Akin

Akin is a 33 years old musician and beat maker, from São Paulo. His first experience in music take notice around 98/99, as a fresstyle battling MC from underground rap scene. As the main ingredient for your style, Akin started to produce his own beats, flowing from analog synths to straight break lines. Along the years the instrumental take most part on his interest in music, treating vocals as another instrument in his productions with the using of MPC and others sample instruments. Actually he is half part of the noise and beat modeling duo Afasia, asside with Carlos Issa from Objeto Amarelo, and the host of the online radio Metanol FM, focused on experimental and instrumental electronic music.

www.metanol.fm

Alberto Cabrera Bernal

Alberto Cabrera Bernal’s initial work is literary, publishing in 2003 his first poetry book, “Integrando”, reviewed at different literature magazines. His time is split between writing and the practice of collage. Writes a new book, “Salida al interior”. For the last years he has dedicated exclusively to film, winning the 2009 Lucca Film Festival with “Every Four Frames” and screening regularly in the experimental cinema circuit. His work is developed in different formats, Super 8, 16mm, 35mm and video. Appropriated material is used, and sometimes handled in a violent way, to the point of literally shooting film stock on “Shot Film” (2010). In the most recent works he has introduced combinatorial techniques to construct the editing. He has conducted at Matadero Madrid Contemporary Art Center the workshop “Cinema as Object: Appropriation And Interventionist Practices”, and has participated in the program “The Other Spanish Cinema”, which took place in 2010 at Carlos III University of Madrid. His films have been analyzed on an article, “Four Ways to Define Cinema. Alberto Cabrera Bernal”, and in the investigation project “Contemporary Appropriation: Audiovisual Ways, Styles and Formats in Spain”.

www.cabrerabernal.org

B.Fleischmann

Bernhard Fleischmann. Born 1975 in Vienna, is an austrian producer who has successfully established himself as a crucial element to the European electronic experimental scene producing very digital, very German-sounding, electronic soundscapes with spacial electro beats and synthesized noise – all created on one device. His sound is summed up with different electronic “instruments” creating harmonies and fine melodies within a unique blend of soundscapes. The different kinds of generated noise should not disturb the harmonies of the songs, but should find their way to communicate with the other sounds – tracks to cruise to, during a long night, where the next morning is already near.

www.bfleischmann.com

Basavizi

Basavizi was formed in 2008 by André Damião Bandeira, Fernando Visockis e Sérgio Abdala with the aim of developing a research on free improvisation as a form of creative and compositional process, which also resulted concomitantly in a study on the use of digital and analog technology for live-performance. Formed by this trio of São Paulo, the group developed several instrumental arrangements always focused on the interaction between traditional instruments and technology, high and low-tech.

www.myspace.com/basavizi

Bosques de mi mente

Bosques De Mi Mente is your perfect partner to feelings of melancholy and despair. Bosques De Mi Mente is the music to soundtrack your latest tragedy, the music that will bring beauty to the most tragic of happening, solo piano has rarely captured such feeling, this was last done so well by Eluvium and if that’s not a recommendation then I don’t know what is.

www.bosquesdemimente.com

Clemens Behr

German artist Clemens Behr uses the simplest materials to create complex ephemeral architectures, which fill gallery spaces with origami-like structures. Working with recycled materials and basic geometric forms, Behr dreams up installations that result in subtle confusions between 2D painting and 3D objects. Not content with the confines of gallery spaces, Behr has taken his work into the public sphere, building peculiar appendages in metro cars and erecting detailed miniature cities on street corners. At their best, his installations are feats of optical trickery, disorienting architectures reminiscent of German expressionist film sets. At their worst, they look like a creative kid ran amok with a bunch of moving boxes and a vat of paint. Behr belongs to a crop of artists, who take inspiration from childlike forms of expression, a naive, innocent aesthetic befitting a generation of Peter Pans…

www.clemensbehr.com

David O’Reilly

On March 13, 2008, a YouTube user named RANDYPETERS1, a 9-year-old boy from Chicago, submitted a handdrawn animated video about Octocat, a red cat head with eight long legs looking for his parents. The videos featured crude MS Paint animation and a loud, highpitched, child-like voice narrating. On September 7, the fifth, final episode was released, but featured an unexpected twist – about 20 seconds into it, the crude sketchy animation switched to intricately crafted 3D with an orchestral soundtrack; the whole Octocat story (and as such, the Randy Peters persona) was revealed to be by David O’Reilly. In an interview he joked “I wanted to try experimenting with the Youtube audience and Microsoft Paint. The story for Octocat came to me by reading the bible word-for-word backwards”.

His short film, Please Say Something, was awarded the Golden Bear at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival, Best Narrative Short at the 2009 Ottawa International Animation Festival and several other awards. He created several animation sequences and props for the 2007 film Son of Rambow. As well as animation for the “guide” sequences in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, with Shynola. He created the first video for Irish rock band U2′s single “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight.” The video was released on U2.com on July 21, 2009. His latest short film, The External World, premiered at the 67th Venice Film Festival and the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and has since won over twenty awards on its festival circuit. David O’Reilly (1985, Kilkenny, Ireland) is an Irish film director and artist based in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is known for creating animated short films with a stripped down aesthetic.

www.davidoreilly.com

Defi Gagliardo

Defi Gagliardo was born in Devoto, Buenos Aires, into a traditional Italian family living in a small neighborhood in a cosmopolitan city. His first pets were two ducks, Tota and Toto, who became important characters on his childhood block. What began as innocent and casual play developed over the years, ac- companying his first experiences of intervening in public spaces. Around 2001, he played an important part in the birth of Street Art in Argentina, which emerged as a medium of direct communication with the spectator in a time of crisis, while at the same time generating alternative spaces due to a lack of galleries will- ing to appropriate its works. It was in this way that animals, friends and the street were spontaneously transformed into the material on which his explorations of color and his constant search for reaction express themselves. He evades categorization and definition, escaping them through perpetual mutation. His ducks lived for 10 years. He has fish now. Some in the freezer and others that are quarreling or fighting in three fish tanks.

www.lindokiller.com

Frank Kalero & Isaac Niemand

Photographer & filmmaker. Licensed on Media Communication at Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. With a degree in Documental Photography at the International Center of Photography (New York). He was a resident at Fabrica de Benetton (Italia), and the founder and director of the OjodePez magazine (Spain). He co-founded Invaliden1 art Gallery and in 2009 he also founded the World according to magazine, both in Berlin. At present he is in charge of the upcoming pan-asiatic photography magazine, Punctum & directing the Ojodepez Photo Meeting Barcelona, the new must for the professionals and lovers of documentary photography. As a filmmaker he’s been doing below the line music videos, animation clips, and a couple of documentaries. He lives between São Paulo, Berlin and New Delhi.

www.elementarypenguinsingingharekrishna.blogspot.com

Jayelle Hudson

Born in the United States, living in São Paulo, studied photography at the Brooks Institute in Southern California’s Santa Barbara area. Her latest pieces are black and white studies of plants, trees, and branches which have been altered to reflect the original image over again, appearing as if the paper has been folded in half, leaving a perfect mirror image of itself on the other side. At times, the final images resemble Rorschach ink blots. Jayelle is also producing jewelry as CINZA. “The overlapping of city and nature, history, and the exploration of traditional crafts, combined with the vibrant and creative simplicity of the Brazilian people have all been major influences.”

www.jayellehudson.com

Joy Niemand

Creative director based in New York City, Joy is working in a wide range of projects including award winning shorts, animation, music videos and documentaries. Joy loves music and my favorite hobby is performing live visuals and making video installations with artists I admire.”

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Karl Kliem aka Dienststelle

Karl Kliem aka Dienststelle is known for his minimalist music visualizations. He has worked together with Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto as well as Jan Jelinek, Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars, Thomas Brinkmann, Thomas Köner and Sleeparchive.

www.dienststelle.de

Lolo & Sosaku Miyazaki

“This Time” is a sound, video and performance project by Lolo (Argentina) and Sosaku Miyazaki (Japan) formed in 2006, looking for a light from boat in a forgotten memory. It is in between painting and noise, sound and music, sculpture and instrument, metal and strings, hear and listen, time and distance, awake and dream, formless and shape, new and future. This Time is making original instruments in this moment of time to find out something new under a law of nature.

Mark Jenkins

Mark Jenkins (born 1970 in Fairfax, Virginia ) is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using box sealing tape. In addition to creating art, he also teaches his sculpture techniques through workshops in cities he visits. He currently lives in Washington, DC.

www.xmarkjenkinsx.com

Max Hattler

Experimental animator and media artist Max Hattler was educated at Goldsmiths, Escuela de Cine de Madrid, and the Royal College of Art, graduating with an MA (RCA) in Animation in 2005. He has had solo exhibitions at Lumen Eclipse, Media Art Friesland, Nottingham Broadway and Someonesgarden Tokyo, and retrospectives at Image Forum Festival, Fredrikstad Animation Festival, MUMIA Festival and Branchage Jersey Film Festival. His works have been shown at hundreds of film festivals, as well as in museums and galleries such as MOCA Taipei, the Marl Video Art Award, Yota Space and Gasworks Gallery. Awards include St. Louis Film Festival, Visual Music Award, Animate OPEN Digitalis, London International Animation Festival, Videofestival Bochum, Videologia, Skepto Festival, San Gio Festival and 700IS Art Film Festival. Max Hattler’s films have been included in the touring programmes of EMAF, Videoformes, onedotzero, Resfest, The Animation Show, L’Alternativa, Animac, AURORA, and the British Animation Awards. Max has collaborated with several music acts including Basement Jaxx, Jovanotti, The Egg and Ladyscraper, and he has shown his audiovisual live performances around the world, including the Museum of Image and Sound in Sao Paulo, Electrovisiones Mexico City, Cimatics Festival, Filmfest Dresden, SuperDeluxe Tokyo, The Big Chill Festival and London’s ICA. Max teaches at Goldsmiths, and is studying towards a Professional Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London.

www.maxhattler.com

Mulheres Barbadas

Mulheres Barbadas, aka the Bearded Ladies, are Henrique Lima and Julio Zukerman, in that order. Working together since 2006, they joined forces to fill any empty spaces they come across with monochromatic doodles. They are known for their extremely busy black and white line drawings, and for having most of their work available online for download so people can print them out and do whatever they want with it. They have been part of various projects from many different countries, and worked for clients like Coca-Cola, MTV, Nestlé and Nike, among others. Also featured in publications like IdN, Clone and Empty, even being picked by Computer Arts UK as one of the most influential up and coming illustrators in 2007. In 2008 they had their first solo show in São Paulo at ROJO Artspace. They later were part of the group exhibitions Lapis Lapin, at Surface2Air and Ocho, once again at ROJO Artspace. In 2009 they worked on a partnership with furniture overlords MiCasa, where they drew on many pieces of furniture like custom freezers, saarinen chairs and even a Mini Cooper. They also spent a week drawing on all the 4 walls and ceiling of a room, and had their audience keep up with the work live, via webcam, on their website. Their work now varies between digital mediums, ink on paper and installations, but always with too much information and very little colors.

www.mulheresbarbadas.com

Objeto Amarelo

Objeto Amarelo’s spirit unfolds in ambience and sound abstractions. The concrete result spreads between composition and noise. There is no fixed formation and it got lost in the middle of many events in the last ten years. Shows and albums follow different motivations. Records use studio like a tool and are not reproduced alive, while performances are thought specifically from site to site. João Gilberto did not listen to OA. Besides, he knows Faust people won a Panzertunel.

www.myspace.com/objetoamarelo

Optical Machines

[SHIFT] the second installation by Optical Machines in which homemade equipment is used to build up an abstract play of light. The soundtrack is created in an interactive play with the intensity of light. The first (untitled) performance by Optical Machines made an impression thanks to the way in which image and sound were created. Rikkert Brok and Maarten Halmans do not like to take a static position, but prefer to allow the spectator a glimpse behind the scenes. A kind of laboratory setup of modified record players, pattern models, lamps, cameras and an analogue synthesizer linked to them was used to make a both hypnotic and amusing show. For their second performance (SHIFT), this approach has been retained more or less the same. The way in which they work can also easily be followed and is a significant part of the performance, while the equipment is again manufactured by them. A kind of Pandora’s Box, an ingenious case with a battery of lights, forms the basis of a play with interfering patterns and abstract animation. [SHIFT] is a real live show with light images that are generated, manipulated, mixed and projected on the spot. The interaction between image and sound is twofold: the soundtrack influences the image and vice versa.

www.opticalmachines.nl

Paula Trabulsi

Partner of BOSSANOVAFILMS, Paula Trabulsi is a director with eleven short films in her curriculum, and more than 2,300 commercials, shot throughout the world. The short film “Dejeuner du Matin” won a gold medal at The New York Festival, competing with 2127 films, from 32 countries. It also draw attention in other major festivals around the world and is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. ASTRO is her first feature film. Paula chose this project, and the city of Rio de Janeiro, for her identification with the intense subtlety of the original idea of David Quiles Guillo, curator of ROJO®Nova Exhibition. The making of this movie is a chance to exercise her strengths as a director: to imprint a human touch in accord with an accurate aesthetic sense, as also to integrate talented people and technology, mixing live action with post-production techniques.

www.bossanovafilms.com.br

Protey Temen

Russian artist protey temen has been exploring ‘different ways of visual environment saturation’ since 2004, working as an art-director at zunge design studio in Moscow. More recently Protey has been working on a side project called ‘dobrotarizm’, which roughly translates as ‘happytalism’. the main objective of the project is a focus on positive reactions among human feelings and their further manipulation. Protey views kiddy-styled graphics as the main source of inspiration for his work, which is certainly colorful, intense and often humorous.

www.proteytemen.com

Rafaël Rozendaal

Rafaël Rozendaal (Amsterdam 1980) is an artist who uses the internet as his canvas. He makes (interactive) animations each placed in a single domain name. In his works he explores the relation of the viewer and the screen, the oceans of time we all spend clicking and the effect this has on us. He is influenced by the vast history of painting and animated cartoons and works in the space between them. Rafaël Rozendaal, a member of the first art movement of the 21st century: NEEN, founded in the year 2000. Lives and works on the internet.

www.newrafael.com

Renato Baractho

Baractho artist is in-formation on the electronic sound experimentation as a DJ based in Rio de Janeiro. “Sound Design of Things” is a personal research project on the sound and its resonance. Presence in the world is to be sensitive to what it provides and the sound is an element that is present in it, is difficult to disassociate the sound mass that surrounds us every day of their original function. This concern arises that this work and their inter-relationship between physical space and contextualizing art, enabling the development and fostering a discussion of our day, connected to arrays of making art. Is based on the capture of audio and its sequencing, alignment to the performance of bodily expression, made possible the deployment of a language in several layers of meanings. The machines are the subject of this first work, and opposite to them to express a human, just trying to humanize the machines and machining the body. This is part of the artistic and academic training which includes the sound / audio as raw.

www.baractho.blogspot.com

Ros Dolan & The Gang

Not the kind of “artist” you would expect to be one of the original instigators of the worldwide renowed “Street Art” movement in the very early two-thousands in Barcelona. Actually Ros claims to be the creator of the term “Street Art”. Ros Dolan (Barcelona, 1970) is a made-up pseudonim which relates to the early years of his artistic career. Ros was reported missing for more than 5 years, and just appeared back last year, like out of the blue, after many of Ros’ old buddies gathered for a new breed of artstorm event in São Paulo, Brazil. Ros Dolan’s anonimous collaborative art murals and installation works have been exhibited outdoors and indoors throughout most of the worlwide capitals since 1997. Ros Dolan’s art is generated from colorful ideas where the handmade process and the short term routines are explored in search of the almost impossible positive unanimous reaction of the well-trained eye. Ros will call upon his new born “Gang” to generate the installation at blank space in NOVA. Ros Dolan has created original artworks and installations for Nike, Comme des Garçons, smart, Coca-Cola, J&B, Diesel, Fiat, Adidas, Pepe Jeans, Heineken, Altoids, Red-Bull, Carolina Herrera… but hates being in the spotlight.

The “Brazilian” Gang: Josefa Pereira, Adelita Ahmad, Ana Elisa Carramaschi, Manu Alvin, Thiane Nascimento, Talma Salem, Tatí Ribeiro, Isabela Santana.

www.rosdolan.com

Rosa Menkman

Every technology has its own accidents. Rosa Menkman is a Dutch visualist who focuses on visual artifacts created by accidents in digital media. The visuals she makes are the result of glitches, compressions, feedback and other forms of noise. Although many people perceive these accidents as negative experiences, Rosa emphasizes their positive consequences. By combining both her practical as well as an academic background, she merges her abstract pieces within a grand theory artifacts (a glitch studies), in which she strives for new forms of conceptual synthesis of the two.

www.rosa-menkman.blogspot.com

Sebastien Preschoux

Sébastien Preschoux is a self-taught artist born in 1974, follower of the “do it yourself”. Sensitive in the optical art and in the teachings of the Bauhaus, Sebastien Preschoux produces manually, by means of tools and traditional materials, what a machine or a computer could realize infallibly in some seconds. Using primary geometrical forms circle, triangle, square he slows down them, transforms them, stacks them so giving rise to hypnotic, often complex productions and having the effect of sending back the spectator to an interrogation on the value of the past to be produced. His work declines as well in 2 dimensions, thanks to its drawings with ink on paper, as in 3 dimensions with its thread installations in natural environment.

www.m-vs-m.com

Semiconductor

Semiconductor is artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, they explore the material nature of our world and how we experience it, questioning our place in the physical universe. Through moving image, sound and multimedia installations their unique approach has won them many awards most notably, Best Film at the Cutting Edge from the British Animation Awards 2008 and Nature Magazine’s Scientific Merit Award 2009 and has seen them awarded prestigious fellowships such as the, Smithsonian Artists Research Fellowship 2010, Gulbenkian Galapagos Artists Fellowship 2010 and the NASA Space Sciences Fellowship 2005. HD limited editions of Magnetic Movie and Brilliant Noise are part of the permanent collections of Hirshhorn Museum Washington DC, USA and the Pompidou Centre, Paris, France. Their work is exhibited globally including Venice Biennial, The Royal Academy, Hirshhorn Museum, BBC, ICA London and the Exploratorium.

www.semiconductorfilms.com

Shima

Since 2005, daily life and performance art are the main source of Shima’s research and art pieces. While in work Shima deconstructs ordinary quotidian practice to analyze patterns and traditional schemes of doing things. The performance art platform (time x space x action x context) is a powerful tool for Shima to think the process and the final result, which can be installations, objects, video, photography and also performance pieces. Shima likes to create unusual ways to see the common things, combining different disciplines and playing with it’s similarities, differences, contrasts and harmony, to purpose new lenses to see/feel/think reality.

www.shima.art.br

Tofer Chin

Visual artist Tofer Chin has put a youth-impacted spin on contemporary art, imagery, and photography. His carefully stylized paintings capture the controlled and the insane with a uniquely identifiable, rainbow-hued aesthetic. Tofer’s artistic accomplishments range from designing urban art installations in Sao Paolo to working with of-the-moment interior designer Kelly Wearstler, who commissioned him to create original works for Los Angeles’ Avalon Hotel and Miami’s Viceroy Hotel. He’s also finished painting a life-sized sculpture for Wearstler’s personal collection. In 2006, Tofer published his first book of photography, and in 2008 published a highly anticipated follow-up, “Vacation Standards”, a photographic portfolio of the beautiful and grotesque. His works appear in The Los Angeles Times, Flaunt, Nylon, Trace, Big, Vice, ROJO®, and Idn among many others.

www.toferchin.com

Yoshi Sodeoka

Yoshi Sodeoka is a multidisciplinary artist and musician based in New York City. Over the past decade, his projects have been exhibited across the world (London’s Tate Britain, New York city’s Deitch Projects, Paris’ Festival Némo, Baltimore Museum of Art, London’s OneDotZero, Barcelona’s Sonar Festival, Haifa Museum Israel, San Sebastian’s GlasKultur, The Creative Time Holiday Light Show at New York’s Grand Central Terminal, Berlin’s Transmediale, Poland’s Krakow Film Festival). Sodeoka is represented by Stockholm’s Galleri Jonas Kleerup and some of his videos are distributed by Table of Contents.

www.sodeoka.com