{"id":557,"date":"2015-01-19T20:55:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T02:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/?p=557"},"modified":"2023-03-15T18:07:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T18:07:19","slug":"toni-serra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/audiovisual-creation\/toni-serra\/","title":{"rendered":"Toni Serra (Abu Ali)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toni Serra es<\/strong> creador de v\u00eddeo y nueva tecnolog\u00eda basado en Barcelona y\u00a0Duar Msuar\u00a0(Marruecos). Se licenci\u00f3 en historia del arte y tiene un doctorado de la Universidad de Barcelona. Estudia cine y artevideo en The School of Visual Arts y \u00abThe Brooklyn College\u00bb en Nueva York. Es el co-director de los Archivos del Observatorio, un proyecto de OVNI<\/a> (Observatori de V\u00eddeo No Identificat – Observatorio de V\u00eddeo No Identificado).<\/p>\n

A trav\u00e9s de sus videos ha explorado diferentes visiones, en una tierra de nadie entre el ensayo experimental y la poes\u00eda, con una presencia constante de la noci\u00f3n de trance y de las realidades del sue\u00f1o. En sus primeros trabajos, en Barcelona, Nueva York y T\u00e1nger, se cuestionaba sobre la belleza, el misterio de lo ef\u00edmero y lo marginal. A partir de 1994, de regreso a Barcelona inicia la serie de v\u00eddeos\u00a0TV Code<\/i><\/span>, una inmersi\u00f3n personal en la critica de los mecanismos de alienaci\u00f3n de los mass media, intentando parodiar su seducci\u00f3n espectacular y desconstruir su capacidad hipn\u00f3tica de crear modelos sociales y estereotipos identitarios. La progresiva constataci\u00f3n de que la cr\u00edtica debe ser un medio que ayude a iluminar y conocer nuevos mundos, le lleva a reflexionar y experimentar sobre la relaci\u00f3n del v\u00eddeo con lo visionario, con la experiencia interior y las visiones que transitan entre mundos, espacios y tiempos, entre lo real y lo irreal, el sue\u00f1o y la vigilia, la poes\u00eda y la profec\u00eda\u2026como un viaje que no solo cruzase, sino borrase tambi\u00e9n estos l\u00edmites y fronteras.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Toni Serra<\/strong> is<\/strong> a video and new technology creator based out of\u00a0Barcelona and\u00a0<\/span>Duar Msuar\u00a0(Morocco). He has\u00a0a graduate degree in Art history and a PhD\u00a0from University of Barcelona. He studies f<\/span>ilm and video arts at the School of Visual Arts and the Brooklyn College in New York. He is co-director of the Observatory Archives, a project of OVNI<\/a> (Observatori de V\u00eddeo No Identificat – Unidentified Video Observatory).<\/p>\n

His films inhabit a no-mans-land that lies between experimental essay and poetry, evoking a sense of trance and reality of dreams. His\u00a0first works in Barcelona, New York and Tangier, questioned the beauty and mystery of the marginal and fleeting. After returning to\u00a0Barcelona in 1994, he started work on the video series \u00abTV Code,\u00bb a self-immersion project and critique of the mechanisms of alienation in mass media. The series tries to parody the seduction of this spectacle and to deconstruct its hypnotic capacity to create social models and stereotyped identities. This idea that criticism should be a medium to helps illuminate and facilitate the creation of new worlds, lead him to reflection and an experimentation with the relationships between video and visionary, internal experience and visions protected between worlds, space and time, between the real and unreal, dreams and wakefulness, poetry and prophecy…as a journey not only that one takes, but as a way to erase limits and borders.<\/p>\n

Sources: http:\/\/www.cccb.org\/en\/autor-toni_serra-6004<\/a>\/http:\/\/www.al-barzaj.org\/p\/bio.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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