G.S.I.L.VI/almada is a generative audiovisual collaboration between LIA and the Portuguese experimental music collective @c (Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela). The work distills motifs from a live performance presented in Almada, Portugal, into a concentrated single-channel video.
The visual system is defined by reductionism, utilizing basic geometric shapes – polygons, arcs, and lines – that overlap and iterate in constant motion. The composition explores the tension between the flatness of the projection and the illusion of three-dimensional structure generated by the movement.
The work is distributed by Sixpackfilm and has been screened at major institutions including the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia (Madrid), MUTEK (Montreal), and the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.
G.S.I.L.VI/almada (2001), generative audiovisual work. Curated excerpt.
Selected generative outputs.
The Concept
G.S.I.L.VI/almada is an approximately four-minute video which deals with motifs taken from a much longer live performance given in Almada, Portugal. In that sense, it offers an example of reductionism: frameworks and forms which overlap and are in constant motion, which renew themselves independently and are shot through by vertical and horizontal movements.
At first glance, G.S.I.L.VI/almada seems to betray a relationship to the experiments of the French avant-garde (such as Anemic Cinema by Duchamp/Ray), though the viewer will also notice the considerable differences with as little difficulty. […] The iteration of planar figures creates a three-dimensional structure without disguising the fact that it consists of two-dimensional elements.
Text by Vrääth Öhner (Sixpackfilm)
Project Details
Year Created: 2001
Medium: Generative Audiovisual Work / Single-Channel Video
Duration: 3’44”
Format: 720 x 576
Creative Collaboration
Sound: @c (Miguel Carvalhais, Pedro Tudela and Pedro Almeida)
Context: Created for the compilation ‘Austrian Abstracts III’
Selected Exhibitions & Screenings
Distributed by: Sixpackfilm
Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (‘Special Screening’, October 27, 2002)
Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York, USA (‘Forum Screening’, June 1, 2002)
MUTEK, Montreal, Canada (‘Festival Screening’, May 24, 2002)
IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands (‘Festival Screening’, Jan 22 – Feb 2, 2002)
Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, Netherlands (‘Sonic Acts X’, September 24, 2004)
Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria (‘Kunstverein Medienturm’, Oct 9 – Nov 7, 2004)
Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Japan (‘Festival Screening’, Apr 27 – June 9, 2002)
Diagonale, Graz, Austria (‘Festival of Austrian Film’, March 19 – 25, 2001)
