Ofer Smilansky is an audio-visual artist working in the field of live cinema, During his studies at the ArtScience Interfaculty he created several audiovisual performances which combine captured reality and digital manipulation using live and recording, improvised and composed elements.
His works intend to draw the audience into an immersive experience through a non stop game between sound, image and time perception. Ofer Smilansky is at the same time collaborating with musicians in the Netherlands Belgium and Israel and developing new tools for electronic music.
Live Cinema Performances | Films
- > Qualia – 2011
Switch ’12, Nederlands Dans Theater, 21 Jan 2012, The Hague (NL) - > Apoptosis – Digitally Altered Microcosm – 2011
Graduation exhibition KABK 2011, 2-9 July, The Hague (NL)
De nacht van kunst en wetenschap, Groningen (NL), 4 June 2011
The Cabinet of Curiosities, ArtScience StichtingExhibition, 20-22 May 2011, The Hague (NL) - > Transience – 2010
Illusions of reality, Friday Night Programme, 15 October 2010, Van Gogh Museum , Amsterdam (NL)
The Body and the Brain, Key of Life Festival , 21-23 October 2010, Leiden (NL) - > Transparent Things (based on the novel by V.Nabokov) – 2009
- > Effraction – 2008
Holland Animation Film Festival 2008, www.haff.nl , Utrecht (NL)
Festival Pinot III, 2008, Tel Aviv (IL)
Music
>Danski – Electronics & Voice (with Idan Shimoni) – 2010-now
E.M.O, EP Release, December 2010, http://danski.bandcamp.com/
>Duo with Isjtar – Electronics – 2009-now
ESC Lab, 8 April 2011, Graz (AT)
Les Ateliers Claus, 16 July 2010, Brussels (BE)
Art’s Birthday 2010, Okno, Brussels (BE)
>Gamila – Experimental electro-acoustic – 2007-2010
State X Festival 2009, The Hague (NL) www.state-xnewforms.nl
Haagse Pop Festival 2009, The Hague haagsepopweek.nl
Watt, Rotterdam (NL) watt-rotterdam.nl
Okno, Brussels (BE)Okno.be
>Royal Improvisers Orchestra – 2008-2009
Bimhuis, Amsterdam(http://bimhuis.nl)
Loos Studio, The Hague, (http://www.loosfoundation.com)
Zaal100, Amsterdam(http://www.zaal100.nl)