Pixelbirds

PIXELBIRDS

Pixelbirds is collaboration between visual artists Silvana Catazine (Brazil), Alex Zitzmann (Germany) and Julia Berktold (Germany). Starting out with a midsummer night performance at a beach near Barcelona in 2005, Pixelbirds are now concentrating on public interferences in an audiovisual form in several spaces in and around Barcelona.

Silvana Catazine

Born 1974 in Olinda, Brazil. Degree in Graphic Design at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil. Since then she’s been working as an art director in studios in Sao Paulo, Lisbon and Barcelona. She’s been working on various audiovisual projects.

S E L E C T E D E X P O S I T I O N S O F H E R W O R K
Barcelona Visual Sound public price for the best video with “Margarita, una historia”.
Camelarte 2003 with “Las estaciones” was in the final selection.
The short film “Una primavera soñé que volaba” has been selected for OFFF 2004 (Festival Internacional de Arte Digital y Música Electrónica) and VAD 2004 – Festival Internacional de Video y Artes Digitales de Girona.
BAC (Barcelona Arte Contemporáneo) 2004 selected her short film “La piel tiene memoria”.
Laus 2003 and Premio Mobius nominated her for the best application of multimedia
She has realized a variety of live visual projects all around Europe, amongst other in the ongoing collaboration with “Organic Audio”, with a debut at Benicassim Festival.
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Alex Zitzmann

Born 1975 in Germany. Completed BA in Graphic Design at Bristol's UWE School of Art, Media and Design, UK. Studies of Fine Arts and American Culture at Dresden University, Germany. Studies of Spanish and Italian Linguistics, history of art at Leipzig University, Germany. Since then she's been working as a graphic designer in studios in Berlin and Barcelona, and on several freelance projects. She's been working on various audiovisual projects.

S E L E C T E D E X P O S I T I O N S O F H E R W O R K
"Shelter" multimedia installation at Bower Ashton, Bristol, UK Her Animation "Como Pollos" was finalist in the Punt Multimedia Competition. "Grün auf Krach" audiovisual live performance at Le Freak Studios, Barcelona. "Water" was pre-selected for the Student's competition of the Royal Society of Arts, UK. Participation at collective exhibition Spurenufer, Dresden with Dort oben hoch wo Morgenrot. Colaborating with musicians, architects, a dance company and other filmmakers, she performs live visuals in various locations and investigates interactivity in live performances.
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Julia Berktold

Born 1979 in Munich, Germany. Since 2001 studying interior architecture and design of space and products at the Academy Of Fine Arts in Munich. Before and during the studies she was doing internships in various creative fields. such as On-air-design, film production, exhibition design, and different architect's and designer's studios. Moreover she is organising events, in the name of Munich's music subculture combined with audio-visual artistic projects. As an active member in organisations she is supporting young creative culture in Germany. Always active in university politics. 2005 she comes to Barcelona for studying at Elisava, school of design. Faced doing graphic design, exhibition design and audio-visual projects cinematography. She has been working on various interactive audiovisual installations and live visuals. Participating at workshop in FAD, working with Chicks on Speed for fashionweek 2005 Barcelona. Public installation EAT at Fernandezresaurant in Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona. Grün auf Krach, audio-visual life performance at LeFreak studios Barcelona. Live visual in club culture, Barcelona.

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