Telefante
is formed by Luis Negrón van Grieken and Juan Carlos Orozco Velásquez. They put all kinds of media, new, old, forgotten, obsolete, overused, commercial, useless, all over the table, as if we were making a transversal cut through history.
From the fictions unveiled in the middle of a scientific bourgeois show, to the ironies of our present society, to the imposed illusion of a world divided in three apparent parts. About how to use old media devices, forgotten or destined to museums and historic illustrations, neither moved for a romantic desire of yearning the old, nor in order to produce something creative and original (as it were the assignment of an advertisement agency).
Telefante is about connect diverse times and geographies (sometimes incompatible and conflicting) through Heterogeneous Media. It is about evade the evolutive historical line which confine us to believe that every step, every new invention, every experiment should be left back in order to adopt a new one. We put all kinds of media, new, old, forgotten, obsolete, overused, commercial, useless, all over the table, as if we were making a transversal cut through history. Simply it is about tell stories (new and old) through several media (new and old), with the aim to forget this unproductive dialectic and be able to capture the most difficult: the present. Telefante is formed by Luis Negrón van Grieken and Juan Carlos Orozco Velásquez.
Juan Orozco studied Cinema at the National University of Bogota, Colombia. Master at the MECAD, Barcelona. Currently doing postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. He was professor at the Bogota's national university in video-art. He is very interested in the philosophical aspects of film, video and visual arts.
Luis Negron studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Media Centre d’Art and Disenny Barcelona and Technical University of Ilmenau. Since 2000 using electronic media in fields like theater, music and visual arts. Artistic research is based on experimentation of processes in the realization of media electronic stage design, A/V concerts and installations. Currently working in the academic staff of the field of video / interactive media & scenography at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
Source: Telefante’s website