The Separation Loop @ the Video Vortex XI VV XI from 22-26 February, as a part of the Srishti Outpost, a collateral event of the Kochi-Muzeris biennial, Hotel 18, in Fort Kochi, and the Mill Hall in Mattancherry. The conference & film screeningsThe Separa

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Arya Sukapura Putra
Meta Mata
HD video | 3 minutes | Stereo Sound | 2013
It is a ‘metaphysical sensory
perception’. How the eye
metaphysically blurs out the
boundaries of perception between real-virtual and private-public spheres. The eye systematically invades our neighborhood. It also identifies and records all socio-cultural phenomenon in societies. This video criticizes the notions of psychological terror and the omnipresence of surveillance to our societies.
Artist Bio: Arya Sukapura Putra lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He studied painting at Sanggar Ligar Sari ‘64 Bandung. His creative work began by exploring on many mediums: two-dimensional, three-dimensional, objects, installation and video. His achievements include the following;1st Winner of ‘One Minute Video China Contest 2016’, Shanghai, China, 2016 – Top 10 Videos ‘Façade Video Festival’, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2014 – Top 3 Videos ‘6th Jakarta International Video Festival, National Gallery of Indonesia, 2013

Anna Beata Baranska
Recycle
2013 | HD Video |3:20
The world is an arena of
continuous events, conflicts
and wars. Every day
in every country, we receive an overwhelming amount of information from media. News is often manipulated to serve a specific ideology. TV picture for the average viewer determines current trends. The film is an expression of rebellion against the worthless content that is broadcasted by popular television production companies. Content distribution through television is subjected to intentional manipulations, through consistent audio and video distortion. Disturbances
initially are small but they gradually deform the image by reducing it to the multiplicated center line of RGB pixels in CRT TV, which is accompanied by classic music. Television then becomes an object of audiovisual art. All content is recycled and television broadcast becomes
an abstract image, giving the field to open a multi-faceted interpretation.
Artist Bio: Anna Beata Baranska was born in 1981 in Poland. She studied Painting in the Faculty of Art Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin from 2001 to 2006. Her diploma was awarded the Dean prize. She has been

working at the University since 2016. She was awarded a PhD in Arts. She currently specializes in Painting, Video and Printmaking.
More details available at www.annabeatabaranska.weebly.com
Duncan Poulton
Pygmalion
2016| Single channel digital video |7 minutes
Pygmalion attempts to
address how ancient ideas of
perfection and beauty have
been carried forward into the digital age. In literally moving through, inside and beyond forms of
antiquity, Pygmalion attempts to reconcile the difference between the crafted original object and its weightless, infinitely replicable computer- generated double. Pygmalion contemplates what it is to be a statue – the tragedy of being a still object in a constantly moving world – and
explores the notion that perfection no longer resides in objects themselves, but in the very act of their faultless and permanent duplication.

Artist Bio: Duncan Poulton was born in 1993, Birmingham, UK. He lives and works in Birmingham, UK. Duncan Poulton’s practice could be seen as an expanded form of collage primarily realized through digital video. He observes, deconstructs and reconfigures online content in order to produce works which form new associations between images and their authors’ original context of production. He is interested in the knowing misapplication of established techniques and formal strategies, the productive misinterpretation of existing cultural content. His recent works have centered on an investigation into 3D modelling and computer- generated imagery. His works center around specific sub-genres of content and aim to comment upon the nature of appropriation in the digital age, particularly the practice, history and meaning of copying in a simulated world. Though each work is discrete and self-contained within its own internal logic, they all share a concern with mythology and art history and maintain a reflexive relationship to their medium. Going forward Duncan is interested in the conflict between the increasingly virtual world we live in and the human condition with its inescapable emotions, neuroses and traditions.
Christin Bolewski
“Shizen”
2015, experimental video, HDV, color, stereo, 7:16
Christin Bolewskiʼs ʻShizenʼ draws upon tradition and contemporary video making techniques. The video unravels in the traditional Japanese scroll format while reflecting on the conflicting relationship between tradition and technological progress. A poem by the famous Japanese poet Yamabe no Akahito is juxtaposed against nature and the changing technological and cultural landscape of the world. Bolewski ultimately tackles a larger global question and challenge for mankind: to coexist in harmony or to control, master and exploit nature?
Artist Bio: Christin Bolewski is a digital media artist and filmmaker from Germany. She studied at Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany. She exhibits regularly at international media art and film festivals and has taught

media art, film and design practice and theory in Universities in Europe and America.
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Cong Yao
Under the Blue
2015 | Single Video |Colour/Sound | 6:38
Under Blue explores gender
politics through beauty, pleasure,
disgust, danger, violence, the erotic and the artificial, the dance of the brush and the movement of the camera, imparting an uneasy feeling of voyeuristic power to the viewer. Under Blue broadly speaking fits into the performance and body art trend in video art, but its exclusive use of close ups and the effect of not really understanding what we’re looking at. In the work, the fragmented body, body movement, color and textures appear between real and surreal, our attention to those colors and textures is greatly rewarded, even as we understand the context even less.
Artist Bio: Sensitive emotions have always been the driving force behind Yao Cong’s inspiration. He intends to explore the existing modes of gender,

sexuality and identity politics, which replace struggles with tranquility. Through restructuring self-perception and retranslating human feelings, he creates immersive works with hazy, poetic and sharp aesthetics by diverse media such as moving image, physical theatre and installation in constant attempts and explorations. Yao Cong received his BA in Intermedia Art from China Academy of Art in 2014, and his MA in Fine Art from Royal College of Art, London, in 2017
Leyla Rodriguez
The Separation Loop
2015 | 3:56
The separation loop: the
phrase is neither the only
odd thing, nor the only
paradox of the film. It is
emblematic, since the film
overcomes our ways of
being, to see, the status of objects and living creatures. It shapes its territory bringing closer landscapes of different spaces or continents, All fitting in the geography of the island of Argentia, a Przewalski horse with its dense mane, its back covered with a tablecloth instead of a saddle, becomes leitmotiv and rapid scansion, as well as a strange character: a young woman, seen

once already, emerging from a pile of fabrics to unfurl the strange flag of this non-country, of all the countries. The city and its artifacts are being visited, jumping from one to the other without a logical route, if not the one of this being: walls, workshops with fabric dyeing machines, rolls of fabrics protected with plastic or not and a circular slick that keeps coming back. The tablecloth, which the young woman never takes off, is like a huge sombrero, with or without holes for the eyes or with two strange plastic tubes. They become her extravagant skin, whatever her attitudes, the places, the circumstances in the workshop, in the mountain, indoors like outdoors. Under the apparently happy madness, the impulse of the journeys: she doesn’t meet the others, alone, she spins.
Artist Bio: Leyla Rodriguez enrolled at HAW University Hamburg. Her interventions in the public space through temporary textile installations, objects and videos have been exhibited in numerous galleries and shown at film festivals worldwide. She was born in Buenos Aires and currently lives and works in Hamburg/ Germany. Recent exhibitions include MuVIM Museu Valencià de la II-lustració i la Modernitat, Valencia Spain (2015), Peruvian & Nord American Cultural Institue of Cusco, Peru(2014), amongst many others. She was the recipient of The Kraft New Media Prize in 2011.
Jillian Myers
#PostModem
2013 | HD Video |14:30
#PostModem is a comedic,
satirical sci-fi musical based on
the theories of Ray Kurzweil
and other futurists. It’s the story of two Miami girls and how they deal with the technological singularity, as told through a series of cinematic tweets.
Artist Bio: Jillian Mayer (born December 21, 1986) is a visual performance artist and filmmaker based in Florida. Mayer’s video works and performances have been displayed at galleries and museums internationally and film festivals such as SXSW and Sundance. She was recently featured in Art Papers and in ArtNews discussing identity, Internet and her artistic practices and influences.Mayer is the front woman for #PostModem, a performance collaborative that makes meta-pop music based in art/web theory. Their original songs will be used in a feature-length musical film that Mayer is writing, directing and producing in collaboration with Lucas Leyva. The satirical film takes place in the future and tackles digital identity and net neutrality. The film extends to software apps, poetry, installations and Internet experiences.

Vasco Diogo
May I Dance?
2010 | HD | 3:55
‘May I dance ?’ is a short
video-dance piece based on
the recording of ordinary
movements that were not
previously rehearsed nor based on an existing music. The impossible choreography was constructed by a multi-track chroma editing process, fragmenting the performer’s identity. It is influenced by noise, punk, hip-hop, glam disco and a desire to experiment with an aesthetics of failure. It is intended to be shown both as an installation and a single channel experimental film.
Artist Bio: Born in 1970 in Lisbon, Vasco Diogo is an Experimental Director, Performer and Video Artist. He is an assistant professor of New Media and Cinema at The University of Beira Interior (Covilhã-Portugal). He has a PhD in Communication Sciences from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He has a Degree in Sociology and Master Degree in Social Sciences: aesthetics and ideology in Portuguese Cinema. Vasco is a former actor and co-creator at Projecto Teatral – Acarte/Maria Madalena Azeredo Perdigão Award, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2003 .Since 2000 he has produced experimental single channel videos, multimedia performances and video

installations shown at several galleries, exhibitions, theatres and international festivals in Portugal, France, Germany, USA, Netherlands, Belgium, Serbia, Canada, Brazil, India, Poland, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Israel and Cyprus.His other areas of work include drawing, photography, poetry, electro-acoustic music, mixed media.
Giovanni Salice
NanoSound
Single Channel Video| 720p |6:19
The video is a collection of
images that have been
discovered in 2013 at the
Center for Functional Nanomaterials – Oak Ridge. They appear for the first time on the screen and show nanostructures that have never been seen before. However, the widest physical manifestation of these processes is still so small that it can only be described by using data. In order to make even the smallest parts/deepest layer of the matter comprehensible, the data has been transformed into sound by the process of sonification.

Artist Bio: Bio-Giovanni Salice (IT) is an Italian artist/musician working in the field of sonic-media. He holds a degree in classical oboe. After this education, he studied electronic music and visual arts and, through the years, he increased his interest into film and installation art. He is currently working on microscopic sounds, Artificial Intelligence and field-recording.
Katya Yakubov
Maps to the In-Between
2015 | HD video |07:23
A mining of a digital space finds characters and forms in dialogue, and a playful hint of narrative
begins to emerge in this
twice-appropriated
landscape. Eventually, the great Apparition lets it all fall down.
Artist Bio: Katya Yakubov is a
Russian-born filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2009 and served as a research and assistant curator for the Video Art and Experimental Film Festival (2012-2013), and continues to contribute as a curator there today. In February 2014, she and

partner Daniel Hess opened a micro-cinema in Brooklyn, NY, called The Picture Show, dedicated to screening experimental and fine art films.
Elia Vargas
Signal Works
9:10
Signal Works is a single
channel video and musical
composition exploring
repetition in analog and
digital bodies. Working
through habitual gestures
and flows, Signal Works
concerns itself with the production of meaning that emerges from the representation of repeated movement and embodiment. How do pixels and particles flow through different spaces? What happens when common movement breaks down and common meaning disappears? How do these processes relate through digital and analog space? How can water be used as a tool to think through material information flows? Additionally, Signal Works is a platform for video signal exhibition, featuring the work of artists

working with signal, including: transmedia composer and artist, Andrew Blanton, sourceless video artist, Andy Puls, composer and net artist, Gavin Gamboa, and cellular biologist, Breanne Sparta.
Artist Bio: Elia Vargas is an Oakland based artist and curator. He works in video, sound, projection, and situational experiences that explore information embodiment. He has collaborated with a wide range of artists and musicians including Bjork and Vincent Moon. He performs and exhibits work locally and internationally. Vargas is co-founder and co-curator of the Living Room Light Exchange, a monthly salon on new media art and digital culture; half of improvisational modular synthesis duo system ritual; board member of Mediate Art Group, organizer of the Soundwave Biennial; and a PhD student in Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. Vargas has a long history of community radio broadcasting and is interested in the relationship of transmission and cultural material flows. He is currently investigating the materiality of crude oil, frozen carbon dioxide, and obsolete projection technology in relationship to human time scales, temporalities, and flows.
Florine Mougel
Fernweh
Animation video|45 mins
Made out of personal archive pictures and accidental encounters, the film shuttles between wanderlust and homesick, up and down, in and out, or was it the opposite? Itʼs a passengerʼs smooth poetry on human desire and confusion. Itʼs a composite of residual experiences, a tale of travelers, beyond space and even further. The sharp black and white collage aesthetic refers to
silent surrealistic films. But the digital image composed with the use of a computer, is pixelated, incarcerated roughly. The sound performance accompanying the visual part is another layer. The complete film emerges only during its creation process, its hybridation.
Artist bio: Florine Mougul is a visual artist based in France. She studied cinema in Paris and fine art at the School of Art and Design of Marseille
where she develops her researches on the poetic of networks and technologies. She composes art drawing inspiration from situations, people, empty rhetoric, smudged words and feelings.
Zlatko Cosic
CCTV East
2010|video| 3:00
Only the Chimney Stays
2010| video| 5:30
CCTV East (Close Circuit TV East) touches themes of freedom, surveillance and privacy. The holes in the Berlin Wall serve as camera views that switch through eight different angles, looking from the west to the east part of Berlin. As the views change, a girl in a red jacket appears, passing by, stopping and looking at the viewer. She is an ordinary person who wants to

escape and change her life. The uneasiness of surveillance and loss of privacy makes people vulnerable and empty. This work focuses on individuals, whose freedom is affected by government decisions and political games.Fifteen years after the war ended, the artist felt it was time to address the past. As the result of the war, he had lost his Yugoslavian identity and had refused to follow others in choosing national and religious affiliations, which were only worsening the conflict. The neutral position he chose partially inspired the work Only The Chimney Stays. The fragmentation of the visuals and sounds are reflections of the displacement of people, experiences and the way we processes memories. The poetic narrative is the recollection of his personal experience and the effects of not belonging here or there. Mixed with uneasy memories is a simple beauty, which moves him forward to fully enjoy life but still be aware of the issues that surround us.
Artist bio: Zlatko cosic is a video artist from Yugoslavia whose work spans from short films, video, and sound installations to theater projections and live audio-visual performances. The themes of his work relate mostly to issues of identity, immigration, and the complexity of living in a new environment, concentrating on the necessity to embrace cultural differences and establish dialogue among people.
Ruben Van & Christina Cochior
Eye without a face
2016 | Single Projection |11:32
Whether the video frames are
ordered by time or by emotion
will not make a difference to a
computer. For it, both
orderings are just as logical. However, for the human spectator the reordered display of frames becomes a disruptive process. In Eye Without A Face, the human is positioned as a required agent for meaning making in an algorithmic procedure. Cristina Cochior and Ruben van de Ven went manually through the Eye’s public collection, and catalogued faces by surrendering them to an emotion detection algorithm. Cutting from one face to another, its uncritical selection produced a new portrait of emotional gradients moving in-between anger and happiness.
Artist bio: Cristina Cochior (RO/NL) is a researcher and designer working in the Netherlands. With an interest in automation practices,

disruption of the interface and peer to machine knowledge production, her practice consists of research investigations into knowledge sharing and bureaucratic systems. Having recently graduated from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, she is currently examining ecologies of algorithmic workers on digital platforms. Combining his backgrounds in filmmaking, programming and media design, Ruben van de Ven (NL) challenges alleged objective practices. He is intrigued by the intersection of highly cognitive procedures and ambiguous experiences. He graduated at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam where he started his investigation into computational quantification and categorisation of emotions. Recent works on this topic include the algorithmic video work Choose How You Feel; You Have Seven Options as well as the video-game-artwork Emotion Hero.
Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor
Gagarin’s tree 2016 | Film | 22:50

The film is a video interview with philosopher Ovidiu Tichindeleanu who engages with issues of space with issues of space exploration,
imagination and propaganda in the socialist utopia, the post-communist condition as liberal colonisation, linked ‒ Ovidiuproposes ‒ to other sites
of decolonisation through a new historical consciousness
The protagonist’s reflection departs from the unstable nature of today’s ruins: these are the ruinous future of different pasts, of different messianisms, or modes of conceiving the notion of historical destination in the last decades. Ovidiu’s analysis revolves around the reciprocal construction of pasts and futures, ideas of renewal or historical horizon, temporal or spatial ‘elsewheres’. The backdrop for the conversation the film proposes is the Gagarin Youth Centre, in Chisinau, Moldavia, where most of the footage was filmed. Now deserted, and waiting to be replaced by a construction more adapted to today’s oligarchic liberalism, the building reads like a palimpsest of unrealized historical projections, perhaps captured in the large mosaic of outer space labor: a worker ploughing the universe.
Artist bio: Mona and Florin work together since 2000 on various art works. They have exhibited their works at various Biennales, art forums and International exhibitions. They have also presented at many solo exhibitions. They are presenting their video Gagarin’s tree at Video vortex XI.
Julian Scordato
Vision II
2012 |Audio-Visual | 7:00
Vision II blends elements –
including two graphic scores
by Robert Moran and the
soundscape of the city of Venice – which came together accidentally, as objects of a dream and a vision. Not the vision of the world (i.e. the cosmology of positive and negative), but the counterpoint between appearance and anatomy of the image in its sound quality. The visual part determines the sound design aspects: it generates and controls the sound, integrating the particularity of the instant and the contingent.
Artist Bio: Julian Scordato is a multimedia artist from Italy. As an author and speaker, Scordato has presented results related to interactive performance systems and algorithmic composition in the context of conferences and seminars. His award-winning electroacoustic and audiovisual works have been performed and exhibited internationally in over 100 festivals and institutions including Venice Biennale, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Centre de Cultura

Contemporània de Barcelona, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.
Lohit Grover
STVq TrEm
2015| Video | 7:14
The film explores the term
juxtaposition and the
chance occurrences in all the 3 mediums. It tries to link the existential with the arbitrary seen through various lenses ranging from poetry, to porn, to the random musings of philosophers on philosophies and other philosophers, to devilish innate character of human beings as expressed in the world of wrestling entertainment. This experimental short has 4 parallel storylines and the 3 mediums (subtitles, audio and video) to communicate the narrative to the audience have been
jumbled-up and played with. It can be called as an exercise in the non- narrative cinema but if u look, hear, and read closely u will see some connection between the 4 storylines and it will help you to formulate your own narrative.
Artist Bio: Lohit Grover is a video editor/ filmmaker living in Bombay.
Mikio Saito
Stripes to stripes Single Channel Video | 8:14
Concept note: The ancestors
of cinema (optical toys, early
projection devices, and visual
research at the pre-cinema time) had simple but indispensable factors for today’s visual devices, and they are magical and mysterious ,though we are very used to seeing motion pictures. Constant repetitive motion of stripes are under the basic concept of recreating a sense of primitive motion pictures. Repetitive motion itself were one of the important factors in moving image since pre-cinema time, for example, optical toy Thaumatrope which has two pictures appeared
to combine into a single image due to persistence of vision. And the
horse’s sequential photographs shot by English photographer
E.Muybridge with multiple cameras are one of the earliest motion pictures with loop structure. As for the film viewer Kinetoscope of Thomas Edison, the machine itself was the loop structure. I tried to produce the characteristic movement of analog sort of way, and reproduce the illusion which moving image have originally had at the
pre-cinema time.

Artist bio: Mikio Saito is a Sapporo-based visual artist. He graduated from the University of Waseda, Tokyo, Japan in 2000 and Städelschule, Frankfurt, Germany in 2007 and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree. He works mostly with video installation combining hand-drawn animation, photographed images and computer graphics, all in a highly individual way. He regularly exhibits works across the world.
Milan Zulic
The circle of life
Video
In his video work, The circle of
life Zulic tries to establish his
relationship with his ancestors. He scans and digitizes one of his grandmother’s laces to move them in a line forming a new lace created technologically. It is a story of Zulic’s contact with his ancestors, and the circle of life of each of us.
Artist bio: Milan Zulic is an award winning multimedia artist from Sombor in Serbia. He has presented his paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos and extended media in 31 solo exhibitions and more than 150 collectives in places liked Zurich, Warsaw, Barcelona,

Cairo and more over the last 25 years
Emma Charles
White mountain
Video|16mm transferred to HD video| 20:30
White Mountain is a 16mm docu-fiction film is set primarily in the Pionen data center, a former Cold War-era civil defence bunker in Stockholm redesigned in 2008 by architect Albert France-Lanord as a data center to house servers for clients, which at one point included Wikileaks and The Pirate Bay. White Mountain uncovers the varying forms of temporality brought about through an exploration of data
space and geology. Gathering vibrational and electromagnetic sound from the rock face above the data center as well as deep inside the server room itself, a soundscape has been created both revealing and processing the reverberations of the hidden environment.
Artist bio: Emma Charles is a London-based artist. Working with photography and moving image, her practice explores the way contemporary value systems of time, productivity and labour are altered through technological progress. Recently Emma has situated

her research towards the materiality of the Internet, going beneath the urban veneer to uncover the hidden infrastructures within our technologically driven modern life. Emma holds a MA in Photography from Royal College of Art. She has exhibited and screened at Jerwood Visual Arts, London; Serpentine Galleries, London; ZKM, Karlsruhe; HKW, Berlin; Jeu de Paume, Paris, LUX and ICA, London and is the recipient of a 2016 Arts Council England award, ZKM commission and has been published in ‘Reset Modernity!’ edited by Bruno Latour (MIT Press).