MAMAs 2012 Music Award Nominees
Dfuse
D-Fuse are a group of London based artists
founded in the mid 90’s by Michael Faulkner who explore
a range of creative media, from art, architecture, photography
+ film to live A/V performances. D-Fuse's visual art
has been shown internationally - including, The V&A Museum
[London], Sonar [Barcelona], onedotzero festivals, Nokia
Labs in St Petersburg and Moscow, Mori Arts Center [Tokyo], Rotterdam
+ Seoul film festivals, Eyebeam [NYC], San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art, Prix Ars Electronica [Linz], and the Lisbon and
Valencia biennales.
The Cylinder series is a collaborative project
with Mike Faulkner from D-Fuse and Paul Mumford of Labmeta. creating
a series of short films using organic and generative sources
experimenting with the structural qualities of moving light and
explores the possibilities of rotational vectors and cylindrical
patterns. Cylinder is a realtime Audio Visual Performance in
collaboration with labmeta and swayzak
Gaëlle Berton
After having worked with various visual
medium such as Photography and Video, producing herself as a
VJ, and in several collaborative exhibition in France, UK, and
Japan, Gaëlle focused on creative coding and interactive
design. She presented her first interactive piece WIIACT in the
MAMAs 2009. She started developing augmented reality pieces ever
since. Gaëlle currently works as digital designer. Gaëlle
Berton won the MAMAs 2009 Award for Open Source Art.
Dreamdust tells the story of someone in
daze through the haze of smoking,the feelings of someone evaporating
as well as the idea of someone in an heavenly place, the head
in the stars.. This is an “interactive music video”,
from the song “Dreamdust” of Renn using the Kinect
technology – as a performance for two performers.
Holotronica – Stuart Warren Hill
Holotronica is a groundbreaking AV project
which involves the combining of live electronic music with realtime
visual synthesis delivered using the latest Holographic and 3D
technologies. These elements combined give Warren-Hill the opportunity
to fulfill his life time dream of a shared synesthesic holographic
Audio-visual experience. Holotronica will be showcasing their
exciting project using state of the art Musion® technology
performed at the Holotronica Showcase in November 2010 at the
onedotzero – adventures in motion 2010 festival. Dynamic
collaborations on the album come from auspicious electronic pioneers
HFB - High Frequency Bandwidth - Dom Beken and the Orb's Lx Patterson,
dance maestro genius Tom Middleton, electronica dj/producer 10sui
and Higher Intelligence Agency. Stuart will be presenting a live
performance of his new clip Speedway which is scheduled for Blu-Ray
release.
New Opera Hero
New Opera Hero are in between dystopia and utopia, techno
fears and techno lust – extreme visual 3D talent meets
musical anthems for the future.
Deliberately difficult to classify, N.O.H.
redefine the term ‘band’ – amalgamating visual
and sonic art, with a strong sense of purpose in trying to change
the way art and music performance is perceived.
New Opera Hero create their visuals, compose
their songs, take ownership of their show control, set design
and their challenging stage performance.
Always at the cutting edge of the latest technological devices, and effortlessly
moving between music genres and art forms, N.O.H. transform the essence
of multimedia into reality.
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MAMAs 2012 Kinetica Award
Nominees
Ki-Ra
KI-RA (Kira Zhigalina), born in Moscow,
lives and works in London, UK. Ki-Ra works in various medium
including film, video, sound, installation, and holographic projection.
She has created visuals for London Zoo, Secret Cinema, and Musion
as well as for opera productions, clubs, and music artists in
London, Tokyo and Moscow.
Her artistic interest lies primarily in
examining subconscious and conscious appreciation of forms, and
visualizing the space in between, where archetypes feed into
representations. The intention with her work is to create a visual
language or experience that can communicate on emotional and
subconscious levels. Ki-RA won the Award for Performance at MAMAs
2010.
"Anima Mundi" is a visual performance
exploring the archetypal nature of time within the nature`s rhythms.
A human being is part of an interconnected web of natural forces,
and nature is the source of inspiration for all human creation.
This is a time of transformation, a human being is capable even
more so of creating his own world whether it is a world of destruction
or evolution it is for us to decide.
Visuals and direction by Ki Ra (Kira Zhigalina)
Performed by Dane Hurst
Animation by Paul Bloomfield
Music by Ki-Ra
Laura Jean Healey
L.J. Healey is a fine arts graduate from
St. Martins College of Art and Design, who uses the medium of
film to explore the nature of the cinematic experience. Her
work not only mimics the effect of the cinema, but also
demystifies and pulls back the curtain.
The Siren is an exploration
of the notion of the Other. It explores the nature
of the feminine mystic within the screen and the seemingly active
male gaze. The Siren, both alluring and terrifying, embodies
the duel nature of all women throughout time and confronts the
audience, asking if ‘I do not exist in my own right. If
I am merely a symptom of male desire, then ‘what am I?’
Madi Boyd
Madi Boyd graduated in sculpture from the
Slade School of Art in 2005. Since then she has exhibited widely
both her short films and installations. She has collaborated
for the past three years with neuroscientists from UCL, the installation
they made together can currently be seen in the Science Museum,
London
The View from NoWhen allows the audience
to become observers, with an unrestricted perspective on time,
witnessing a disruption to space and time. The piece will explore
and map the interaction between movement on stage and the space
of the stage itself, so that the performer appears to pull and
distort the air as if it were tangible malleable matter. Objects
on stage will move, crumble or bend in relation to the gravitational
force exerted by the performer. The space will appear to stretch,
grow and shrink or momentarily reflect as it dances with the
performer
www.madiboyd.com
Rachel Garrard
2012 is an epoch of time denoting the end
of the 26,000-year cycle called the precession of the equinox.
Based on the geometry of this precessional cycle ‘Journey
home through the constellations’ is a holographic performance
depicting the passing of time on a cosmological scale. The creation
of the world was mythologically seen as the dance of God, the
circumbulation of the stars and constellations of the planets,
a mirror of the original creation. Re-creating the rhythmic movement
of the celestial symphony, the artist traces the path of the
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MAMAs 2012 Performance Award
Nominees
Analema Group - Eugenia Emets & Mohammad Taha
‘Khaos’ is an interactive visual and sound performance,
in which a dancer creates fractal landscape in real time. It
is aimed to explore the notion of space as field full of potentiality
that can reveal itself through succession of movements in a dance.
The piece deals with hidden laws of fractal mathematics,
complex algorithms and its reflection in human existence being
part many processes in Nature. Using approach of intuitive dance,
the performer moves within a geometric pattern created by oneself,
expanding and unfolding the fractal complexity through motion
by altering the mathematical equation on the fly. Audience cannot
see the changing variables, but can observe the infinite growth
and depth of multi-world of dependant origination. http://analemagroup.wordpress.com/
Empress Stah Power
Empress Stah is an award winning Aerial Artist, Avant Garde
Cabaret Performer and Show Producer. Famed for her provocative
and controversial style of show, Stah has performed for Damien
Hirst & Harvey Nichols, shared the bill with Dita Von Teese
and Cirque Du Soleil, and made guest appearances at The Box in
NYC, La Clique and The Brit Awards. As
an artist working at the intersection of Arts, Culture and Humanities
in Space Exploration, Empress Stah experienced weightlessness
aboard a parabolic flight in 2011. ‘ Wish Upon a Star’ is
discussing weightlessness as live performance. Empress Stah’s
solo show ‘Empress Stah in Space’ is to premier at
Spill Festival in November 2012.
Multimedia artist Fernando Nemoto (VjNeMo) recently graduated
as a MA in Digital Film and Animation from the London Metropolitan
University, he has developed himself in the multimedia medium
producing a variety of pieces from video art to feature films,
being awarded at national festivals in Brazil. He will be producing
audiovisual elements to Stah’s live performance.
Starsky
Starsky works with the medium of projection, a transient
art – entirely dedicated to the moment.
starsky transgresses borders of sub-, pop- and contemporary
cultures; the bandwidth of her work comprises large scale inventions
in the public space, political actions, installations in the
context of art, anarchic live video performances, space inhibiting
live visuals alongside commissioned art performances – the
focus is always on content driven discussions of context and
subject matter. http://starsky-projections.com
United Disciplines
United Disciplines is a international London-based arts
collective bringing together the digital skills of programmers
and VJs with the analogue skills of songwriter, performer, and
pen and paper illustrator to create unique interactive
performances. Within a simple fantasy narrative, this presentation
uses the Musion Eyeliner system to conjure magical effects involving
live illustration, live performance and responsive graphics powered
by vvvv. Our theme is metamorphosis and transition, within which
we play with effects of dramatic transformation visually referencing
children’s fiction, animation and early cinematic effects.
It is set to an original soundtrack with live audio manipulation.
www.uniteddisciplines.co.uk
CREDITS
creative direction: PRICKIMAGE
technical producer: SAPOLAB
illustration: MARTIN WOLLERSTAM
performer: JOEBOT MOTION
music: MATTHEW BLANCE-STEPHANY / MC GAFF E
associate producer: DANIEL STRUTT
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