quasar II

Jader Cartagena & Edwin Vélez / University of Antioquia - EAFIT University

Colombia

A galactic clump in deep space emits radio frequency waves and visible light; The advancement of technical transduction devices has allowed the human being to listen to the interpretation of these waves adapted for his hearing. In this work we explore this radio wave emission and from the sounds captured by NASA probes, the generation of pulses by electroluminescence and the creation of loops, we propose a cosmic journey of acousmatic imagination.

Cuásar tells us about sidereal objects that are millions of light years away, it is the image of the most remote and unfathomable past, it is the light of what we once were and it is the cosmic energy to which we will return. The visual work is a metaphor for the fabulous accumulation of light, which would propose a sum of light from all the images generated by human beings in the world (whose saturation would be assimilated to white noise) and its deconstruction into intermittent pulses, which allow us to freeze time and see how the frames are revealed simulating a zoetrope effect.

From MUSIC–VISUAL to FULLDOME

Ricardo Dal Farra / Concordia University

Argentina – Canada

The presentation “From MUSIC-VISUAL to FULLDOME. (Processes of experimentation, research and creation, between art, science and new technologies)” includes examples from both the history and current production of visual-music. It covers the work of artists, and the development of technologies, carried out by creators-researchers from Russia, Canada, Argentina, Colombia, the United States, Australia, Brazil, and Mexico, among others. Special attention is given to the work that has been carried out in the FULLDOME format, and that intertwines art, science and technology, whose expansion occurs notably through Planetariums in America and Europe.

reconciliation stories

Calos Santa & Rubén Monroy / Caldas Symphony Orchestra

Colombia

Reconciliation Stories is a transmedia project that interprets the stories of some victims of violence in Colombia. In its realization we have had the support and work of hundreds of artists -animators, musicians and researchers-, with whom we have built a 90-minute animated feature film using different techniques, directed by Carlos Santa and Rubén Monroy.

The soundtrack of Reconciliation Stories was composed by maestro Fabio Miguel Fuentes, performed by the Symphony Orchestra of the University of Caldas and conducted by maestro Leonardo Marulanda.

The web page that contains the interviews, related data as a complement to a transmedia narrative and an invitation to other artists to contribute their interpretation.

Reconciliation Stories has also been a comprehensive research project, whose purpose is for young talents to explore different techniques and narratives. The theme on which we have built has allowed our team to generate a closer relationship with what war, peace, reconciliation and violence mean for Colombia. Their contribution has been commitment to the protagonists of the stories, respect by their look and their conscience in front of their role as political subjects.

At the Image Festival you will be able to appreciate the live show of the Symphony Orchestra in dialogue with the animated stories. A dialogue and a catharsis in which art serves as a means for the construction of historical memory and symbolic repair.