Oversized photocopies and photographic prints on aluminum for the Masks: More Than the Face group show at the Brown & Jackson Project Space, Hillsdale, NY. Exploring concepts of Mask as Identity and illusion. Drawing inspiration from the declassification of hundreds of heavily redacted FBI documents investigating the possible escape of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun to Argentina at the end of the war.
Bazaraa for Ferragamo - Video Art Commissions →
Commissioned video art for Italian luxury brand Salvatore Ferragamo. With shop design and curation by Brown & Jackson Projects, several artists were approached to create works inspired by pieces from the Ferragamo time capsule collection. The pop-up shop was featured in the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, CA and was part of the opening event for the center which featured a star-studded gala and fashion show. Additional videos were created specifically for the opening gala runway show based on Ferragamo's S/S14 collection.
Geometrics for the Planets - Animation Studies
Expanding on the Geometrics series
of geometric illustrations, these animation studies are explorations on
occult correspondences of tonal frequencies as they relate to the
planets.
Geometrics - Illustrations
Op art inspired geometric illustrations working with various software manipulations.
Solar Transmission 01 - Video Composition
Video stills and excerpts from a 23 minute video composition prepared for the Colo(u)r Sound Culture Mash Up component of the Index Festival, NYC. Based on a mystical visionary experience in the transcendental realms.
A majority of the footage was developed through experimentation with analog fractal feedback techniques which was a process of alchemy unto itself.
Manipulated Drawings
A series of abstract geometric figures based on manipulated architectural pencil drawings.
Archegram: 3rd Iteration - Video Composition
The third iteration of the ongoing Archegram series of video animations. First projected live w/Ateleia at Issue Project Room, NY, August 2009.
INTO THE AIR W/ ———— GHAVA - Art Installation
INTO THE AIR W/ ———— GHAVA
From point to line to plane, into the air, over time. Four known dimensions. Connection, tension, illumination. A small attempt at an impossible representation.
Archegram: 2nd Iteration
The Archegram: Iterations are a series of video projects centered around the audio/visual collaborations between Ateleia (James Elliott) and Sadek Bazaraa who first started collaborating in 2004 for the Netmage Digital Arts Festival in Italy. The 2nd iteration, abstractly narrative in nature, explores hidden systems of Orwellian control.
"Accumulating Bits" - Photographic Prints
Compounded chocolate shavings with hand and head. Sequence of 46 photographs arranged over a series of 3 c-prints.