Inna Rogatchi’s work Sound-beat I ( 2021) has been selected by the jury to participate in the International ADAF Digital Arts Festival in Athens.
ADAF is the one of the largest and most prestigious Digital Arts festivals in the world. It was established in 2005, and has a large presence of international artists and a very large audience annually. 350-450 artists from about 60 countries are selected by the ADAF jury from 45 000 submissions. The ADAF exhibitions are organised at the famed Athens Technopolis.
The Festival is highly rated internationally. It is the only Greek festival which is a laureate of the EFFE, Europe for Festival organisation.
The theme of the 17th Edition of ADAF 2021 is TACTUS ( a touch in its wide and complex meaning), and it has been set as the invitation for artists to re-exam the definition of human connection.
This theme is not new for Inna Rogatchi. The artist works on it constantly, and recently has created a special series Geometry of Love, many works of which are directly examining this kind of connection artistically.
Sound-beat I is modern work which aims to create ‘a portrait’ of a sound, and not just a sound, but the one of a beat of jazz. That’s why the inner dynamic of the work is quite essential here. The composition of the work also visually recreates the mode of a jazz, not only with its syncopes, but mostly with the main sensation of jazz as it is understood by Inna, its suddenness. Suddenness is a character and gift of jazz, and the artist aimed to portray it in her work. Coloristic-wise, the work is created in cold colours, echoing the coolness of jazz. Importantly, none of the colors used by Inna is presented in the work in a direct way. Each of them has a number of shades ( there are five different blue, four greens, three white and two yellow colours) presenting complexity, smoothness, inter-connectivity and that special sensation of jazz, that always surprising Sound-beat of it.
The 17th ADAF Digital Arts Festival in Athens will be on display from September 20th till October 3st, 2021. There will also be an online version of the Festival.