Basic Info
Formats
Tips
Audio notes
Video and projection masks

About us
Certified quality
Seat

Email

Iko, video artist from Rimini.
“I made my videos with photos”

I have worked as an IT technician for about twelve years and I have a good relationship with IT technology. I often used IT tools for a practical application of my interests and recreational activities. Presently I’m producing videos made of computed-edited photos and appropriate music and words. In Dipingendo I portrayed the making of a painting for in leisure time and in a given place. I made about six hundred photos of two paintings starting from the blank canvas: step by step the painting photos turned into two and a half minutes of video and music, that I produced myself electronically (groove box, synthesiser), everything edited together thanks to video production software.

I have a digital camera which simplifies life by cutting photo development costs.
In a couple of hours I can take almost eight hundred pictures and then download them on a computer in about two minutes, and cut and edit them as I wish.

Obviously computer science enables you to gain almost unlimited control of what you produce and this is good, but I think the producer’s spirit always is the undisputed master of any product, whether artistic or not. I’m a bit scared of the word art, since it’s a much abused term and sometimes I don’t really want to fall into any categories. I don’t like talking much of what I do, making is the only thing which matters. There isn’t much to talk about. The nice part of it is that when making something, when a project materializes in time and space, it is somehow distorted, physically or not, for different reasons. This “random” factor is really fascinating for me.

Sometimes I don’t know what to do, but I start working anyway. Then, slowly, everything takes form and substance. This is very stimulating. I’m really happy to do what I do not plan. Often I realise that even mistakes are important because they open up the door to unforeseen prospects: new scenarios and solutions that I hadn’t taken into account before. So I let myself be lead by mistakes, which produce new points of view for an artistic creation and, sometimes, give it a new birth. Basically, to me all this is essentially a game making me feel the same pleasant and relaxing sensations as one is imbued with after any kind of play.
Playing clearly is a social experience where individual behaviour and attitudes come to surface. Playing is a bit like dreaming for me: for example, dreaming about flying like a swallow from my balcony among the trees and flowers in gardens. And by gardens I mean painting, playing instruments, writing and then, thanks to videos, I put all these “gardens”, these worlds, together in the same place; this place becomes multimedia thanks to computer science. Multimedia is no longer solely confined to entertainment.

If I had to define the essence of what I do I’d say it is pretty much like pursuing a sparkling fragment of something fleeing away, like a comet. Something shining, moving in the air and having the value of a tiny dream, a wish, an inspiration, a chimera after which I strive and can never grasp the right moment. Maybe it’s a sort of metaphor for running after the present or at least its most magic part. What I re-invent and record on a CD Rom it’s this fragment I catch glimpse of and lose immediately after.
other interviews

Filmrecording initiatives, partnerships
and contributions: from time to time, reports on our active involvement

Exclusive interviews
by Bianca Medeccia

Technical instructions