IURY LECH 

IURY LECH  is a transdisciplinary artist that has developed his creativityworking the last four decades within the realm of video-art, music andliterature, being part of the few pioneers in the Spanish electronic anddigital audio-visual scene that in the 80‘s began to develop visual-auralperformances and video art works.His open and unclassifiable style permeates the tired avant-gardeconcept by means of textures that brings alive hypnotic visual and sonicatmospheres and an alternative way to conceive New Media Artexperimentalism. Among his last numerous productions on thesedisciplines, it should be noted the Kinetic Pictures for the video artmasterpiece Dye a V(east) (http://vimeo.com/album/1711794) andDomesticated Domestic Demons (http://vimeo.com/album/1711798),a 7-channel video-installation; the sound sculpture cd work Instorments;or his books "The encapsulated image: Video Art as a spiral" (2009), anessay on the practice and contemporaneity of the Video Art disciplineand his anthology & translation into Spanish on Ukrainian XX Centurypoetry “Una iconografía del alma. Poesía ucraniana del sigloXX” (Litoral/Unesco,1993)His video-art works, for which he also composed the soundtracks,as well as his live perfomances, involves a multimedia stage set which, inaddition to different image treatments, makes the most of interactive andsensorial immersion technology.He showed his video-art pieces and played at many venues andevents such as Ars Electrónica, Art Futura, ISEA, SONAR, VideoFestival Videoformes, Festival of New Musics of Madrid and Sevilla; theexperimental cycle LEM in Barcelona; the Knitting Factory in NewYork; the Pop Komm Festival, the Festival Experimenta in Madrid, ARTBEIJING, DAFT Festival in Taipei_Taiwan, JMAF in Tokyo or Hong-Gah Museum Taipei.On May 2013 the 2nd Izmir Art Biennial in Turkey invitedIury Lech as an official artist, where the jury awarded him with the1st prize for the Best Video Art installation.During 2013 he has been invited as a jury member of VideoformesFest (Clermont-Ferrand, France), MAshRome Film Fest (Rome, Italy)and EXIS Experimental Festival (Seoul, South Korea).On the other side of his creative facet, we can point out his task asproducer and director from 2007 of the weekly television programTransfera (www.transfera.es), specialized in the broadcast of audiovisualart, as well as the founding, direction, and programming of MADATAC,the INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY AUDIOVISUAL& NEW MEDIA ART, and independent project initiated in2009 (www.madatac.es).He has also impelled his project entitled Transmadatac VirtualMuseum, an audiovisual art and advanced technologies on-lineinteractive cross-platform, dedicated to exhibit, promote, watch, acquireand collect new media art work, which functionality can be appreciatedin this trailer: http://vimeo.com/83326393.In January 2015 participates with his audio-visual work on thefestival 700IS Reindeerland in Reykjavik, Iceland, and in March 2015 heis invited to Bonn, Germany, by the international program of visits ofthe NRW KULTURsekretariat to participate as director of MADATAC,curator and artist in the VIDEONALE festival.At the same time he is the organizer and curator of theinternational itinerant program of Spanish Video Art VIDEOsPAIN:Transvisual Crossings (2015-2016), sponsored by the AECID and whichis illustrated by a bilingual catalogue: https://issuu.com/madatac/docs/videospain.