Resumen de la ponencia

By taking classical music out of the museum and reinterpreting it as 21st century media, our work “Pictures at an Exhibition” endeavors to create a contemporary expression for the classic music as well as to create a new experiential context for animation art. This hybrid theatrical form blends musical performance, animation, graphics, lighting design, and architecture to create a physical experience that immerses the audience and redefines the music. Music, one of the only purely abstract art forms, becomes energized and visceral through animated images. We embrace the idea of “the visualist director”, recognizing the contemporary importance of purely visual expression, both narrative and non-narrative.

Información acerca del ponente

Michael Patterson

Mike Patterson is an animator and director of music videos, commercials, and blended media projects. He began his career in 1985 by animating the MTV hit, “Take On Me” for A-Ha. Teaming up with his wife Candace Reckinger, they directed a string of MTV hits. In fall of 2006, Mike’s Student Academy Award
winning animated film “Commuter” was added into the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection along with seven Patterson-Reckinger music video clips. As a director of TV commercials at Rhythm & Hues Studios, he combined live action with animation and visual effects. He recently co-directed “Pictures
at an Exhibition”, a symphonic visual music project commissioned by conductor Michael Tilson Thomas for the opening of the New World Center in Miami designed by Frank Gehry. Patterson is an Associate Professor at USC’s John C. Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts.

Candace Reckinger

Candace Reckinger is an artist and director working in blended media and visual music. For 10 years, she was 1/2 the team Patterson+Reckinger creating award-winning music videos for MTV including the hits A-ha ‘Take On Me’, Suzanne Vega “Luka”, Sting “Be Still My Beating Heart’ and Paula Abdul “Opposites Attract” which won a Grammy. She currently teaches in the USC animation program and co-directed ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’, a symphonic visual music project commissioned by conductor Michael Tilson Thomas for the opening of the New World Center in Miami, designed by Frank Gehry. She is currently working on “Paradise”, an immersive multi-screen projection merging photography, abstraction, text and music.