Name: Stephen Fox
Nationality: Australia
Title: The Birds
Year: 2005
Duration: 8:45

Biography: Working predominately in digital video, Stephen Fox enjoys trampling on ordinary ways of seeing. He completed his studies in Electronic Arts at UWS in 2005, and lives in the Blue Mountains.

Synopsis: The Birds attempts to penetrate the visible object in order to reach the force behind/within it. The birds in Hitchcock’s classic film The Birds (1963) have been erased, frame-by-frame, leaving a trace of their existence. The trace, born out of the erasure of a physical object, still refers to that which once was, while there is an added anticipation of something else slipping through. Like phantom limbs, the trace is neither absence nor presence, past or present.

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Name: Luke Lamborn
Nationality: USA
lucidstraw.com
Title: Square Millimeter of Opportunity: Cars
Year: 2006
Duration: 2:00

Biography: Luke Lamborn is a media artist examining new ways of enhancing perception through digital technologies. His current work uses video in technical manners to create unique visual situations. Ideas of nature and infrastructure are reconstructed in the pursuit of understanding reality in different ways.

Lamborn received his BFA in digital art at the University of Colorado at Boulder, graduating summa cum laude. Currently, he is finishing his MFA in computer art at Syracuse University’s Department of Transmedia while working as a teaching assistant. He has exhibited throughout the US and internationally.

Synopsis: An hour of video footage was dissected into individual cars and reordered by colour as an exercise in enhancing ordinary perception. About eighty cars are used in the spectrum. This video further documents the occasional lateral shift in awareness.

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Name: Daniel Crooks
Nationality: Australia
Title: Train No.8
Courtesy the artist & Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Year: 2005
Duration: 13:29

Biography: Practicing across a range of time–based media including video, photography and installation Daniel Crooks’ work has been widely exhibited both in Australia and internationally. In 2002, his solo show Time Slice was held at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, and in 2005 a small section of something larger was held at Sherman Galleries, Sydney. Group shows include Primavera 2003 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Banquete at ZKM in Germany, 2004 Australian Culture Now and World Without End at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne.

A graduate of the VCA School of Film and Television, Crooks has received numerous awards including the City of Stuttgart Prize for Animation and an Australian Short Film Award. In 1997 He received an Australia Council Art and Technology Fellowship and between 2004 and 2005 undertook residencies at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and the London studio of the Australia Council.

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Name: Atanas Djonov
Nationality: Australia
Title: Pole Shiroko
Year: 2005
Duration: 3:40

Biography: Australia n/a 2005
Bio Atanas Djonov Born: 30/08/1972; immigrated to Australia 1996. Atanas Djonov was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. In the period from 1990 to 1995 he played lead guitar in a very popular Bulgarian punk-rock band called “The Second National Nothing”. In 1994 he completed a video-production course at the College of Journalism and Mass Communication at Sofia University. In 1996 Atanas Djonov moved to Sydney where he continued playing music. In 1999 he commenced a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales, majoring in Time-Based Art.

His art encompasses a variety of fields such as video installation art, performance, experimental film, photography and animation and allows him to pursue his interest in music through composing and recording experimental soundtracks for his time-based works.

Synopsis: Wide-Open Fields (2005), video performance in collaboration with the choir Nothing Without Belinda, duration 3:40 mins The video track offers a journey, documented in early 2004, through deserted built and open spaces in Bulgaria. It is accompanied by the live performance of a Bulgarian folk song about fear and the death of hope at the loss of a powerful leader. This piece examines the effects of a people’s reliance for help on outside forces.

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Name: Carolina Padilla Villarraga and Daniel Desiderio Páez Castillo
Nationality: Colombia
Title: of "Attributes" and "Qualities"
Year: 2005
Duration: 6:05

Biography: CAROLINA PADILLA VILLARRAGA [Bogotá, Colombia 1976] / DANIEL DESIDERIO PÁEZ CASTILLO [Bogotá, Colombia 1975]

Graphical designers of the University Jorge Tadeo Lozano [1999 Bogotá - Colombia], Electronic artists and Digital designers of the Superior School of Design ESDI [2004 Barcelona - Spain]. At present they are participating from Barcelona in projects of video creation, installations and other independent hypermedia applications exposed in important collective exhibitions in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Spain and France.

Synopsis: Through a performance - improvisation, this videographic essay aims to document a caused event, a simulation of experience and conditions to which species are forced to support for long paths. What happens when you want to wipe out an entire population? First, turn them vulnerable in the social sphere; second, demonstrate their lack of certain “human characteristics” in order to run them down based on that lack of “attributes and qualities”. And finally, transform its elimination into a moral action. The conditions, the time, the distance, the journeys, the human supremacy above other species.

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Name: Sophie Lavence
Nationality: Australia
Title: Ambulance
Year: 2005
Duration: 4:10

Biography: Sophie Lavence is a Melbourne artist working in the mediums of screen and installation based Video Art. During 2005 she completed a Bachelor of Media Arts with Distinctions at RMIT University, also undertaking an internship with Melbourne artist Philip Brophy. Sophie has worked on various solo and collaborative pieces which have been shown at selective group screenings including; 'dot.mov' at Loop Bar, 'Girls Boys Machines' at ACMI, 'The Scarab Window Project' at Black Cat, and 'Dead Art' at St Jeromes; her work has also been published on 'dot.mov's' screen collective DVD.

During the past year she has been involved in, producing work for, and co-curating three group exhibitions; 'Two Point Two' at First Site Gallery, 'Clutter Box' at Gertrudes Upstairs, and 'Thanks for All the Hex' at Ethel Osbourne Hall.

Synopsis: 'Ambulance' is a video work exploring the act of viewing. The work seeks to question the dichotomy of spectator and spectacle. Obscured domestic figures and images of crowds exchange disengaged glances. As they slowly fade in and out, side by side, these figures are simultaneously bonded and yet divided by the blackness of the screen. A dissonance arises as the notions of voyeur and viewer become confused. Binary conditions are dissolved, and monochromatic alarm emerges. The eye of the viewer has become dislocated, and is left to question the worth of what it is really seeing.

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Name: Alex Pearl
Nationality: England
rotagavin.blogspot.com
Title: Automatic Film 1 (in another place)
Year: 2005
Duration: 5:51

Biography: Born: Manchester 1968 Recent Screenings & Exhibitions: 21st April – 25th June 2005, Artist in residence, Sideshow, Nottingham December 2005, Indisposable, Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich (group show) November 2005, IF 3, Side cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne (screening) November 2005, Slack Video, Hull (screening) November 2005, L’Alternativa 2005, 12th Independent Film Festival of Barcelona, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. September 2005, Regeneration, WAG at St Mary at the Quay, Ipswich (Artist in Residence) August 2005, Max Five Video festival, Café Gallery, Southwark. June 2005, Slack video, “2nd Birthday Screening” The Lamp, Hull June 2005, Extra Short Film Festival, Novosibirsk, Russia. May 2005, International Shorts, Electronic Arts Program, California State University (screening) February 2005, www.tank.tv February 2005, Dark & Daring, WAG, Ipswich (screening) February 2005,

About Space, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham (screening) February 2005, Reactor, Trampoline, Nottingham (Group show) October 2004, Shot by the Sea digital film festival, Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings.

Synopsis: Automatic Filmmaking In a recent filmmaking residency I extended the idea of chance affecting my work by developing my own version of automatic filmmaking. I invented a range of automaton camera operators and self powered automata, set them going, and tried to control the results. Mostly they fell over a lot. Visitors were also invited to join in, helping with the filming and providing suggestions for intertitles. This play between helplessness and control has begun to fascinate me. However, counter to emergence theory, I’m not convinced anything will come of it Automatic Film 1, (in another place), 05’51 This is a film more or less in three simultaneous parts. It opens with an outsider’s view of the wonders of a midnight ball. Next we are introduced to the world of an industrious hopping teaspoon. Finally aimless ships float dreamily through the architectural heavens.

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Name: Jay Needham
Nationality: USA
Title: 13 Buildings
Year: 2005
Duration: 5:53

Biography: Jay Needham Jay Needham is a sound artist who embraces a multi-disciplinary approach to arts practice. He holds an MFA from The School of Art at California Institute of the Arts. In 2005 his radio documentary Listening at the Border was a special presentation at Sonic Interventions in Amsterdam and was also presented at the Noise Theory Noise #2 conference and exhibition hosted by The Centre For Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University in London. Blacktop, his narrative work for radio, aired and streamed as a part of New Media Scotland’s Resonant Cities program and was released on Deep Wireless II in 2005 by New Adventures in Sound Art. Other recent international exhibitions include Pixel Ache at The Kiasma Museum in Helsinki. His newly released video 13 Buildings premiered at the Museum of Voivodnia at the 9th Videomedeja in Serbia and was also selected for Videologia during the 2nd International Festival of Audio-Visual Arts, Volgograd, Russia.

Jay is a faculty member in the Department of Radio–Television, Specialization in Sound, College of Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Synopsis: 13 Buildings is a narrative video that reflects on the evaporative nature of memory and our hopes and ideas towards a journey home. The lanes of traffic have dissolved between the many places that I have lived and this work represents a coming to terms with that natural space between. That transience, that decade of movement has afforded both opportunity and loss, and I am interested in creating work that describes the social, political and personal dynamics of this interaction. In 13 Buildings, locative habitats become the topic of a conversation between two people united as friends but who are philosophically opposed.

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Name: Natalie Woodlock
Nationality: Australia
Title: Grots to the Show
Year: 2005
Duration: 6:06

Biography: Natalie graduated from VCA (photography) in 2003 and has been exhibiting work since 1999. Her art practise encompasses many mediums including craft, animation, performance and new media. In 2005 she was the recipient of a City of Melbourne Young Artists` Grant to produce the stop-motion animation / live action video work `grots to the show`, shown at RMIT gallery, Melbourne, in December 2005. She has recently completed a residency at Raw Space, Brisbane. In November Natalie's work was included in `Uncovered`, at Raw Space Galleries, as part of the Arc Brisbane Biennale.

Natalie's work has also been collected in the publication `Scrapbook to Somewhere`, a creative anthology exploring personal connections to place. In 2004, Natalie became one of Australia's 50 most uncollectible artists, whose work was collected in a limited edition set of bubblegum swapcards, produced by the Network of Uncollectible Artists (NUCA).

Synopsis: Grots to the show combines stop-motion animation and live action to explore themes of family, memory and loss. A highly personal account of the rituals of a North Queensland childhood, love, tension and ritual are the fabric of family life in this mnemonic film.

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Name: Yung-Ta, Chang
Nationality: Taiwan
Title: Beat, Rhythm, Anima
Year: 2006
Duration: 6:26

Biography: I'm a graduate student, and study in Taipei National University of the Art. I was major in Digital Art. Now, I dedicated myself to Sound Art for half year. In the future, I'll try to create some interactive works or sound installation.
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Synopsis: I use 3 concepts (Beat, Rhythm, Anima) to try to present the heart's-blood. I imagine that before I die, what the scene I will see, heard and feel. The sound of pulsometer is pureness and iciness, but it let me feel the pulse when the life dissipates. And the sinus and sign-waves sound describe the abandoned and hot-blooded life. Slowly, dormition from clear to blur.....

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Name: Jason Arsenault
Nationality: Canada
www.perte-de-signal.org
Title: Hydr(o) - project edit/2
Year: 2005
Duration: 3:15

Biography: Jason Arsenault holds bachelor's and master's degrees in film studies from Université de Montréal. He joined Perte de Signal in 2001, and became its chairman in 2003. His work has been shown in different festivals,

including Microwave International Media Art Festival (Hong Kong), the Hamburg International Short Film Festival, and the Antimatter Underground Film Festival (Victoria). His works have also been exhibited throughout Canada, in France, and in Mexico.

Synopsis: hydr(o) is a digital drowning. This sequence length shot is taken from a video installation. This single-channel video exploits the feeling of anguish related to hydrophobia.

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Name: Ian Andrews
Nationality: Australia
www.radioscopia.org
Title: Platform#5
Year: 2006
Duration: 2:20

Biography: Ian Andrews, born 1961 (Australia) is a Sydney based independent film, video and sound artist who has been practicing since 1981. He studied electronics TAFE in order to achieve the knowledge and skills to build his own electronic instruments and video equipment, and studied film and sound at the University of Technology Sydney from which he graduated with first class honours in 1994. He has written several essays on sound which were published in periodicals such as NMA and Essays in Sound. His latest work consists of a series of online generative sound pieces, video/sound installation works, and a series of experimental music CDs.

Andrews has exhibited his works in various international film and media art festivals. He has spoken about and presented his work at various conferences, both nationally and internationally. In June 2001 he presented a retrospective of his work, from 1983 to 2000, as part of the Sydney Film Festival.

Synopsis: Platform #5 SD video PAL 16:9 B&W This piece consist of a number of takes, shot over a period of several days, from a train travelling past Sydney’s Wynyard and Town Hall subway stations. The takes were then edited into three sequences which were then composited together in a horizontal row. The structure of this piece was largely determined by the sound, and the appearance of the feet of the figures in the foreground.

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Biography: Stop motion animator, video and installation artist. Benjamin associates his work with media bondage and saturation. Utilising found technologies, which have been reproduced and are obsolete; these objects are brought to life.

Synopsis: A dialogue between Man & TV. A struggle for the control of a space both meta-physical and physical.

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Name: Laurent Pernot
Nationality: France
www.laurentpernot.net
Title: Still Alives
Year: 2005
Duration: 2:20

Biography: Born in 1980. Exhibit regularly in France and abroad. I have used electronic media to produce installations, experimental and musical videos, books and photographs, attempting to convey allegory and poetry.

I have always been interested in philosophic and scientist issues, especially those that deal with consciousness and life s patterns. Thus, the whole dimension of my work is based on a sensitive approach of life, implying the presence of the human body.

Synopsis: Still Alives calls a broad concept about the transmission of life, memory and disappearance. Thus, it tries to propose, by the construction of a poetic universe, an arborescent and universal vision of the human being.

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Biography: Tim and Toby are recent graduates from the College of Fine Arts.

Synopsis: A short animation that immerses itself in the void felt when losing someone close.

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Name: Mike Jones
Nationality: Australia
www.luciferjones.org
Title: Transit Blues
Year: 2005
Duration: 3:09

Biography: Mike Jones has a diverse background spanning the breadth of digital media - video, 2D & 3D graphics, audio, photography, motion graphics and interactive forms. He has written more than 120 published articles, essays and reviews on technical and creative elements of media production and theory. He pens a monthly syndicated column on cinema technology, is senior writer for Videocamera magazine and the author of the book 'Viewfinder: an introduction to movies and visual media in the digital age'. Currently he is manager of the Vectorlab digital media studio at the Powerhouse Museum and is undertaking PhD research into cinematic space and new technologies.

Synopsis: The lethargy of transit. The subtle delirium invoked by the non-place of airports, travelators and plane cabins... the squinted view of a disallowed camera... Tiredness, boredom and beauty... Transit Blues is a video poetry project shot from a luggage bag and mixed in immersive surround sound.

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Name: Sarah Waterson and Kate Richards
Nationality: Australia
www.subscape.net
Title: sub_scapePROOF a machinima
Year: 2005
Duration: 4:30

Biography: Sarah Waterson and Kate Richards are Sydney-based media artists. Individually, they work across software and interactivity, installation and performance. sub_scape is an ongoing collaboration spanning 3 years. As an interactive software sub_scape has been exhibited at ISEA2004 and ACMI in 2004-2005.

Synopsis: “sub_scapePROOF machinima” is a recorded output from the generative software “sub_scape”, a real-time system for manipulating, sampling and remapping data streams. Using elegant rules, “sub_scape” generates poetic ecologies of sound and image. What emerge from the system are aesthetic complexes, evolving patterns, turbulence and recursive effects. The system exhibits confluence, paradox, metaphor and commentary, arising from the intriguing combinations of source data and formalist strategies. For “sub_scape PROOF”, we populated the sub_scape system with political rhetoric; ‘confessional’ TV; advertisements, and TV reportage with its increasingly Baroque display. Mapped through this video/audio data stream are literary texts that represent some axiomatic notions about truth, discourse and affect. “sub_scapePROOF” generates a playful, ironic critique of politics and power dynamics. By playing on the emergent, aesthetic and sense-making behaviours of the datasets, “sub_scapePROOF” transmits an affect of ‘truth” more baroque than Cartesian, and “meaning” more symbolic than fixed. “sub_scapePROOF” was commissioned by ACMI in 2005.

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