First international symposium of abstract art in motion
May 7–10 2015
La Casa Encendida
Ronda de Valencia, 2
28012, Madrid
Spain
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Punto y Raya Academy is the first international symposium devoted to abstract art in motion, featuring an intensive series of Master classes complemented with monographic screenings, roundtables and live audiovisual concerts (PyRformances) by deluxe guest artists. Guest speakers include figures such as Chris Casady (USA), Bret Battey (UK), Robert Seidel (Germany), Józef Robakowski (Poland), Johan Rijmpa (Netherlands) and Steven Woloshen (Canada), to name a few.
Co-produced by MAD founders of Punto y Raya Festival, La Casa Encendida, and with the support of international universities and institutions, Academy approaches the realms of contemporary avant-garde film and animation, as well as the latest techniques applied to the creation of abstract live performance, new media and installation.
In its eight years of trajectory, Punto y Raya Festival has been consolidated as the world reference in abstract film, animation and visual music. All the information regarding their previous and upcoming editions can be found here.
All activities are in English with simultaneous Spanish translation.
Master classes
Calling once again for Pure Film
Józef Robakowski (Poland)
One of the major figures of the neo-avantgarde movement in the ’60s and ’70s, Robakowski will discuss his personal work as a fine artist, experimental filmmaker and theoretician.
Capturing the spirit of Abstraction
Marcin Giżycki (Poland)
Do we really know what abstraction is? We’ll seek to find out how the speaker’s own academic research has influenced his own film experiments and vice versa.
Chaos & Order
Barbara Doser & Hofstetter Kurt (Austria)
Parallel Media will discuss the intrinsic relationship between sound and imagery using video feedback and “Möbius Sounds.”
Curious Methods; the state of affairs
Johan Rijpma (Netherlands)
Rijpma will discuss his abstract works, his understanding of nature and its relationship to the artistic act, and the techniques he developed to illustrate several concepts in the realms of complexity and chaos & emergency, amongst others.
From Frequency to Image.
Creating Visual Music with voltage-controlled video synthesis
Paul O’Donoghue_Ocusonic (Ireland)
Exploring a broad collection of methods and techniques for the creation of visual music, Ocusonic will introduce us to the concept of video synthesis and to some of his fascinating devices.
Hand-Drawn Musical Visualizations
Chris Casady (USA)
Casady explores the visceral effects created in our brains when the abstraction of music is married to an equally abstract kinetic visual creating multisensory temporal landscape.
Malevich reanimated
Sabrina Schmid (UK)
In the hundredth anniversary of Kazmir Malevich’s Black Square, Schmid discusses the discernable influence of this groundbreaking painting in the realm of experimental film and animation.
On Film between Painting and Sculpture
Robert Seidel (Germany)
Seidel dissolves boundaries of genre by extending the clarity of the drawing—through the flow of painting, the spatiality of sculpture and temporal elements—into an abstract-film narrative.
Recipes for Reconstruction.
Abstracting Visual Music from Real Life
Steven Woloshen (Canada)
Woloshen will introduce a variety of simple artistic strategies to create new experimental, abstract visions with decay and damaged film.
See what you hear
Oerd van Cuijlenborg (France)
The imagery in Van Cuijlenborg’s amazing short films explores colour, form and gesture as they’re influenced by the rhythm, intensity and feel of different music styles.
The Abstract Character
Matt Abbiss (UK)
Abbiss will discuss what led him from character animation into abstraction; how that relates to animation principles, and the important role of spontaneity in his work.
The multimedia work of Gnomalab
Juanjo Fernández (Spain)
Gnomalab will introduce us in his research in the realm of abstract visual arts, and how he chooses the appropriate format and technology according to the original concept.
Wayfinding, Algorithm, Impermanence
Bret Battey (UK)
Battey will present some of the aesthetic and technical approaches applied in his audiovisual works over the last decade.
Round tables
Abstraction, Science, Art & Nature, moderated by MAD
Abstract Live Cinema, Installation and Interactivity, moderated by Kike Ramírez
Abstract Film & Animation in contemporary society, moderated by MAD
PyRformances
Chasing Waves by Ocusonic (Ireland)
Gnomalab + Loppkio LIVE (Spain)
The Mechanical Afterlife by Steven Woloshen (Canada) & Gnomalab (Spain)
Tickets
Full pass: 40 euro
Daily pass: 12 euro
Masterclass: 3 euro
PyRformance: 5 euro
Roundtables free with admission
Tickets are available for purchase here.
