RubenFro & Tim Maxwell

RubenFro (Ruben Frosali) a visual effects artist and director based in Tokyo. He specializes in volumetric captures, point clouds, and dynamic environments, with over 16 years of experience. In 2018, he focused on immersive content, creating art installations like “Dissolving Realities Shibuya Takeover” shown in Japan, Taiwan, and New Zealand. RubenFro has directed and animated VFX for music videos like “Green Juice ASAP Ferg ft Pharrel Williams,” commercials, and award-winning video art, including “Dissolving Realities” and “DAT.” In May 2022, He joined JADU AR as Head of Cinematics, where he worked with Michael Bay on the JADU AVAs trailer and designed dynamic environments for the AVA collection. RubenFro has also given lectures on point cloud rendering and immersive media at Wellington Victoria University and the University of Auckland.
Passionate about traveling, photography, and music composition, RubenFro’s creativity knows no bounds.

Tim Maxwell ‒ born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1978 and has lived and worked in New York City the past 25 years. He received his BFA from Penn State University in 2002, and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2004. He has had solo shows at Marvelli, Derek Eller, and RARE Gallery and has been included in group exhibitions at White Columns and
Massimo Audiello Inc. in New York, as well as Galerie Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker and Art on Paper magazine.

The artists in collaboration created “Web3 : The Odd See”‒ an allegory based on Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey”.

Animation Film Studio of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław

Animation Film Studio led by Aga Jarząb, PhD. is part of the Department of Media Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw since 2022. The studio supports students in realizing their original animated etudes and helps promote their work at festivals and artistic reviews.

The leading professor – Aga Jarząb – has cooperated with Kinomural from the very beginning: she presented her solo works during the first edition, as well as (twice) live actions with the kinoMANUAL manufacture; she has been coordinating the open call for students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw for the last three years. “Interloop”, a semester work, was created by eight people: Iren Kluiy, Hanna Kuliga, Róża Skrzypecka, Piotr Tokarz, Anastasiia Tynnyk and Maria Zakrzewska – script and animation, Aga Jarząb – coordination and animation, Maciej Bączyk – editing and sound. The soundtrack is composed of a piece by the band Pin Park.

Alexander Dupuis

Animator and musician from the United States. Drawing on sci-fi cartoon and op art patterns, his recent animations depict fantastical worlds whose inhabitants must grapple with unearthly powers. His video and new media work has been screened and played in international festivals and concerts, and he has performed as a guitarist in the Happy Valley Band and the Verdant Vibes new music collective.

Zuzanna Fluder

A 3-rd year student of experimental film at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. She works mainly with animation and focuses mostly on editing when it comes to film. A creative experimenter, searching for new means of narration. Her works combine stop-motion animation, film, and VR techniques. They have been presented at Berlin festivals, including 17 Polnishes Filmfestival and Zebra Poetry Filmfestival. She took part in the False Flag exhibition in the city of Gliwice. Her film “Strych” (“The Attic”) was shown at the Szczecin Film Festival and at the Nektar z Innej Planety in Poznan. She collaborated with the Contemporary Theatre in Szczecin, creating animations to promote its performances: „Piknik pod wiszącą skałą”, „Edukacja seksualna”, and „Król Potworów”.

xyckshyt

Spatial and audiovisual artist playing around with ambient, noisy, and raw textures and soundscapes to create places that are detached from meanings. These places do not require any knowledge on background stories or subtext. Places are focused on stimulating emotions and brought out for mere experience. xyckshyt as a source of sublime feelings, feeds the created experiences with whatever is uneasy, unknown, terrible, thrashy, ugly, sorrowful, or in any sort related to darkness. And invites you to witness it all. They are currently working on spatial interventions, audiovisual performances, electronic music and generative visuals.

Tsz-wing HO

Animator and illustrator born and living in Hong Kong. She obtained Master of Fine Arts in Creative Media from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in 2022. She creates animation and illustration by exploring the possibilities of abstract art. Her animation works were awarded the Best Abstract Animation Award at 2021 London International Animation Festival, “Vimeo Staff Pick” in 2022 and the “Junior Jury Award for a Graduation Film” at 2020 Annecy International Animated Film Festival, etc.

TS/CN

Digital art studio, based in Paris, creator of Audiovisual installations and performances. Created by Valentin Fayaud and Nicolas Michel, the duo’s work is focused on digital generative sculptures. They are respectively graduated from a sound engineering school and a « Digital Arts » Master at la Sorbonne. The creation of TS/CN studio marks a desire to move away from « the piece of art » as a fixed and definitive object. Rather, the installations they develop are characterized by a time and spatial evolution. They are interested in the close relationship between the artist’s proposal and the content produced by the machine. With the help of DATAS (time, sound, visual, algorithmic), TS/CN structures a bilateral communication system with the computer.

Robert Seidel

Robert Seidel is interested in pushing the boundaries of abstracted beauty through cinematographic approaches, as well as ones drawn from science & technology. His projections, installations and experimental films have been shown in numerous international festivals and museums such as the Palais des Beaux-Arts Lille, ZKM Karlsruhe and MOCA Taipei.

radzikows

An audio-visual artist, author of installations and videos, mentor, graphic designer, and musician. Graduate of the Media Art Department of the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. He works in the domain of generative art and explores post-digital aesthetics. His works focus on philosophical and scientific subjects. He also likes to transform the bizarreness and absurd around us into a generative surrealism. In 2021 he co-created a broadcast in Radio Kapitał radio station together with the sepr.online collective. He lives and works in Wrocław.