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ATANAS DJONOV

 

Personal Data

 

                        Born 1972, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

                        Lives in Sydney, Australia

                        Website: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ozaharieva/AtanasDjonov.html

 

Education

 

Present           PhD research in Time-Based Art, School of Media Arts,

College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney

 

2002                Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours Class I – Major Time-Based Art, COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney

 

1998                                Certificate II in Film & T.V. Production Techniques,

Wesley Mission Employment and Training, Sydney

 

1994                Completed video production course at the College of Journalism and Mass Communication,

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria

 

1990                                Completed High School Certificate  at Secondary Polytechnic School, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

 

Achievements and Awards

 

 

2008                Performance Space Residency Work Development, Compass II,

19 May – 06 June 2008, Sydney

 

2007                Social / Political Film Award Winner of Sydney Underground Film Festival,

the Factory Theatre, 7-10 Sept 2007, Sydney, Australia

 

2007                PLATFORMA VIDEO7, Athens, Greece, invited as one of the five members of the festival’s international jury http://www.platforma.gr

 

2006                Recipient of the COFA Student Conference Travel Grant, COFA, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia

 

2003                Recipient of the Australian Postgraduate Award, COFA, University of NSW, Sydney

 

2002                First Prize Winner of Corto di Cinema Lucca Short Film Festival, Italy

 

2002                                Recipient of UNSW Honours Year Scholarship, Sydney

 

1999                                Third Prize Winner in the Animation Category of The National Student Film & Video Festival, Sydney

 

1998                                Selected as one of the six finalists for the Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society Award, COFA, University of NSW, Sydney


Curatorial Experience

 

2007                PLATFORMA VIDEO 7, Athens, Greece, appointed curator for the tribute section of the festival with the programme Mind the Steps –

selection of time-based art works produced recently in Australia

 

2007                Australian Video Art, selection of video art works produced recently in Australia, Art Alley Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

 

2007                Australian Video Art, Dechko Uzunov Galley, Sofia, Bulgaria

 

2006                Electrofringe Festival, appointed curator for the Electroprojections programmes, 28 Sept - 02 Oct 2006, Newcastle, Australia

 

2006                Revelation 9, International Film Festival/Conference July 2006, curator of the Experimental Showcase -

programme of recent Australian and International experimental films, Luna SX Cinema, 22nd of July 2006, Perth, Australia

 

2005                Look Right – Video works #4, curating the Sydney Moving Image Coalition screening event at the Fig Tree Theatre,

November 2005, Kensington, Sydney

 

2005                Train Ink – Video works #3, curating the SMIC screening event at the Fig Tree Theatre, October 2005, Kensington, Sydney

 

2005                Area – Video works #2, curating the SMIC screening event at the Fig Tree Theatre, August 2005, Kensington, Sydney

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2008                Selected Video Works 2001 – 2008, 23 May – 6 June 2008 Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne

 

2007                Compass II, pilot performative multi-channel audio –visual new media art installation,

Kudos Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, 4 – 9 June 2007

Exhibition Catalogue

 

Selected Festival Screenings, Performances and Group Exhibitions

 

2007                Sydney Underground Film Festival, the Factory Theatre,

7-10 Sept 2007, Sydney, Australia

 

2007                Digital Voices, Olympia International Arts Festival, 29 July 2007, Forest Theatre of Ancient Olympia, Greece

 

2006                Animateka 06, International Animation Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

2006                Platforma Video 6, International Video and Film Festival, Athens, Greece, 7 – 12 December 2006

 

2006                IAF3, International Animation Festival, Istanbul, Turkey

 

2006                Postcard from Australia, 2005-2006, Festival of Fischer’s Ghost Art Award, 3 – 18 November 2006, Campbelltown Art Centre, Sydney, Australia

 

2006                Electroprojections, Electrofringe, 28 Sept - 02 Oct 2006, Newcastle, Australia

 

2006                Pole Shiroko - Wide-Open Fields, 2005, video performance with A Cappella choir Nothing Without Belinda, d/Art/2006 Festival,

12 April – 7 May 2006, the Studio, Opera House, Sydney, Australia

 

2006                Compass I, 2001-2002, exhibited at the Third International Conference on Multimodality, May 2006, Pavia, Italy

                       

2006                Spin-Off, 2006, Site-specific performance presented at the

Drift - Video works #5, SMIC screening event, Fig Tree Theatre, Kensington, Sydney

 

2006                Postcard from Australia, 2005-2006,

                        Screened at the Drift - Video works #5, SMIC screening event, Fig Tree Theatre, Kensington, Sydney, Australia

 

2005                Escape, 2005, included in the official selection of Fluxus 2005 – 5th International Film Festival on the Internet www.fluxusonline.com

 

2005                Compass I, 2001-2002, presented at the Look Right – Video works #4, SMIC screening event, Fig Tree Theatre, Kensington, Sydney

 

2005                Oi Mesechino, 2005, Atanas Djonov & Vergo, video performance, presented at the Look Right – Video works #4, SMIC screening event, Fig Tree Theatre, Kensington, Sydney

 

2005                Wave, 2005, and Hangman, 2005, screened at Look Right – Video works #4, SMIC screening event, Fig Tree Theatre, Kensington, Sydney

 

2005                Google’s Montage, 2005, and Scale, 2002, exhibited as part of AV OUT – an Exhibition of Contemporary Screen and Sound Art, Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney

 

2005                Pole Shiroko – Wide-Open Fields, 2005, video performance presented with A Capella Choir – Nothing Without Belinda,

Train Ink – Video works #3, SMIC screening event, Fig Tree Theatre, Kensington, Sydney, Australia

 

2005                Advance!,­ 2005, screened at Area – Video works #2, SMIC screening event, Fig Tree Theatre, Kensington, Sydney, Australia

2004                Match, 2002, exhibited at High Beam Driver Lane with HALCYON DRIVE, Melbourne, Australia

 

2004                Circlework, collaborative work presented at the 2004 International Forum for Media & Digital Art,

Tainan National University of the Arts Kaoshiung, Tainan, Taipei, Taiwan

 

2004                Circlework, collaborative work included in the Regen Festival, Broken Hill, Australia

 

2002                A Film, 2001, included in the official selection of d>ART02 International Showcase of Experimental Media Art,

Dendy Opera Quays, Part of the 49th Annual Sydney Film Festival

 

2002                Video Player, 2001 included in the official selection of BRITSPOTTING 2002, British Independent Film Festival,

Berlin, Germany

 

2002                                Compass I, 2001-2002, exhibited at the Annual COFA Exhibition

 

2002                Hourglass, exhibited at “The Left Room”, Knot Gallery,

Surry Hills, Sydney

 

2002                Monotonous I - V, featured in This is not House, sound exhibition with live performances, Kudos Gallery, Paddington, Sydney

 

2002                One, Second…, exhibited at Speak up: Visions of Alternate Worlds, COFA Performance Space, UNSW, Sydney

 

2002                Second Nature, exhibited at Appliance,

SOLARCH (Solar Research Centre), UNSW, Sydney

 

2001                Loop, multi-media performance presented as part of Fragile, 2001, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney

 

1999                Second Nature, exhibited at the Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society Scholarship Exhibition, COFA, UNSW, Sydney

 

List of Art Works

 

Compass II, in progress, interactive multi-channel audio‐visual new media art installation

Arriving, 2007, DV, experimental video, 1 min 46 sec

Walking Together, 2007, DV, experimental video, 2 min 43 sec

                        Terrotate, 2006, Site-specific performance

El Pueblo, 2006/7, DV, experimental video, 3 min 28 sec

Dawn, 2006, DV, experimental video, 3min 40 sec

Escape, 2004/5, colour, stop-motion animation, 3 min 45 sec

Look Right, 2005, stop-motion animation, 32 sec

Postcard from Australia, 2005-2006, DV, experimental video, 2 min 14 sec

Aurora, 2004-2006, DV, experimental video, 1 min 50 sec

Google’s Montage, 2005, experimental video, 1 min 25 sec

Pole Shiroko - Wide-Open Fields, 2005, DV, experimental video, 3 min 40 sec

PA, 2005, DV, experimental video, 36 sec

Advance, 2005, DV, experimental video, 3min 30 sec

Wave, 2005, DV, experimental video, 2 min 30 sec

Hangman, 2001-2005, stop-motion animation, 1 min 33 sec

Introverto, 2001-2005, stop-motion animation, 1 min 20 sec

Keyhole Home, 2005, stop-motion animation, 40 sec

Renaissance, 2003, stop-motion animation, 23 sec

Compass I, 2002, four-channel DVD video installation, 30 min

Hourglass, 2002, b&w/colour photo-sculpture

Ti (You), 2002, b&w stop-motion animation, 13 sec

A3, (I), 2002, b&w, stop-motion animation, 21 sec

Scale, 2002, DV, experimental video, 4 min 24 sec

                        Still, 2002, DV, experimental video, 3 min

One, Second…, 2002, mixed media installation

Match, 2002, stop-motion animation, 2 min 40 sec

Video Player, 2001, stop-motion animation, 2 min 55 sec

Loop, 2001, multi-media performance

A Film, 2000, DV, experimental video, 16 min 20 sec

Second Nature, 1999, video installation

 

Discography

 

Monotonous I – V,

Edition of five discs compilations of experimental music and soundtrack compositions

 

Selected Publications and Reviews

 

2007                Djonov, A., & Djonov, E. (in press).

The Art of Navigating Viewers: Interactivity as the Interplay between Artist and Audience Choices in the Unfolding of an Audio-Visual Art Installation.

In A. Baldry & E. Montagna (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Multimodality:

Theory and practice. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multimodality. Campobasso: Palladino.

 

2007                Australian Video Art Programme in Sofia, Bulgaria

                        Article review published on Cult.bg, 9th of January 2007

 

2007                UTube on the Internet, selection of art works by Atanas Djonov

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=adjonov

 

2006                Australian video Art in Sofia, article review published in

Novinar – Bulgarian newspaper, December 2006

 

2006                Magical, micro, experimental & underground, Anna Arabindan-Kesson at the 9th Revelation Film Festival, RealTime issue #75 Oct-Nov 2006 pg. 17

 

2006                Pole Shiroko – article review published in Emigrant - online magazine, 18th of April 2006

 

Selected Paper Presentations and Artist Talks

 

2007                Navigating Viewers: Applying montage theory to new media art and reconceptualising interactivity,

Paper given for Communications and New Media (CNM)

Programme Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore, 24 January 2007

 

2007                Australian Video Art, Dechko Uzunov Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria,

12th of January 2007

 

2007                Australian Video Art, Art Alley Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria,

17th of January 2007

 

2006                Third International Conference on Multimodality, Pavia, Italy, Paper given jointly with Emilia Djonov,

Title: The Art of Navigating Viewers: Interactivity as the Interplay between Artist and Audience Choices in the Unfolding of an Audio-Visual Art Installation

                       

2005                Spatial Montage in New Media Installation Art, seminar paper given at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, Apr. 2005

 

2004                Regen Festival, Broken Hill, Australia

 

Collections

                       

College of Fine Arts, UNSW, library, Sydney, Australia

Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney, Australia

                        IAF3, International Animation Festival Library, Istanbul, Turkey

d/Lux/Media Arts, Sydney, Australia

Animateka Animation Festival Library, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Revelation 9 Film Festival Library, Perth, Australia

                        Electrofringe Festval, Newcastle, Australia

Fluxus International Film Festival on the Internet

Platforma, Urban Culture Library, Athens, Greece

                        Dechko Uzunov Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

                        Corto di Cinema Lucca Film Festival Library, Italy

BRITSPOTTING Festival Library, Berlin, Germany

 

 

 

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