with magical inspired drawings, generative sounds made by converting the blueprints into audio specter, and video exploration of the place.

Ether

Alain Barthélémy (FR)

Ether is a video presenting a technical device producing the 27 bones of the right hand. This 3D animation, which resembles a didactic document, seems to be promoting an innovative technology. There is certainly a rapprochement here with vanity. However, if the classic subject of art history is intended to present the irony of human existence trapped in a putrescible body, the vanity here would be that of a cyborg, a being who seems to be able to escape the ravages of time.

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Tromarama – Febie Babyrose (ID), Herbert Hans (ID), Ruddy Hatumena (ID)

This video is about reunion; there are three mugs, which always appear in the video that represents the three of us. We can see all the tableware run away through the fence and play around in the park, but at the end of the day they must go back into the cupboard and be ordinary tableware again. This video expresses how we felt at that time, when our daily routine at the office occupied our playing time.

Knotting the Memory // Encoding the Khipu_

Patricia Cadavid H. (CO)

This performance wants to pay homage to the Khipu, reusing it as an instrument for interaction and generation of experimental live sound and video. The artist will be a contemporary *khipukamayuq* (Khipu knotter) who seeks to encode the interrupted legacy of this ancestral practice through the knots. With each knot made, an audiovisual composition is constructed that yearns to vindicate the memory and indigenous resistance of the native peoples of the Andes. Triality is an unconventional exploration of VR technologies that challenges the limits of our perception.

The Hudson

Maria Marshall (CH/UK)

Men in suits and ties carrying briefcases appear on the Hudson River and walk onto the beach and beyond the frame. Their clothes are wet. The same men appear with dry clothes and walk out of frame. The soundtrack is of a Trump speech about putting up the wall, sped-up to sound like Mickey Mouse. The soundtrack: Three of the same soundtracks are played at different intervals so that there will be a cacophony of sound, but audible wherever the viewer stands.

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St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences (AT), Bachelor Degree Program Media Technology and Master Program Digital Design, Masterclass Experimental Media

Selected Students of the Bachelor Degree Program, Media Technology and Master Program Digital Design / Masterclass Experimental Media at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences present a selection of current media projects in the form of experimental video works.