Tiara Harris_Multimedia Artist 15-16

Kirsten Lepore

Lepore is an LA-based director, animator, and alumna of CalArts. She’s works along side companies like Google, MTV, Mini Cooper, Silk, Skippy, Nestle creating short animations. She currently Writer and Director of the Marvel Studios "I am Groot" series streaming on Disney+.

https://www.kirstenlepore.com/

George Fairbairn

Fairbairn is a photographer located near Cambridge. He works with brands to create amazing commercial advertising, branded product photography, social media content and stop motion animation.

https://www.gfphoto.co.uk/stop-motion-animation

Jason Agnew_Multimedia 15_16

 

        Ian Worthington (aka Worthikids) is an animator and musician who has been creating short animations online since the early 2010s. He has a very unique style where he uses 3d animation software in order to create animations that look like traditional stop motion films. Without knowing that it was made all digitally any person would be fooled to believe it was created solely with stop motion.

                            https://youtu.be/xJBCuRsrqUU

Omozoc is a Japanese stop-motion animator who creates short stop motion animations of him doing daily tasks, cooking, or building things. However, through the use of stop motion he seemingly cooks or builds things with unlikely objects or in strange ways. 

                            https://youtu.be/da7iGPigiz4

Elena Harris_Multimedia Artist 15&16

Chantal Caduff- 

Chantal is a Swiss freelance collage and animation artist. She enjoys creating her own imaginary world based solely off of magical ideas that come from her thoughts. She enjoys creating art that celebrates the weird, colorful, and fun. Chantal focuses on utilizing pops of bright colors, child-like drawings and doodles, and wild shapes and sizes in her work. 

https://chantalcaduff.com/adobe

https://giphy.com/gifs/design-collage-stare-l41lKsnE72TDaqPDi

https://giphy.com/gifs/fashion-gif-animation-i8aaTZ3QjHNf9IOFcg

Michelle Thompson- 

Michelle Thompson is an English illustrator who bases her work around the use of found materials and drawings or hand-painted elements. Her work alludes to shared memories, cutting up and recombining images from recent history, to remark and reflect on contemporary themes and popular culture. Michelle works using a combination of digital technology and traditional collage techniques.

http://www.michelle-thompson.com/#/gifs/

Julian Robbins Multmedia Artists 15-16

TOSHIO MATSUMOTO

Toshio Matsumoto is a Japanese film director and video artist. He is known as one of the pioneers of experimental cinema during the 1960s in Japan. Matsumoto used television and journalistic media forms and images to reveal the manipulative forces obstacles of cultural and political system of post-war Japan. Following the 70s, the artist would continue to experiment with video, colors, and images, manipulating them for the world to see. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWsBucZnlQ4&ab_channel=diarighostlar

TEJI FURUHASHI

Teiji Furuhashi was an influential Japanese media artist, well known as a founding member of the artist collective Dumb Type. Dumb Type quickly gained attention for their innovative use of media and new technology. Their experimental theater projects combined dance and performance with multimedia installations, exploring the changing nature of everyday life. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7s_kaH1oXY&ab_channel=TheMuseumofModernArt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oS5gvoVO_E&ab_channel=EpidemicVideo

Madison Moreland_Multimedia Artist 15-16

Isabel Chiara

 https://www.vice.com/en/article/3dxmdv/meet-the-artist-making-gifs-to-ridicule-all-the-shit-women-deal-with

https://chiaracollage.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-bathers-serie-in-motion.html

Gabriella Sanchez

https://remezcla.com/features/culture/giphy-gif-artist-gabriella-sanchez/

Tiara Harris_Multimedia Artist 11-14

Nicole Morrison is a food, product, and lifestyle photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She creates colorful, graphic images and GIFs that help brands tell their story. She playfully engages the viewers while hinting at a larger narrative while her fondness for bright, vivid scenes contrasts with the significant issues she engages with.

http://lenscratch.com/2021/11/focus-on-still-life-nicole-morrison/ 

Ben Van Hook is an American photographer and director This is a short stop motion video created at the Central Florida Fair by taking 40,000 still images.

http://lenscratch.com/2012/02/ben-van-hook/

Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata are Baltimore-based animators and the makers behind Negative Space, an adaptation of a poem by Ron Koertge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9HrvEbH0ic

François Beaurain is a French artist and photographer living and working in Rabat, Morocco. Through an ongoing series of short, looping gif beaurain immortalizes the people he’s met and the places he’s visited while wandering lively streets.

https://www.fbeaurain.com/monrovia_animated.html 

Christian Lamm_Multi Media Artists 11-14

Jeremy Blake

Jeremy Blake was an American digital artist and painter, whose work included projected DVD installations, type C prints, and collaborative film projects. He was one of the first big artists to heavily use photoshop. 

DARIUSTWIN

This person uses timelapses to illustrate his light painting technique, which he has been practicing for 15 years. He uses a mixture of timelapse, light painting, and stop motion to create incredible scenes. 

Costas Spathis

Costas uses choreography with dancers and swimmers in video to create very simple but elegant sequences with striking compositions.

Roelof Knol

Roelof is a new media artist who uses projection mapping to create interactive displays with a focus on lights.

Julian Robbins_Multi Media Artists 11-14

Pipilotti Rist

A Swiss video artist that focuses on making statements about gender, body, sexuality, and pop culture through her videos. Rist argues that video work is comparable to a particularly spacious woman's handbag. That is to say, it's a medium with "room in for everything: painting, technology, language, music, lousy flowing pictures, poetry, commotion, premonitions of death, sex and friendliness."

Ever Is Over All

Joan Jonas

She was known for her performance videos of the 1960s and 70s. Through her art,  Joan was able to convey female identity through the roles that she would assume in her video art. Costumes and masks are items that helped form messages in her work. 

Left Side Right Side

Paul Pfeiffer

Pfeiffer uses video, sculpture, and photography and recent computer technologies to dissect the role that mass media plays in shaping consciousness. He is drawn to moments intended for mass audiences (live sports events, stadium concert tours, televised game shows, celebrity glamour shots), which he samples and re-edits to expose an emptiness underneath.

Still Life

Lucy Raven

 With a focus in animation and the moving image, Raven’s creative process incorporates still photography, installation, sound, and performative lecture. Her work deploys image-making processes used in twenty-first-century filmmaking, which often hide the underlying labor in order to investigate the impact of industrial systems and technology within a global infrastructure.

When Horses Were Coconuts

Madison Moreland_Multi Media Artist 11-14

Hito Steyerl

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/181784?artist_id=43752&page=1&sov_referrer=artist

Steyerl is a videographer who has studied in Germany and Japan. Earned a PhD in philosophy. "Steyerl’s interest in visibility and disappearance is taken to an absurd extreme in How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File (2013). Satirizing instructional videos through a blend of analog and digital media, the artist demonstrates practical and comical ways to maintain privacy in an age of high visibility".

Rachel Rose

https://www.pilarcorrias.com/exhibitions/296-rachel-rose-enclosure/

Rose is an artist who has a range of media.

"Rose’s films draw from and contribute to the long history of cinematic innovation; whether investigating cryogenics, the American Revolutionary War, or an astronaut’s space walk, Rose directs our attention to sites and histories in which the sublime and the everyday blur. She translates this in her paintings, sculptures and drawings, which materially reverberate with one another, connecting the immediate to deep time".

Isaac Julien

https://www.isaacjulien.com/news/184/

"The exhibition includes photographs and Isaac Julien’s latest nine-screen installation, which draws its title from an evocative passage in one of the architect and designer's letters: ‘Linear time is a western invention; time is not linear, it is a marvellous entanglement, where at any moment points can be chosen and solutions invented without beginning or end".

Lynn Hershman Leeson

https://www.lynnhershman.com/film/

Leeson creates films in order to express beliefs in feminism and other topics.

Elena Harris_Multi Media Artists 11-14

 Jamie Travezen- 

Jamie is a photographer based in Lima specializing in several forms of mixed media, more recently including gifs and short films. Using a language that lies between photojournalism and creative portraiture, Jamie's works have fostered the opportunity for a new direction in his life as a photographer. Jamie's works typically consist of thermal map like eye-catching gifs and surreal motifs. 

https://www.jaimetravezan.com/portraits-1

https://www.jaimetravezan.com/ensemble-1

https://www.jaimetravezan.com/wizard-of-oz-1

Emma Critchley- 

Emma Critchley is an artist who uses a combination of photography, film, sound and installation to continually explore the human relationship with the underwater environment as a political, philosophical and environmental space. Her work has been shown extensively nationally and internationally in galleries and institutions.

https://www.engadget.com/2014-04-16-google-promotes-animated-gifs.html

https://www.emmacritchley.com/films/metamorphosis/

Julien Douvier-

Strasbourg-based graphic designer Julien Douvier creates wonderful animated photography also known as cinemagraphs of street scenes, nature, and other everyday sights.

Micael Reynaud-

France-based photographer and videographer Micaël Reynaud has been working as a creative freelancer while maintaining many personal projects involving motion, photography and music since 2002. He specializes in capturing the essence of everyday objects as well.

Tiara Harris_Photographers 7-10

 Christine Fitzgerald is a photo-based artist from Ottawa, Canada. Her work is “inspired by hidden histories and often deals with the relationship between humans and the natural environment, and the tension that this relationship inevitably creates.”

Allan Salas is a photographer based in San José, Costa Rica. His work is a poetic exploration that revolves around introspection and self-analysis through the themes of mortality, the passage of time, and the relationship between nature and the self.

Dan Bannino is an Italian photographer, who to give new meaning to the phrase “portraits of interior lives”, decided to blend both in his projects, Still Diets – Celebrity Diets as Classical Still Life’s and Neon Vanitas – Last meals of the Famous. Creating a series of photographs of foods from the tables of the rich and famous plated as art historical Baroque and Rococo still life’s.

Mischelle Moy is a photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. She creates brand imagery for small and local businesses in her commercial work and combines digital photography with photo manipulation techniques to depict a vibrant and dreamy yet otherworldly version of the world in her landscape art.

Elena Harris_Photographers 7-10

 Adama Jalloh-

 Adama Jalloh is a London-based portrait and documentary photographer who specializes in highlighting Black beauty through stylized images. Although Jalloh piques my interest in general, I was particularly drawn to a recent exhibition titled "An Ode to Afrosurrealsim." In this body of work, Adama portrayed many scenes, typically involving the use of spiritual iconography. The dream-like posing and costuming of the images were very intriguing to me and offered an effect similar to that of what I am attempting to achieve. 

Noelle Osvald-

Noelle Osvald is a Hungarian visual artist who creates black-and-white portraits with a surreal touch. The images feature shadowy figures in quiet backgrounds to evoke feelings of uncertainty and identity. I particularly enjoy her use of gender-fluid clothing, as she typically dresses her models in flowing cloaks that disguise shape and figure. 

Gaelle Elma-

Gaëlle Elma was born in Haiti and now lives in Montréal. Her work revisits our perceptions of racialized bodies, projecting vulnerability and the gentleness of nature. Her works are authentic portraits that seem to emerge from a suspended world, where the subject is sheltered from external social mechanisms.

Elliott Verdier-

Elliott Verdier is a documentary photographer based in Paris, France. Verdier travels across the world documenting for publications such as The New York Times and others however, he also produces works in this vein of documentary photography that can stand alone as fine art portraits.