VORTICE 2017, 3rd Experimental Video Laboratory
Vórtice is an experimental video laboratory aimed at filmmakers interested in deepening and expanding their artistic possibilities in the audiovisual field. For this 3rd version, two meetings were organized, one in Colliguay in August and the other in Chiloé during September 2017, where the participants had the opportunity to work on their projects and creative processes in a natural environment, together with other outstanding artists and specialists in this field. video branch.
In each period, different themes and approaches were addressed. The first took place from August 5 to 13 in Colliguay, V Region, and had as its line of work "The body and symbols within the experimental video", while the second period was in Chiloé, from September 9 to 17. , and worked around "The pulse, animated materials and ways of projecting the work."
Vórtice received nearly 40 participants from different parts of the world to participate in its laboratories, which featured workshops, personalized advice, viewing of works, and individual and collective work days in which attendees could think and develop their visual arguments, treatments aesthetics and coherence of the production stages.
This meeting between experimental video artists sought, as in previous years, to promote the connection of professional networks between filmmakers from different disciplines and interests, expanding their references, tools and knowledge around video art, generating creative and productive alliances.
The experimental video laboratory Vórtice was financed by the Audiovisual Fund of the CNCA, call 2017 and organized by INVE, Experimental Arts Platform.
Vortex Laboratories 2017
The body and the symbols within the experimental video.
Videodance, video performance and art direction tools as experimental zones.
August 5 to 13, 2017, Colliguay, Valparaíso, Chile.
The pulse, the animated materials and ways of projecting the work.
Practical processes in experimental animation, mapping and video clips.
September 9 to 17, 2017, Castro, Chiloé, Chile.
SELECTED THE BODY AND THE SYMBOLS WITHIN THE EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO
Loreto Carrasco
Osorno. Chile
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Graduated in Visual Arts, she participated in the residency "Against Time", an activity developed jointly with the FIC Valdivia in October 2016, together with María Paz Basso (photographer) they develop the project "Relente Colectivo" seeking to develop concerns about image issues - landscape- gender and identity.
Javiera Véliz Fajardo
Copiapó, Chile
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He studied baccalaureate in Plastic Arts and Cinema in Chile.
Founder of the independent production company “Pocilga”. She has produced works in cinema, studied color appreciation at EICTV, in Cuba, and cinematography at ESCAC, Spain. She is currently in post production on her first film as a director.
Cristina Daza
Santiago, Chile
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Self-taught artist. He has participated in photography, narrative and children's illustration workshops. He has worked on video clips for Camila Moreno, Andrea Velasco, Jim Hast. He has been experimenting with analog and digital photography since 2010. He is currently working on his first work, a documentary that portrays the search for his Diaguita ancestors in northern Chile.
Paula Santos
Brasil
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She studied Social Communication in Belo Horizonte (Brazil), where she was a member of the Poetics of Experience film research group. She is the creator of Tauma – art, audiovisual and post-production lab, together with Lucas Sander, with whom she directed the experimental short film Caja de Pandora, screened at national and international festivals. She is currently in the editing phase of her new short film Sala de Espera, awarded at the 7th edition of the Edital Filme em Minas.
Constanza Gazmuri Lyon
Santiago, Chile
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Bachelor of Arts and minor in aesthetics of photography at the Catholic University of Chile; Master in cinematographic artistic direction at the Film and Audiovisual School of Catalonia, Spain.
He has been part of individual and collective exhibitions, among which stand out at a national level: Espacios Extremos, part of the 11th Biennial of Media Arts and Displacements, an individual exhibition at the Isabel Aninat Gallery. Currently, his research revolves around the landscape; from where he generates images that refer to concepts such as emptiness, the invisible and the uncertain; problems related to the perception of space.
Bárbara Trejo Cruz
Valparaíso, Chile
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Graduated in Audiovisual Communicator in 2009 at Duoc UC. She has participated in various videodance and experimental workshops and laboratories in Chile and Argentina. He has made and co-made audiovisual and photographic works linked to the body, such as the videodance “Dulcemente” in 2012, “Abraza” in 2015, “Shadow exercise or this is me too” in 2015, the photography and illustration series "Body and Wall".
Roberta Santos Nascimento
São Paulo, Brasil
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Actress and performer. Bachelor of Performing Arts from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Her works move between the body / dance / theater / performance / installation / video art. Her research is guided by the exploration of the limits of the body, in topics related to the expansion of space-time and the use of psychophysical exhaustion as a tool to address the problems that afflict her, such as the dictatorship of beauty, pedophilia and inertia. Social.
Aluminé Saléss General Roca
Rio Negro, Argentina
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At the age of 6, she began her studies in contemporary dance. When she was 17 years old, she finished her training in dance at the Experimental School of Contemporary Dance in Neuquén and she moved to Buenos Aires to continue her studies in Photography.
In March 2017, he received his degree as a colorist for cinema and made the color of 'Elegías Diurnas', by Felipe Bozzani, a poetic-audiovisual project. He is currently working on the filming of his first dance video.
Magali Ayala
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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In 2016 he graduated from the CIEVYC Cinema faculty, with a specialization in Film Direction. Her final thesis, “Contacto”, obtained a first mention at the EPA Cine festival, and she continues to shoot at festivals.
The interest in the portrait of reality and creative films led her to work with documentaries as the main tool of expression. She is currently working on the post-production of her first documentary feature film.
Dana Lima
Mendoza, Argentina
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Bachelor of Letters. In 2010, she won a scholarship to participate in a poetry workshop given by the poet Diana Bellesi. She participates in poetry festivals and reading cycles. She has published two collections of poems, one in a Plaquette format in Buenos Aires in 2013 and currently in August she releases my second collection of poems in Valparaíso. She writes dramaturgy and is interested in the audiovisual as a poetic composition without using the word.
Dana Albicker Mendiola
Puebla, México
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He has training in photography and documentary film. She is a beneficiary of the IMACP 2017 Artistic Innovation Scholarship. She has exhibited her photographic work in different venues in Mexico. Her work in cinema has been an official selection at various festivals. She works on participatory photography projects with communities at risk and is co-founder of Cine para Imaginar, a project that adapts audiovisual material for people with sensory disabilities.
Martín Velasco González
Santiago, Chile
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6 years ago he started dancing breakdance and at the same time he started a search in the audiovisual field. Together with her brother, she founded the audiovisual project Conejo clips, through which they make urban and contemporary dance videos. She directed “Metastasis” a dance play that premiered this year. At this moment she works in the articulation of an experimental dance group that fuses breakdance and contemporary dance with other artistic expressions.
Laura Juliana Ramirez
Querétaro, México
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Editor, cameraman and director. She is dedicated to the creation of documentaries focused on gender issues, among the projects she has carried out are "Las hijas de violencion" and the documentary "Bonita" that portrays the perception of beauty of four girls between 6 and 14 years old, for the which was benefited with a scholarship for its creation in the state of Querétaro.
Sofía Castro
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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He studied art direction at the Universidad del Cine. She has participated in creative writing, screenwriting and visual arts workshops in search of that combination of the two areas. she is interested in semiotics and experimentation with language. She is currently in the process of making a short film.
Isabel Cristina Torres
Cali, Colombia
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Film and television producer, with an emphasis on film and documentary production, graduated from the National University of Colombia, Bogotá. She received a scholarship in the Cinescope training program in Ibermedia film production. She has worked in more than 10 fiction feature films. About 3 years ago, she created her independent production company, through which she seeks to make experimental fiction short films and essay documentaries, in addition to working on her own film projects.
Mónica Fritis
Copiapó, Chile
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Bachelor of Art at the University of Playa Anch. She completed a diploma in Dramatherapy at the University of Chile and studied Theater Acting at the University of Valparaíso. She directed a short film in 2015 and a video clip. Now I am working with a friend on a video dance project, in which the element of water is the starting point for relating to the body, which is also water.
Lionel Cruet
Nueva York, USA
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he lives and works in New York. In 2013 he received the prize of the Juan Downey contest of the 11th Bienal de Artes Mediales, Santiago de Chile. The numerous exhibitions he has been in include SuperReal: Alternative Realities in Photography and Video at El Museo del Barrio in New York, Colonial Comfort at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, and Sound Art Fair at Salsa de las Artes, Universidad de Sagrado. Heart in Puerto Rico, among others.
SELECTED THE PULSE, THE ANIMATED MATERIALS AND WAYS OF PROJECTING THE WORK
Ayra Lillo
Villa Alemana, Chile.
Graduated in plastic arts from the University of Chile (2012 – 2015), she has been trained in experimental painting, experimental video, installation and 2D animation.
In his artistic practice he seeks to develop “a discursive relationship through places of human transcendence, such as spaces of coexistence or milestones that differentiate one place from another. The registry of the landscape and others (such as performances) that refer to this human existence in these landscapes (caves, bars, churches, streets, etc). As a tool to talk about the representation of reality or escape from it (in the possibility of creating an anachronistic or absurd narrative).
Paula Alejandra Garzón
Bogotá, Colombia.
Arts student with a mention in plastic arts and audiovisual media at the Universidad de los Andes. She works around drawing, performance, stop motion, rotoscopy and audiovisual installation. He is currently working on a project where he combines poetry and theater performance, without separating him from the media of mapping and animation.
José Luis Marcos Silva
Puerto Aysén, Chile.
Graduated in Visual Arts mention Engraving from the Universidad Austral de Chile. Specialized in media arts, he has developed experimentation between sound art, mapping and specific installations, forming part of the exhibitions "Rayenko"(2013), "Extramuros"(2013), "Emergencia"(2014), "Ciudad H"( 2015), “Valdivia Project: I can never forget you” (2016), and Chile limits the center (2017), among others.
His most recent research focuses on the problems of everyday living and the ability of an individual to effectively influence the construction of the contemporary city.
Natalia Cabrera
Iquique, Chile.
Filmmaker and media artist, with film studies at the University of Chile. She made the experimental short “Hello from Santiago” together with Tomás Vicuña and Catalina Donoso, winning the Short Short contest, exhibiting the work at Expo Shanghai 2010 in China. In 2012 she made the photo of the documentary "Memorias del Viento" by Katherina Harder, winning Best School Short Film at FicValdivia XVIII. Natalia recently completed her Master's degree in ITP from NYU thanks to Becas Chile. For her thesis, she produced “Profiles of the Discarded”, a documentary experience in virtual reality where users can go through a collection of 3D scans of the waste of 3 different people.
Fernanda Pujol
Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
In 2014 he made an exchange to study Film and TV at the National University of Córdoba (UNC). She graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.
In his work, he takes as reference "the sound design and montages of Sergei Eisenstein, Nouvelle Vague, Italian Neorealism, Magical Realism of Latin American literature, the fantasies of Jan Svankmajer, the sarcasm of Quentin Tarantino, the storytelling style of José Saramago and the creative freedom and rebellion of Glauber Rocha.”
Diego Peña Pando
Canelones, Uruguay.
Graduated in Plastic and Visual Arts (UDELAR), I am interested in approaching different languages such as video, photography, literature and sound as expressive vehicles.
I have participated in the courses Modes of curing the moving image, by Antoni Pinent, Cinematographic Photography, with Arauco Hernández, Audiovisual Creation in Real Time, with Miguel Grompone, and Photography and Lighting, with Carlos Porro.
He participated in the “”MVD experimental cinema”” festival in 2016, International Videodance Festival Uruguay 2016 and in WEYA (world event of young artist) Nottingham England in 2012.
Andrea González
Santiago, Chile.
Visual Artist and Photographer, graduated in Aesthetics and Philosophy. She has worked in writing, design, assembly, education and cultural mediation. In 2011 she curated Radiographic Bodies at the Museum of Visual Arts, Santiago. In 2014 she obtained a FONDART scholarship to participate in the Difesa della Natura residency, organized by No Lugar – Arte Contemporáneo, Quito. She has exhibited at the Cairo Video Festival (Cairo, 2014), Proceso de Error (Valparaíso, 2014), Proyector (Madrid, 2013), FIVA (Buenos Aires, 2012) and at the MAVI / Minera Escondida award (Santiago, 2011). . Through photography, video and installation, her work establishes the intersection of reflections on identity, body and territory.
Cristian Amira Contreras
Punta Arenas, Chile
He studied Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso and at the Art Institute (IA) of the same university. She has participated in numerous workshops and made videos in different formats and exploring various techniques such as digital animation, models or digital photography. In 2016 she directed Ficción, her second stop-motion short film, which was awarded as one of the winning works in the National Short Film Contest of the Ministry of Culture in 2016.
Camila Arzola
Santiago, Chile.
Camila Arzola, Visual Artist, Bachelor of Arts from the Arcis University. Under the pseudonym of Cijka she has experimented with the projection of intervened video and audio in real time (collaborating with the ValentinaVillarroel & Cijka project).
From experimentation with different techniques such as textile art, photography and video, engraving and sound, he develops a creative proposal that articulates certain elements as poetic tools. The result has been installations that address the relationship between artisanal procedures and the use of new technologies, whether in plastic, sound-visual or concerts in public and private spaces.
Felix Gustavo Vergara Durán
Quillota, Chile.
Graduated in arts and communication technologies, Audiovisual Communicator with a specialty in cinema, UNIACC. He has specialized in photography direction and post-production, applying techniques such as 360º photography, mapping and photorealistic elaboration of 3d models for VR (Virtual Reality). He worked in the Chilean film industry as a visual effects artist. He was the director of photography for "Good luck don Esteban", awarded in this category at the Fesancor 2015 festival.
Gerardo Tirapegui Flores
Santiago, Chile.
Graduated with a degree in Tourism and Culture from the University of Valparaíso, Postgraduate Diploma in Graphic Production, Video and Photography from the University of Chile. He is currently pursuing a Master's in Media Arts at the University of Chile.
He has participated in academic exhibition spaces and artistic circulation with audiovisual and installation works.
Danila Ilabaca
Santiago, Chile.
Graphic artist, designer and VJ. Graduated in Graphic Design PUCV. Her work revolves around graphic art developing analog and digital techniques. Drawing, collage and stop motion animation are manifested through an imaginary that arises from the play of color, the invention of characters, elements of everyday life and humor.
Between 2013 and 2016, he exhibited his work in various spaces: Las Condes Art Gallery, National Museum of Fine Arts, Perrera, El Farol Gallery, Ch.ACO Fair, Duoc UC, Worm, Residual Microgallery, CCU and CNCA Art Gallery. .
In 2017 he studied calligraphy and drawing in India.
Javiera Yáñez Riquelme
Santiago, Chile.
Degree in Audiovisual Communication at the University of Chile. Explore formats that cross the analog with the digital, from an autobiographical point of view. She experiments with analog video, video feedback, textures, the conventions associated with tape, and magnetic tape in general.
He is working on Lentico, an archive medium-length film about his relationship with his father.
Emilce Avalos
Santa FE, Argentina
He studied bachelor's degree in Visual Arts at the Professor Juan Mantovani school (Santa Fe, Argentina) and the career of Image and Sound Design, at FADU / UBA (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
He made the animated short film El Vuelo de Ati, awarded by the INCAA (National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts). He has specialized in various artistic training spaces in Latin America. Since 2004 he develops teaching tasks linked to art, technology and education.
Estefania Vergara Castillo
Santiago, Chile.
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Director, musician and graduate in education.
She studied cinema at the Universidad Academia Humanismo Cristiano, and at the same time music pedagogy at the Universidad Mayor. Co-founder of the audiovisual production company SURE, with which she made the short film Santalucia.zip, winner of the 10th Valdivia Film Festival. She makes videos in stop motion, making a mixture with linear video recording, she has presented in collective exhibitions and exhibited in international festivals.
She is currently a Master's student in Media Arts at the University of Chile.
Ana Fernández
Santiago, Chile.
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He investigates the possibilities of audiovisual expansion towards fields such as installation, interactivity and technologies. Inquiring into the areas of programming language in processing and development of video mapping and other intersections between art and science. He studied Art and Audiovisual Direction at the Catholic University. He has worked with digital and analog photography, video, animation and installation, short films, series and video clips. She is the art director for Ojos de Linterna (2016), an animated short film that has been screened at various festivals and selected for the Cannes catalog of Cinema Chile 2017. She writes at campocontracampo.cl.
Sebastian Quispe Robles
Lima, Perú.
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He studied sculpture at the Catholic University and developed his learning in traditional animation independently, inspired by the films of George Meliés, the cartoons of Max Fleischer. In 2014 she directed SOPA, a short film made with painted plaster characters on a metal frame and life-size sets.
Art director and main cartoonist in the animated feature CABEZA NEGRA (2015). In 2016 he directed his second stop-motion short film titled FICCION, awarded as one of the winning works in the National Short Film Contest of the Ministry of Culture in 2016.
Marcelo Tirado Flores
Valparaíso, Chile.
Graphic Designer and Photographer from the University of Playa Ancha. He works around photography and graphic art developing analog and digital techniques. He is currently working on a project where he combines graphic design, photography and stop motion design.
