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Digital Showcase
Digital Showcase 47

Digital Showcase Flyer Front


Digital Showcase Flyer Back
Saturday, November 21st, 2009

The Independent (501 Brushy)
(one block east of I-35 on 5th)
9pm-2am
$8 general; $4 for members
18 and up


Musicians:

Voodeux
(KiloWatts & Tanner Ross /
Mothership Records)
Many Birthdays
(Thirty Ghosts)
A.M. Architect
(Exponential)
Andrés Aguirre
(Urbantorque Recordings (UK))
Otic Angst
(Exponential)
JDubb
(OneNoteSound)

Visual Artists:

ArjanM
Depart
Flight 404
Genki Ito
JP Frenay
Kultnation
Little Red Robot
Lucio Arese
Makoto Yabuki
Mathieu Gerard
Shotopop
Takcom
Tom Geraedts

Flyer Artist:

Valp



About the Showcase

The Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to engage the public and artists in the creation, understanding, and appreciation of digital art. The Digital Showcase is an event, featuring live electronic music and visual art, ranging from abstract to accessible, presented in a social setting.More >>


Artist Bios:

Musicians

																	Voodeux
Voodeux
KiloWatts & Tanner Ross /
Mothership Records
Philadelphia, PA

Described as ‘Halloween on wax’ Voodeux is the human manifestation of creepy house and techno. The project is a collaboration between James Watts (AKA KiloWatts) and Tanner Ross, who have been working together for the past six years since meeting online at a website devoted to music synths and production.

Despite the 300 miles that separate the two producers, modern technology keeps the pair in perfect lockstep. They seamlessly pass files back and forth, each adding elements to the ... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Voodeux
Web Page: http://www.myspace.com/voodeux...

																	Many Birthdays
Many Birthdays
Thirty Ghosts
Austin, TX

Many Birthdays are a 4-piece Austin group that started as a recording side project for bassist John Dixon in 2002.  It has gone through many changes, including one that brought he & synth girl Sarah Luce to Japan in '03 and '04.  They currently push out new tunes on a regular basis with guitarist Henna Chou and drummer Rachel Fuhrer.

The Many Birthdays sound is dance & art-rock blended with a DIY punk aesthetic.  Their self-released, limited edition "Days of Beat / Days of Hollow EP... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Many Birthdays
Web Page: http://www.myspace.com/manybir...

																	A.M. Architect
A.M. Architect
Exponential
San Antonio, TX

A.M. Architect is the result of a musical partnership between Daniel Stanush and producer Diego Chavez, who also creates music under the pseudonyms Aether and Otic Angst. The group's full-length debut, The Road to the Sun, was released in May 2009 on San Antonio's Exponential records label.

The album is a study in the mix of organic and electronic music; a blending of the tones and niches that define the two collaborators, while simultaneously blurring the distinctions that set the... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: A.M. Architect
Web Page: http://www.myspace.com/amarchi...

																	Andrés Aguirre
Andrés Aguirre
Urbantorque Recordings (UK)
Austin, TX

Andres Aguirre is a DJ/producer from the Rio Grande Valley now based here in Austin. He specializes in mixing and creating deep house and tech house atmospheres, yet he draws influence from many musical genres. He hosts an electronic dance music radio show on KVRX Austin, 91.7FM entitled 'Deep Field', where he also hosts a different guest DJ mix every week. Andres has his debut release upcoming on Urbantorque Recordings (UK) due March, and another EP on Austin's own Cromarti Records.

AMODA Artist Page: Andrés Aguirre
Web Page: http://profile.myspace.com/and...

																	Otic Angst
Otic Angst
Exponential
San Antonio, TX

Otic Angst is the alias of Diego Chavez, a graphic designer and music producer based out of San Antonio, TX. Chavez also records under the monikers Aether and A.M. Architect in addition to producing tracks for the hip-hop group Lotus Tribe and rock band The Panic Division.

As a child, Diego spent the scorching Texas summer days at his father’s art studio conversing with painters, surfing the internet, and daydreaming. While in high school, Chavez began skipping school to host jam se... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Otic Angst
Web Page: http://www.myspace.com/oticang...

																	JDubb
JDubb
OneNoteSound
Austin, TX

Originally from upstate New York, jdubb brings his signature sound to Austin. Comprised of ambient, dub, and Detroit techno influences, he carefully crafts his DJ sets into smooth melodic soundscapes complete with bass-heavy rhythms and, meditative, ethereal synths.

AMODA Artist Page: JDubb
Web Page: http://www.onenotesound.com/


Visual Artists

																			ArjanM
ArjanM
Netherlands


ArjanM creates a style of music that ranges from the singer-songwriter genre to electronic music with a subtle but ever-present undertone of metal music. Metal was ArjanM's first love, but soon after electronic music and triphop also started to take his interest. From 1994-2002 ArjanM was lead guitarist in the indie rock/metal band Dissent together with Jeroen Kok on base, Bas van Ruitenbeek on drums and Erwin Roodselaar as vocalist/lyricist. At the end of the nineties the progression in compu... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: ArjanM
Web Page: http://www.arjanm.com/

																			Depart
Depart
Vienna, Austria


Kneedeep in the datastream DEPART flirts with the audio-video-text mènages-‡-trois, produces jerked environments, hot-wired improvisation tools, distorted stories and a lot of noise. Studying MultiMediaArts in Salzburg brought them together and their flourishing artistic relationship is producing offspring in the fields of interactive narratives, audiovisual performances and installations as well as experimental poetry. Ideas and concepts are born, developed and departed on a textual level wh... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Depart
Web Page: http://depart.at/

																			Flight 404
Flight 404
San Francisco, CA


Robert Hodgin, aka Flight 404, is a San Francisco-based artist and programmer whose emphasis is creating generative art using Processing. He is a founding partner of the Barbarian Group, an interactive development firm in San Francisco.

AMODA Artist Page: Flight 404
Web Page: http://www.flight404.com/

																			Genki Ito
Genki Ito
Tokyo, Japan


Working as a Tokyo based digital artist, Genki Ito joined many music video productions at W+K TOKYO LAB. He officially signed to W+K TOKYO in 2008 and he is currently working as a motion designer and character animator in the advertising and music video world.

AMODA Artist Page: Genki Ito
Web Page: http://itogenki.com/

																			JP Frenay
JP Frenay
Brussels, Belgium


Jean-Paul Frenay is a Belgian director and visual artist working across disciplines in art direction, graphics design, photography, interactive media, film and motion. Born in Siegen, Jean-Paul spent his youth in Germany. In 2001, he graduated with mention from the In.Ra.CI film school in Brussels with the shortfilm "Catharsis: opus incertum". After a specialization in visual effects, he began his career as a flame artist where he developed his skills, which gave him the confidence to start dire... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: JP Frenay
Web Page: http://www.frenayjp.be/

																			Kultnation
Kultnation
Mexico City, Mexico


Marco Vinicio under the alias of Kultnation is a Mexico based designer & animator; has a Graphic Design background, a VFS Digital Design Diploma and 3 years of commercial work experience as a freelance designer and animator. His abstract work driven by space and form gained him a reputation around global design communities. Some of the studios / agencies / clients he worked for include: Tronic Studio, MTV, Prologue Films, Transparency Studios, Speed Channel, TBWA, Once TV Networks, El Palacio d... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Kultnation
Web Page: http://cargocollective.com/kul...

																			Little Red Robot
Little Red Robot
San Francisco, CA


Little Red Robot is a direction force that focuses on design based creativity. The Robot production workflow combines the efforts of directors, photographers, animators, designers and visual effects artists, resulting in a deeply immersive approach to making commercials, music videos, and other creative content. We approach our work as an opportunity to be innovative and always strive to create something that's never been done before.

AMODA Artist Page: Little Red Robot
Web Page: http://www.littleredrobot.com/

																			Lucio Arese
Lucio Arese
Cuneo, Italy


Architect, pianist, composer and graphic designer, Lucio Arese started a career as a videographer and independent filmmaker in 2008. In his first works he's exploring the possibilities given by the union of images, motion and music in a thoughtful and personal way. He's born in 1981 and currently based in Cuneo, Italy.

AMODA Artist Page: Lucio Arese
Web Page: http://www.lucioarese.net/

																			Makoto Yabuki
Makoto Yabuki
Tokyo, Japan


Makoto Yabuki works as a director/ art director at Tokyo ,Japan. He started his career as a visual designer in 1997 , and established TANGRAM co.,ltd. with companions in 2003. His artistic range is expansive; among his recent works are "scope" ,"MANAKAI",and "CONFINE(S)". His works have been presented in international film festivals such as SIGGRAPH, onedotzero, artfutura, ARS Electronica. Since he was awarded prizes from all over the world, he has been widely known as a dire... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Makoto Yabuki
Web Page: http://makotoyabuki.com/

																			Mathieu Gerard
Mathieu Gerard
Paris, France


Mathieu Gerard is a French director and visual effects artist. He directed and animated the film Steel Life while still a student in Paris.

AMODA Artist Page: Mathieu Gerard
Web Page: http://www.mathieugerard.com/

																			Shotopop
Shotopop
Brighton, UK


Shotopop is the purple and pink pebble beach pixel playground of Casper Franken, latte guzzling, medium format film collector and Carin Standford, sun seeking seamstress and mocha manic. Shotopop is the memory of an old man and the imagination of a little girl doodled on the surfaces of old diaries, desktops and dirty windows. As a toddler, in the the general scheme of illustration agencies, Shotopop is finding their feet for the first time and spending many hours playing with lots of new and ex... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Shotopop
Web Page: http://www.shotopop.com/

																			Takcom
Takcom
Tokyo, Japan


Born in Tokyo,Japan,1979. Graduated from Nihon University of art department of cinema in 2002. Lives and Works in Tokyo. His field is mainly making single channel video art , Live Video Performances, Collaborated A/V Performances and some prints. Takafumi Tsuchiya is using the best technique in each work mixing recorded sources and handmade animation with generated material. In his videos, takafumi is interested in mixing up boundaries between contradicting (ambivalent) matters such as f... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Takcom
Web Page: http://www.takafumitsuchiya.co...

																			Tom  Geraedts
Tom Geraedts
London, UK


Since his younger years Tom Geraedts has always been enthusiastic about new media and its wide spread possibilities. At first by desiging websites, then graphics and finally during his Communication and Multimedia Design studies also Motion Graphics. With this stylish blend of animation, graphic design and filmmaking he always tries to touch his audience in the underbelly. At his studies at Avans hogeschool Breda he was offered to engage in multiple disciplines such as multimedia design, sound d... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Tom Geraedts
Web Page: www.tomgeraedts.com


Flyer Artist

																			Valp
Digital Showcase Flyer
Valp
Katowice, Poland


Valp is the alias of Maciej Hajnrich, a graphic designer, illustrator and art director who lives and works in Katowice, Poland.

Born in 1981, Valp is a self-taught and full-time freelance artist with five years of experience in print and web design. After many years of experimentation, he has developed his own unique style that features a close attention to detail, color, and texture. Despite having many large clients, graphic design continues to be a passion for Valp, rather than j... More >>

AMODA Artist Page: Valp
Web Page: http://valpnow.com/



About the Showcase

The Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to engage the public and artists in the creation, understanding, and appreciation of digital art. The Digital Showcase is an event, featuring live electronic music and visual art, ranging from abstract to accessible, presented in a social setting.

The Digital Showcase Director is Todd Simmons. Please contact him with any comments or questions. If you wish to contribute visual art, music, or graphic art to a Showcase, please visit our Call for Art page for details.

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