Digital Art Festival | Participants | Eva and Franco Mattes

!Mediengruppe Bitnik (read - the not mediengruppe bitnik) live and work in Zurich/London.They are contemporary artists working on and with the Internet. Their practice expands from the digital to affect physical space...
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Antoni Rayzhekov is a Bulgarian theater director, sound and visual artist based in Vienna. He studied theater directing and performing at National Theater and Film Academy – Sofia, Jazz Music Improvisation at Vienna Konservatorium and informational technol...
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Cvetan Krastev is a Bulgarian artist for whom the idea determines the way of expression. Works in various fields of contemporary art: performance, installation, objects, video, painting. Very specific for his practice are interventions in the natural environment. H...
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DA Lab19-23.09.2017, 16:00-24:00, Studio 56, NAA DA Lab is a new module in the DA Fest program that introduces ne...
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DA Master's ProgammeDigital Arts - Master's Program, NAAThe best of the students' work can be seen on this festival edition in the Film Sceening Programme:
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Daniela Takeva was born in Bulgaria, but raised in North Germany. After her studies in Media Arts and Philosophy (B.A.+M.Ed.) in Kiel (DE), Prague (CZ) and Sofia (BG), she now works as a visual artist and teacher in Leipzig. Besides her artistic practice, she was i...
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E.U.E.R.P.I. is a solo ambient drone project of Miryan Kolev. For last 5 years, since start playing live, he did over 100 shows and he has taken part of many festivals and stages in Bulgaria, Norway, Serbia, Romania, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Irelan...
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Elí Joteva is a Bulgarian media artist and researcher, working at the intersection of neurophysics and art through the use of new imaging tools and biofeedback technologies. Using various photographic, digital and sculptural mediums to amplify the intangible, her work often aims to extrapolate the ephe...
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Elliot Bursch is a filmmaker and light technician based in Berlin. Their studies in the field of motion design, camera and lighting for motion pictures led them to be a director of photography and electrician in several short films. They wanted to broaden their field and started working as a lighting technician an...
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Eva and Franco Mattes (1976) are an artist duo originally from Italy, working in New York.Their medium is a combination of Internet, video and installation. Their work explores the ethical and moral issues arising when people interact remotely, especially through soci...
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”Filament” is an A/V experience. Its whole visual side has been created by visual artist Silvana Ilieva. She crafted not only its artwork, but a series of videos and the visuals you'll see during the performance. So far “Filament” has been performed live in Bulgaria, Belgium, Germany, Greec...
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Hristo Kolev has a master’s degree in medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry. He believes that modern science is multidisciplinary and asks of scientists to have encyclopedic knowledge and experience in all its shapes and forms. Seven years ago he realized th...
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Bulgarian based music producer and visual artist Ivan Shopov (also known as Cooh / Balkansky) has performed his music and exhibited his art throughout Europe, South America, Asia and Australia. Releasing his many projects for some of the biggest international labels, his music has reached all corners of the world....
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Jeroen van Loon (b. 1985 in ’s Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, lives and works in Utrecht, The Netherlands) received a bachelor in Digital Media Design and a European Media Master of Arts from the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. His fascination r...
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Lora Zhelyazkova is a visual artist who experiments with mixing analog and digital realms aiming to create site-specific projects. She has a bachelor in photography and has explored on her own the medium of video until her ever growing interest in the dynamics of time, light and its projection and reflection in sp...
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Studied English in Frankfurt/Main and theatre and comparative literary studies in Berlin before joining Graz University of Music and Performing Arts’ acting class. She was a company member of Lucerne Theatre and Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss. Since 2002 she has been working freelance as performer and ...
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Marinos Koutsomichalis is a media artist, scholar and creative technologist. He was born in Athens, GR (1981) and has since lived and worked in various cities around the world. His interests comprise materialism, post-humanism, distributed cognition, compu...
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Max Schumacher studied dramaturgy in Berlin and Performance Studies at New York University (M.A.). He founded post theater in New York in 1999, moved to Berlin in 2002. His media-performances toured internationally, approx. 50 projects to more than 20 countries, including hosts like e.g. International Festiva...
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Mytrip is a solo project of Angel Simitchiev – an electro-acoustic composer and Sound Art lecturer in Sofia's National Academy of Arts. With a background in the hardcore/punk scene Angel has turned Mytrip in an aggressive live experience while still exploring sound gravitating around ambient and drone. On DA...
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The impact and the combination of different types of mediums and sensory information is one of the main interests of Nikolina Nedialkova. After dedicated research in the world of fine arts, her interest in working with physical space expands to an even broader spectrum of digital arts , including transfer of ...
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Studied acting at the Conservatory for Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt. He was employed as ensemble member at the state theater Pforzheim (Germany). As freelance actor he has been working at Kammerspiele Munich, Theater Oberhausen and many more. He has been working as voice actor for various movie- and...
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Peter Bosch & Simone Simons From 1985, the beginning of their collaboration in Amsterdam, Bosch & Simons have been involved in performances, concerts and theatre pro...
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Peter Sarkisian is an American new-media artist whose work combines video projection and sculpture to create a hybrid form of multi-media installation. Named a Master Video Artist in 2007 by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Sarkisian has exhibited widely throughout the world in major museums and pu...
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..."Polyform is a plane figure constructed by joining together identical basic polygons. The possibilities are so numerous that the exercise seems pointless, unless extra requirements are brought in. Polyforms are a rich source of problems, puzzles and games."......
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post theater is an interdisciplinary performing arts unit without an ensemble. Projects range from theater to dance, multi-media performances to installations. Reoccurring themes are identity, resources and technology. The creative, haptic and original usage of video projections is a key component to the comp...
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The sound artist Sibin Vassilev works and lives in Sofia and Berlin. During his studies in Berlin he created various sound installations e. g. for the pavilions of the republic Benin and Côte d’Ivoire at the EXPO 2000. Since 2003 Sibin Vassilev is producing music and sound environments for theatre play...
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Stefan Christov and Anna Bacheva are Bulgarian artistic duo exploring practices that articulate visual and sound dimensions in the creative process.
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SubHuman Theatre is a phantom, a topic. SubHuman Theatre is focused on decoding the language of modern myths and encoding them in new creatures. SubHuman Theatre explores the transitional states of the human body by focusing on his marginalization, to the intersection between man and technology, human and sub...
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The Science was initially formed by Nino Gomes and Martin Stavrev in 2014, combining diverse vocals with deep basslines and intricate rhythms. Two years later the duo was joined by the vocal talent of Viara Popova to form the complete concept of The Science.
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UBERMORGENlizvlx (AT, b. 1973) and Hans Bernhard (CH/USA, b. 1971) are European artists and net.art pioneers. They tenaciously convert code & language and concept & aesthetics into digital objects, softw...
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Vataff Project is a mix of abstractions, electronic music, beat and ethno tools from around the world. "High-tech and analog to transcendence" Viktor Marinov started the sound experiments in 2001. Since then, the Vataff Project has been distingui...
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Venelin Shurélov (1977, Bulgaria)Ass. Prof. PhD Venelin Shurélov - Graduated "Scenography" at the National Art Academy, Bulgaria - PhD (2009). Co-founder and professor at the...
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Yagama is a visual artist working in film, video, painting and installation. Her work is inspired by the process of self realisation, the world of dreams and myths, and contemporary social issues. Yagama participates in various types of artistic events, co...
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Yoann Trellu has been trained as X-ray manipulator and studied at the Science University Nantes (France) be- fore launching a career as media artist. He has worked as video designer / creator for many cho- reographers and dance companies in France, Germany, USA and Japan, including Akira Matsui, Mayumi Fukuza...
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Eva and Franco Mattes

Eva and Franco Mattes (1976) are an artist duo originally from Italy, working in New York.

Their medium is a combination of Internet, video and installation. Their work explores the ethical and moral issues arising when people interact remotely, especially through social media, creating situations where it is difficult to distinguish reality from a simulation.

Links to many of Mattes' projects can be found at their web site: www.0100101110101101.org

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