videology

About me:

http://www.videology.nu

Olga Mink works as a digital media-artist and filmmaker in the Netherlands. Her work ranges from conceptual media, to audiovisual performance, interactive installations and experimental (music-) video. She explores new boundaries in media and digital image-making. Mink is interested in the relation between [intangible] media and the spatiotemporal coherence.

The multi-screen installation 'Ballet Mechanique'(2001) was a first approach of merging new technologies and various of the former ideas. By use of rectangular screens and a threedimensional projection set-up, an immersive visual environment about the body in movement was developed. By composing fragments of ‘movements’ into new forms and rhythms, a new experience of time and space was created. Works have been presented as a fixed installation, as well as multi-screen live performances. Her latest work examines motiontracking and interdisciplinary approaches to digital media and public space. Her conceptual work has lead her to create innovative art-projects. She has been commissioned to develope a permanent interactive video-installation for a new building, in 2004. This work called 'Video_matic' has been developed in collaboration with the architects, and is fully integrated with the architectural aesthetics of the building. Video-matic explores the networked media in a public environment, by use of interactivity with a touchscreen inside the building and projections at night. Networked interaction has been developed by use of an (online) application and a dedicated website. As a visual performer her images ranges from minimal abstractions to atmospheric landscapes. She combines a narrative and a conceptual approach to live video manipulation. She often combines a filmic and a graphic mood in her imagery. Short messages and rhythmic sequences are being mixed in an organic ambient style. The use of customised projection possibilities, is another important aspect in her performance. She has attended various media events in The Netherlands and internationally. Works have been released on NoTV, Visual Music2, Lightrhythmvisuals, and Meakusma labels. Festivals she performed include Lowlands Festival, Big Chill, Club Transmediale, Glastonbury, Mapping festival.

She has and still collaborates with many musicinas and artists from allover the world. With Eirenah she performed as [Visual.Girlbot.Facility] and also with composer Michel Banabila and trumpettist Eric Vloeimans. Current projects include the research into new interaction possibilities beyond the screen, with Roel Verlinden. 'L1ghts00p' uses infrared technology with LED systems. This project explores ideas beyond the screen, and is currently presented in Plaza Futura. "The Nature Of Being" is an audiovisual collaboration with London based musician Scanner and has been presented since 2008.

Working as a curator, she invites artists that work with new media. Festivals she curates include 'ImageRadio festival' Visual Active at 'State of the Image'in Arnhem, and 'Plaza+' in collaboration with Plaza Futura. To explore and to share new developments in audiovisual media is her most important goal. The idea is to evoke new experiences by presenting unkown and contemporary perspectives in technical innovation and artistic expression. By means of performances which connects traditional and contemporary media, new experiences are being presented

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video-matic/interactive vj-installation by Videology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD_KfK-UlkQ

URBAN NATURE PART 01
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNpT-66jCHA

::lightscoop:: Interactive light installation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUOfOPGe3G8

Atlantida, Installation at 2nd Biennial of...
http://vimeo.com/3547627

A newly commissioned work by Olga Mink and Scanner for the second Biennial of the Canaries 2009. A multi-channel video with immersive sound work, that addresses the themes of silence and landscape with location recordings of each of the seven volcanic islands captured in high detail....(tbc)