FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Center for Visual Music Announces NEW DVD Release Robert Seidel: Projections, Installations and Films Center for Visual Music is pleased to announce the release of a new DVD compilation of the works of Berlin-based artist Robert Seidel. Seidel, who studied at the Bauhaus University Weimar, creates video installations, media façades and experimental films. Seidel pushes the boundaries of abstraction to the sublime and organic through his approaches drawn from scientific visual analysis and digital extensions of painting and sculpture. Seidel's award-winning are exhibited worldwide from festivals and galleries to museums like ZKM, Karlsruhe; Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp; LACMA, Los Angeles; Art Center Nabi, Seoul; MuseumsQuartier, Vienna; Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo and Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei. His works have received awards including the KunstFilmBiennale Cologne Honorary Award, Best Experimental Film at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, and an Honorary Mention from Prix Ars Electronica. Produced by Center for Visual Music (Los Angeles) and Studio Robert Seidel (Berlin), the DVD collects his major films, videos and documentation from his projections and installations from 2001 to 2014. It includes some rare early experimental films and an extensive, exclusive interview with curator André Eckardt of the German Institute for Animated Film (DIAF). A Center for Visual Music Release Robert Seidel: Projections, Installations and Films DVD: PAL Region-Free Release Date: November 4, 2014 Running Time: 67 minutes, plus Bonus Feature, 45 minute Interview ISBN: 978-0-9764320-5-0 Price: US$ 25 Private Home Use / $100 Educational Institutions and Libraries Produced by Center for Visual Music and Studio Robert Seidel Sales and distribution: Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles www.centerforvisualmusic.org/seidel info@centerforvisualmusic.org / cvmaccess@gmail.com Quotes Robert Seidel's work is organo-tech. He does not deliberately imitate the pioneers of abstract cinema, and is a world away from the motion graphic mayhem of many of those enamoured by digital animation. His work is impressionistic, melding biological and emotional currents. Technically accomplished, the greater achievement is in what it can do to our senses. It can be emotional and epic, but also draw out intimacy, and suggest insights into the human condition. (Matt Hanson, media futurist and author of The End of Celluloid)
Seidel's work is an immersive experience, a sensuous dip into light, color, movement, sound and change (Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times) Experiencing Seidel's art seems both external to the self and internalized. Mirages come and go as fleeting as thought, with just their collective impact lingering. (Anne Martens, Flash Art) Center for Visual Music (CVM) is a Los Angeles-based archive devoted to visual music, experimental animation and abstract media. CVM's previous DVD releases include Oskar Fischinger: Ten Films and Jordan Belson: 5 Essential Films. CVM's archive contains the world's largest collection of visual music resources including the papers and films of Oskar Fischinger, and the research collection of film historian William Moritz. CVM' HD three-screen Fischinger reconstruction, Raumlichtkunst, was recently exhibited at Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum, New York, and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. CVM's films, programs and lectures are featured in museums, archives, festivals, and cultural centers worldwide including The Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Musée du Louvre, Paris; MOCA Los Angeles; Barbican Centre, London; Whitney Museum, New York; Raven Row, London; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Kunsthalle Zurich, Tate Liverpool, Kunsthalle Vienna; Fondazione Prada, Venice; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and others worldwide. For print resolution images please contact: cvmaccess@gmail.com DVD Cover
Media Façade: scrape Video Installation: grapheme
Video Installation: chiral Video Installation: folds
Experimental film: _grau List of Works included on the DVD Projections & Façades: dive painting #1 (1:04 min, germany 2007), processes: living paintings (6:43 min, germany 2008), vellum (3:32 min, south korea 2009 & 2:17 min, brazil 2010), scrape (4:25 min, south korea 2011), folds (3:18 min, germany 2011), advection (4:07 min, germany 2013) Video Installations & Performances: chiral (5:55 min, taiwan 2010), meander performance (2:22 min, brazil 2010), black mirror (3:00 min, usa 2011), erratic performance (3:00 min, austria 2012), tearing shadows (2:08 min, germany 2013), grapheme (3:50 min, germany 2014) Experimental films: lightmare (4:30 min, germany 2001), E3 (3:00 min, uk & germany 2002), _ grau (10:01 min, germany 2004), winzerla woods (1:37 min, germany 2005), appearing disappearance (1:20 min, germany & uk 2007), floating (0:12 min, germany 2010)