3th Channel: V-atak, curator Michele Drascek

Founded in 2002, V-Atak is a label dedicated to audio and visual art. Made up with a hybrid mix of Vj’s, moviemakers and musicians, the label grew year after year and developed an edgy identity on the Audio/Video live scene.
When performing video/audio live art and producing music clips as well, the crew is at its best by taking risks. V-Atak services and products (installations, Vjing, DVDs) reflect that constant questioning that the label has on manner and matter, playing with the ever-changing digital technology and its limits. While society, corporations and politics use images and media to exert control on the masses, V-Atak challenges common sense and ideas through images and sounds. The process that has become their trademark, distorting contemporary media icons to recreate an original sense, offers the public an opportunity to question with irony and violence the mass media representations.

FUEL TANK
Directed by TOFF alias Christophe Rannou
Music by TZII
Duration: 6’
Year of production: 2008
Location of production: FRANCE
Production: V-ATAK
DVD 16/9 PAL

Dark echo from the chaos resounds into the infinite...

Bio:
Toff, alias Christophe Rannou is an independent photographic designer, Vj and video director.
Born in Blois on February 6th, 1971.
In 1996 begins Vjing within the group Infrabass, then with Impact / Teknocrate, Uwe, Spiral spring tribe, Heretik, Circus alien...
In 2002 begins assembly on V-Atak Label Audiovisual, as well as special visual effects and shooting by pursuing the vjing. Cinemassaker. first movie, released on V-Atak 002. EXE (2006)

DEATH MARIACHI
Directed by RKO
Music by TZII & RKO
Duration: 9’45
Year of production: 2008
Location of production: MEXICO / FRANCE
Production: V-ATAK
DVD 16/9 PAL

Images and sounds collected through Mexico as postcards. Swirling around eclectic scenes of this country, a camera guides us in the inmost depths of a dolls sanctuary...
The death is only represented by the support of films, discovering little by little the dark faces of this trip to the country of Mariachis.

Bio:
Rko seems to draw his roots in a chaos theory that he applies to video in a destructive manner. Opening this century to the European sound of free parties, his experimentations, as well as those of the radical musicians that are RIPIT and TZii, are a visual, auditory, intellectual and emotional exercise of style for both him and his audiences. From this brutal initiation to a new approach to critical thinking through Vjing, he kept an immoderate taste for vitriolic reinterpretations, especially cinematic ones. All along the Cinemassaker project he has elaborated an explosive way of intervention onto film narration. Approaching all subjects in all manners, he searches for new creative ways of overlapping the works of sound and image.
Brutal and often provocative, open to new experiences and to new human relations going beyond boundaries, his work is a symbiosis between digital and human and introduces the concept of moment and ephemeral that one usually finds in live performances. His diffusion goes from museums to DVDs.

FEEDING YOUR BACK
(daisy)
Directed by 1n0ut
Music by TZII
Duration: 9’20
Year of production: 2008
Location of production: JAPAN / USA
Production: 1n0ut / V-ATAK
DVD 16/9 PAL

A digital resurrection of poor dead creatures, which is accompanied by a dark musical flow. Morphs of dead taxidermy corps tunnel a vision of dead digital eternity.

Bio:
1n0ut is an artist collective that works both collaboratively and individually on a variety of video and interactive art projects with a focus on generating synaesthetic experiences. In their work, the artists mix analogue and digital processes to achieve a perfect aesthetic blend, which can be understood as a reflection upon all our lives. Cross disciplinary by nature, their approaches reach from a self programmed real-time video montage system based on Robert Praxmarer’s ongoing PhD work to the charming photo stills and composed video works by Reinhold Bidner. Both like to think in shades of grey – between black and white – which gives the audience an experience of fuzziness, fault and, despite algorithmic perfection, harmony.
The basic material 1n0ut uses is usually created from scratch on their own. http://1n0ut.com/

PULSAR 23
Directed by Robin Kobrynski
Music by Pedro Penas Robles
Duration: 10'
Year of production: 2005
Location of production: France
Production: V-ATAK
16/9 PAL

The action is located in a post-apocalyptic world. The war ravaged a part of the humanity. Some survivors persist on this contaminated earth. Teams of human beings locked in bunker send robots to find survivors...