MOTUS.LUMINA
Motus Lumina je dizajn kolektiv iz Buenos Ajresa koji se bavi dizajnom unutrašnjih i spoljnjih stejdževa, vi-džejingom, animacijom, interaktivnim dizajnom, videomapiranjem, AV projektima i muzikom. Stvaraju interaktivne vizuelne projekte integrisane sa zvukom, podacima i bilo kojim tipom digitalnih uređaja. Motus Luminu je osnovao Temel Hüseyin Kuru a.k.a VJ Vidbeat (Istanbul) i Claudia Hiroki (Buenos Aires). Od februara 2015.Motus Lumina kreira projekte za mnoge umetnike, muzičare, festival i umetničke kolektive širom sveta.
Temel Hüseyin Kuru / VJ Vidbeat
T.Hüseyin KURU aka “VJ Vidbeat” rođen je 1982. u Turskoj. Započeo je muzičku I video karijeru sa svojih 17 godina u Rio Negru (Argentina). Počeo je kao bubnjar i perkusionista, te svirao u grandž i hevi metal bendovima. U povratku u Tursku, svirao je u više rok bendova, a takođe pravio i kratke studentske filmove. Interesovanje za video umetnost počinje dok je radio na Internet-TV stanici kao kamerman i AV tehničar. U ovom periodu bio je uključen u video-art i počinje sa snimanjem svojih prvih eksperimentalnih videa.
U aprilu 2004.seli se u Istanbul i studira vizuelni dizajn u Galatasaray ITM, gde pravi dokumentarce, kratke filmove, muzičke spotove, video instalacije. Objavljivao je svoje radove online, u umetničkim časopisima kao i na mnogim univerzitetskim festivalima. Njegovi najraniji uzori bili su Nam June Paik, Michel Gondry, Chris Cunnigham and Stanley Kubrick.
Započeo je vi-džejing dok je radio kao tehničar rasvete u klubu Indigo u Istanbulu. Tu upoznaje Michael Parenti-ja, Pascal Lescon-a i Todda Thille-a iz Artificial Eyes. Učestvuje na njihovim vi-džejing radionicama i unapređuje svoj stil.
Od 2005, VJ Vidbeat radi live nastupe za više od 500 di džejeva i bendova poput Paul Oakenfold, Sven Vath, Anthony Rother, 2 Many DJs, Max Cooper, Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, Sophie Ellis Bextor, The Oh Sees, Kuniyuki Takahashi, China Woman, The John, FM Belfast.
Claudia Hiroki
Claudia Hiroki was born 1984 u Argentini. Počinje sa muzičkim časovima na klavijaturi sa svojih 8 godina u svom rodnom gradu Cipolletti. Kasnije svira bas gitaru, a nakon srednje škole seli se u Buenos Ajres gde studira AV dizajn.
U tom periodu nastavlja sa basom i pohađa kurseve na Berkeley Koledžu, kada počinje i njeno interesovanje za video instalacije i vizuelnu umetnost, pa radi i video animacije za muzičare i umetničke projekte.
2012.godine odlazi u Japan i pohađa kurseve iz 3D dizajna na Ibaraki Univerzitetu.
Claudia Hiroki i dalje radi kao freelance video montažerka i grafička dizajnerka.
MOTUS.LUMINA
Motus.Lumina is a Buenos Aires based design collective that works on indoor / outdoor stage design, vjing, animation, interactive design, video mapping, av projects and music.
Their main objective is to create interactive visual projects integrated with sound, data, and any type of digital control device.
Motus.Lumina was founded by Temel Hüseyin Kuru a.k.a VJ Vidbeat / Istanbul-Turkey and Claudia Hiroki / Buenos Aires-Argentina. Since February 2015 Motus.Lumina made design projects for many artists, musicians, festivals and art collectives from all over the world.
Temel Hüseyin Kuru / VJ Vidbeat
T.Hüseyin KURU as known as “VJ Vidbeat” born on 15/09/1982 in Zonguldak-Turkey. He started his music and video career when he was 17, in Rio Negro-Argentina. He began music as a drummer and percussionist; he played in grunge and heavy metal bands. When he travel back to Turkey he played in several rock bands also made short film scores when he was a student. He was interested in video-art while he was working in a Internet-TV as a cameraman and audio-video technician. In this period he was involved into video-art and start shooting his first experimental videos.
In April 2004 he started living in Istanbul, when he was a visual design student in Galatasaray ITM he made documentary films, short films, music videos, video installations and edited short films for university projects, artists and musicians. He had the chance to show his works on tv shows, internet, art magazines and university festivals. His first influences were Nam June Paik, Michel Gondry, Chris Cunnigham and Stanley Kubrick.
He started VJing when he was a lighting operator in Club Indigo / Istanbul. He met Michael Parenti, Pascal Lescon and Todd Thille from Artificial Eyes. He participated in their VJ workshop and improved his style.
From the year 2005, VJ Vidbeat made live performances for more than 500 DJs / bands such as; Paul Oakenfold, Sven Vath, Anthony Rother, 2 Many DJs, Max Cooper, Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, Sophie Ellis Bextor, The Oh Sees, Kuniyuki Takahashi, China Woman, The John, FM Belfast.
Claudia Hiroki
Claudia Hiroki was born 10/03/1984 Neuquen-Argentina. She started music lessons with keyboards when she was 8 years old in her hometown Cipolletti. Then she started playing bass guitar when she was 15 years old. She played in a punk rock band during high school days.
After graduating from high school she moved to Buenos Aires to study audio-visual design in Buenos Aires Universty (UBA).
During that time she continued playing bass and took courses in Berkeley College / Buenos Aires. She got interested in video-installation and video-art during college days. She did video animations for musicians and art-projects.
In 2012 she went to Japan and took a 3d design course in Ibaraki University.
Claudia Hiroki still works as a freelance video editor and graphic designer.