Five Florida Artists Complete Video Artwork at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood
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3/26/2008 10:19:10 AM
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Artists Mark Diamond, Thibaut Fagonde, Monica and Tasha Lopez de Victoria (aka The Tm Sisters), Gary Shlifer and Kyle Trowbridge premiere their Artwork in a Media Arts Exhibition.
BROWARD COUNTY, FL– Broward County Commission’s Cultural Division Public Art and Design Program announces the installation of five original video artworks at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The artworks, Day on the Beach/Night on the Town, Painted Version of Reality, Forces at Work, Play Airplane and Sky Fishing are displayed on plasma screens facing the gate waiting areas and restaurants of Concourse B in Terminal 1. These works of art are now part of the Airport’s public art video collection.
The artworks are an addition to three original video artworks installed in January 2007. All eight artworks premiered at FILMArt—a screening of media artwork clips of the film directors, coupled with the viewing of the mocumentary, Certifiably Jonathan.
Day on the Beach/Night on the Town by Mark Diamond is a stop motion journey from north to south of the beaches in Broward by day, and a colorful animated view of Broward’s night life along the eastern cities. The style of the video integrates the modern digital single lens camera with videographic and cinematographic sensibilities. The fast video montage captures the attention of viewers and conveys the uniqueness of textures, forms, people and movement that color Broward County.
Painted Version of Reality by Thibaut Fagonde explores visual artist Ed King’s world in and out of Kaleidoscope Conspiracy. His vision fuses video footage and animation of King’s daily activities and inspiration in South Florida, as well as exposes the environment and daily activities of the world of Kaleidoscope Conspiracy characters. The visuals reiterate the vibrant colors of cityscapes and vegetations of South Florida.
Monica and Tasha Lopez de Victoria’s (aka The TM Sisters) Forces at Work chronicles the positive attributes of different people and their relation to the nature in Broward County. How individuals interact with each other under one vast and changing South Florida sky. The overall concept is about the psychological and emotional connections that we make and have with our surroundings, and with one another.
Play Airplane by Gary Shlifer is the first in a series of experimental expressions of flight. The installation is primarily a moving image presentation of people enacting the fantasy of being an airplane under water. In this, the film hopes to evoke feelings of joy, happiness, freedom, and wonder, all things that may be associated with what it is like to be in an airplane; but now with the additional accompaniments of bubbles, shafts of light, water currents, and swim wear.
And Kyle Trowbridge’s Sky Fishing uses the perspective of flight to show a different, microscopic view of Broward County by attaching 2.4 GHz cameras to clusters of balloons filled with helium. The result is a very expansive view that is typical through a window seat on a plane, and created to instill a thought-provoking and contemplative artwork that will ride along in the minds of those flying out of the airport.
For more information, contact Christina Roldan, Public Art and Design project manager at 954-357-8542 or e-mail croldan@broward.org. |
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