In my work I use Video and interactive to present a non-linear narative by testing and redefining the relationships between time – place – image – voice – words, as a part of the wish to create the total experience for the audience. Of cource, no matter how much the voyager will try to include everything, something will always be missing. The absent is as important as what is present.
Two lines from the work of Yona Wallach, prominent 20th-century Israeli poet, stand out in my mind, as a perfect description of Cyberstory:
“As much as you split the world in two,
/the world will split you into two in return.” (Yona Volach, from the poem “Another Bourgeois” – is referring to the different between men and women).
Each element is composed of far more than just two parts: The conventional sequence of beginning - middle - ending that modernism got us used to is transformed into new models such as the “Rhizome”- a tuber root system in which any point may be connected to any other point. The cancellation of the hierarchy order and the creation of unbounded network made of infinite points linked to each other bring the storytelling back to life.
Eli Toyster Freelance Print & Digital Designer (see professional resume).
Own ToysterMedia, Production Company. Digital Artist & Illustrator
Live in Tel Aviv - Work Everywhere
09/2002 - 05/2004 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
MFA in Computer Art, 5/2004
Awarded the “Chairman Grant” for Spring Semester 2004
09/1995 - 07/1999 Camera Obscura School of the Art, Tel Aviv
Majored in Digital Media.
Awarded the “Head of Department Prize” for Academic Achievements
PROJECTS & EXHIBITIONS
9/2011 - 10/2011 Icon People – Group Exhibition
Dizengof Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
11/2010 - 02/2011 Elliptical Sentence – Solo Exhibition
New Media Gallery, Oranim, Israel
Video Art, Interactive Projections & Illustrations
Including ReadMe 2010
10/2008 - 11/2008 “Fragments” – Group Exhibition
West Side Gallery, NY, New York
Fragments” Interactive projection
8/2008 - 9/2008 “Castles & Legands” – Theme Exhibition
Tower of David Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Interactive projection on window
2007 “Queer” – Illustration
Book Cover – Resling Publishing
Illustration for the book: “Pink Life” by Guy Shilo
9/2007 - 10/2007 “Trends 2007” – Group Exhibition
The Israel Trade Fairs Center, Israel "Tarot: 6 spreads of 3 cards”- Video Art
7/2002 Artistic Catalogue (Print)
Digital Art for “Bank Leumi”, Israel
Digital Art in collaboration with video Artist- Zamir Shatz And Adam Baruch
1/2000 Flash Animation
Flash Film Festival, Israel
Finalist at the prestigious contest sponsored by Adobe and Macromedia.
6/1999 Interactive Poem – Group Collaboration
Interactive CD, Israel
Part in a group that worked with the Israeli poet:
Maya Bijerano in a creation of a digital translation to her poems.
Collections & Grants
2007 Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel purchased "Tarot: 6 spreads of 3 cards”
2004 School of visual Arts
1999 Camera Obscura, School of Art
