Artist in Residence 2024
Naomi van Niekerk
Naomi van Niekerk is an interdisciplinary artist who works in film, theatre, installation, and print-making. Central to Van Niekerk’s ways of working is the act of collaboration. To date, she has worked in the realms of object-based theatre, printmaking, and performance, always in an interdisciplinary and exploratory manner. In this vein, Van Niekerk works with dancers, musicians and theatre-makers to develop interdisciplinary performances merging animation, live drawing, movement and music.
Rock glacier-inspired animation by Corrie Francis Parks
A talk with Corrie Francis Parks in Vienna on March 23, 2023
Corrie Francis Parks, Stefan Stratil.
Artist in Residence 2023
Corrie Francis Parks
Corrie Francis Parks brings life to the inanimate through frame-by-frame manipulation of physical materials. With one hand under the camera and the other in the digital realm, her films and installations maintain an organic connection to traditional production methods while fully integrating digital technology.
The Animistic Animation Art of Osbert Parker
A talk with Osbert Parker in Vienna on Wednesday June 15 2022 Osbert Parker, Stefan Stratil. Anneliese Blechner, Helmut Blechner and Francisco Valença Vas
Artist in Residence 2022
Osbert Parker
Three times BAFTA nominated and award winning Osbert Parker, is perhaps best known for using innovative film techniques, that combine photo cut-out animation with objects and live action to create one-of-a-kind imaginary landscapes in mixed media short films, commercials, TV entertainment and online content. His latest film is the main title sequence for Stephen King’s LISEY’S STORY.
Abstraction and the Block Universe
Interview: Artist-in-Residence Nöel Palazzo
Nöel Palazzo is a curator, screenwriter, lecturer and researcher with a special interest in abstract film, and the rich intersection between Fine Arts and Media. She occasionally delves into making experimental videos and animations, and writes essays as a film critic. A couple of her short films have been awarded internationally. Invited by ASIFA AUSTRIA, she spends May and June 2019 as Artist-in-Residence in Vienna and has created an installation for the ASIFAKEIL, on display until June 23, 2019.