Victor Acevedo
Victor Acevedo is an artist best known for his digital prints and videos. His current focus is producing electronic visual music works. His imagery has a metaphysical bent, expressed with geometrical abstraction, sometimes with figuration. His videos explore the perceptual implications of synesthesia and are influenced by sacred geometry as well as the geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller’s Synergetics. As an ongoing practice, Acevedo issues still images as signed limited edition prints and sometimes as NFTs sourced from his video work.
Acevedo is considered a desktop computer art pioneer as he was an early adopter of personal computer software to create fine art in the early 1980s. He has shown his work in over 135 group and solo art exhibitions in the U.S. and Internationally since 1982.
Considering the phenomenology of synesthesia and integrating real-time video-mix workflows into his audio-visual studio practice, Acevedo positioned himself inside the genre called Visual Music. He later coined the term Electronic Visual Music in 2013.This was to more accurately describe his motion graphic work in the digital domain.
Acevedo's early artistic influences were Cézanne, Picasso, M.C. Escher, Salvador Dalí, R. Buckminster Fuller, and Fritjof Capra. A deep study of their work and ideas, led him to the genesis of his ‘space-frame as field’ and polyhedron graphical metaphor. It is a kind of 'geometrical surrealism’ and it was first evident in his early analog media work. This interplay of geometry and Neo-Surrealist content carries over to both his digital print and video work.
Anonymous Ambience –
SM Remix 2022 (1:15)
This is a combine of two short electronic visual music videos, both from 2021, with some elements dating back earlier. They are Anonymous Ambience and Space Matrix_v02. The electronic soundtrack for each was composed by Igor Amokian (Chris Holland)
One of the ideas expressed here is about how when you are meditating, trying to tune into a blissful state, other energies (perhaps distracting or dissonant) will momentarily emerge in the mantric field. If you relax, the bliss or relaxation will return. There is an edgy modernity in the animation imagery and in the sonic environment, in that the harmonic drone and its invasive dissonant counterpart are both samples of machine noise.