Delving into audiovisual materials from leading European archives, Doc Next Network brings you European Souvenirs that offer a trip down memory lane. Remixing music, photography and film, the European Souvenirs artistic group re-examines the prevailing imagery of immigrants across European communities and re-maps Europe visually, geographically and conceptually.
These videos are interviews with the artists. Read more about the people behind European Souvenirs.
FARAH RAHMAN (NL) Works as a video artist in audiovisual performances, creates photos, films and site specific art installations. Her work is often related to the Eastern philosophy Wabi Sabi, seeing beauty in imperfection. The re-use of materials, analog techniques and mixing them all together in the digital jungle is typical in her work. It has been described as audiovisual poetry, guerilla style. Next to her work as an artist she translates this style in project based assignments like publicity film/photography, workshop concepts, stop-motion animation.
Farah Rahman studied BA Audiovisual Design at the Willem The Kooning Art Academy In Rotterdam.
NORIKO OKAKU (UK) Noriko Okaku produces work in animated video, drawing, sculpture and audio/visual live performance. Her work in various media often retains a collage art element. She borrows, adopts, copies and recycles existing images to explore the diverse avenues of perception. Her work explores the eclecticism and mystery/strangeness underlying everyday objects and actions. Okaku studied Fine Art (Media) at Chelsea College of Art and Design before attending the MA Animation at Royal College of Art.
Her video work has been included in exhibitions at Hakobaka Gallery Kyoto, Asifakeil Museum Quartier Austria and Garage Center for Contemporary Culture Moscow.
KAROL RAKOWSKI (PL) Multimedia artist and director, producer, musician; philosopher by education. In his works, he deconstructs borders that separate media from artistic expression forms and exceeds limitations of the tools he is using. He is particularly interested in light and its role in the dramaturgy of a performance.
He collaborated with many artists, working in superproductions (like the project with Brian ENO for the Wrocław Fountain), as well as avant-garde projects.
He lives and works in Wrocław (Poland).
MALAVENTURA (ES) Based in Fuengirola (Malaga, Andalucia), Malaventura is the moniker of Fernando García Tamajón (Malaga, 1978) BA in Audiovisual Communications studies by the University of Malaga.
His work range from experimental electronic music, videoart pieces, multi-touch interfaces programming, random experiments with online movie editing or the “Audiovisual Sampler” artifact, a tool that make possible to launch movie clips in live action to create a live cinema show. Since the year 2000 delivering music & video works under open licences
BARIŞ GÜRSEL (TR) Media Artist & Director working on various motion graphics, animation and music video projects. Till 2011 worked as a compositing artist for many animation/vfx projects at Anima Istanbul. In 2012 co-founded his company Bench Studio in Istanbul. He is also working as a freelance compositing and motion graphics artist in Amsterdam.
Studied Interactive Design at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul, and now receiving his MFA degree in VCD from Bilgi University. Through his own artwork he is attempting to examine the phenomenon of Biophilia (Human-Nature Relations) and Fiction/Fake.
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