Scott Pagano is a Los Angeles-based video artist, filmmaker, and motion graphics designer and is recognized for his distinctive style of moving images constructed by re-mixing images of architecture, daily life, and intricate CG graphics. Pagano studied photography and graphic design at RISD and is a graduate of Brown University

Brown University

Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

 where he studied Modern Culture and Media.

Pagano's music videos and motion art works have been screened internationally in venues ranging from film festivals to MTV. He has worked with a wide range of notable musicians including BT, Funkstorung

Funkstörung

Funkstörung is Christian de Luca and Michael Fakesch , a duo of IDM musicians hailing from Rosenheim, Germany...

, Twerk, Richard Devine

Richard Devine

Richard Devine is an Atlanta-based electronic musician. He is recognized for producing a layered and heavily processed sound, combining influences from hip-hop to old and modern electronic music. Devine largely records for the Miami-based Schematic Records, which was founded by . He has also done...

, Christopher Willits

Christopher Willits

Christopher Willits is a musician and multimedia artist located in San Francisco. Willits is "a prominent experimental musician from the San Francisco Bay area" and "a pioneer and a teacher, exploring new methodologies for signal processing.". He has been instrumental in redefining the guitar in...

, Monolake

Monolake

Monolake is an electronic music act based in Berlin. Originally consisting of members Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke, Monolake is now perpetuated by Henke while Behles focuses on running music software company Ableton, which they founded in 1999 together with Bernd Roggendorf...

, Deadbeat, Speedy J

Speedy J

Speedy J , is a Dutch electronic music producer based in the city of Rotterdam. His breakthrough came with the release in 1992 of the minimal techno track Pullover...

, Chris Liebing

Chris Liebing

Chris Liebing is dj, producer, radio host of a weekly show and the driving force behind the labels CLR and Spinclub Recordings. His sound has continuously evolved during his dj career, always true to his Techno roots. He was one of the first djs that used the new possibilities in the course of the...

, Kid606

Kid606

Kid606 is the stage name of Miguel Trost De Pedro, an electronic musician who was born 1979 July in Caracas, Venezuela, raised in San Diego and later moved to San Francisco...

, Joan Jeanrenaud

Joan Jeanrenaud

Joan Jeanrenaud, née Dutcher , is an American cello player. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, she played with the Kronos Quartet from 1978 until 1999, when, after a sabbatical, she left to pursue a solo career and collaborations with other artists, in part due being diagnosed with multiple...

, and the Kronos Quartet

Kronos Quartet

Kronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973 in Seattle, Washington. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California. The longest-running combination of performers had Harrington and John Sherba on violin, Hank Dutt on viola, and Joan...

.

Pagano is the co-curator of RELINE, a series of DVD releases featuring experimental video art

Video art

Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. . Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations...

. Reline1 was released in 2003 on Form001 and Reline2 was released on September 29, 2006, on Microcinema's Blackchair label.

Discography

• Umfeld - UMTV001 - Music by Speedy J (2007)
• This Binary Universe
  This Binary Universe
  This Binary Universe is the fifth studio album by composer and electronica artist BT, and was released on August 29, 2006. The album was a significant about-face for Transeau, largely abandoning the progressive trance music he was known for, in favor of ambient soundscapes, live orchestration and...
  
   - CDTS1140 - Music by BT
  BT (musician)
  Brian Wayne Transeau is a classically trained and Grammy-nominated American music producer, composer, audio technician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter better known by his stage name, BT. He is an artist in the electronic genre...
  
   (2006)
• Wrekage
  Keep Adding
  Keep Adding is an artist group formed in the year 2001.Keep Adding creates environments that address space, context, and site. These spaces are not simply the cube of a gallery or an abandoned house – they are the sites of complete sensory experiences...
  
   - Documentary on Keep Adding
  Keep Adding
  Keep Adding is an artist group formed in the year 2001.Keep Adding creates environments that address space, context, and site. These spaces are not simply the cube of a gallery or an abandoned house – they are the sites of complete sensory experiences...
  
   (2006)
• To Care - BIT013 - Music by Rolf&Fonky (2005)

Compilations

• Reline 2 - "From Brown To Green" - Music by Twerk (2006)
• Sonic Acts XI Anthology of Computer Art - "Chopping Heads" - Music by Funkstorung
  Funkstörung
  Funkstörung is Christian de Luca and Michael Fakesch , a duo of IDM musicians hailing from Rosenheim, Germany...
  
   (2006)
• Chaise Two - "space.for.no.one" (2005)
• Isolated - !K7162 - "Chopping Heads" - Music by Funkstorung
  Funkstörung
  Funkstörung is Christian de Luca and Michael Fakesch , a duo of IDM musicians hailing from Rosenheim, Germany...
  
   (2004)
• Reline - "ok.town re.work" (2003)

Music Video: Director credits

• Parks on Fire - Trifonic (2008)
• Left - Michael Fakesch (2007)
• The Antikythera Mechanism - BT (2006)
• 1.618 - BT (2006)
• Colors Shifting - Christopher Willits
  Christopher Willits
  Christopher Willits is a musician and multimedia artist located in San Francisco. Willits is "a prominent experimental musician from the San Francisco Bay area" and "a pioneer and a teacher, exploring new methodologies for signal processing.". He has been instrumental in redefining the guitar in...
  
   (2006)
• cream3 - Speedy J
  Speedy J
  Speedy J , is a Dutch electronic music producer based in the city of Rotterdam. His breakthrough came with the release in 1992 of the minimal techno track Pullover...
  
   & Chris Leibing (2005)
• Geometry - Rolf & Fonky (2004)
• Chopping Heads - Funkstörung
  Funkstörung
  Funkstörung is Christian de Luca and Michael Fakesch , a duo of IDM musicians hailing from Rosenheim, Germany...
  
   (2004)
• From Brown to Green - Twerk (2003)

Selected Festival Screenings

2007

• Solo Show at the Harris Museum - Preston, England
• Interfilm Festival - Berlin, Germany
• Playgrounds Audiovisual Festival - Tilburg, Netherlands
• Amsterdam Dance Event - Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Art of Digital Show - San Diego, CA
• Decibel Festival
  Decibel Festival
  Decibel Festival is an annual music and digital arts festival started in 2003 in Seattle by Sean Horton. Decibel is dedicated to live electronic music performance, visual art and new media. The core of the festival comprises concerts, performances, commissioned work, film screenings and exhibitions...
  
   - Seattle, WA
• Hipersonica Festival Electronic Language International Festival
  Electronic Language International Festival
  FILE - Electronic Language International Festival is a New media art festival that usually takes place in three different cities of Brazil: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre and it has also participated in others events around the world...
  
   - São Paulo, Brazil
• Optronica Festival - London, England
• Impakt Festival - Utrecht, Netherlands
• Visual Music Marathon - Boston Cyberarts Festival - Boston, MA
• Visual Sensations Festival - Amsterdam, Netherlands
• VisioSonik - Lille, France
• Recombinant Media Labs - San Francisco, CA

2006

• HDFEST - Los Angeles, CA - New York, NY
• Mobile Video Festival - Paris, France
• V2 Institute For The Unstable Media - Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Recombinant Media Labs - San Francisco, CA
• Landmark Cinemas - Cambridge, MA - Bethesda, MD - Atlanta, GA - Dallas, TX - Chicago, IL - Seattle, WA
• Decibel Festival - Seattle, WA
• Cinespace - Los Angeles, CA
• Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival - Clermont-Ferrand, France
• Dissonanze Electronic Music and Digital Art Festival - Rome, Italy
• Hijacked - Perth Institute of Contemporary Art - Perth, Australia

2005

• Club 11 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Video Dumbo - Brooklyn, NY
• The Connectors - Sonic Acts screening - Bristol, England
• Cannes Film Festival - Cannes, France
• Optronica Festival - London, England
• noD Gallery - Prague, Czech Republic
• Free Form Film Festival Tour - USA
• Pixelache Festival - Helsinki, Finland
• Tampere Film Festival - Helsinki, Finland

2004

• Cimatics Festival - Brussels, Belgium
• radford Animation Festival - West Yorkshire, England
• Virginia Film Festival - Charlottesville, VA
• LACMA - Los Angeles, CA
• Audiovisual Interactions - New Forms Festival - Vancouver, Canada
• Synaesthesiologists - Lincoln Center - New York, NY
• Domino Effect - Santa Fe Art Institute - Santa FE, NM
• Sonic Vision - SFMOMA - San Francisco, CA
• Eyebeam Atelier - New York, NY
• Videozone - Tel Aviv, Israel
• LAB Exhibition of Experimental Video - Salt Lake City, UT
• Backup Festival - Weimar, Germany

2003

• Xploding Cinema - Seattle Film Festival - Seattle, WA
• Selfware Festival - Graz, Austria
• AMODA showcase - Austin, TX
• Die-Lounge - Mannheim, Germany
• Chicago Motion Graphics Festival - Chicago, IL
• X-Fest - New York, NY
• Ann Arbor Film Festival - Ann Arbor, MI
• Cucalorus Film Festival - Wilmington, NC
• RE:CODE - The Farm - Brisbane, Australia
• Vertical Video - Rochester, NY
• Transcinema Festival - San Francisco, CA

2002

• Rotterdam Film Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands
• New York Underground Film Festival - New York, NY
• Air Portugal II - Pond Gallery - San Francisco, CA

External links

• Official Site
• Apple Pro Article on Scott Pagano
• Umfeld - collaboration between Jochem Paap and Scott Pagano
• The Black Estate - collaboration between Scott Pagano and Noah M of Keep Adding
  Keep Adding
  Keep Adding is an artist group formed in the year 2001.Keep Adding creates environments that address space, context, and site. These spaces are not simply the cube of a gallery or an abandoned house – they are the sites of complete sensory experiences...
  
  
• Scott Pagano in the Video Data Bank