Ilan Katin is an artist specialized in drawings, live video performance and animation. His work has been published in a variety of print and online publications. His video performances include numerous collaborations and locations in the United Sates and Europe. For the past decade Ilan Katin has worked in a wide variety of disciplines including programming, graphic design, illustration, comics, animation and broadcast design. As a video performance artist Ilan has provided visual support for a variety of musicians including o.blaat, Lance Blisters, Becca Schack, Bora Yoon, ErwinMusic, Lukas Ligeti and The Mad Scene. He has also performed countless VJ sets in a variety of locations in the United States and Europe. In 2003 Ilan became involved with SHARE.nyc. His creative energy as part of SHARE includes the design of the SHARE logo, the conception of it's one time, multi-location performance event 'Anyware' that took place at The Kitchen, along with numerous posters and flyers. Ilan's personal performance work addresses the ‘here’ and ‘now’ using live drawing, animations and found video to formulate expressions ranging from human thoughts to poetic dissonance. The first of these works called 'eggsounds' has been performed at the 'Mapping Festival' in Geneva Switzerland (2005) and Participant INC Gallery in New York City as part of the Roberta Fleck Memorial Cinema (2005). In 2007 Ilan performed 'decrepticon 0001', an eight hour performance where he interacted with the audience through projected live drawing.
Since 2005 Ilan has been developing 'decrepticon.' The project is executed through a variety of mediums such as performance, drawings, writings and videos.
Ilan Katin usa desenho e animação nas suas performances em tempo real, com trabalho em várias públicações impressas e online. Alguns nomes de outros artistas com quem desenvolve trabalho colaborativo: Shelley Hirsch, DJ Olive, o.blaat, Lance Blisters, Toshio Kajiwara, Aaron Spectre, Becca Schack, Bora Yoon, ErwinMusic, Lukas Ligeti, i8u, RJ Valejo , glomag, Landau Orchestra e The Mad Scene. Lugares onde actuou incluem: MoMA, Tonic, Galapagos e The Tank, todos em Nova Iorque. Em 2003 juntou-se à equipa que organiza o SHARE em Nova Iorque. A sua participação inclúi o desenho do logótipo e o conceito visual para o evento Anyware. Junta-se ao Mapping Festival em 2007 como parte do grupo organizador e como comissário. Atravéz da performance visual Ilan testa os limites da utilização do laptop em situações de performance e em frente da audiencia, interagindo ‘aqui’ e ‘agora’ com objectos e desenho em tempo real que mistura e manipula. O objectivo é experimentar como as suas acções interagem símbolicamente com as projecções video num ambiente performativo. O promeiro trabalho apresentado a partir deste processo chama-se 'eggsounds', apresentado no Mapping festival em 2005 e na galeria Participant INC em Nova Iorque como parte do Roberta Fleck Memorial Cinema (2005). 'decrepticon 0001' é o segundo trabalho resultante deste mesmo proccesso.