DIGITAL DEBRIS gallery presents:
VICTOR ACEVEDO : Visual Music: Video Survey 2010-2020
Opening Reception: Saturday February 1, 2020 6-10PM
Includes LIVE AV Performances; Acevedo + James Allen (J3M5)
@ 8PM and 9PM Free
Victor Acevedo is an artist best known for his digital work involving printmaking and photography. However, since 2007 his primary focus has been on video and producing visual music works. As an ongoing practice, he selects still images from the videos and makes them available as signed limited edition prints.
Acevedo is considered a desktop computer art pioneer as he was an early adopter of pre-Windows personal computers (IBM PC) to create fine art in the early 1980s. He now works primarily on the Apple OS platform. In 2012 Acevedo began using the software called VDMX to integrate real-time video work-flows into his audio-visual (AV) studio practice as well as LIVE performance.
Exploring the (perceptual) implications of synesthesia: and cymatics as well as animated polyhedral geometry Acevedo’s recent work investigates the intersection of electronic music, jazz and audio synthesis as in drone works or glitch/harmonic noise, with dynamic geometrical structure.
Victor Acevedo: Artist Statement
“My recent videos are influenced by electronic sounds and music as well as abstract jazz-based forms along with R. Buckminster Fuller’s Synergetics and ‘classical’ Sacred Geometry. Moreover, I owe a conceptual debt to the “moving painting” video work of Bill Viola. I think of my videos as existing in the lexicon nexus between experimental film and visual music. At the heart of my video practice is a core sensibility of being a painter. I think you can see that in the kinetic layering of graphical textures. Bringing the element of motion to ‘painting’, is essential to the form.”
Acevedo is based in Los Angeles (since 2009) having returned to his hometown after living in New York City for 14 years. Upon settling back into L.A. life, he soon focused on making video work based on the Junglist and Drum ‘n’ Bass end of the EDM (Electronic Dance Music) spectrum.
For a couple of years (2012-2014) he explored applying his CGI based motion graphic work to live-mix video projection for underground EDM events. In doing so he combined his interest in contemporary electronic bass music with concepts in Digital Cinema and Synergetic Geometry. His music video work and live visual (VJ) performances were informed by a synthesis of these traditions, disciplines, and phenomenologies.
He attended Art Center College of Design (Pasadena) majoring in Fine Art (1979-81) and later went on to teach at the School of Visual Arts in New York, in the BFA and MFA computer art departments (1997-2008.)
Acevedo has shown his work in over 130 group and solo art exhibitions in the U.S. and Internationally since 1982. His work has been featured in many (digital) art history books; most notably “Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation” (Tom Sito, MIT Press, 2013); “From Technological to Virtual Art” (Frank Popper, MIT Press 2007); “Art of the Digital Age” (Bruce Wands, Thames and Hudson, 2006.) His early geometrical ‘surrealist’ analogue media paintings and drawings were discussed in detail in “M.C. Escher’s Legacy: A Centennial Celebration” (Doris Schattschneider & Michelle Emmer eds., Springer-Verlag 2002)
