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Tom Wilson is a British journalist and movie director based in Bucharest since 2002. After graduating in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University, he worked as a print and radio journalist for Time Magazine, the BBC, Deutsche Welle, The Guardian, and The Independent. His directing work includes short films for the BBC (Ion Barladeanu, Romanian artist, Gypsy Walls, The Last Leper Colony), The Times Newspaper, and commercial clips for various clients and agencies. His most recent project, and his first feature film, The Bucuresti Experiment, recently won the 2014 Gopo Award for Best Documentary. It was shot entirely independently and on a minimal budget of reportedly 250 EUR.

Through his editorial and artistic activity, Dan Perjovschi has played a major role in the development of the Romanian civil society. Inspired by current news stories, his minimalistic drawings are keen observations on political, social and cultural events.

 His art both occupies the walls and windows of art institutions and public spaces, and is also disseminated through social media, his humurous, critical, but also empathetic point of view offering people a visual means to reflect upon the inequalities in their society.

 Perjovschi’s work has been exhibited at MoMA in New York, Tate Modern in London, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Venice Biennial, amongst many others. Together with his life partner, Lia Perjovschi, he was awarded the 2013 Princess Margriet Award.

 ”As an artist you have both a freedom and a responsibility. You increase your freedom by knowing things and by sharing this knowledge.”

The brainchild of Eugen Erhan and Tudor Muscalu, Fredo & Pid’jin is a webcomic that features two villainous pigeons always on a destroy-the-world mission. Tudor (in charge of writing) and Eugen (in charge of drawing) take on timely or taboo subjects, and turn them into witty and, sometimes, raunchy observations about the ”real world”.

Since 2005 when it came into existence, Fredo & Pid’jin has gathered a cult of followers on Reddit and Digg, received high praises from one of the creators of The Simpsons, and has been pictured on the set of Breaking Bad.

Based on innovation, KOTKI visuals Studio creates real-time experiences in the fields of visual & performing arts, art in public spaces, live communication and alternative advertising. Founded in 2006 by media artists Mihaela Kavdanska & Dilmana Yordanova, who are also known for their AVmotional Platform’s festival and series of events, it was among the first production outlets in Eastern Europe to develop and implement projects that connect people, technology and the environment in new, exciting ways.

Human interaction, body and movement play an important role in KOTKI visuals’ projects. Whether they’re doing 3D video mapping on static or dynamic objects, buildings and open spaces, or choosing to set sparkle with image and sounds, their work frequently involves an interdisciplinary approach. Their latest collaborations lead to the development of several interactive media platforms for performing arts and installations.

Created for the Bells&Mechanisms performance at ZonaDans Studio, “Costumised” used sensors, microcontrollers, conductive materials and wireless gadgets to allow the human touch to generate sound in real time. Both the choreography and the overall visual appearance were based on the juxtaposition of the horizontal and vertical planes and their relative perceptions.

First presented at the Ars Electronica Festival, then at the Use At Your Own Risk exhibition in Bucharest, “4th Skin” reveals an interactive platform for dynamic video mapping on moving bodies, using real-time video footage, live visuals or other pre-existing content. Captured in real-time with wireless webcams or microscopes, images of the performers’ explorations are projected back on their bodies, creating a layer of multimedia “skin” or garment. Various other sources can be used for the projections and their background.

"We get to deliver an emotional state of mind, but everything that lays behind often remains hidden. What the public gets to see is just the wondrous feast they’re being served. Aside from being new and niche, there is always more to interactive art than what meets the eye.”

Andy ‘Sinboy’ Luke is a Spanglish illustrator and painter who’s been based in Bucharest for the last 12 years. He began as a graffiti artist and progressed into installations, comics books and animation. He has always been linked to punk and underground subcultures and has painted and exhibited in Bucharest, London, Madrid, New York, LA, Prague and Belgium amongst others.

“I’ll be your mercenary with a pair of balls. Pay me to throw a bucket of paint on the competition’s billboards, or to make a dinosaur out of burning tires. I promise you’ll be happy.”

He’s a maverick, he’s an outsider, he doesn’t play by the rules and he’s our February speaker. 

This is just a teaser, come see the real deal on February, 28th. 

Minitremu aims to bring art closer to children, and the present closer to the future. An initiative of the artistic duo Monotremu, Minitremu is the name of the non-profit organization that fills the developmental needs of children with meaningful art made accessible and fun. Their projects involve thought-provoking toys, sparking children’s imagination and enabling them to come up with their own version of the world.

‘Pure Joy’ brings the monumental works of world famous sculptor Constantin Brancusi into the tiny hands of toddlers. The project recreates four of Brancusi’s sculptures in the form of wooden toys, with contemporary art milestones such as ‘The Silent Table’ and ‘The Endless Column’ turned into friendly, colorful toy blocks that resemble Froebel’s ‘gifts’. 

The coloring book based on the drawings of politically-minded artist Dan Perjovschi introduces children to modern  life. Readers are welcome to view the world through Perjovschi’s satirical lens, and think critically of our day-to-day existence in its social and economic aspects. The project gives children a chance to make the world their own, while  encouraging them to change it. 

Minitremu challenges the current practices of working with art, understanding it and teaching it to children. From Brancusi to post-communist politics and into the future of more meaningful playthings, it marks the beginning of a new way of thinking.

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