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IMAGIA is a Video, Multimedia and Art production company through new technologies. Also it has been involved in several research and development projects in social and cultural fields. It covers documentary, fiction, animation, multimedia and Virtual Reality. It is directed by Andrea Di Castro. 
 
(TRACES OF TIME)
Twenty 27' TV programs
First stage: 12 episodes
Format: Betacam SP
 

By traveling through ecological reserves and protected zones, a series of traces are recorded; paths that connect us with past and present of the ranged areas. Flora and fauna, spectacular landscapes and extraordinary places are visited by air, water and earth in a great adventure, full of surprises.This serial is part of the "Gráfica Global" - Global Graphics - project, a land artwork that has been creating a layer of virtual drawings around the planet since 1997. These designs are made by following the artist's displacement using the GPS - Global Positioning System - technology, that allows a precise registration of their movements, turning/converting them into lines. The planet's surface is the base of these drawings; roads, lake shores, coasts, rivers may be used, so the route is determined by them, or a free design may be done through aerial and maritime space.
This land art project is being developed in America and Europe, with more than 100.000 miles traveled since it began in 1997.

The main concepts implied in the work are:
- Movement as a drawing
- Nature as a base
- The global implications of the information technologies involved
- The random
- The memory
- The fractals theory

In this project we use geographical exploration to underline the relationship between the natural environment and its interpretation by the first human societies. As a consequence, elements of biodiversity are considered: flora, fauna and the remains of disappeared life forms. There will also be an emphasis on concepts of geography, cartography, ecology, volcanology, geology, paleontology, archeology, biology and physics, all developed through the participation of specialists.

The project intends to set up an integral vision of the traveled areas, transforming knowledge into an adventure; an adventure that unfolds through the implementation of a work of art, simultaneously realized with the study of the visited zone.

 
Art works with Global Technologies currently in progress. Virtual drawings around the world using GPS and Internet.

 
Rosa Pantopón (PantoponRose) CD ROM about William S. Burroughs, developed through the MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundation (Only in English).

 
Los Cuentos del Conejo , (The Tales of the Rabbit) Computer animated stories for children based on traditional natives' tales. Developed through the "Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes" and the "Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes" of Mexico - (Only in Spanish).

Videoproducciones Imagia S.A. de C.V.
Damas 89, San José Insurgentes, México D.F. CP 03900 . Tel (525) 5611 9665
e-mail: andreadi@imagia.com.mx
 last update: March 2006.