Iotacenter - Site of the Week - November 30th - 2009

The iotacenter are doing a very cool thing on their site - each week, they select a clip of the week, site of the week and artist of the week.

Thanks to Derek Haugen of Iotacenter for selecting this Visual Music Blog as site of the week on November 30th.



Visit: - iota at: http://www.iotacenter.org/

Available at Amazon
Visual Music from Iota: An Anthology of Contemporary Art, Vol. 1 (2006)

Iota Center - YouTube Channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/iotacenter
"iota is a public benefit, non-profit arts organization founded in 1994 on the premise that this wide range of techniques and titles share common aesthetic goals which unite them into a single art of light and movement today generally known as "Visual Music."
"iota is dedicated to preserving, promoting and uniting the dynamic world of visual music through our various programs: research, publication, preservation, exhibition and distribution. Our programs together celebrate this art form from its earliest appearance through its current expression with the latest technologies."
For more information, please visit our website at www.iotacenter.org

Videos on the iotacenter channel at present (April 2009) are works from the filmartist Stephanie Maxwell.

"Stephanie Maxwell has been creating stunningly beautiful and original experimental animation for over twenty years. As a film artist who specializes in hand painting and engraving directly onto the surface of 35mm film stock, Maxwell employs a wide variety of materials and tools, including paints, markers, bleach, stencils, engraving tools, airbrush and many more experimental techniques."



Stephanie Maxwell, Animated Works (1984-2007) can be purchased from Iotacenter at:
http://www.iotacenter.org/kinetica/maxwell

Call for Works - Back to Basics

No figuration, only dots and lines as ends in themselves. The "most abstract" festival in the world posses a creative challenge to study and reflect upon the essence of form and movement.



Mad-Actions and The iotaCenter present "PUNTO Y RAYA 2009"

"The "most abstract festival in the world" launches its new call for entries open to short·films exploring the creative possibilites of the dot and the line. No figuration, no perspective, just dots and lines as ends in themselves! An amazing challenge to study and reflect upon the essence of form and movement. Can you take it?
No entry fee and the deadline is Monday August 17th, 2009."

Check out the website for more information and online entry form:
http://www.puntoyrayafestival.com/english/index_eng.html
Online entry form
post here: http://visualmusic.ning.com/profiles/blogs/madactions-and-the-iotacenter