LIFE IN LOOPS, An audio video remix by Timo Novotny and the Sofa Surfers
5 May – 24 June 2006
KBB presents LIFE IN LOOPS, a project by Timo Novotny featuring the Sofa Surfers, a video and electro remix of images from the Michael Glawogger’s film Megacities.
This experimental project, shown here for the first time in Spain, is an installation of various screens showing video loops. LIFE IN LOOPS takes place in 5 cities: Mexico, New York, Tokyo, Moscow and Bombay, Timo Novotny uses material from the original film, subsequently mixing them with his own material. The result is a fusion between the retooled images and the sound of the Austrian electronic band the Sofa Surfers.
Timo Novotny is an artist who has shown his work in festivals like Diagonale, Viper, and WWVF, Netherlands; Brooklyn FF, New York; Canarias I.V. & Multimedia, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; IF of New Film, Split; Voladero IFF, Mexico City; Sarajevo FF; NextFrame Touring Filmfestival, Tokyo, New York, Philadelphia, Rhode Island; ISFF, Brest; SFF Clermont-Ferrand; Sõnar, Barcelona; ISFF Santiago, Chile; Ohio IFF; Raindance; AFFMA, Los Angeles; Lovebytes; Impakt; FCMM, Montreal, video experimental, Badalona, Videolisboa, Portugal etc….
Other important projects of his have been presented at Ars Electronica, Linz, Graz, Videomedja, Novisad and the CIMATICS VJ Festival, Brussels.
