jihui presents Motomichi Nakamura & Marina Zurkow -- Thurs., January 27, 7 - 9 PM

jihui - Digital Salon presents Motomichi Nakamura & Marina Zurkow
Thursday, January 27, 2005, 7 - 9 PM
Parsons Design Lab
55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10011
http://agent.netart-init.org

Motomichi Nakamura and Marina Zurkow will present their works in the area of animation and character design. Motomichi will discuss the technical and creative processes involved in creating his digital projects and his interest in expanding to different media. As examples, he will present some of his widely exhibited animations (among them Qrime, Bcc, Hey Now, Drops, EVOE, Laptops and Martini's), his VJ performances, his work in the realm of character design, as well as paintings based on his characters. He will also give a quick demonstration of live video mixing. Marina Zurkow will show excerpts from her award-winning, web-based animation series Braingirl (2000-2003), which chronicles a mutant-cute girl who wears her insides on the outside; Pussy Weevil, an animated, reactive character installation; and Nicking the Never, a 7-channel, multi-linear animated video installation, which was presented as a work-in-progress at The Kitchen in New York, and premiered at FACT in the U.K. in 2004.

Motomichi Nakamura was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1972 and graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1996. As a visual artist, he has used digital animation as a means to explore themes related to personal fears and violence and has worked in collaboration with electronic musicians in the creation of music videos of a minimalist nature. As a VJ he combines video, animation and music as part of a live performance. He recently presented his work as part of the EyeWash Festival at MOMA and at the Cartoombria Festival in Perugia, Italy. For more information visit: http://www.motomichi.com

Marina Zurkow is a multidisciplinary artist who works with character, icon, and narrative in several forms: animated works, interactive installations, and material objects. Zurkow’s icons and characters have been incorporated into diverse projects, from animated films to hotel design, lightboxes and clothing. Other projects include PDPal (2001-2004), a set of experimental mapping applications for screen, web, print and mobile devices that allows a user to "write her own city," in collaboration with architect Scott Paterson and technologist Julian Bleecker. Zurkow’s work has been exhibited at the Sundance Film Festival, the Rotterdam Film Festival, Ars Electronica, the Walker Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum, SFMoMA, Eyebeam Atelier, Totem Design and bitforms gallery, and broadcast on MTV and PBS. Zurkow was a 2003 Rockefeller New Media Fellow, and received grants in 2001-2002 from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Jerome Foundation and the Walker Art Center. She is currently an adjunct professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. For more information visit: http://www.o-matic.com



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