Scott Pagano is a Los Angeles-based

video artist Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting. ...

filmmaker Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, castin ...

, and motion graphics designer, who constructs videos by re-mixing images of architecture, daily life, and intricate CG graphics. Pagano studied photography and graphic design at the

Rhode Island School of Design The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase the ...

and is a graduate of

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

where he studied Modern Culture and Media. Pagano has contributed video art to film festivals around the world starting in 2002, and his music videos have been shown on

MTV MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...

. He has worked with musicians including BT, Funkstorung,

Richard Devine Richard Devine is an Atlanta-based electronic musician and sound designer. He is recognized for producing a layered and heavily processed sound, combining influences from glitch music to old and modern electronic music. Devine largely records for ...

, Christopher Willits,

Monolake Monolake is a German electronic music project, initially consisting of members Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke, Monolake is now perpetuated by Henke while Behles focuses on running music software company Ableton, which they founded in 1999 tog ...

, Deadbeat, Speedy J,

Chris Liebing Chris Liebing (born Christopher Liebing on 11 December 1968) is a German techno DJ, music producer and radio host and the founder of the record label CLR. Liebing was born in Gießen, Hesse. In the early 1990s, he became active on the Frankfur ...

Kid606 Miguel Trost De Pedro (born July 27, 1979), better known by his stage name Kid606, is an electronic musician who was raised in San Diego and later moved to San Francisco. He is most closely associated with the glitch, IDM, hardcore techno and b ...

Joan Jeanrenaud Joan Jeanrenaud ( Dutcher; born January 25, 1956) is an American cellist. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, she played with the LLP Kronos Quartet from 1978 until 1999, when, after a sabbatical, she left to pursue a solo career and collaborations ...

, and the

Kronos Quartet The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. It has been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for almost 50 years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary classic ...

. Pagano is the co-curator o
RELINE
a series of DVD releases featuring experimental

video art Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting ...

. Reline1 was released in 2003 on Form001 and Reline2 was released on September 29, 2006, on Microcinema's Blackchair label.

Discography

* Umfeld - UMTV001 - Music by Speedy J (2007) *

This Binary Universe ''This Binary Universe'' is the fifth studio album by the composer and electronica artist Brian Transeau, BT. It was released on August 29, 2006. The album was a significant about-face for Transeau, largely abandoning the Progressive electronic da ...

- CDTS1140 - Music by BT (2006) * Wrekage - Documentary on Keep Adding (2006) * To Care - BIT013 - Music by Rolf&Fonky (2005)

Compilations

* Reline 2 - "From Brown To Green" - Music by Twerk (2006) *

Sonic Acts Sonic Acts is an organisation for the research, development and production of works at the intersection of art, science and theory. It also commissions and co-produces new works, often in collaboration with international festivals, arts organisati ...

XI Anthology of Computer Art - "Chopping Heads" - Music by Funkstorung (2006) * Chaise Two - "space.for.no.one" (2005) * Isolated - !K7162 - "Chopping Heads" - Music by Funkstorung (2004) * Reline - "ok.town re.work" (2003)

Music video: director credits

* ''Parks on Fire'' - Trifonic (2008) * ''Left'' - Michael Fakesch (2007) * ''The Antikythera Mechanism'' - BT (2006) * ''1.618'' - BT (2006) * ''Colors Shifting'' - Christopher Willits (2006) * ''cream3'' - Speedy J & Chris Leibing (2005) * ''Geometry'' - Rolf & Fonky (2004) * ''Chopping Heads'' - Funkstörung (2004) * ''From Brown to Green'' - Twerk (2003)

References

External links

Official Site

Apple Pro Article
on Scott Pagano
Umfeld
- collaboration between Jochem Paap and Scott Pagano
The Black Estate
- collaboration between Scott Pagano and Noah M of Keep Adding
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