About. Paula Vélez. Works.(english)

Graphic designer, media and video artist, vj, teacher, asistent director, super8 activist, musical and cultural projects management. Starts her audiovisual studies in Paris where she stay for seven years and studied cinema. Actually is an EGS student for a Master of Arts in Communication program. Also is an active member, with other artist located in remote places, of Aether9, a comunication and media-art research group. She like to play with home-made technologie even being aware that it could happen a terrible desaster or fire, but she trust her intuition. Like a Vj she has been participating in the city activity for the last 4 years working with talents Dj, musicians and good friends from the rock scene, electronic, electro-acustique and experimental. Also she has been participating in conferences and must of the time like an artist at diferents festivals in Colombia and other places.

MEDIA-ART, LIVES, VJ and PERFORMANCES.

All Souls Berlin Performance. Interpretation of Fritz Lang’s Doktor Mabuse streaming from a taxi speeding through Berlin. Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery. Berlin, Germany. Oct 31, 2009

Chaotic workshop/ACT. “The last theatre show ever”. Munich, Germany. Sept 21-29. 2009

Remake Nº3. I like America and America like’s me [Brigitte]. A video for Proyecto*kraft. Casa tres Patios. Medellín. COL.

-ASEUM. Aether9 Manila Sextet. “Seasons in the Aether“. Remote performance, participation in Asia-Europe New Media Art Symposium. Manila, Philippines 21-25 July 2009

- Aether9. 5 hours remote live performance MAMM (Modern Art Museum at Medellin) for  TransSesiones. Concept and organisation. Paula Vélez and Wolfgang G. Tirado. Mde, COL 22, 23, 24  May, 2009

-Closing IX Film Festival at Santa Fé de Antioquia. A/V SET . THIS IS NOT A FILM.
made- REMA(de)KE Versión2. Live cinema simulation. Music, Gladkazuka. Invited by digital     magazine EXTRAVISMOS. Parque central. COL, 7 Dic, 2008

- IX Festival de cine de Santa Fé de Antioquia. PANEL at the launch of digital magazine EXTRABISMOS. New media, new formats and Vj.  With LCD (a.k.a. Juan Pablo Alvarado R.NOISEFERATV), “VJ Culture: Arts, crafts and New Media: Technological convergences”. Med-COL 8 Dec, 2008.

-“THIS IS NOT A FILM. made- REMA(de)KE” Vj set and Live Set with [neuma]. At the event (VII Concurso y Muestra de Videos) “MEDELLÍN PARA VERTE MEJOR” 2008 -2009, Parque Biblioteca Belén. Medellín. 24, octubre 2008.

-Conversations. Experimental story-telling and tecnologies convergence. Academic conferences in  “Medellín para verte mejor” event. Casa Barrientos de la Lectura Infantil. Oct, Medellín 2008.

-Vj set. Concert. Jazz colombian trio: Greenmonkey. Teatro Lido. Medellín. Oct, 2008

-Video live Set. “Instantáneas Rabo de Ají”. “Fiesta del Libro” with “Gordo’s Project” and Rabo de Ají. Medellín, 30 Sept, 2008.

-Remote video transmission Aether9. (Live from Medellín) Present “When anthenas convert Love in Space” for Beirut Street Festival. Beirut, Lebanon. Sep 28/2008

-Remote video transmission Aether9. LRRH. At “Perte de Signal”. (Transmission from Paris) Montreal. Canada, Agosto 2008.

-Set Vj. ARIA OBSCURA. With Djs St Laurent and Max. Paris 9 de agosto 2008

-Aether9. LRRH. Participation and projections at Short Film Festival. Tender Pixel Gallery Film Festival. Julio 2008 Londres.

-Set Vj during the closing session at the space built for the architecture festival at London do by  EXYZT groupe, Roman Bath’s inspiration  “Southwark Lido”. London Festival of Architecture.  Julio 2008

-Rebuilding Rome, participation in the interactive reconstruction of the City of Rome in a bike ride nearby the Tiber river. Audio recordings storytelling about “el Teatro-cine Roma” in ruins at Medellín.  Festival Eternal Tour. Roma, ITALIA. Julio 2008

-Cine Mariamulata. Helping mounting the cinema at el Rincón del Mar colaborating with Biblioteca Mariamulata Lectora with Diana Vargas and the young people from the village library. Sucre, Colombia. 27 de Mayo 2008

- Aether LRRH Performance. MAPPING FESTIVAL. Geneva, Switzerland. Second Performance by AETHER of Little Red Riding Hood. Special guest “Bliscappen van Maria“. April 17. 2008.

– H333 (3=hibridación). 3 especies. Con Leo Gonzales y Gregorio Gómez. Clausura de la muestra de arte sonoro.Teatro los Fundadores. Festival de la Imagen. Manizales Abril 16. 2008.

-Aether LRRH Performance. Festival Internacional de la Imagen. Sala Boris Vian, Alianza Francesa. April 19. Manizales. 2008

-Festival Internacional de la Imagen. AETHER. real-time-jam-session-mini-workshop. Manizales. April 17. 2008

- ElecroSalon Sandbox. TEAS intercontinental media arts+ performance discussion. VjTheory international streaming meeting organised by Camille Baker. (Vancouver, Montreal/Boston, London /Falmouth/Portugal, Norway / Denmark, COL). April 16, 2008

- Presentation and Mini-Screeners projections. Y presentación de Archivos Mayo. Joystick project. Videodromo. Medelink 2008.

– Festival Medelink 08. Visuales multifuncionales. VjSets for diferents artists: Original Hamster(CH), Matias Aguayo (CH), Electrosasher (IT), SpezialMaterial. Intrincate (Suisse) Mars , Medellín. 2008.

-CMYK, Aether9 performance. iMAL, Brussels, in the frame of the “Stream On You“ event. 16 Feb 2008.

-Ghost Study. A Samuel Beckett play. Aether9 performance. In the frame of Videomedeja Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia. 15 Dec, 2007

-PinkBlackPantera Vj set con GladKazuka. Terraza del Centro Cultural de España. D.F. México. Nov. 2007

-Forum Internacional de Culturas. Vj set con Gladkazuka. Monterrey, México. Nov 2007

- Camera and photography for a  Rock documentary about BAJOTIERRA a rock band from Colombia, directed by  Diana Vargas. Rock al Parque 2007. Bogotá Nov 2007.

– Stationary Æmotion. Aether9 performance and transmision. In the frame of Tremor 4 festival, Bogotá, Colombia. 09 Nov 2007

-WORM Festival. Sound transmission. Stationary æmotion, æther9 remote storytelling performance. Real-time broadcasting. Labouretum Lumbrici, (Rotterdam, NL). Oct. 2007

-Vj set 100%. Milky Toys Party con GladKazuka, B-cell, Milca- The Philler. Club Universitario. Sep, 2007

-Vj set at first anniversary concert, Panorama. El Suiche, Medellín. Sep, 2007

-Home made analogue streaming tests. Perros al aire. Sound improvisation with objects and electronic toys. Art exposition: Un poquito Complicado, aparatos y acción en honor a la tecnología. Casa tres patios. Medellín. Sep, 2007

-Pixelache, urban laboratory of new medias and creative networks. Vj set and colaborations. June, 2007

-Agono. Performance with Mauricio Alvarez, Natalia Valencia and Maria Hermelin. El Suiche, Centro Colombo Américano. Medellín. 2007

-Æther9/Remote Fairytales. The girl without hands. Performance at MAAC, Brussels. 2007

-Aether9. First remote video performance at Mapping Fest. Geneve. Suisse. 2007

-Live Vj concert Panorama, Casa del encuentro, Museo de Antioquia. MDE07. 2007

-Sapho, Un poeta en Nueva York, performance and lecture of poems from Federico Garcia Lorca. Galeria 10-36. Medellín.

-EyesNeedSugar, Paris. Max (France), Cormac + MikkiMost (UK), K.I.S.S (France). 2007

-Concert BajoTierra, Macondo. Live streeming Paris-Medellín, 2006

-Live Vj Concert Panorama. Teatro Matacandelas. 2006

-Medelink Fest- with Los Vecinos, POL (Suiza), Los Mismos (Chile) 2006

-Fête de la musique. Medellin- with Dj Orphan, (FR). 2006.

-GladKazuka- CPPP (Platoniq), Universidad de Antioquia. 2005.

– Los Vecinos- Bar Socorro (Bogotà), El dia del Robot , Galeria 10-36, Minimal Live Act en La Kasa (con SweetN’Candy, Kompakt Alemania) 2005 y 2006

-Live Claudio Alvarez and DandyHead- Galeria 10-36. 2006

-Vjset. PuroGold. Feria Colombia Moda. 2006

PROJECTS AND WORKS

Aether9 Residency at _____micro research [berlin]. Germany. 26-31 Oct. 2009

- Pontevedra Verde . Recycling project in my own neiborghood for a better living. It didn’t work very good, but I’m still working on it to convince people. 2009

Cultural Center Project. First phase of development for  Mariamulata construction project at Rincón del Mar village. 24 May 2009

- Trans-Sesiones. Concept and organisation for a Musical jam , experimental sound and vision proyect with Wolfgang G. Tirado (galería 1036) and MAMM (Museum of modern art from Medellín) Conversations + experimental sound and visual jam. Internationals and local participants. May 2009.

-Project with Joystick - El Suiche- Concerts and projections. Centro Colombo Americano, Alianza Francesa, MAMM (museum of modern art) Medellín 2006-2009.

-Project Screeners- Paris in PICTURETANK 2007, at cinemateca distrital Bogotá and Galerie 10-36, Medellín. 2006.

-Labo-Rincon del Mar. Multidiciplinary project. Documentary and ecological cultural project. Rincón del Mar, Sucre. Colombia. 2005-until today.

-Cine Mariamulata. Helping mounting the cinema at el Rincón del Mar colaborating with Biblioteca Mariamulata Lectora with Diana Vargas and the young people from the village bibliotheque. Sucre, Colombia. 27 de Mayo 2008 until today.

-Archivos Mayo, HoneyLoveHateTogether: 2004, vidéo edition by Galerie Espai Zero1, Olot, España (2005). Show in Festival Rojo Profundo Cinema Zombie edition, Colombo Americano and Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín. 2005

-Special compilation. Video: “Film”. Numero Rojo Miho Magazin. ESP . 2003.

-Bip; official selection video. Festival Internacional de la Image, Manizales 1997.

-BAJOTIERRA. EP. Sala X. En la Fila. Member and record: saxophone. Studio Midi-Mix . June 1990.