Scott Pagano

Scott Pagano is a Los Angeles-based video artist, filmmaker, and motion graphics designer and is recognized for his distinctive style of moving images constructed by re-mixing images of architecture, daily life, and intricate CG graphics. Pagano studied photography and graphic design at RISD and is a graduate of Brown University where he studied Modern Culture and Media.

Pagano's music videos and motion art works have been screened internationally in venues ranging from film festivals to MTV. He has worked with a wide range of notable musicians including BT, Funkstorung, Twerk, Richard Devine, Christopher Willits, Monolake, Deadbeat, Speedy J, Chris Liebing, Kid606, Joan Jeanrenaud, and the Kronos Quartet.

Pagano is the co-curator of [http://www.reline.net/ RELINE] , a series of DVD releases featuring experimental video art. Reline1 was released in 2003 on Form001 and [http://www.microcinemadvd.com/product/DVD/547/RELINE2.html Reline2] was released on September 29th, 2006, on Microcinema's Blackchair label.

Discography

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

* "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)

Selected Festival Screenings

;2007
* Solo Show at the Harris Museum - Preston, England
* Interfilm Festival - Berlin, Germany
* Playgrounds Audiovisual Festival - Tilburg, Netherlands
* Amsterdam Dance Event - Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Art of Digital Show - San Diego, CA
* Decibel Festival - Seattle, WA
* Hipersonica Festival Electronic Language International Festival - Sao Paulo, Brazil
* Optronica Festival - London, England
* Impakt Festival - Utrecht, Netherlands
* Visual Music Marathon - Boston Cyberarts Festival - Boston, MA
* Visual Sensations Festival - Amsterdam, Netherlands
* VisioSonik - Lille, France
* Recombinant Media Labs - San Francisco, CA

;2006
* HDFEST - Los Angeles, CA - New York, NY
* Mobile Video Festival - Paris, France
* V2 Institute For The Unstable Media - Rotterdam, Netherlands
* Recombinant Media Labs - San Francisco, CA
* Landmark Cinemas - Cambridge, MA - Bethesda, MD - Atlanta, GA - Dallas, TX - Chicago, IL - Seattle, WA
* Decibel Festival - Seattle, WA
* Cinespace - Los Angeles, CA
* Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival - Clermont-Ferrand, France
* Dissonanze Electronic Music and Digital Art Festival - Rome, Italy
* Hijacked - Perth Institute of Contemporary Art - Perth, Australia

;2005
* Club 11 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Video Dumbo - Brooklyn, NY
* The Connectors - Sonic Acts screening - Bristol, England
* Cannes Film Festival - Cannes, France
* Optronica Festival - London, England
* noD Gallery - Prague, Czech Republic
* Free Form Film Festival Tour - USA
* Pixelache Festival - Helsinki, Finland
* Tampere Film Festival - Helsinki, Finland

;2004
* Cimatics Festival - Brussels, Belgium
* radford Animation Festival - West Yorkshire, England
* Virginia Film Festival - Charlottesville, VA
* LACMA - Los Angeles, CA
* Audiovisual Interactions - New Forms Festival - Vancouver, Canada
* Synaesthesiologists - Lincoln Center - New York, NY
* Domino Effect - Santa Fe Art Institute - Santa FE, NM
* Sonic Vision - SFMOMA - San Francisco, CA
* Eyebeam Atelier - New York, NY
* Videozone - Tel Aviv, Israel
* LAB Exhibition of Experimental Video - Salt Lake City, UT
* Backup Festival - Weimar, Germany

;2003
* Xploding Cinema - Seattle Film Festival - Seattle, WA
* Selfware Festival - Graz, Austria
* AMODA showcase - Austin, TX
* Die-Lounge - Mannheim, Germany
* Chicago Motion Graphics Festival - Chicago, IL
* X-Fest - New York, NY
* Ann Arbor Film Festival - Ann Arbor, MI
* Cucalorus Film Festival - Wilmington, NC
* RE:CODE - The Farm - Brisbane, Australia
* Vertical Video - Rochester, NY
* Transcinema Festival - San Francisco, CA

;2002
* Rotterdam Film Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands
* New York Underground Film Festival - New York, NY
* Air Portugal II - Pond Gallery - San Francisco, CA

External links

* [http://www.scottpagano.com Official Site]
* [http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/pagano/ Apple Pro Article] on Scott Pagano
* [http://www.umfeld.tv/ Umfeld] - collaboration between Jochem Paap and Scott Pagano
* [http://www.theblackestate.com/ The Black Estate] - collaboration between Scott Pagano and Noah M of Keep Adding
* [http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?PAGANOS Scott Pagano] in the [http://www.vdb.org/ Video Data Bank]