Antonio Jose Guzman

Antonio Jose Guzman (August 02, 1971) is a Dutch-Panamanian audiovisual artist. He works with a variety of media, mixing issues as migration and gravity.

Born in Panama City, Panama, Guzman's mother is an environmental activist, but before retiring in 2006 she served 35 years as a Diplomatic and traveled all over the globe, representing Panama in the United Nations. His father, a musician and a percussionist play in the 70's with Rubén Blades y Los Salvajes del Ritmo and worked also as an accountant for a Panamanian firm. As Guzman was growing up he began studying photography and video, and became interested in polaroids at early age. In 1989 Guzman started communication studies but soon in 1992 he had to flee Panama, after the United States invasion of Panama. He first fled to Costa Rica where he studied cinematography, but later moved temporarily to Madrid. A year later, in 1993, he was back in Panama and started working for the advertising giant Foote, Cone & Belding (FCB) Draftfcb as a staff photographer. In 1994 he graduated from the Ithmus University. He wrote a thesis on the psychological effect of advertising photography.

In the summer of 1996 he was part of the Lockport (city), New York African American seminars on photography. In 1997 he moved to Europe and started working as an artist, editorial photographer and as an editorial staff of different magazines in Barcelona, London and Amsterdam. In 2003 he produced and directed his first documentary, "Representando". [Mickael Boshuijer - LA Cine festivalkrant. [http://www.noticias.nl/laff_artikel.php?id=848 "Representando: hip-hop als troost; Interview met regisseur Antonio Guzman"] , "Plan Noticias", 13-05-2005. ] [Equipo Roca. [http://equiporoca.typepad.com/company_blog/2006/09/latin_american_.html "Representando at the Latin American Film Festival in London"] , "Equipo Roca A Cross Cultural Marketing Firm", 29-11-2006. ] [ROTL Berlin. [http://www.rotl.de/media/rotl-06-program-w.pdf "ROTL the Rythm of the Line Berlin Film Festival "] ", January 2006. ] [Penultimos Dias. [http://www.penultimosdias.com/2007/05/06/tanda-del-domingo-representando-de-antonio-jose-guzman-y-patricia-lesage/ "Penultimos Dias"] ", May 2007. ] In 2004 he started studies on audio visual arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie of Amsterdam. While studying at the Rietveld, Guzman got inspired to work with electronic art and began to work with gravitational issues, migration and the life of Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader. His examination project "Gravitational Experiences", [GRAC. [http://film.rietveldacademie.nl/2006/antonio.htm "Rietveld Class 2006"] , "Gerrit Rietveld Academie", 13-05-2005. ] was a series of multiple channel installations and the documentary "The Miracle". [ NFF. [http://www.filmfestival.nl/prog2006/titel/f11859.html "The Miracle (El Milagroso) Regisseur Antonio Guzman"] , "Nederlands Film Festival", 13-05-2005. ] In 2007 he took part in the exhibition "Multiple M", in which he participated with "Chain Diary", [ Kosmopolis Org.. [http://www.kosmopolisrotterdam.nl/index.php?id=366 "Kosmopolis Rotterdam, Chain Diary, Antonio Guzman"] , "Kosmopolis", Sept 2007. ] an installation with 8 multiple projections, and 12 oversized photos. In January 2008, Guzman began working with Samsung's newest mini portable video projector to combine video, sound and performance. In his new project State of L3 he asks participants to upload their work onto a database so that their partners and later on other visitors can access, watch and react with their own ideas to what they see. In this way the database will create and ever-growing and expanding online community based on either personal histories or just interest in Africa and all its cultural and social expansions over the entire globe. Guzman is part of the art movement, known as zero gravity art, which is inspired by the Foundation for Art in Zero Gravity. The importance of Guzman work relies in the symbolism of his work as a social artist, his installations are emanating from a cycle of migration, diaspora and gravitational situations.

Notes and References

External links

* [http://www.aguzman.com Guzman Web Site]
* [http://www.chaindiary.com Guzman Chain Diary]
* [http://www.imagineic.nl/projecten/17 Guzman Imagine IC]
* [http://www.myspace.com/zeroguzman My Space Guzman]
* [http://www.youtube.com/user/akuaigar Guzman at you tube]

Listening

* [http://www.olaa.nl/guzman/guzmanradiorietveld1.mp3 Guzman On Gravity1]
* [http://www.olaa.nl/guzman/guzmanradiorietveld2.mp3 Guzman On Gravity2]
* [http://www.olaa.nl/guzman/guzmanradiorietveld3.mp3 Guzman On Gravity3]

Installations, Photos and Videography

*Portable Levitation, Single Projection UK (2008) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*I’m no longer of your Eyes, Performance, Single Projection (2008) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Chain Final Days London, Video (2008) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Buzzin Bees, Photo Series (2008) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Time Diversion, Photo Series (2008) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Time Machine, Photos Series (2008) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Jumping Doris, Photo Series (2008) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Psycho Torment, Video Performance, 48 Hrs in Hotel (2008) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Rio Grande, Video Documentary (2008) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Tussen Empires, Video & Photo Series (2007) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Space Odissey, Photo Series (2007) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Astro Physics Voyager, Sculpture & Installation (2007) - Antonio Jose Guzman]
*Microcosmos, Photo Installation (2007) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Water Naar de Maan, Film (2007) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Chain Diary, 7 Channels, Projections, 8 Prints & Online Channel (2007) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Tower of Hour, 3 Channels (2007) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Universalitation of the Stranger, Installation with mixed materials (2007) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Daryl Show, Video (2007) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*La Maldicion, Documentary (2007) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Gravitational Experiences, 2 channels, Projections (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*The Miracle, Video Documentary and Photo Series Departure & Arrival (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Elemental Sounds, Documentary (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Palmas, Documentary (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Miami Fall, Video (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Neck & Neck Barn, Video (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Circles, Atom Transportation, 4 Monitors, 4 Channels (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Circles Kerk, Atom Transportation, 2 Monitors, 2 Channels (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Electric Elements, 3 Monitors, 3 Channels (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Wind Mee, Video (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Space Submarine, Video & Performance (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Solid as a Rock, 2 Channels, Projections (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Focus on Water Films, Documentary (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Euromast, Video & Performance (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Uit Je Dak, Music Clip (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Sunset, Video (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Recycling Myself & Indifference, Video (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Ancestors, Video (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Theoretical, Video (2006) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Dog Techniques, Video (2005) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Fresh Pain, Video (2005) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Atleta, Video (2005) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*When I was Young, Video (2005) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Innocence Surround Me, Video & Performance (2005) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Roads, Photo Series (2005) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Bogota Incident (2005) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Circles, Atom transportation, Video (2005) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Representando, Documentary (2005) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Collective Bodies, Single Channel Projection (2005) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Sacos Rellenos, Photo Series (2005) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*History of Science, 3 Channels, Projections (2004) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Supa Kicks (2004) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Break Dance (2004) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Milan Files (2004) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Ruhr Impromptus, Performances (2004) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Fundamental Familiarity, Photo Performances (1997-01) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Machina Mundi, Slide Series, 100 Slides, 2 video Channels (1997-01) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Between Worlds, Portrait Series, Slides and Prints (1992-02) - Antonio Jose Guzman
*Kuna Yala Photo Series (1992-97) - Antonio Jose Guzman

Persondata
NAME=Guzman, Antonio Jose
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Guzman, Antonio Jose; Antonio Jose, Guzman ; Antonio Jose, Guzman Jaramillo, akuaigar,
SHORT DESCRIPTION=video artist
DATE OF BIRTH=August 02, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH=Panama City, Panama