Claudia Di Gangi

I work principally with drawings, collages and sketches of ideas that eventually end up as digital videos. I like the web-browsing culture of instant imagery and unexpected connotations. Inspired by the homemade low quality products that circulate on YouTube.com in some of my video I've taken images, music and sounds off the web. This searching for images and sounds on the web can take longer then the actual editing process, often up to 2 days.

Expanding on the concept of visual pleasure the videos is nothing but images. This criterion carries their meanings alone and no other desire influenced me to pick them other than visual attractiveness. You know, I just go on 'google images' type onto its brows, for example 'rubbish viewed from the top' and pick the pictures I like most. I create compositions, collages that have to fit into one another in the video and outside. Having a background as a painter brought me to think of the video as a moving painting and that's why colours as shapes are important for me. The playfulness of the medium made me prefer it to painting.

My films are partly planned and in some case I perform in front of the camera in some other I film randomly my friends playing instruments and singing or interacting with other people in the street. I can work alone in my studio space or collaborate with friends in different places.

http://www.wooloo.org/digangi