INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION: FALL 2013
BYTE GALLERY INTERNATIONAL
EXHIBITIONS feature works that are judged and selected by Transylvania
University faculty for inclusion in the BYTE Gallery. Professional artists, composers, and
dramatists from around the world enter this competition. These exhibits give Transylvania students an
exclusive front row seat at the leading edge of international digital art and
music scenes.
This exhibition, as part of the
STUDIO 300 Festival, presents forty-five works submitted by professional
composers and artists from across the globe, including the United States, the
United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Argentina, Ireland, Iran,
Japan, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Poland, and the Ukraine. These works were selected from a pool of
several hundred entries.
Studio 300 Exhibition
BYTE GALLERY
En Su Vaivén by Nora
Ponte & Yvette Nevares, Puerto Rico
En Su Vaivén is an electronic music-video art piece
inspired by "Rockaby" by Samuel Beckett. It takes Beckett's text as
starting point, transforming it in sound and image. Mimetic spaces of music and
images are equally bare and equally marked by the spatial embedding of empty
space. The inner repetition of minimal situations makes us to perceive complete
loneliness. Active loneliness, awaiting repetition that only exists in
remembrance. Repetition becomes ritornello. The ritornello is a prism, a Space-Time
crystal that works on the surroundings, sound or light to extract from it
varied vibrations, de-compositions, projections and transformations.
Winner of the Christoph Delz International Composition
Competition (Switzerland) and the Municipal Prize of Composition of Buenos
Aires, Nora Ponte’s works have been performed around the world. She received
grants from the Italian Government and the Antorchas Foundation. She has been
guest and participant at numerous festivals and conferences like Borealis
Festival (Norway), New Music Festival (North Carolina), International Computer
Music Conference, Art, New Music and Sound Experimentation Festival, Caribbean
Composers Forum, Interamerican Festival for the Arts, Art Sound Festival
(Puerto Rico). She is an Associate Professor and Director of the Electronic
Music Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico.
