Ran Ancor, is an italian Berlin based media artist who is mainly dedicated to light research and video experimentation. He studied epistemology with a minor in computers, then started to work in between art and informatics. He has been trained in classical music and then devoted to the electronic music. During last years he did electronic audiovisual live-set, vjing, light installations, wearable performances and light design. Most significant elements in his video works are immateriality, movement and metamorphosis, visual fluxus, fusion with sound and space. In 2001 he founded eXtraLight Advanced Visuals, focusing on the light as substance through its expression in the form of light performances, visuals and installations. Among the others he has worked and exposed for Goethe Institut, Japan Foundation, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, MACRO, and with Bill Viola, Brian Eno and Aphex Twin. Among his passions there are sailing, Aikido and Zen meditation, traces of which can easily be found in his works.
Selected Festivals and Exhibitions:
48 Stunden NK, Berlin 2020
New Technological Art Award (NTAA), Ghent 2019
Beirut Biennial for the image (BIB) 2019
Radical dB, Zaragoza 2018
Punto y Raya Festival, Wroclaw 2018
Madatac 09, Madrid 2018
Berlin Leuchtet, Lightfestival 2017
Dark Technology Dark Web, Berlin 2017
Transmediale/CTM Vorspiel, Berlin 2017
Behavioural Machines, Berlin 2016
Transmission Art Festival Athens – Karlsruhe 2016
Chaos Communication Congress – Hamburg 2015
British HCI Interactions Gallery – 2015
Transmediale/CTM Vorspiel, Berlin 2014
The Apophenia Trap, Berlin 2014
Pictoplasma, Berlin 2013
ADD, Arti digitali, MACRO, Roma 2011
VisualBerlin, Tresor, Berlin, 2010
Berlin Design Week, 2010
Reloaded music festival, Roma 2009
Blu, Tacheles, Berlin, 2009
Live Performers Meeting, Roma 2009
Electrofringe, Newcastle, Australia 2007
Moving Images festival, Vilnius 2007
Robot Festival Odensee, Danmark, 2006
Musica e Scienza, Goethe Institut Rom, 2005
Ibizagraphic, 2004
PEAM 04 electronic artists meeting, 2004
Dream House, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna Roma, 2004
Feedback, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, 2003
Romaeuropafestival, 2003
Rephlex Braindance Invasion, 2002
Oscillazioni acustico visuali, Labirinth, Roma, 1997
