DAAD-Preis an Sina Seifee

Sina Seifee (1982 in Tehran) studiert seit 2011 an der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (Diplom II), davor Visuals Arts von 2004-2008 am Charsoo Institue of Art in Teheran und Applied Mathematics von 2000-2004 an der Shahid Beheshti University in Teheran.
Vom 12. Mai bis 19. August 2012 waren Arbeiten von Sina Seifee in der Ausstellung "Architekturteilchen - Modulares Bauen im digitalen Zeitalter"  im Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln (MAKK) zu sehen. Ausschnit aus:
Vagabond (2010-11) - 1 channel video (filmed in Tehran, PAL, digital, with sound, 18 minutes)
This work is a part of an ongoing series of studies on digital means and manipulation of time based images. This piece is an 18 minutes long fade-in from black to a quite fast pasted image sequence and a fade-out from sound to silence, expanding the idea of "cut" and "fade-in/out" in video editing, to examine the use of these concepts in visual/sonic dramaturgy in the medium of video.
Here the notion of "change" in storytelling is reduced or simplified to: moving from state A to state B, from one mode of seeing to another. In both modes nothing specific can be seen, but in two different ways.
For these series of studies, very simple tools in video editing applications are used in a banal way to manipulate the image in longer durations, such as brightness-contrast or hue-saturation sliders.