Women’s glance
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Women’s glance
On next november 25-29, at P.A.N. (Palazzo delle Arti Napoli)
Magmart festival, in collaboration with the collective ‘Urto!’ presents: Women’s glance, screening of videoart by women, curated by Enrico Tomaselli 12 videoartists, from Italy and other countries, show 12 videos:
CESTA – Marta Daeuble
CYANIDE – Barbara Agreste
CRY ME – Francesca Fini
EVA/EVE – Loredana Raciti
DEVOTIAMO – Silvana Sferza
O SNU – Lucija Mrzljak
PASSING BY – Maria Korporal
ROSE IS A ROSE – Evelin Stermitz
QUEST’ESTATE LE ZANZARE SARANNO PIÚ CATTIVE – Silvia De Gennaro
TASTE – Maarit Murka
THEM ME – Nisrine Boukhari
TU-BI – Lidia Meriggi
Artists interviews are curated by Giuseppina Di Pasqua and Lorenzo Mantile, of Ar.C.A.Na Project. * the interviews will be available on www.magmart.it, by vernissage date, on November 25
Metamorphose
South Haven Center for the Arts
Metamorphose
We are presently in the midst of an artistic uprising. The Metamorphose exhibition speaks for itself when conveying that the art world is quickly being transformed by a new media generation. The digital world is taking form and moving rapidly by way of computer, television, radio, phone and the Internet. New Media art is a genre that emerged in the 1960s with the development of new technologies, and encompasses artworks created with these technologies including: digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, computer robotics and art as biotechnology.
Artists are reinterpreting, reinventing, and redefining not only what it means, but what it takes to be an artist in this advanced environment. With this unbridled expansion of creative output, many artists have a way of creating art that is effortlessly shared with its audience by digital means. This exhibition is an examination of the strange and eerie most often associated with that of Surrealism and is also apparent throughout New Media art. The work in Metamorphose represents a minute segment of New Media art that emphasizes the human presence either in its whole, or fragmented as a conceptual theme.
Including national and internationally known artists in this exhibition stresses the importance of bringing more acclaimed work to the community for cultural proposes. Sound artists, Ed Osborn and Mark Snyder, accentuate the eerie feelings of Surrealism while giving the audience a more complete sensory experience when viewing the exhibition. Videos by Barbara Agreste exemplify the power of sound with moving picture combined to create a complete conceptual design. Digital collage artists, Matt Manley and Osvaldo Gonzalez, convey a wide array of possibilities mixing traditional media with digital image to produce a truly unique work of art. Interactive sculpture collaborated by David Otis and Ricardo de Sousa Costa allows its audience to physically engage with the piece to demonstrate the significance of human involvement in art, and lastly web art by Ben Benjamin illustrates the complexity and interconnectedness that the internet provides to the art world.
Metamorphoses new media artworks challenge expectations and expand our understanding of art. The eight artists in this installation at the South Haven Center for the Arts are major contributors to this new media generation seeking this change of perception from their viewers.
Melissa Warner-Talcott, Curator
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Art Shake Festival
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ART SHAKE Festival III edition part 2 >>>Berlin
1 Night of 15 Video Installations, Performance and Live Set
ART SHAKE Contemporary arts festival Created and directed by Emanuela De Notariis
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curated by Fabio Campagna
Saturday November 27th, h 19.00
performance h 21:30
91mQ Art Project Space
Landsberger Allee 54 – Berlino
www.91mq.org
www.artshakefestival.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/artshake
The third edition of ART SHAKE festival is nomadic, changed and changing being born from the instability of existence. It spreads like a virus, deadly to the lethargy of feelings only, and after its succesful one week event in Rome, takes new life in Berlin. Where in 91 mQ Art Project Space it presents a one day event with videoart, performance and music, conceived as a synergetic exchange between the two cities.
ART SHAKE promotes art charachterized by hybrid languages and multiplicity of media, able to soothe the wounds of reality with wonder.
A fil rouge connects the different arts, all made of the blood of the controversial age we are living in. They metabolize conflicts and uneasiness of our age, skinning it and gutting its socio-cultural superstructures. And then sewing new skins over it, made of imagination.
Today blogs and poetry, comics and art history are all equal sources of inspiration, masters of a language of signs with an highly sensitive power, remedies made of imaginary, for a schizoyd society.
November 27th, 2010
ARTISTS:
Performance:
Ambra Pittoni – Yusuke Yamasaki – Square Noises
curated by Fabio Campagna
Video:
Barbara Agreste – Andreco – Elena Bellantoni – Alessandro Cannistrà – Ericailcane – Azzurra De Gregorio – Francesca Fini – Marco Giani – Emanuele Kabu – Luca Manes – Emiliano Monaco – Marco Morandi – Carlo Michele Schirinzi – Cosimo Terlizzi – Virgilio Villoresi Curated by Emanuela De Notariis
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Ambra Pittoni, Yusuke Yamasaki, Dance is not for ever:
Dance is not for ever is an Ambra Pittoni’s performance and sound project, interpreted in this occasion by Yusuke Yamasaki, that investigates other linguistic options for the transmission of a dance piece. In order to present the true, undefined sense of the choreography, the dance is presented as a score of breathings. A rhythmic body text that defines itself trough changes and alterations.
SQUARE NOISES, untiteld:
Square Noises is an experimental live set that combines contemporary dance practise and analog sound sources in order to analyse the function of body language within a dimension of improvised music practise.
VIDEOART
Suggestions from the moving images of 15 videoartists.
Barbara Agreste, Reptilica:
My white flesh is their flesh, my hair is a support for leaves, that look like small fragments of me I keep searching for, restless, inside your thoughts, washing them into my unconscious, that gives birth to your best nightmares.
Andreco, Sonata d’organi in fa (Self portrait):
I’d give you every organ of my body, I’m a magician with a special skill, which is much more than cutting women in two parts. Each one of my organs has a life of his own, because I’ve got the alchemical formula with which I really own my body, and I’m getting concentrated on yours now. Music!
Elena Bellantoni, The fugitive:
Red strings, made with my own veins not to get lost in unknown cities, hamper your walk to make you stop right where you ignore me, ’cause you’ re too concentrated on your daily life. Take a break, escape from your prison.
Alessandro Cannistrà, Shameless eyes:
Otherwhise I’ll kill you, slowly, byte after byte. But it won’t be my fault, I love you so much that I want you to be mine, I want you to be really inside me. Inside me in gestation. Bur I hate your shameless eyes, and now I can finally make them wet.
Ericailcane, Ammazzarne uno per educarne 100:
Don’t trust, you can’t be quiet, your house is not your refuge, the monkey beats the steps of you coming, the steps of the moment I’ll make a bonfire with your fears and your little bon-ton certainties. Come with me to discover the magic of numbers, I’ll make you study, or I’ll make necklaces with your eyes.
Azzurra De Gregorio, Virgen:
Be the virgin untouched! Be the virgin pure!
Death to pity! Let’s wash pity into blood, let’s cover pity with white clothes, let’s sacrify love and rip off the heart from the body’s flesh, because you’re not allowed, virgin, to violate it. Nobody can play inside the circle of witches united by the pact of murdering every wish.
Francesca Fini, Latin Lover:
You wanted a girlfriend, there she is. You didn’t want to hear my voice anymore, you wanted to heal your headache, you wanted to scan my female body to understand what I’ve got inside, then look at me now. And be scared now, adore me now, love me now.
Marco Giani, Memory of the world:
While the world is blowing out there, your body is in safety, nothing can hurt you, everything happens far away, everything gets regenerated under your divine eyes.
Luca Manes, 2160°:
And I spin around endless times. I spin around as I was a crazy paper boat in a fountain in the middle of the square of you memories, passing through so fast, and leaving an echo of their voice inside me. And it resounds inside me, while I look at you on the seashore, in summertime. I keep looking, slowly.
Emiliano Monaco, La dolce vita:
My perspectives have changed, I betrayed you. I lie on the sand and you walk by indifferent, throwing the sand of your ligh-heartedness all over me. Just today.
Marco Morandi, Feed me rainbows:
Tomorrow your fawns will swallow diamonds, to make rain with them and dance. Because I’m linving in a surreality where my thoughts are the geometry of your raimbow masks, and butterflies can regenerate us from all atrocities.
Carlo Michele Schirinzi, Notturno Stenopeico:
While how many people run away, toward a somewhere else they dreamed of, drifted by their whishes illegittimately born from desperate and hopeful night encounters. And I peer at you, like a voyeur or just like a guardian of your escape efforts, digging inside your memories, in your adventures.
Cosimo Terlizzi, Beauty:
I looked at you growing, I looked at your beauty ripening in the uncultivated fields in the landscapes of my childhood memories. Where colors were warmer, where every summer permeated the pores of my skin and it never vanished. I still smell it when I meet you.
Virgilio Villoresi, Rotten flowers:
I look at your childood photographs, when you dreamt of being, who knows, maybe just what you are. Offer your memories to me, while you sing, I’ll make a blanket with them, to make dream chocolate flavoured dreams, tonight.
web sites:
ArtShake: Rome – Berlin
www.91mq.org
www.artshakefestival.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/artshake
Unbroken beat of soul
International Contemporary Video art
at the third Mediterranean laity festival
15 – 24 ocober 2010- Ex Aurum Pescara – Italy
Since it is granted an essential body centre (the heartbeat) which allows an unconscious, unintentional biological life, can we think of a similar place allowing the existence as human being, as ‘persona’ and identity, as awareness and conscious relationship with the outer world and the others?
The videos suggested lead us towards a different place, where Art goes deep down and into the core of the anthropological question just before becoming ‘communication’, ‘celebration’, ‘marketing’, ‘rhetorical power’, ‘narration’, ‘style’ and so on.
Our choice has fallen upon videos which ask questions, open perspectives but offer no solutions: they leave us alone to rebuild possible interpretations. They take us to the root of ‘laity’, when love, the need for happiness, dread of violence, reciprocity, society, community, neither openly turn into politics, ethics, sociology, religion, ideology, nor coincide with cultural abstractions, languages, analytical processes but remain ‘humanitas’ shared values instead.
videoart by:
Barbara Agreste
Khosro Khorsavi/Farid Jafari
Emanuela Barbi/Gianluca Stuard
Tarin Gartner
Mandra Cerrone
Liuba
Paolo Dell’Elce
Gino Sabatini Odoardi
Franco Fiorillo
Curated by Antonio Zimarino
Opening 15 october 6.30 pm
PIXILERATIONS [v.7]
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PIXILERATIONS [v.7]
New Media Fringe Festival @ FirstWorks.
video art screening
270 Westminster Street Providence,
Rhode Island – USA
September 30-October 10, 2010
in Providence, Rhode Island
PIXILERATIONS [v.7] is a new media showcase in Providence, Rhode Island that investigates the state of new media arts through installations, concert performances and film/video screenings. It is part of the larger FirstWorks Festival (www.first-works.org), a multidimensional performing arts festival held in Providence each fall.
Pixilerations is produced by FirstWorks in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, and the City of Providence’s Department of Art, Culture + Tourism.
Now in its seventh year, Pixilerations showcases groundbreaking work in digital music and art. Local, national and international artists, selected from over 350 applicants, investigate issues ranging from the controversy around surveillance technologies to private space as commodity to the richness of digital technology as an artistic tool.
This year’s fringe festival sweeps to the far reaches of the global frontier with provocative installations by Taiwanese artist Dar-Kuen Wu, Rhode Island’s Megan and Murray McMillan, and REDUX (Mark Cetilia and Joe Cantrell). Pixilerations extends its reach to new venues with performances at Firehouse 13 (Providence’s West Side), and Machines With Magnets (Pawtucket).
PIXILERATED VIDEO ART SCREENINGS:
Tuesday October 5 – 9:30pm
Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main Street, 9:30p
Hosted by Magic Lantern Cinema
Join us for a line-up of new video art, animation, and experimental film from around the world.
Detailed artist and work information:
Sara Sun
Blue / Single channel video / 3 min. / 2006 / Brooklyn, NY A dance segment from the 1936 Swing Time, a Depression Era musical, recaptured from DVD screen. Blue uses color, animation techniques and juxtaposes an independent audio mix with reedited video. Sara Sun lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is predominantly video/installation, digital image and drawing.
Barbara Agreste
Lo Specchio (the Mirror) / 16mm stop animation / 2 min. / 2010 / Italy and England This film, the 3rd part of the Le Torre trilogy, examines themes of loss of control and hysteria. Originally shot in16mm as a stop-action animation the piece was then digitally mastered. Barbara Agreste was born in 1971 in Pescara where she first studied art at the Art Lyceum, followed by scenography in Milan and finally video and film at Central St. Martins College of Art & Design in London. Her projects have exhibited internationally. She lives and works in London.
Audrey Ellis Fox
I’m Like / Digital Video / 2010 / 2:52 min. / Providence, RI I’m like is an elliptical sound, video, and text collage that resists facile answers. Audrey Ellis Fox is concentrating in Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is from Los Angeles.
Anders Weberg
For Sore Eyes / Digital Video / 2:17 min. / 2006 / Sweden For Sore Eyes is an exploration of the ambivalence of the male gaze and gendered (dis)order. It is a suggestive reflection of life in the sanatorium of consumer freedom. But really what is freedom? Anders Weberg (b.1968) is an artist and filmmaker. The human body lies at the root of his projects that formally and conceptually map identity and its construction as a preamble to broaching matters of violence, genders, memory and loss.
Lucky Leone
Saddest Green House / Digital Video / 11 min. / 2010 / Providence, RI A house, abandoned for many years, held the possessions of a family long gone. The mother we are told lived there until she died. After her death her daughters wanted nothing to do with the house. It was at this time that Lucky Leone was able to look through the house, and ultimately, to find a cardboard box emptied of its contents, her ashes.
Lucky Leone is a professional artist whose work ranges from sculpture to painting, electronics to video. Leone has a BFA and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from San Diego State University.
Dave Fischer
Ylla’s World / digital video / 5 minutes / 2010 / Providence, RI Ylla’s World is a five-minute experiment in animated textures, based on algorithmic manipulations of photographs of Mars’ surface from a NASA probe. It was inspired by Albert Lamorisse’s Le vent des amoureux, and his portrayal of the desert regions of Iran. Dave Fischer lives and works in Providence.
David Dvorin and Douglas Crockwell
Glen Falls Sequence / Animation / 8:16 min. / 2010 / USA In the late 1930s experimental animator Douglass Crockwell created a series of short abstract animated silent films titled Glen Falls Sequence. Now, David Dvorin has created an entirely new surround-sound electroacoustic composition that would complement the surreal and abstract visualizations of the animations.
An Emmy-nominated composer, author, and educator, David Dvorin’s music has been performed in numerous new music festivals around the United States. He has worked with such composers as Terry Riley and performers as the Kronos Quartet. Currently he is Professor of Music Composition and Electronic Music at California State University at Chico, and the artistic director of the annual New Music Symposium.
Jacopo Jenna
The Visible Man IV / Video / 2:43 min. / 2010 / Italy A plastic model The Visible Man is a full-scale reproduction of the human body. The skin of the model is completely transparent revealing the bones and the inner organs. The video explores the concept of visibility through six chapters, in which fuzzy anonymous bodies pass through different places as reality merges with the surreal.
Jacopo Jenna is a visual artist and professional dancer. He approached dance only as an adult when he studied in Holland in Codarts-Rotterdam Dance Academy. He has worked in dance companies and on projects across Europe.
Melanie Beisswenger
Follow Me / Digital Video / 1:30 seconds / 2010 / Germany and Australia In Follow Me images and sounds flow together, as if fleeting thoughts shooting through the mind.
Melanie Beisswenger is a German born director, animator and visual artist. After undergraduate studies in architecture, she received her Masters degree at the Institute of Animation, Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg in Germany. Beisswenger has worked in animation on a number of international feature films and TV commercials. Her animation credits include the Academy Award winning feature film Happy Feet. Currently Melanie Beisswenger is Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media, NTU in Singapore.
Susanne Wiegner
Mixed Reflextion/ Digital Video / 2:40 min. / 2010 / Germany Mixed Reflection uses the mixture of different video and animation techniques, as well as the mixture of the different common media in confronting the artist’s face — the mirror, the screen and the camera. The video is set in the intimacy of a bathroom.
Susanne Wiegner
studied architecture at the Academy of fine Arts in Munich and at Pratt Institute in New York City. She works as an architect and 3D-artist in Munich, Germany. In addition to projects in real space, for several years she has been creating 3D computer animations dealing with literature and with virtual space.
Anton Hecht
Carousel/ Digital Video / 3:42 min. / 2010 / England In Carousel over 40 players filmed separately play five instruments edited together and superimposed to create a loop of music.
Anton Hecht works with communities in the northeast of the UK. He also writes and directs theatre works. Hecht holds a degree and MA in art from Manchester University. Have shown in galleries and non-gallery sites throughout England.
David Montgomery
Pollenating II / 1:52 min. / 2010 / Florida The Pollenating series revisits the often painted and photographed realm of a universal sensuality inherent in the anatomy of flowers. Stigma, stamen and petals from more than 30 blossoms are used to create flowing, pulsing motion, which complements the nature and function of these organs.
David Montgomery, a hybrid naturalist and digital content creator, spent a childhood spent mostly outdoors until at a still very early age an onset of video game addiction may have set the stage for his art.
Andrew Wilson
Virtual Assistance / Digital Video / 4:05 min. / 2010 / Chicago There is a company based in Bangalore, India called ‘Get Friday.’ It typically provides remote executive support, wherein a largely American client base is assigned a ‘virtual’ personal assistant. Wilson is part of that client base. His primary assistant is a 24-year-old male Bangalore resident named Sachin. He engages him in creative collaborative projects and even reversals of the normative outsourcing flow. Much activity has developed from their online and postal interactions. Virtual Assistance is an excerpt from such a collaboration in response to a task in which Wilson was asked to make a video about the best fighter jet in the world.
Andrew Wilson (b. 1983) is an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has recently worked with media theorist Lev Manovich, filmmakers Sam Green, Craig Baldwin, and Micha Peled, as well as with the labor union Unite Here!
James George
Hesitation/ Digital Video / 9:30 min. / 2010 / Brooklyn, NY Choreography by Alice Gosti Performer Anh Nguyen Sound design by Daniel Peterson
Hesitation is a film in which dancers respond to the architecture in a distorted space-time. A metaphor for the formation of a relationship, ‘Hesitation’ depicts two individuals encountering one another in a space where movement is met with disruption. As one attempts to understand the other through uncertain exchanges, they find themselves powerfully connected.
Director James George is a software artist who creates interactive systems. Sound designer Daniel Peterson was born in Honolulu, HI. He received a B.A. in Comparative Literature. Choreographer Alice Gosti was born and raised in Perugia, Italy, where she trained at Dance Gallery with Rita Petrone and Valentina Romito. She graduated in 2008 with a B.A. in Dance from the University of Washington.
Collin McRae
Following the Huron / Animation / 1 min. / 2010 / Michigan Following the Huron is an animated investigation of geographic forms used as graphic and musical notation. Instead of classical black notes as dots suspended on five black stretching lines, the artist superimposes a system of rules where the eye follows a changing shape of the river’s curve and speed, and the sounds respond.
Collin McRae is a violinist and former portrait painter currently working toward a MFA at the University of Michigan. She draws inspiration from semiotics, incorrect maps, graphic notation, her synaesthesia, Ottoman Turkish calligraphy and cracks in cement.
SPINE
Reframed / Digital Video / 13:35 min. / 2009 / Brooklyn, NY This work was commissioned by and premiered at the Berkshire Fringe Festival 2009 and made with the support of Dancenow/NYC. Like watching an episode of ‘Friends’ with decidedly disturbing undertones, Reframed takes the familiar plight of 20-something romantic confusion in an unexpectedly sinister direction.
SPINE is an artist-led production company dedicated to the exploration of movement, language, and technology. SPINE was formed in 1999 and presented extensively throughout Europe and the USA. Reframed was conceived, written, performed, filmed by Paul Coffey, Brent Felker, Cory Nakasue, and Kristen Revier. Directed and edited by Brent Felker. Score by Peter Wise link:
Nigredo
…The Nigredo in art is the starting point of a new imaginary material, a new shape which lends itself to the research of the perfect artwork, the true philosopher’s stone of every creative instinct.
The Nigredo project is a Barbara Collevecchio’s idea, curated in collaboration with Lori Adragna, and Micol Di Veroli, exhibiting 30 international artists that through their experiences show to the public the beginning of the creative process, a mystic and purifying moment in which pain and determination mix together like esoteric formulas to give life to new visual creations.
We have selected the most significant artwork specifically created for this exhibition: there will be paintings, sculptures, installations, photography and video-art, in a perfect balance between intellect, emotions and creativity. This show will also present a series of correlated happenings of experimental theatre, poetry, electronic music, and fashion.
Artists:
Adalberto Abbate, Barbara Agreste, Andreco, Matteo Basile’, Angelo Bellobono, Zaelia Bishop, Umberto Chiodi, Laura Cionci, Pierluigi Febbraio, Massimo Festi, Octavio Floreal, Tommaso Garavini, Tiziano Lucci, Federico Lupo, Jara Marzulli, Masbedo, Elena Monzo, Serena Nono, Davide Orlandi Dormino, Max Papeschi, Paola Parlato, Guido Pecci, Gabriele Pellegrini, Francesca Pennini, Cristiano Pintaldi, Marco Rea, Francesco Sambo, Silvia Serenari, Fernanda Veron, Fiorenzo Zaffina.
Links:
Press Release
More information about Nigredo:
BBC: The Stages of the Alchemical Opus
House of the Sun
Toys What a Pleasure…
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“Toys…what a pleasure”
this exhibition will take place on the 3rd to the 24rth of October 2009, with five artists:
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Barbara Agreste
Alessia Cocca
Michele Musera
Marco Minotti
Stefano Teodoli
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A group show with the intent to give to the viewers childish emotions, dreams, lightness, and astonishment.
It will take place in Atelier 777 Contemporary Art Gallery, curated by Angelo Raffaele Villani,
in collaboration with AMACI (ASSOCIAZIONE MUSEI D’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA ITALIANI)
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ATELIER 777
VIA DEAMICIS, 35
PESCARA, Italy
Tel.085/2191095
E-MAIL: gallery@atelier77.eu
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