ANDREI COZLAC

(Romania)

Andrei Cozlac (b. 1986) is a video artist and Lect. Univ. Ph.D. at the George Enescu National University of Arts, Iași, Faculty of Visual Arts, Department of Photography, Video and Computerized Image Processing, and adjunct professor at the Media Department of the Faculty of Arts in Romanian Language in Târgu Mureș!

Experimentalist, interested in the latest multimedia technologies, he has collaborated on numerous independent projects of visuals, video-mapping, live projections.

He began his VJ activity in 2005, working in the Drums.ro and DGW crews, while also collaborating with major music festivals in the country and abroad. Andrei has designed the video for plays directed by directors such as Silviu Purcărete, Radu Afrim, Alexandru Dabija, Charles Muller, Theodor Cristian Popescu, Eugen Jebeleanu, Ioana Paun, Octavian Jighirgiu, Florin Caracala, etc. He has created numerous interactive and non-interactive video installations and laid the foundations for the AV//Sattelites project, with which he shared the same stage with artists such as Arms and Sleepers, Sun Glitters, Brazda lui Novac, Yvat, etc.

In 2016, he placed 3rd at the Light Up international video mapping competition, Iasi, and in 2017, he returned as a participant in this competition and won 1st place.

In 2017, he received the award for video mapping in theater at the National Comedy Festival, and in 2020, he received the special U.N.I.T.E.R award for video mapping in theater at the UNITER gala, edition 30, and in 2021, 2022, he exhibited together with artists Felix Aftene and Lucian Dan Teodorovici in Berlin and Paris, the year in which he received the second U.N.I.T.E.R award for the creativity of video design and video mapping in the show “The Ploughman and Death”, directed by Silviu Purcărete and set design by Dragoș Buhagiar.

He also won the award for best video design for the show “The Ploughman and Death”, directed by Silviu Purcarete and the scenography by Dragos Buhagiar at the International Theater Festival “Theater at the Crossroads” in Serbia, Nis. At the end of 2022, he received the “Cultural Merit” distinction at the event Valorile Iașului, Valorile României, for his contribution to the field of visual arts.

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