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Art in the Air, Best of 2011

The Best Of  selections have been made for the 2011 Art in the Air season. Congratulations to the three individuals who will receive a $1000 honorarium for their participation in the Art in the Air program. More information on the program:

Dancers – James Simpson is currently an undergrad student in the Multimedia department at University of the Arts.  He began playing with video and image editing software at the age of 13 and has been obsessed with its possibilities since.  The main influence in his body of work comes from both the animation and design worlds.  James is very interested in merging analogue and digital techniques in his pieces in order to achieve a more personal and unique quality.  He plans to pursue a career as a motion designer while continuing to explore new ideas as a video artist.

“The Green and Growing City” was created by Timothy Wingert specifically for the PECO Crown Lights as an animation reflecting both the life and energy of the city as well as Philadelphia’s leading role in making urban areas “green” and artistically integrated into their natural surroundings. This 30-second animation of nature’s growth and life cycles seen on top of one of the city’s prominent structures represents what William Penn’s idea of a “greene country town” is all about! Tim works as a video editor and event staging technician for IMS Audio Visual, based in Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania. He earned a B.A. degree in Mass Communications from York College of Pennsylvania and is also an award-winning photographer, with his most recent work appearing in the 2011 Mid-Atlantic AAA World Photo Competition. He routinely provides live visual performances for drum’n'bass & dubstep events for 717 Productions and Otakon, the largest Anime convention in the Eastern United States. Tim currently resides in West Chester, PA.

Color Philadelphia – Peter Eyrich is a senior at Drexel University studying Graphic Design in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. His passion for design stems from an early appreciation of the arts that he gained from growing up in Philadelphia; a city rich in both  it’s art and history. His motion project “Color Philadelphia” celebrates the joy of simple art, with a nod to some of the more iconic elements of Philadelphia, and city life in general. Outside of design, Peter enjoys rowing, surfing, traveling, and photography.

September 3, 2011

Christopher P. McManus is a self-taught video-maker and creator of Hair and Diamonds. Hair and Diamonds is Christopher’s body of video work where he experiments with puppets, animation, and video. Christopher is a member of Vox Populi Artist Collective. He is an adjunct faculty member at Moore College of Art and Design, teaching animation and electronic media art history. Christopher holds degrees from Yale University and Georgetown University. He lives with his wife in Philadelphia, PA.

James Simpson is currently an undergrad student in the Multimedia department at University of the Arts (Philadelphia).  He began playing with video and image editing software at the age of 13 and has been obsessed with its possibilities since.  The main influence in his body of work comes from both the animation and design worlds.  James is very interested in merging analogue and digital techniques in his pieces in order to achieve a more personal and unique quality.  He plans to pursue a career as a motion designer while continuing to explore new ideas as a video artist.

Dancers from James Simpson on Vimeo.

“The Green and Growing City” was created by Timothy Wingert specifically for the PECO Crown Lights as an animation reflecting both the life and energy of the city as well as Philadelphia’s leading role in making urban areas “green” and artistically integrated into their natural surroundings. This 30-second animation of nature’s growth and life cycles seen on top of one of the city’s prominent structures represents what William Penn’s idea of a “greene country town” is all about! Tim works as a video editor and event staging technician for IMS Audio Visual, based in Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania. He earned a B.A. degree in Mass Communications from York College of Pennsylvania and is also an award-winning photographer, with his most recent work appearing in the 2011 Mid-Atlantic AAA World Photo Competition. He routinely provides live visual performances for drum’n'bass & dubstep events for 717 Productions and Otakon, the largest Anime convention in the Eastern United States. Tim currently resides in West Chester, PA.

2010

December 3, 2010

 

The December 2010 Art in the Air program will feature animated videos created by public school teacher, Shawna Marchica and her Commercial and Advertising Art classes at Communications Technology High School, here in Philadelphia.

CTHS is a career and technical education (vocational) high school, though administrators are quick to say that the school’s mission is “NOT” to prepare children to move from high school to career, but “to prepare them for post-secondary education in order to become responsible leaders in our media driven and culturally diverse society…”

Commercial and Advertising Art students at CTHS design projects on various topics using industry standard software.  Breadboard’s Art in the Air December challenge was one of those design projects. The videos that will be displayed on PECO’s Crown Light Tower (December 5, 2010) were created by twelfth grade students, Angelica Bailey, Shalise Jones, Iyuana Mintz and Maliek Scipio. The students used Adobe Flash to create the animations.

The Commercial and Advertising Art department at CTHS is nationally accredited by PrintEd in Advertising and Design, Digital File Preparation and Introduction to Graphic Communications. The students in the department have competed in numerous competitions including the Technology Student Association (TSA) and in the PA High School Computer Fairs and have won many awards for their creativity and design skills.

The December installment of Art in the Air, featuring the digital animations of Philadelphia high school students is one example of Breadboard’s efforts to develop art and technology programming that inspires students and promotes STEM education at the high school and junior high school level.

November 5, 2010

 

 

Autumn Compilation was created by four students in Josh Gdovin’s Motion Graphics class at Drexel University: Ismail Kolingba, Holly Ranki, Leah Scrope and Gordon Sutherland. Josh Gdovin is an instructor in the Web & Motion Graphics track in the Graphic Design program in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel University. Currently He is teaching Motion Graphics 2, which is the use and study of video or animation technology as it is used to create the illusion of motion or transforming appearances in a digital space.

 

Squares Growing was created by Nancy Herman, a video artist who translates music into color.  Squares Growing was designed specifically for PECO’s Crown Lights tower and is not related to a specific piece of music though the colors are from Herman’s ‘tuned’ palette. Herman has created many music videos and has  written a book describing her method of translating music to color in 2 dimensions. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and resides in Merion, PA.

Economize was created by Gloria Chernyakhovsky, who studied Graphic Design, Illustration and Art Education at Tyler School of Art and Design in Philadelphia. Upon graduating she accepted an education position at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. She returned to Philly to share her discipline with the School District of Philadelphia as a design and technology teacher. Gloria recently completed her Master’s from Moore College of Art and Design in Art Education with an emphasis on special populations. She continues to produce innovative and creative projects that comment on society and pop culture.

October 1, 2010

Push Pull, by William Montgomery

William Montgomery has been painting and drawing all of his life and working with digital output since 1991. He studied in Rome, Italy at Tyler School of Art,  London, England at The Goldsmiths College and The School of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA. He has exhibited extensively in the tri-state area in solo and group exhibitions including Miami, Florida at the Art Basel Red Dot Fair in 2009. Will is a member of the DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA. He currently lives in Wilmington Delaware with his wife Monica. The video “Push Pull” created specially for Art in the Air, represents a time line of color paths, a short assemblage of stills compiled from his extensive body of digital 2D images.

Chrysanthemums and Rain, by Jino Park

Jino Park studied painting at Hongik University in Seoul, Korea, performance art at Ecole Nationale Superieur d’Art Paris – Cergy, and video at Ecole National Superieur des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. Jino’s work is an experimentation in making a multi-layered narrative structure.  The depiction of the dream — a ideal model of the multi-layered narrative structure — has been a primary focus of his. Jino continuously records his own dreams, and then depicts them through many different mediums: video, performance, installation, painting, drawing, sculpture and photo.

Infinity, by Ricardo Rivera

Ricardo Rivera began experimenting with video in 1998 as a live video performer (VJ Kaboom) and installation artist. He is the founder and principal of Klip Collective, a group dedicated to creating large-scale, architecturally-mapped projection installations. He has permanent installations in W Hotels across the country, Kenneth Cole (NYC), China Grill (Chicago), Bistro 33 (Sacramento), and Suzanne Roberts Theatre (Philadelphia), among others. He has done temporary installations at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, the Philadelphia Museum of Art in a tribute to Salvador Dali and at the National Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia, in the group show Temporary Cities.  Rivera showed multiple pieces at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 for the group exhibition, New Frontier.  With his hands in music videos, projection visuals and advertising, Rivera continues to cultivate video projection art as a bridge between architecture, lighting design and filmmaking.

September 3, 2010

Christopher P. McManus is a self-taught filmmaker and creator of Hair and Diamonds. Hair and Diamonds is Christopher’s body of video work where he experiments with puppets, animation, and video. Hair and Diamonds is internationally recognized and has screened in film festivals and museums around the world. Christopher is a member of Vox Populi Artist Collective in Philadelphia, PA and holds degrees from Yale University and Georgetown University. He currently lives in Philadelphia.

Shirley Steele: I divide my time between Philadelphia, PA and Austin, TX. The methods and subject matter of my work (humans and computer technology) come out of my first career as a computer speech scientist. I earned a Ph.D. in Brain and Language from the University of Texas, Dallas. Then I worked as a research scientist in computer speech recognition and speech synthesis at Texas Instruments (Dallas), AT&T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ), and Unisys Corporation (Philadelphia).

At Bell Labs, I became interested in the expressive potential of computers. At the same time, I studied painting and drawing at the Art Students’ League in New York. Later, I left speech research for a career in art and completed the full time 4-year program in painting and printmaking at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

Alex de Boer is an independent motion graphic designer from the Netherlands. Graduated at the Dutch Design Academy in Eindhoven. His work varies from large event videos to corporate business communications for companies like Philips, Schwarzkopf, the Port of Rotterdam and the Dutch government. Alex is currently living in Philadelphia for medical treatment of his daughter at CHOP. The video shown for the Art in the Air is a short graphic story told around three captions that symbolizes their stay here in Philadelphia.

August 6, 2010

Jamie Dillon received a BFA from the Tyler School of Art in 2006. His work has been included in exhibitions at  X-Initiative, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia;  Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia and Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia.

Klip Collective was founded in 2003 by Photographer Pier Nicola D’Amico and video artist Ricardo Rivera. Klip Collective is based in Philadelphia, PA,  Klip’s work varies from permanent commissions to one-night events in both interior spaces and on exterior building facades.

Brian Oakes is an independent animator and educator. Brian earned his MFA from the University of Southern California, School of Cinema-Television. He has taught animation and film at a variety of schools including Rhode Island School of Design in the Department of Film, Animation, and Video. His award-winning animated films have screened at film festivals around the world. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Kean University in Union, New Jersey.

July 4, 2010

Don Miller performs live visuals in real time under the alias NO CARRIER. He works with nearly obsolete repurposed electronics to create high energy low resolution abstract video. Part of the 8bitpeoples artist collective, he performs, exhibits, and lectures worldwide. Miller is based in Philadelphia, where he organizes and curates 8static, a monthly showcase of low-bit music and visuals. Youtube interview with Don Miller. Don Miller @ Ignite Philly

Wil Lindsay is an electronic media artist currently residing in Philadelphia. Lindsay received an MFA in the Integrated Electronic Arts program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and has recently completed a year long artist-in-residency at The Hacktory in Philadelphia. He is currently teaching Interactive Design & Media at Philadelphia University, showing in galleries and performing real-time digital media under the pseudonym VBLANK. Most recently, he is releasing much of his electronic and code work at www.straytechnologies.com as learning tools for up-and-coming multimedia artists. Lindsay’s work focuses on the implications of re-contextualizing dead or forgotten technologies in contemporary culture and is presented through various modalities including installation, imaging, video, music, physical electronics and algorithmic processing. VBLANK live video is created entirely real-time with all source graphics produced directly from small custom circuits, micro-controllers and re-programmed video game systems.

Rachele Riley studied Studio Art at New York University and Communication Design at the Hochschule für Kunst und Design Halle in Germany, before earning her MFA in Design/Visual Communications from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her design work has been published in Motion Design (Rotovision), 100′s Logos and Letterheads (Angela Patchell Books) and in Print Magazine’s 2008 Regional Design Annual. She has presented, exhibited, and screened her multimedia work nationally and internationally: in Dublin, Ireland; Washington, DC; Richmond, VA; Chicago, IL; Toronto and Montréal, Canada; Los Angeles, CA; New Orleans, LA; and on Salto A1 television in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Riley has received grants in support of independent design projects, which focus on the visual representation of violence, its impact on culture and landscape, and its application in design. She has been a resident Artist Fellow at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, and at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Amherst. Before focusing on her teaching and design research, she worked as a graphic designer for the Smithsonian Institution, National Public Radio, the National Park Service, Hallesche Advertising Agency, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Riley is Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA.

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