[ISEA2019] Paper: Sara Bonaventura — The Dance Of The Wobbulator

Abstract

Keywords: Experimental, Video Installation, Videodance, Performing Arts, Choreography, Analog, Video Synthesizers, Wobbu-lator, Raster Manipulation Unit, Nam June Paik

Stakra is a choreography for video space that has been processed mainly with a raster manipulation unit also known as wobbulator, first prototyped by Paik/Abe. It is inspired by Nam June Paik’s “Dancing patterns” created during the 60s and his later collabora-tions with Merce Cunningham in the late 70s/80s. The single channel piece is part of a wider choreography for machines, a work in progress, which processing the original choreographic sequence for a solo performer with different combinations of analog video synthesizers, will culminate in an installative ex-panded choreography.

  • Sara Bonaventura is an Italian visual artist currently based in Singapore. As independent videomaker she has been collaborating with performers and musicians, directing clips and adv. Her works have been screened at the Anthology Film Archives, at Other Cinema at San Francisco ATA Gallery, at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Miami New Media Festival, the Los Angeles Echo Park Film Center etc.; she won the Veneto Region Award at the 10th Lago Film Fest in 2014 and a merit for the 2019 Sino per NIIO Illumination Art Prizes; she has been selected for several residencies, ie by Joan Jonas at Fundación Botin (Spain), at Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium) etc. She is currently working on her first feature film, Forest Hymn for Little Girls.  s-a-r-a-h.it

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