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in 2005. The game is an unorthodox sports workshop with continuously evolving rules, only loosely resembling soccer. Each game is one hour in length, during which the first forty minutes, the ball is in play, and the remaining twenty minutes are used to decide how the rules of the game should change
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The purpose of this performance is to create and perform a show in which the artist paints portraits of audience members with animated light on a stage arranged with a large-sized canvas. Symbols from the life of the model materialize to decorate the portrait. In banter with the model and audience,
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Hand drawn, digitally finished animation. This animation is accompanied by a live score and improvised dialogue, so every performance is different. Both Worlds part 2 is slated for 2013. The piece features two peaceful creatures in talks with each other about how to maintain the flora and fauna on
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with several animations projected onto experimental screens, such as an animated caged bird on the underside of a dress, slot machine animations on an ice cream truck, and 4 foot tall egg shapes that slowly dropped down from the 3 story tall rigging, filled with the movements of animated birds.
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On the Boards featured Lingo Dance Co and Gruber's animation projected onto mobile, wheeled 'sails' which could be arranged live by the dancers to form several sets. Abstract animations based on the dancer's movements were created alongside the practice times leading up to the performance.
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16mm. Armies of commuters go about their routine, abstract and near-nonsensical business, within an ever-shifting cement block world. Occasionally, they get literally consumed by their own news, and they wage war against small, not entirely defenseless birds.
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Slide Rule Digital Players hosts a community of comics makers who want their comics to be experienced as performance. Gruber and fellow comic makers built Powerpoint presentations with live dialogue and scores. Adaptations include versions of the mini comics
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for the next game. In each game, three teams are formed on a circular field, and a large yoga ball is used instead of a soccer ball. The interactions of three opposing teams creates what Gruber describes as a "dance-related trajectory".
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In this ten-page full color comic in the anthology Kramers Ergot #4, two mountainside dwellers find inspiration for new musical styles based on their encounter with legendary cryptozoological creature, Jake the Alligator Man.
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In the mid-nineties, Gruber was involved in a band called Soapy Grapes, which consisted of high school friend Rosten Woo and Gruber's then seven-year-old cousin, Hannah Burney. Gruber maintains the music on their site.
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Evaporation animation technique was invented for this show, and dancers modeled their movements to be sampled into a 5-minute piece that accompanied the live modern dance performance at Hedreen Gallery in 2012.
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to found their animation program and the Nova Animation Portal, an annual benefit to fund the department. Gruber continues to teach today as head of the Animation Department. Gruber is also founder of the
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Gruber was born into a creative environment and was exposed to animation from an early age. Raised by an inventor father and a mother involved in modern dance, Gruber is also the grandchild and partial
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Today, Gruber creates one hand-drawn, digitally finished experimental animation short per year and spends their summers touring North America with their work—in addition to their work with
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This project was started to navigate a way of improvising with animation in the company of musicians and dancers. Three shows, at OKOK, Velocity, and On the Boards were staged. Ongoing.
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16mm. In this animated clip, two dogs go into sensory overload, and it's up to a good Samaritan to liberate the four-legged friends from their oppressive leash-holders.
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Hand drawn, digitally transferred, finished as 35mm film print. This animation follows Gruber's account of a magical encounter involving resurrecting drowned ladybugs.
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Charcoal, colored pencils, gel pens. This animation recounts the time when the animator convinced their little brother that there were some rocks you could eat.
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Hand drawn, digitally finished animation. This animation concludes Petting Zoo's premise of liberating trapped animals as symbols of contained human emotions.
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This twelve-page, full color comic is part of the SOS comic anthology. In this comic, a Birdman rises up in ranks in some unusual outer space jobs.
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In 2010, Gruber drew six different 102 page tape bound hand assembled Flipbooks. They continue to sell these at their performances and showcases.
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This project is the collective title of a giant collection of short digital animation experiments by Stefan and guests and updated bi-yearly.
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Hand drawn, digitally finished animation. The main character is either the voyeur or liberator of animals trapped in a haunted abandoned zoo.
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Following college, Gruber returned to Seattle to act as ambassador for the concept of Experimental Animation. In 2001, they returned to
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animation director, editor, colorist, experimental animator, performance artist, motion graphics artist, teacher
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Twelve-page mini comic about a person trying to get wisdom from a duck who never talks to him.
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Stereoscopic photography technology. At the age of thirteen, they spent the summer in
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Twelve-page mini comic about two people trying to start a radical garden.
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This story consists of several one-page stories in Kramers Ergot #3
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Video interview regarding Gruber's approach to hand-drawn animation
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and the founder of Seattle Experimental Animation Team (SEAT).
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from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially
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Video bio on Gruber's Mural with Sound Transit Art Program
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Stefan Gruber's Hexagonal Chess is partially an answer to
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Featured artist in Creative Capitol's On Our Radar (2012)
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Some Sonic Nurturing in Washington's Mystic Bayou (2001)
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The Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs (2011)
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http://stefangruber.com/
animator
performance artist
Seattle, Washington

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