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Tina Frank

Historia

Tina Frank is an Austrian designer, artist, and educator at the University of Art and Design Linz where she is heading the Department Visual Communication at the Institute for Media. Her focus lies on the translation from one medium (text, music, information, etc.) into visual experiences. She has been collaborating with musicians to create record covers, audio-visual performances and installations presented all around the world, such as Ars Electronica, Linz; Centre Pompidou, Paris; ICC, Tokyo, and played live at numerous festivals such as Sonar, Atonal, Mutek, etc. Her works are represented in international collections for video art, experimental film and digital synaesthesia. Frank’s visualizations are characterized by an abstract formal language and an intense colourfulness that playfully explore the limits of perception.

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Prototipo

Director

Exploding with saturated light, colour, movement and synaesthetic sound, ’Prototipo is a perception shifting audiovisual work based on two live recordings by General Magic and Tina Frank in Vienna and London.

Frozen Jumper

Director

"Frozen Jumper" begins in hit-and-run style with a pulsating textural noise. Flickering, nearly rectangular patterns join on the image plane, at first in black-and-white, bringing to mind the sprocket holes in celluloid film and, not least due to the lack of geometric precision, giving the impression of a pre-digital origin. As the soundtrack rattles on in a minimalistic way, the pattern’s twitchy dance is submerged in various warm hues such as yellow, pink, light green and light blue, which in a different rhythm and to a more agreeable music could be perceived as the signature of slightly retro psychedelia.

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Are these the images of a rocket throttling its engine and landing? Or are we in the bedlam of a nuclear air raid—should we scurry for shelter? The compositions recall satellite images of destruction: fire, hot lava, or the sun itself. Tina Frank continues her impressive body of work in visual music—which featured many collaborations with the musician Peter Rehberg. Pliii is also a tribute to the late artist. (tr)

Stardust Manifesto

Director

Las palabras aparecen fantasmales. Se forman oraciones que adquieren vida propia. El texto cambia, se reformula como una conciencia viva. Algunas palabras se remarcan en un juego pictórico de vibrante degradación visual.

Two Graves

Standby Art Director

Margaret Powers—a middle aged, middle class doctor of pathology—seeks a path of vengeance when she captures and tortures the young man she believes murdered her son, but in a bid to extract a confession, that path to vengeance leads to tragedy and unearths deeply troubling truths.

Colterrain

Director

Colterrain by Tina Frank plays with the Synchronator device, which translates sound into RGB video frequencies to create a work of true visual music in which the image is literally the sound turned into colour and filmed live using analogue equipment.

Chronomops

Director

The doors of perception, electronic style. Tina Frank’s Chronomops opens doors to truly different dimensions: different than digital art’s reductionist studies so common today, different than the serially laid out minimalist images, and different than the omnipresent filtering and layering experiments. Chronomops opens up a shimmering, colorful space that is simultaneously an excess of color, frenzy of perception, and pop carousel. An abstract architecture of vertical color bars is set in endless rotation, whereby the modules and building blocks fly around themselves—and the entire system likewise rotates. The forced movement forms a digital maelstrom whose suction pulls the observer deep into it.

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The digital data of individual sounds created by electronic musician Pita was translated directly into geometric graphic elements. Black-and-white grids were positioned behind a round mask, which jerkily changes in shape from a circle to an oval.