Posted: February 23rd, 2010 | Author: fsouki | Filed under: Personal Projects | Tags: Art In America, Depero Futuristi, ETC, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Performa 09 | No Comments »
Balli Plastici will be presented in Washington DC at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura this coming Friday, February 26th, as part of the Fortunato Depero 50 exhibit.
The project was originally presented at the Museum of Art and Design in New York as part of the Performa 09 festival and has since obtained positive reviews from New York Magazine and the Art in America magazine.
You can learn more about the software we created and used to craft the performance here. You can learn more about the semester-long project here.
Be sure to check it out if you’re in the DC area!
Posted: February 18th, 2010 | Author: fsouki | Filed under: Personal Projects | Tags: Art In America, Depero Futuristi, ETC, Performa 09 | No Comments »
My project from last semester, Depero Futuristi, got featured in the Art In America magazine. The review is very positive and highlights our demonstration of the software we developed as the high point of our presentation in New York. Check it out!
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Posted: December 22nd, 2009 | Author: fsouki | Filed under: Personal Projects, Uncategorized | Tags: Blaine Gibson, Bob Gurr, Disney, Disney Legends, Harrison Price, IAAPA, Marty Sklar, Rischard Sherman, Walt Disney | No Comments »
The Disney Legends
The IAAPA Attractions Expo held many surprises for me, but none as gratifying and mind-bogglingly amazing as a panel session very aptly titled “Disney Legends: working with Walt”.
The Disney Legends themselves were Marty Sklar (story man), Blaine Gibson (artist), Bob Gurr (mechanical wizard), Richard Sherman (composer) and Harrison “Buzz” Price (numbers man), all sitting side by side and brilliantly moderated by Bob Rogers.
The whole point of the session was for them to share their stories about working with Walt Disney (as in the man, not the company), though of course we were all hoping for them to deviate a little bit into sideplots in order to get the best stories that these men could tell. All of them having helped build what Disney is today, it wasn’t surprising to find them all to be brilliant storytellers and effortless entertainers. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: November 24th, 2009 | Author: fsouki | Filed under: Personal Projects | Tags: Depero Futuristi, ETC, Performa 09 | 2 Comments »
The project I’m currently working on, Depero Futuristi, just got featured as one of the best performances of the Performa 09 festival. We presented a digital reimagining of Balli Plastici, a 1918 puppet ballet, followed by a live demo of the software we developed in order to create the video performance. We had close to a hundred people show up and got a very positive reaction.
Read about the project here and here.
Check out the Performa website.
