The Not Still
Art Festival was created in 1996 to celebrate abstract and
non-narrative video art and its relationship to music and
sound. This painterly motion art form, made with electronic
tools, is barely 25 years old.
Unlike film
animation, which is created in a "frame-by-frame" technique,
electronic motion imaging allows video artists to create in
real time. This ability to make moving images, much as a
musician makes music (as the inspiration occurs), is
unprecedented in the history of animation. The Not Still Art
Festival presents work in which the visual uniqueness of the
electronic medium is a determining aesthetic element. It is
concerned with the equal collaboration of image and
music/sound and with the abstract, non-verbal mode of
expression that this genre represents.
"These passionate [abstract] compositions are not
limited to the purely visual celebration of what pleases the
eyes. They reach beyond the world of the senses to symbolize the
forces that activate life and the physical world with all their
overwhelming complexity." from Rudolf Arnheim's essay "What
Became of Abstraction?", p. 22, To The Rescue of Art U.
of CA Press, 1992. HR
