......2D & 3D ANIMATION: AFTER EFFECTS, CHARACTER ANIMATOR, MAYA, CINEMA 4D
.AUDIO:LOGIC STUDIO, PRO TOOLS, ADOBE AUDITION,
SOUNDTRACK PRO
BIOGRAPHY
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Cathy Vogan is based in Sydney since 2003. She has previously resided in France, Australia and the UK. Ms Vogan is a 20 year+ broadcast professional and Apple Certified Trainer who is skilled in many areas, including editing, VFX production & supervision, graphic design, animation, music and web admin. She is also a prolific media artist.
In '85, while still a student at Sydney College of the Arts, Vogan won her first of 8 international video awards, and 2 years later, moved to Paris where she co-founded Fearless Studios: a broadcast post production facility. Resident in Paris for 16 years, she edited, composited and directed for the broadcast industry; and in parallel, made her own films, multi-media installations and theatrical events. Vogan has exhibited her work throughout the world, and published extensively on her numerous and diverse websites, accessible via vogania.com. In 2009, Vogan directed and composed the musical Mimosis, which she performed live at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
Vogan has also been a lecturer in digital media since 1988. Her posts have been at the University of Paris VIII, Ecole du Frenois, KHS Cologne, and 5 years at the Eurpoean School of Visual Arts in Poitiers, France. Since her return to Australia in 2003, she has lectured at AFTRS, COFA, UWS and. In 2007, she began training in the broadcast sector. Her clients include the ABC, SBS, DISNEY, MTV, FOXTEL & ANIMAL LOGIC.
SELECTED ACTIVITIES
1987-03
1998-03
2003
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2004
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2005-6 2005 2005
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2006 2007 2007
2007 2007 2007 2007-8
2008
2008
2008 2008 2008-13 2009
2010-12 2013-15 2014 2015
2014-17 2016-17 2016-17
MEDIA ARTIST, lecturer, editor, director, founder member FEARLESS STUDIOS, PARIS
Lecturer in Digital Media: EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, Poitiers, FRANCE
Technical Team Leader, Designer & Author 'IMAGES OF WAR' 52-episode, tri-lingual DVD edition for MARSHALL CAVENDISH, PARIS-LONDON
Colourist-Grader: 'MARK ROTHKO 1903-1970: An Abstract Humanist' In collaboration with Christopher Rothko, SZ PRODUCTIONS, PARIS
Senior Editor GLOBAL TV - VH1 / MTV
COURSE DIRECTOR, Digital Media Dept. at AFTRSNSW, QLD, NT, SA After Effects, Motion, FCP, DVD Studio Pro, Photoshop
Lecturer/ After Effects Tutor in Digital Media at UNSW COFA Nominated: Lecturer
of the Year, UNSW COFA Certification in 3D animation (MAYA), AFTRS, SYDNEY
Consultant forPOWERHOUSE MUSEUM
Consultant for GOLDIEMEDIA, FOX STUDIOS DVD Authoring Specialist(scripting):'SURVIVING CRIME', GOLDIEMEDIA Designer : AFTRS L.A.M.P. Research project: 'NDIGI-NOUS'
......with Geoffrey
Ferguson. AFTRS L.A.M.P. MILSON ISLAND
Lecturer in Vis. Comm/ Tutor in After Effects, PS, IL, KVB SYDNEY
Joins SUPPORT
PARTNERS
Certifications: APPLE
CERTIFIED PRO / APPLE
CERTIFIED TRAINER Trainer to ABC Australia-wide, DISNEY PICTURES and ANIMAL LOGIC After Effects, Motion, FCP, Color, DVD Studio Pro, Photoshop
Designer/Author 'First Australians' 7-DVD edition for SBS & Blackfella Films in 2008
SELECTED REFERENCES
"I look forward
to working with you in the future."
Rebecca Hawson
Training Manager, Apple Australia
"The showreel looks fantastic! You've done such a good job"
Belinda Middleweek
Producer, Network 7
"Many thanks for your teaching during this week with the FCP cluster applications. I enjoyed your teaching style
and discussions. Kind regards."
Pietro Tedesco
Technical
Support Team, ABC Melbourne
"I love the way you laid that (Training Menu) out, considering I'm
such a foodie."
Julianne Goss
ABC Melbourne
"Working across industry and studio practice
is a very significant development for the most adventurous new media
artists and her ((Ms Vogan's) practice leads the way in this respect...
I know Catherine to be an excellent teacher and a role model for younger
artists."
Anthony Bond
Acting Director, Art Gallery of NSW
"Ms Vogan's work has been at
the cutting edge for many years."
Anne Rutherford
Lecturer, Screen Cultures, School of Humanities, UWS
"Her work in the industry has
demanded... an ability to professionally produce a quality outcome for
the client in the time frame specified."
Julie Rrap
Artist and Lecturer at UWS
"I am very familiar with Ms Vogan's work
and believe that her experience in New Media and Electronic Art production
would be forever beneficial to both professional and academic Australian
culture."
Damian Castaldi
Lecturer
in Audio Production and Net Cultures & Practices, UTS
"Cathy's explorations and innovations
in technology, video and new media, as well as her experimental and
challenging work in animation, web design, special effects and graphics stand her in good stead to be able
to continue to develop her practice in an Australian context."
Amanda McDonald Crowley
Executive Producer, ISEA 2004
MUSICAL PRODUCTION
Cathy Vogan's show 'Mimosis' - live at Melbourne International Film Festival 2009
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
** 20 YEARS direction, editing, compositing, graphics & animation for TV.
Short program, TVC, logo, promo, doco, clip, creation. BROADCASTED BY: ARTE, TV5,
LA CINQUIME, FRANCE 2, FRANCE 3, CANAL+, FOX Sport, SBS, VH1 & MTV
** 4 YEARS co-director of a weekly TV program "AFFICHES"
(European
Cultural Magazine) : TV5 / EURONEWS / FRANCE 3
**
Numerous audiovisual creations for corporate and museum exhibition:
video walls, interactive.
Clients: GAZ de FRANCE, La Villette Museum,
French Bicentenary Spectacular,
Espace Kiron,
World
Expo of Seville 92, The Futuroscope Image Park, Institut
Pasteur, Powerhouse Museum.
** 7 YEARS Compositor & founder member of FEARLESS, broadcast studios for TV and Electronic
Art, Paris
**
Compositor for the Pierre Schaeffer International Centre for Video Creation,
France
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Creation of graphics and interactivity for numerous websites and DVD editions.
**
Creation of AV for concerts and theatrical events (commissioned work)
**Promos / jingles for VH1 and MTV, Sydney 2004
** Broadcast Trainer for AFTRS in Final Cut Studio / CS3 2004-2008
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DVD Author of "SURVIVING CRIME" GOLDIEMEDIA, FOX STUDIOS 2005-2006
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DVD Author / Designer of "RAISING CHILDREN" GOLDIEMEDIA, FOX STUDIOS
2007
** Broadcast Training Specialist for SUPPORT PARTNERS 2007-2008
** Trainer to ABC for Support Partners on behalf of Apple Australia 2007-2008..
** Trainer to Disney Pictures, Australia 2008.....
** Trainer to Animal Logic 2008
**
DVD Author / Designer of "FIRST AUSTRALIANS" (7 DVD set)
SBS & BLACKFELLA FILMS, 2008
** Trainer to SBS, CHANNEL 7, CHANNEL 9, TEN, FOXTEL, FAIRFAX & MTV 2013-2015
**
F/T Lecturer in Film (Postproduction) at SAE, 2016-17
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EXTENDED BIOGRAPHY
Early Achievements
Born
in Belfast, N. Ireland into a musical family. Wins 2 major British talent awards as a singer before the age of 10. Theatre and cabaret
performer from the age of 3.5 to 14. Studied ballet, gymnastics & dance to adulthood. Came to Australia with parents in the 70's. HSC School dux. Goethe Institute Award for Outstanding Results in the study of the German Language + Alliance Francaise National Award 1st Prize.
University
of Sydney
English,
French, German, Maths, Philosophy & Psychology. Majored in English
& Psychology.
Phillips
Software "Troubleshooter" - IBM platform.
Ensemble
Theatre
Studied
Dramatic Art & related disciplines for 2 years under Hayes Gordon
& Zika Nester.
Sydney
College of the Arts(1981-1985)
B.Art.
Sculpture (A/V).
Grad.
Dip.
Media artist
since 1984
8
international video awards (to date), and one for painting...
Winner
with < DEAR ME >1st
Australian Video Festival
2nd
Australian Video Festival, video installation: < AUSTRALIA IS... >at Roslyn Oxley Gallery.
Meet
French artist and future collaborator: Dominik Barbier,
and goes to France for 16 years.
1987-2003
FRANCE
FEARLESS
Studios, Paris
Co-founded, with
French artist Dominik Barbier, FEARLESS:
the first broadcast facility dedicated to electronic creation. Partially
funded on an annual and
individual grant basis, by several departments of the Ministere
de la Culture de de la Communication (DAP, DRAC, CNAP), to
receive and produce media artists, and partially financed by public
and private commission. For 7 years, my specific rle was to post-produce
the work of scores of French and international artists, e.g. Alain Renais (France), Ko Nakajima (Japan)
and Robert Longo (USA).
The FEARLESS Artists
FEARLESS was composed of 3 permanent
in-house artists: Dominik Barbier, Cathy Vogan and Leonard Faulon. The
other members of the group were Robert Cahen, Yann N'Guyen Minh and
Jean Claude Poirel. Many films, electronic sculptures,and large-scale,
theatrical installations were created at the studios by these core members,
operating both as solo artists and as collaborators. Of note: <
THE NO WAY BUSTER PROJECT >(1989),spectacle mutant by
BARBIER/ VOGAN, which involved 6 synchronized video sources, 600
sq. metres of sculpture and walk-through environment, and a 23' "main
event".
In 1989 Fearless, with Bernard Szajner
receives the commission: < ESPRIT DE LA REVOLUTION >, spectadclar
for the French Bicentenary at the Jardin des Tuilleries, and produces the material for 3 countries at
the World Expo, Seville in 1992. the Fearless team collaborates
artistically with such figures as TERRY GILLIAM Moebius, Pierre Schaeffer, and especially, Heiner
Muller, with their 1994 biographical documentary <
I WAS HAMLET >(73' Direction:
D. Barbier; Image and Post-production: C. Vogan), and the 7-year project:
<
HAMLET MACHINE >,a large-scale electronic and stage production of his seminal work,
which premired in Marseille in May 2003.
FEARLESS Medi@terrannee 2007
In 1997, Fearless
moved to Marseille, where it still operates today under the above-mentioned
name. The new High Definition facility continues to welcome resident
artists, and focuses primarily on hybrid art forms, situating the productions at the crossroads between Electronic
Creation and Theatre. A new company has emerged witin this
context of live theatrical performance: COMETH(Compagnie d'Explorations
des Territoires Hybrides). My last on-site envolvement with the company
was for the production of "Hamlet Machine". It is now via FTP.
Fearless Cathy Vogan
Over
the 16 years I spent in Paris, I created and exposed many personal works,
in the form of single tapes, video-sculptures, installations and theatrical
events, including two electronic ballets: < TALOS &
KOINE > (1988), and for
TELECOM INTERACTIVE, <TOUCH>(1999). Another major work: < THE NIGHT OF THE FULL MOON > (2000), took the form of a 3-hour live-to-air television broadcast
for the Franco-German Cultural Channel, ARTE. This event was given to
me after the success of their 52' documentary,< THREE APPROACHES >(Dir. Matthias Behrens), which focused on my work, and that of two
other artists, Hanno Baethe and Alexander Hahn.
Resident
artist (1988-1996) FEARLESS Studios, Paris
Resident
artist (1996-2003) L'ESPACE KIRON, Paris
Resident
artist (1997) ZKM PRODUCTION AWARD: 12 months @ ZKM,
Karlsruhe, Germany
Resident
artist (1993-1999) CICV CENTRE PIERRE SCHAEFFER, France
1993-2003 Kiron Television: Broadcast
Design for TF1, France3, TV5, ARTE
For 4-years, for the company
Kiron TV, I directed a weekly program on European
cultural events, entitled < AFFICHES >, which was broadcast
in Europe (FRANCE 3, EURONEWS), and around the world on TV5. I became the
company's principal editor, compositor, animator, web designer, and DVD author. Most of the products I worked on were
designed for broadcast: TVC, documentary, clip, live-to
air for MTV etc. In 2002 one of my tasks was to finalize 2
dailyprime-time shows: "Tout le monde en parle" for TF1, and "On
a tout essaye" for FRANCE2. In 2000-2001, I edited two 52-minute
documentaries entitled "Le Mafia a Hollywood" and "Glamour
a Hollywood" (portrait of film director George Sidney). I continued to
work for Kiron until I left France in 2003. My last two missions were
to work with Christopher Rothko, as compositor and colourist for a documentary
on his father, the painter Mark Rothko, and as team
leader and author of a bi-weekly 52-episode DVD edition: < IMAGES OF WAR >, for client Marshall Cavendish. My team brought a 6-figure profit to
the company in 2002.
1997
My film <
THE SYNCHRONIZER >wins 2 major awards: ZKM's VIDEOKUNSTPREIS and the GRAND
PRIX of PALERMO
I collaborated with French metteur
en sceneBernard Szajner, directing and fabricating the
electronic image component for the millenium spectacular
of GAZ
de FRANCE.
Filmography & Exhibitions
See below.
Tenders
2006-2007 Co-winner of tender with Nigel Helyer for public work:
