About UT
Posted by Claudia Sandoval
Unclassified Time is Andrea Lira, Victor Ruano and Claudia Sandoval.
ANDREA LIRA
Originally from Santiago, Chile, Andrea Lira moved to the United States in 2002 to study Animation at the Savannah College of Arts and Design. With a background in drawing and dancing, she found inspired by the multitude of cultures and new technologies. Since then, she is been doing Animation and short videos and participated in several animation film festivals. Then in to 2005 move to New York to work as a designer at a production studio. At the moment she works as a freelance animator and continue exploring the language of video and animation and is finishing her MFA at Parsons The New School for Design.
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VICTOR RUANO
There are four elements that make up the foundation of my memories and of my present, that is to say, of me. They gave birth to and laced themselves through all the situations that mold my life.
Two of them arrived at the same time, while I was still a child: my mother’s garden and my father’s library. I remember the first one deeply, like a cloudy horizon. A forest of roses, with stems that reached to the sky. And the second one, luminous and impenetrable. A mysterious, long room with a small window full of light, which spelled the garden outside of it. Time stood still in both places, and I grew up without knowing that what we call life was outside.
The third one arrived all the sudden, at night, eyes without a face. The icy bitch or the mother of the young peoples. The war began in 1980 and El Salvador exploded. The garden was a very tall wall crowned with razor wire, and the luminous window of the library was a television screen. The world was outside, waiting; the world was inside a luminous box, howling.
The fourth one was a result of the three previous ones; perhaps it was born as a possibility to revive the past, to survive the present and to live the future. The necessity of art. Anything was a good surface on which to draw, to color, to paint and to write, and to decipher the world deciphering me. A cloud, a wall, a body, a wing, a window, a halo.
Biographies reveal us to the others or they introduce a stranger with us. In the case of the artist like the children only their sketches.
With esteem and pride I present to you what is mine.
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CLAUDIA SANDOVAL
This multidisciplinary designer and visual artist was born in 1971 in Concepcion, Chile. Always interested in constructing things, as a kid she was fascinated with tree houses and the challenges behind building them. An active kid, very good at school, she became more aware of her creative passion playing outdoors in the farm where she grew up.
In 1994 she received a BFA in Design from PUC of Chile. During the 90’s she met key people in her design education, such Sheena Calvert and David Carson, which developed on her a new perspective about graphic design and visual communication.
Currently she works and lives in Brooklyn, NY where she has being strongly motivated by the surroundings since she moved to New York in December of 2005. Growing professionally as graphic designer, she works on design projects under her design studio Artplugsdesign.
She is in a constant search for new creative challenges and opportunities to push and develop alternatives ways to produce and promote art. Her latest work on digital and mixed media illustration have developed a new interest in digital photography and video. In 2008 she became part of Unclassified Time, a video art collective base in New York, NY .
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