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Sabine Gruffat is a filmmaker and digital media artist. She has experimented with animation, photography, and creating iPhone apps within this spectrum. Gruffat lives and works in North Carolina, and teaches in the Art Department at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her MFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Her most well-known work is a feature film called “I Have Always Been A Dreamer”, and analyzes the contrasting themes of the two cities of Dubai and Detroit. This was an internationally screened film, including a screening at the MOMA. She also has a collection of digital media works for the purpose of public space display, and has produced interactive installations. Currently, she is working on producing a feature documentary on the Spanish housing crisis.

I have an appreciation for the diversity in Sabine Gruffat’s work. Although she focuses on digital media, she experiments with many types of digital media in that field. This makes her portfolio of work interesting, because it is hard to predict what a piece of her work may be like. Shown below are some stills from one of Sabine’s video animation works. The entire length of the video is eleven minutes, and it experiments with color, shape, and sound.

Sources:

http://www.sabinegruffat.com

http://video.wpt.org/video/2248332675/

Marco Brambilla, born on Milan and now based in New York City, primarily creates video collages and installations. He is best well known for his complex recontextualizations of popular imagery. Brambillia has had exhibits  in The Guggenheim, San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, and New Museum of Contemporary Art. His videos have been featured in the Sundance Film Festival, and he made a collaged video for one of Kanye West’s songs. One of his famous collections, Transit, are photographs he took at airports. Shown below, is a shot from one of his videos called Evolution. This piece is a history of humankind depicted through conflict, and displays countless moving figures.

I find Brambillia’s work very impressive. His videos from the series that Evolution is from is complex, intriguing, and captivating. So much is happening at once, which works for the piece because it is trying to capture and display a huge phenomenon. Of all the artists we have studied this semester, Brambillia has caught my attention the most.

Sources:

http://marcobrambilla.com