Michael Szpakowski
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Harlow, Essex United Kingdom |
Contact Type: Artist |
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Bio:
Filmography/Awards Info: 5th-27th August 5 pieces , ‘train entering Liverpool street station’, ‘found poem’ , ‘homage to stan brakhage’, ‘suburbia’ & ‘transfiguration’ part of group show ‘Cell Outs and Phonies’ at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art http://www.lacda.com/index.html 15th May 2004 Three movies, ‘train entering Liverpool street station’, ‘found poem’ & ‘homage to stan brakhage’ exhibited at ‘Cell Outs and Phonies’ show of cell phone art, Los Angeles Theatre Center, LA 5th & 6th June 2004 ‘portrait of the artist in his studio’ shown on outdoor screens of the IgRek cinema company as part of the out video festival Ekaterinburg, Russia Jan - Dec 2004 Joint artistic director (with the dancer Jo Thomson), composer and digital artist for ‘Glimpses of the Inferno’, a music, dance and new media project based on Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” working with two choreographers, a second composer and two other digital artists in a large scale outreach project culminating in a number of performances late in 2004. Commissioned and funded by Epping Forest Arts April 2004 ( ongoing) Curates and hosts ‘Imagining Ourselves’ an exhibition of self portraits by artists and others from around the world: http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/self_portraits/index.html Dec 2004 QuickTime movie, ‘Everything you Need for Christmas’, to be featured on the website of “Bodybuilder & Sportsman’ Gallery, Chicago. Jan 2005 composer/sound designer for “A Story for all Seasons” by Tell Tale Hearts Theatre Company. Previous: Jan –March 2004 Working, together with choreographer Jo Thomson, with students at Oakview School Loughton to create a video piece, ‘Who is in the Woods Today?’, on DVD using creative writing, imaging, movement, music and animation. Commissioned & funded by the school. Jan –May: 2004 12 more pieces, ‘cyclamen’, ‘smile’, ‘through the looking glass’ , ‘art movie’ , ‘the neon pizza man VS busby berkeley’, ‘a walk to pins del bisbe’ , ‘the king of magic’ , ‘and then the devil appeared to the poor shoemaker’, ‘day and night in the garden’, ‘pentimenti’, ‘metamorphosis’ & ‘the divine comedy’ added to http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/ Jan 18th 2004 QuickTime movie ‘Portrait of the Artist in His Studio’ shown at Gallery Gradec, Zagreb, Croatia. Jan 2004 – ‘jeremiad’ appears in ‘sidereality’ http://www.sidereality.com/volume3issue1/contentsv3n1.htm Jan –March 2004 ‘ two stories’ Working with students at South Essex pupil Referral Unit to create a video piece on DVD using imaging, music and animation. Commissioned by South Essex PRU and funded by Arts Council England. Dec 2004 Two QuickTime movies appear in Agricola de Cologne’s “Slowtime –Quick Time as an artistic medium” show. http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/mediacentre/start1.htm Nov/Dec 2003 Seven more pieces, ‘found poem’, ‘jo dancing’, ‘fruit machine’, ‘Everything you Need for Christmas’, ‘man with a pot of white chrysanthemums’, ‘portrait of the artist in his studio’ & ‘train entering Liverpool St station’ added to http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/ 7th December 2003 ‘Within the Brilliant Light’ Site specific promenade event in Roughtalley’s wood, North Weald, Essex. Four poets, Lewis LaCook, Robert Roth, Alan Sondheim and Carletta Joy Walker were commissioned to create texts which I set to music. These were rehearsed and recorded by young people from a local primary school and these recordings formed the aural backdrop to three visual/performance pieces created by the artists Emily Jost and Sonja Zelic and the choregrapher Joanne Thomson at three ‘stations’ along the walk. Commissioned by Epping Forest Arts; funded by EFA and English Nature Nov 2003 – Feb 2004 Teaching interactive media module on BA Art and Design interdisciplinary course at Leeds College of Art and Design October 2003 Recordings by Tubalaté of my “Dancing Music” and my arrangement of Black Francis’s “Is She Weird?” appear on their CD “Hall of Mirrors”, the release coinciding with a USA concert tour. Nov 2003 Two works ‘If We Shadows” and “ A Bouquet for Regina Celia Pinto” Featured artworks in the exhibition at the 6th International Conference on Generative Art 10-13 December 2003, Politecnico di Milano University, Milan, Italy. 16-18 October 2003 Finalist in ‘Perspectives ‘03’ competition and show case organised by www.javamuseum.org in co-operation with Computer Space Festival 2003 Sofia/Bulgaria and the Goethe-Institut – Internationes, Sofia/Bulgaria 16-18 October 2003 ‘jeremiad’ a piece for the net. http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/jeremiad/jeremiadIntro.html Sept-Dec 2003 Songwriting and video project with adults involved with “voluntary cultural activities” as part of the London Borough of Croydon Cultural Services Department’s “Voluntary Sector Vision” consultation exercise Oct/Nov 2003 Seven more pieces, ‘poem’, ‘poem (version)’, ‘time machine’, ‘jump’ , ‘the firebird’, ‘A Walk from London Bridge Station to Liverpool Street Station’, ‘nocturne’ & ‘my secret garden’ added to http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/ Oct 2003 ‘Four Self Portraits’ appears as part of le musee di-visoniste online exhibition ‘self-representation’ exhibition: http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/start2.htm Sept 2003 ‘Scroll’, a piece for the net http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/scroll/scroll.html August 2003 ‘Two Quick Time Movies’, short films for the net: http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/ August 2003 ‘A Bouquet for Regina Célia Pinto’, a piece for the net: http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/bouquet/A_Bouquet_for_Regina_Celia_Pinto.html August 2003 “Orpheus and Eurydice” a new writing and net.art project in collaboration with a artists and writers from the UK, US and Mexico. My section ( with writer Ivan Monroy-Lopez) currently at http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Orpheus/Orpheus.htm This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. This database is used for commercial as well as informational, non-commercial purposes. It is a historical archive of Microcinema International's activities. Inclusion in this database and archive in no way implies a continuing formal relationship or affiliation with Microcinema International or the Blackchair Label nor an endorsement of its activities by the Contact. Contact details are not displayed in order to protect privacy. If you wish to contact this artist please see their website as listed above or write Microcinema International and we will be happy to forward your e-mail.
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