ARTaVIVA ARTISTS: 

DAVID BERRY,  Digital Artist and Filmmaker, was educated at CalArts in Los Angeles and immediately gravitated towards film graphics and animation.  He began his career working on Star Wars, in visual effects, specifically Optical Effects.  For the next 10 years, Dave worked on various films including Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Empire Strikes Back, Star Trek:  The Wrath of Khan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and won an Academy Award in 1986 (Visual Effects for Cocoon). In 1986, Dave began to produce various video projects and eclectic music videos. He entered the Digital Revolution in 1993 and continues to explore artistic expression through digital media.

VICTORIA JORDANOVA is a composer, improvisor and a sound artist. Ms. Jordanova creates "graceful and surreal expressions of haunting beauty" by melding experimental techniques with classical music training. New York Newsday selected her recording “Requiem for Bosnia and Other Works” as one of the top ten classical recordings of the year. Acclaimed by the critics Jordanova’s music is also performed by ensembles such as Bang on the Can All Stars, E.A.R. Unit, and Zeitgeist. Ms. Jordanova also scores music for films and her sound works were exhibited at LA County Museum of Art, Alaska Museum of History and Art and other venues.

NAOMIE KREMER is a painter and a media artist. Working in both paint and digital media she explores the unique properties of each as well as their relationship to each other.

"Painting allows me to visualize and materialize simultaneously," she says. "Animation is delayed gratification – the pleasure of the piece comes mostly when it’s finished, rather than in the process of working on it. Like the paintings, the animations are improvisations, each decision generating the next. In computer animation, it’s possible to literally have simultaneous stories unfolding in time, creating an 'ambient animation,' akin to ambient music."

Ms. Kremer's sources include music, poetry, photography, physics, and all kinds of space – natural, architectural and cyberspace. She is interested in the simultaneity of events that occur in the world, which we know about but can only experience in a poetic and philosophical sense. In painting she explores this using rhythm, detail, color, and scale.

Naomie Kremer exhibits her work internationally and is acclaimed by the critics. Her pieces are part of numerous important private, public, and corporate collections. In conjunction with the major exhibition of her work in March 2005 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art published a monograph of her work entitled Keeping Time: Naomie Kremer Works 1992-2004 with essays by Eleanor Heartney, Amei Wallach, and Cathy Kimball. Naomie Kremer bases her art practice in both Oakland, California and Paris, France.

RELJA PENEZIC is a media artist, painter, printmaker, photographer, and a filmmaker. His work is a multimedia blend that combines technology and painting, performance and video, art and craft. Penezic exhibits his work internationally in museums and galleries and his short films were shown at film festivals throughout the world. His 2002 Audio/Video installation entitled "Panopticon" in collaboration with composer Victoria Jordanova and California EAR Unit was presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and published by ArpaViva label as a DVD and is distributed by Cinema Guild of New York. In 2004 he was selected to create a permanent media installation in a style of ARTaVIVA Art Video/Motion Paintings by Alaska Arts Council. In addition to an international career as an artist he served as a Creative Director for ID8, Los Angeles based branding agency, an Art Director and a Designer for Jump Ship Studios, San Francisco. He was a lecturer at the Princeton University School of Architecture, Haverford College, and Bowling Green State University.

ONDREY RUDAVSKY is a multi-talented artist working in painting, sculpture, digital prints, graphics, photography and film. A native of Slovakia, Ondrej was educated at the College of Fine Arts and Crafts in Slovakia and at the University of Fine Arts and Crafts in Prague. He lives and works in both the United States and Europe. Ondrej’s unusual visual outlook translates very well to the medium of video paintings with an eye for the unexpected. His fresh visual style complements the other artists of ARTaVIVA with an exciting new take on artistic forms. Ondrej’s installation, exhibitions and awards are numerous. In 1997, Ondrej’s work was part of the XLVII Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition. He has had solo and group exhibitions of video work, painting, sculpture, digital prints, graphics and photography in Los Angeles, Vienna, Bratislava, Washington, D.C., Moscow, Budapest, and Hong Kong just to name a few. He has won awards for his graphic film work and has participated in film festivals and installations ranging from the 2006 ANNECY Animation Film Festival in France to the L.A. International Biennial Art Invitational of 2001 to Lincoln Center in New York.

GORAN VEJVODA is video and sound artist based in Paris. After studying music in Belgrade, he turned to contemporary music and art. Guitarist with various rock bands (Idoli, in former-Yugoslavia and Oko 3 in France), he worked with Enki Bilal composing the soundtracks for Tykho Moon and Immortel, with Angelin Preljocaj on his Paris Opera shows (Le Parc & Casanova), and with Jacques Ossang on music for his films. He has several solo albums, latest one Fruit Cloud and Harmonie, (Japan) he also collaborated on albums such as: The Dreambird (Brazil) with Suba, Mikro-Organizmi with Rambo (Serbia-Montenegro), and What with Zerone (France). In 1986 he published a book on Brian Eno and is currently preparing a compendium on sound art. He has exhibited since 1981 and in 2004 was part of the exhibition “Off The Record”, at the Arc/Musée D’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.