| Nick
Fortunato is a video, installation and electronic artist who
strives to explore America's visual history.
His
work has been exhibited at Mass MoCA (North Adams, MA), The
Kitchen (NYC), Not Still Art Festival, Princeton University,
Bard College, and the Columbia County Film festival to name
a few.
He
designed the video and still images for STREB’s
internationally touring shows 'Action Heroes' and 'GO!'. He
has performed video with STREB at Central Park Summerstage,
Singapore Arts Festival and Teatro Municipal de Santiago (Chile)
to name a few.
He
launched VisualLiving.com
- an affordable, royalty-free stock image website that allows
non-professional image-makers to distribute their work professionally.
He
co-founded 10 Gallon Productions with the mission to enable
clients to communicate with their customers using the latest
digital technologies in the most creative ways.
He
was the Associate Director of Electronic
Music Foundation,helping to launch that organization.
He was a frequent guest performer (Live Video ((a.k.a., VJ)))
with the musical group INTERFACE.
He
contributed several compositions to the Frog Peak / Chris
Mann CD "Collaborations Project".
Since
2004 he has been Executive Producing original programming
for HEAVY.COM. |
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New
York Times
A
Dancer Discovers a World of Profit and Daredevil
Feats (excerpt)
August
6, 2000
By
ANN DALY |
| Nick
Fortunato's "video rodeo" brings Evel Knievel,
pole sitters, monster trucks, Harry Houdini and
bull riders right into the ring. Using a layered
mix of live cameras, pure geometric forms and
prerecorded images like old newsreel footage or
cloud formations, Mr. Fortunato, a video, installation
and performance artist, evokes the spirit of action
heroes past and present.
The projections sometimes function as moving scenery,
as when drifting clouds give the swan-diving dancers
an expansive sense of flight. The images are sometimes
referential, as in "Squirm," a Houdini tribute,
which features a clip of the escape artist wriggling
out of a straitjacket. "All the while I am controlling
his movements live, in time and to the music,"
Mr. Fortunato says. "The result is something like
Houdini break-dancing." |
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Los
Angeles Times
Streb's 'ActionHeroes' Proves to Be Right on
Both Counts (excerpt)
October 23, 2000
By LEWIS SEGAL |
| Beyond
evoking various environments, Nick Fortunato's
video segments provide glimpses of Houdini and
other vintage daredevils--though the small and
remote screen makes it easy to overlook his cleverness.
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Computer
Music Journal
1999 Columbia University Interactive Arts Festival
Interactive Technologies in Jazz, Rock, and
Improvisatory Works, The Kitchen (excerpt)
Vol. 24 Issue 2
By JONATHAN LEE |
| The
improvisation took an organic shape, beginning
with a sparse musical texture whose droplets and
rumbles behaved as a counterpoint to Nick Fortunato's
processed video images of clouds. Both Mr. Bahn
and Mr. Trueman made use of extended techniques,
often drawing unusual natural sounds from their
instruments.
The
texture thickened as extended, active sections
of the piece used the electronics to accentuate
the wild exertions of the performers, juxtaposed
with ominous, processed video imagery. Ultimately,
the pent-up energy generated by the instrumentalists'
sonic expressionism dissipated to a passage of
consonance and harmonicity.
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