Anonymous RealTime v4

Anonymous RealTime v4 from Victor Acevedo on Vimeo.

Igor Amokian LIVE @ LA CITA June 7, 2016
Los Angeles, California

Anonymous Real-time
Duration: 1:56
Directed & Animated by Victor Acevedo

Music © 2016 Igor Amokian
Video © 2017 Victor Acevedo

Acevedo: Among other things. I think of this video as a little exploration into Synesthesia and accented glimpses of inter-dimensionality.

An earlier iteration of it, version 2 had its real-world public premiere @ LACDA : Los Angeles Center for Digital Art during the Downtown LA Art walk on Thursday, September 14, 2017 as part of a group show called Featured Video Artists. The official opening reception was on Saturday September 16, 2017. The exhibition will run through October 7, 2017.

Graphics SW used: Premiere 2014, Softimage, C4D, VDMX.


Acevedo: I first met Chris Holland (Igor Amokian) at the Mandrake Bar just off gallery row in Culver City in about 2011. He was the DJ spinning (as it were) some esoteric but catchy tunes for the Monthly “open decks” VJ nights hosted by Eric Medine and James Fader Cui, co-directors of the then very active Los Angeles Video Artists [LAVA] group.

Later at a regular monthly members gathering, I witnessed one of his presentations on his Circuit Bending work, and I realized that was where he was really at. I was blown away and I knew we would collaborate at some point. Our first collaboration is the visual music work called A Walk in the City [2016]

Igor Amokian has been recording, releasing music and performing live for several years now with the unique sounds of his circuit bent machines and vintage electronics. Many of his circuit bent creations have been shown at various exhibits and heard in various sound installations.

Igor Amokian has been recording, releasing music and performing live for several years now, either solo or with various groups Amokian brings his unique sounds to the live show and studio. Igor Amokian’s discography includes an incredible collection of custom made CD’s, Tapes and Vinyl with appearances on various compilations, splits & collaborations on labels like: Timelapse Label, Amp-Rec, Zypher Un Label, digdugDIY, Igor's sounds are everything but regular or constant, always changing and blending whether it's an experimental show at a local art gallery, a blistering noise festival or some left-field mangled beats sitting in with Skyline Electric.

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Victor Acevedo is an artist and desktop computer art pioneer, best known for his digital work involving printmaking, imaging and video. He attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena (1979-81). He lived in New York City from 1995 to 2009 where he taught at the School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Art program. He is now based in Los Angeles, California.

Acevedo brings to his current roles as music video director / video editor, motion graphics artist and LIVE visualist (VJ) over 35 years of experience in the visual arts. Following a natural evolution, his work has moved from traditional media to digital and later from still-imagery to motion graphics. Considering the implications of Synesthesia and given his avid interest in contemporary Electronic Beat music as well as Digital Cinema and Synergetic Geometry, Acevedo has positioned himself inside the genre called VISUAL MUSIC. His music video productions are informed by a synthesis of these traditions, disciplines, phenomenologies.

Acevedo's digital fine art work has been featured in several books including: "Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation". (Tom Sito, MIT Press 2013) "Digital Art" (Wolf Lieser, Ullman /Tandem 2009) ; "From Technological to Virtual Art" ( Frank Popper, MIT Press 2007) ; "Art of the Digital Age" (Bruce Wands,Thames and Hudson, 2006) ; "Escher's Legacy: A Centennial Celebration," (edited by Doris Schattschneider and Michelle Emmer, Springer Verlag 2002.)

Acevedo has shown his work in over 90 exhibitions worldwide including The Waterman Gallery at RISD, 2007 & 2011; SYNAPSE at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) July 2005, The Isamu Noguchi Museum: Synergetics in the Arts 2005; The Siggraph/TAS, Paris, 2005; Novosibirsk State Art Museum; 2005; Digital Art Museum, Berlin 2004; Millennium Art Museum, Bejing, China, 2004; ACM/Siggraph CG03; Siggraph/TAS, Cleveland Art Museum 2003; Digital Duality at EZTV/Cyberspace 2002;

Acevedo: I started my art practice in traditional media painting and drawing in 1977 and then shifted suddenly starting in 1983 to digital media. Conceptually my early influences were Cezanne, Picasso, M.C. Escher, Salvador Dali, & Buckminster Fuller. My recent motion-graphic visual music work is informed by Electronic Music, Digital Cinema and Synergetic Geometry. I also owe a conceptual debt to the “moving painting” video work of Bill Viola.

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