Vladimir Todorovic

Biography

Vladimir Todorovic is a filmmaker, new media artist and educator based in Singapore. He is working as an assistant professor at the School of Art, Design and Media, NTU. His projects have won several awards and have been shown at hundreds of festivals, exhibitions, museums and galleries including: IFFR(42nd, 40th and 39th), Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Visions du Reel, L’Alternativa, YIDFF, Siggraph, ISEA(2010,2008,2006), Ars Electronica, Transmediale, The Reina Sofia Museum(Madrid), and Japan Media Art Festival. His creative practice encompasses the following topics: class differences, migration, memories, and our relationship with the changing environment. He fuses fine arts, science, technology, and cinema by creating experimental art films, procedural animations, generative art, environmental art, rapid prototyping objects, installations, data visualization, and code art. The structure and form of his art often imply mathematical precision, and hidden, minimal and micro narratives. His work has been described as being radical and novel in sensibly and poetically depicting human condition. Bruce Sterling promoted it as futuristic cinema. His projects were financially supported by various institutions including Asian Cinema Fund(BIFF), MDA, NRF, ICA(Singapore), Mixed Reality Lab, KulturKontakt(Vienna), and Open Society foundation(Belgrade); and have been reviewed at Cinemascope, Wired, Indiewire, Neural, Turbulence, Electrosmog, Artmagazine, Channel News Asia, Film Business Asia, Reuters, World News Network, Res Magazine and on hundreds of pages on various social networks. He has organized workshops, symposiums and curated shows and was one of the key initiators of ISEA2008, where he served as the chair of the Ludic Interfaces theme. In January 2014, he is chairing and organizing the Environmental Visions conference in Singapore. He is a passionate educator who embraces alternative and novel teaching methods. Vladimir is a co-founder of the artist duo Syntfarm and is actively working on several long-term projects and collaborating with producers, directors, screenplay writers, artists, programmers and academics.

Research Interest

Experimental and documentary film, and generative art