CONTEMPORARY INVESTIGATIONS
AWARDS TWO PRODUCERS

With “Roger”, a short love story that combines elements of advertising and comic books, young producer Federico Lamas from Argentina has garnered the Contemporary Investigations Award of the 15th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival. Luiz Duva, author of the installation “Tríptico: Estudo para Auto-Retrato 1”, has received the Le Fresnoy - France Audiovisual Creation Award, consisting of a residency in the French media center. The Contemporary Investigations Award was granted by the 15th Videobrasil jury, comprised of Marcos Moraes, coordinator of the Plastic Arts Course at FAAP (Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado), Mexican artist Ximena Cuevas, and Argentine-Israeli curator Sergio Edelsztein. The Le Fresnoy - France Audiovisual Creation Award was granted by the Festival and is jointly offered, since 2003, by the Consulate General of France in São Paulo, by Aliança Francesa of São Paulo, and by the Le Fresnoy - Studio National Des Arts Contemporains. The winner gains three-month access to the French media center activities, as well as logistical and technical support for producing an audiovisual work.

The Contemporary Investigations section of Southern Panoramas, the 15th Videobrasil competitive exhibition, features work that poses new questions regarding audiovisual production processes, researches concepts and languages, and points to new trends in electronic art.

THE PRIZE WINNERS

Contemporary Investigations Award
Federico Lamas

Federico Lamas, age 26, from Argentina, is a director of films, experimental videos, and video clips who also works as a VJ, graphic designer, and Web designer. Holder of a Master’s Degree in Audiovisual Design from the University of Buenos Aires, Lamas has directed the short films “Camitas”, “Bienvenida a mi Mundo”, “Mucho”, as well as the video clip “Miss sentimiento de Otoño”, and was featured in festivals in Europe and America. “Roger”, a road movie produced in Argentina, 2004, tells the story of an unrequited love. Lamas was the director, playwright, art director, editor, and soundtrack writer.

Le Fresnoy - France Audiovisual Creation Award
Luiz Duva

Duva is an experimental video art producer who, since the late eighties, has been developing personal video narratives and experimenting with performance and installation. Since 2000, Duva has been working with live image, real-time image and audio manipulation, immersive audiovisual installations, and the development of specific contents and environments for new media research. “Tríptico: Estudo para Auto-Retrato 1” is an installation that features three different video channels.


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