Máquina blanda

El video como experiencia de lugar
13 de diciembre al 27 enero 2008

“Máquina blanda” es una muestra de seis producciones jóvenes en torno a la video instalación.

Emergentes en los años 2000, los artistas Niles Atallah, Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León, Iván Palmarola, Yael Rosenblut y Macarena Ruiz-Taglecoinciden generacionalmente en un gusto por los códigos audiovisuales y en una manera de asumir un lenguaje que en Chile ha tenido historia, pero escasa cabida en el circuito nacional.

El Museo de Artes Visuales acoge –replanteando nuestra escena– una serie de prácticas contemporáneas que asumen la imagen en movimiento desde un espesor metafórico más propio del video arte de los años 80. Pero al mismo tiempo la obra es una experiencia tanto objetual como de lugar. En zonas oscuras del recinto, las pantallas se iluminan y recorren por ambos lados, siendo la relación del espectador con la obra desde cierta sensibilidad y el propio cuerpo, lo que reafirma caminos para la video instalación en un contexto donde el arte necesita volver a acercarse al público.

Carolina Lara Periodista especializada en Artes Visuales

Macarena Ruiz-Tagle Santiago 1980 Es licenciada en Arte de la Universidad Católica con un certificado en Estética del Cine. Realiza un intercambio en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras en Barcelona. Participó en Umbrales, una selección de los mejores exámenes de grado de la Escuela de Arte de la P. Universidad Católica. Como artista visual ha participado en varias exposiciones colectivas en Chile y el extranjero además de talleres y de muestras de performance. Se desempeña como ilustradora y directora de artes, además de gestionar y desarrollar proyectos variados.

Niles Jamil Atallah Cuenta con estudios de fotografía en la Escuela de Arte de la Universidad de Illinois; periodismo en la Universidad de St. Louis en Madrid; y además cuenta con un grado en arte en la Universidad de California de Santa Cruz con estudios de media digital, dibujo, pintura e impresión. Ha realizado varias instalaciones de video y video clips. En otros proyectos audiovisuales se ha desempeñado como asistente de dirección, director de fotografía, camarógrafo, montanista y continuista.

Yael Rosenblut Santiago 1978 Estudia Diseño en Bezalel, Israel y luego se gradúa en Bellas Artes en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Rosenblut trabaja el entrecruce del cine y el arte.En los últimos años se ha desempeñado también como curadora de exposiciones colectivas interesándose por artistas que generan obras en torno a la producción cinematográfica.
Joaquín CociñaConcepción, 1980.Es Licenciado en Arte por la Universidad Católica de Chile y estudia un Magíster en Literatura en la Universidad de Chile. Ha realizado exposiciones colectivas de arte tanto en Chile como en el extranjero. Además de su trabajo en artes visuales se ha desempeñado como crítico de arte, académico,escritor, ilustrador, dibujante, escenógrafo teatral y diseñador. Ha publicado cuentos, cómic y crítica.

Iván Palmarola Santiago 1979 Artista visual y diseñador, estudió en la Universidad Católica. En sus trabajos existen cruces entre narrativas líricas, códigos cinematográficosy poéticas de la narrativa. Ha realizado diversas exhibiciones utilizando el video y la fotografía como medio de representación. También realizó una práctica en Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco, lugar en el que desarrolló proyectos audiovisuales independientes. Actualmente organiza proyectos audiovisuales y multimediales con otros artistas.

Cristóbal León Santiago, 1980 Artista Visual, ilustrador y diseñador. Entre 1999 y 2005 estrudia Arte y Diseño en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Trabaja utilizando la animación y el video en diversos géneros, tales como video-arte, cortometraje y video-clip. Ha ilustrado para diversos medios nacionales, vive y trabaja en Santiago de Chile.

http://www.mavi.cl/exposiciones/2007/maquina_blanda.html

Fabien Verschaere

Last Dinner2007 mixed media, about 400 x 140 x 100 cm

Fabien Verschaere

more picture on http://www.galica.it/artista.asp?id=31

Bady Minck

http://www.badyminck.com/

upgrade Jerusalem

Ronni 'Macaroni' Shendar and Till 'glitterbug' Rohmann /
c.sides Festival / Macabug
Saturday 15.12.2007, 19:30
Daila, Shlomzion HaMalka 4, Jerusalem

After several years of cultural and artistic exchange between Germany, Israel and internationally, as curators and artists, many things have changed within the cultural and artistic fields in both places which have also effected the terms and frameworks for our involvements. What do these social, political and economical changes mean for us as artists, producers and curators? Where will our projects develop to? What are the questions and obstacles we are facing in our daily work and what do they mean in our long term commitments? We would like to openly discuss these questions above along with some of our artistic and curatorial activities of the past few years. Along, we will screen and play some excerpts of our works and projects.

About 'Ma Iti?'

Ma Iti (What is it with me?) is an ongoing experimental documentary presented as a 4 channel audio-visual installation that addresses questions of identity, home and the personal and political uncertainties that define some of the realities of life in Israel. The work is comprised of documentary footage, interviews.

About c.sides

The c.sides Festival for Independent Electronic Music and New Media Arts is a three day independent and non-commercial international festival for artists, producers and musicians working in mediums of electronic and digital art and who are interested in creating a platform for exchange, networking and discussion concerning issues of art, social, political and cultural concern. The festival is a convergence between a media arts festival and a conference including various performing stages, exhibitions, workshops and theoretical discussions and panels. About 100 international and local artists have participated in the festival as well as in a introductory program for participants that addresses the social, political and cultural situation in Jerusalem, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories as well as additional burning international issues and c.sides developed out of a continuous exchange that took place between independent musicians, artists, activists and organizations for human rights and social change in the years 2003-2005 and came to fruition in 2005 with the first c.sides festival in Jerusalem. Come revel in a media celebration as we strip reality of its skin, turn it inside out, and reveal what aesthetics may emerge.


Ronni Shendar

Ronni 'macaroni' Shendar is an Israeli artist who has been working in concurrent fields of new media art and music, cultural organizing and social critique and action locally and internationally, with great emphasis on her late hometown of Jerusalem.

Till Rohmann

Till Rohmann, aka glitterbug, is an artist, musician, curator, producer and DJ working and living in the twilight zones between club culture, art, and politics. Together they form the artist duo Macabug and have produced the c.sides Festival for independent electronic music and critical media art.

links:
csides festival
glitterbug
worldtronics
recordings of shows from csides festival 2006

Mediafactory 2008

Mediafactory 2008, Pécs
Pécs Workshop 2007 December 14-16
Helyszín: Lenau Ház, Munkácsy M. u. 8.

A workshop célja egy pécsi médiamûvészeti biennale életre keltése.
Egy olyan regionális fórum létrehozása, mely a kelet-európai regió meghatározó mûvészeti mozgásainak közvetítõje, generátora kíván lenni.

www.mediafactory.hu
www.kozelites.net
www.acax.hu
www.videospace.hu
www.kulturmanager.net
www.privatelektro.de

Sonic Acts XII

Sonic Acts XII will be held in Amsterdam from 21 - 24 February 2008.

The twelfth edition of the festival will be devoted to The Cinematic Experience and includes an international conference, a wide range of concerts and performances, a diverse programme of films and an exhibition.

The programme will focus on the rich history of the cinematic experience; from magic lanterns, colour organs and zoetropes to experience machines and immersive environments. Sonic Acts will also look into the future. Will cinema distance itself from the narrative in the near future? What is the future for celluloid? And what role will sensory deprivation play in future cinema?

With The Cinematic Experience, Sonic Acts will focus on the physical audiovisual experience associated with the cinematic experience. The festival will not focus on the medium as a means of telling us something using a narrative or a representation of reality. Instead, it will investigate the medium as a means to make us aware of our sensory system, and on how we use it to synthesize audiovisual stimuli into a comprehensive interpretation of our environment.

Sonic Acts XII - The Cinematic Experience
21-24 February 2008 Amsterdam
Paradiso / De Balie / Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst (NIMk)

bild-rausch

bild-rausch -
the international database for female media artists!

Jerwood Moving Image Award

Jerwood Moving Image Award
"The Jerwood Moving Image Awards is a major new prize for artists working in digital moving art. The awards celebrate some of the most exciting talent in digital art across a range of artistic disciplines."

pane list

Wayne McGregor (Chair) www.randomdance.org
Marc Boothe www.b3media.net
John Maeda www.maedastudio.com
Jane Prophet www.janeprophet.co.uk
Sukhdev Sandhu www.nighthaunts.org.uk
Jules Wright www.thewappingproject.com

news from Dotmasters

Back from their recent whirlwind tour of the states, the Dotmasters are happy to announce their participation in the open studio show on kingsland road http://www.openstudiospace.com/ showcasing an eclectic mix of street art.

The next week or so is packed with events on the 15th a saturday night dad rock night with MONO+ from yorkshire. Tuesday the 11th film friends forever show a selection of street inspired films with artists from the show painting a moviemashup live. On Thursday the 20th is the closing show extravaganza with bargins galore, a night not to be missed.

c6 is moving servers and there is now a new look site which will grow as the slow process of migration continues.

Dotmaster works are now available online from www.c6.org/leon

22nd Prix Ars Electronica

The 22nd Prix Ars Electronica - International Competition for CyberArts is open for entries.

From its very inception in 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has been conceived as an open platform for various disciplines at the intersection of art, technology, science and society. More than 3,300 submissions in 2007 have further enhanced the Prix Ars Electronica’s reputation as an internationally representative competition honoring outstanding works in the cyberarts.

The categories Digital Musics, Digital Communities and Hybrid Art are great indicators for this trend.
The aim of the competition is to continually keep the Prix Ars Electronica updated in line with leading-edge developments in the dynamic field of cyberarts.
This year, six Golden Nicas, twelve Awards of Distinction and approximately 70 Honorary Mentions as well as a Media.Art.Research Award are presented to participants. The 2008 winners will receive a total of 115,000 euros in prize money.

Prix Ars Electronica 2008
Online Submission Deadline: March 7, 2008

Categories:
Computer Animation / Film / VFX
Digital Musics
Interactive Art
Hybrid Art
Digital Communities
Media.Art.Research Award
u19 - freestyle computing

More details about all categories and online submission are available only online at:
http://www.aec.at/de/index.asp

Funky Pixels

net.culture.space
Created by Telekom Austria & Ars Electronica

Am 13. Dezember 2007 eröffnet im net.culture.space die Ausstellung "Funky Pixels" mit einer audiovisuellen Performance der preisgekrönten Band "The Sancho Plan". "Funky Pixels" ist eine Ausstellung für die ganze Familie und bezieht auf spielerische und kreative Weise alle menschlichen Sinne mit ein.

So wird Sand zur Projektionsfläche, alltägliche Gegenstände auf einem Tisch geraten zu faszinierenden Bildwelten. Ein Schlagzeug steuert imaginäre 3D-Unterwasserwelten. In der "Klangfabrik" werden aus grafischen Bausteinen ganz individuelle Kompositionen. Die Stimmen der BesucherInnen verwandeln sich in digitale Würmer und das "Flick_rBoard" lädt ein, individuell gestaltete Fotos im virtuellen Gästebuch zu posten.

MOBILE MUSIC WORKSHOP 2008

5TH INTERNATIONAL MOBILE MUSIC WORKSHOP 2008
13-15 May 2008, Vienna, Austria
Call for Submissions: Deadline 10 February 2008
http://www.mobilemusicworkshop.org

HUB2

BOSTON, MA – Hub2 (www.hub2.org), a project involving the City of Boston, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), Emerson College, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, will showcase virtual models created by Boston residents to improve the city’s public spaces and present Mayor Menino’s office with the keys to the virtual city.

The event will take place on Thursday, December 13 at 12:30 P.M. in the Charles Beard Room at 80 Boylston St., Emerson College.

In September 2007, Hub2 began hosting workshops at Emerson to foster civic engagement using the virtual world, Second Life.
For three months students and residents have been creating three-dimensional immersive models of sites in the Greater Boston Area. Their work will be used by the City of Boston to assist in future development plans for the city. A total of six projects will be on display ranging from designs of Government Center to the Rose Kennedy Greenway in downtown Boston. The Mayor’s Chief of Staff, Judith Kurland; the Chief Information Officer, Bill Oats; and BRA officials will also be in attendance.

Hub2 was founded in 2007 by Emerson College professor, Eric Gordon, Berkman Center Fellow, Gene Koo, and Special Assistant to Boston Mayor Menino, Nigel Jacob. The organization enlists Boston residents to articulate visions of public spaces using virtual three- dimensional worlds. With partnerships and support from members of Emerson College, Harvard University, the City of Boston and the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), Hub2 began its work in September 2007. The project aims to help Boston residents take ownership of their public space and facilitate civic engagement with their community.

Hub2 strives for a Boston where all residents take control and ownership of their neighborhoods, enlisting digital environments and networks to strengthen real-world spaces and relationships.

http://www.hub2.org/

more on
The Place of Social Media - http://placeofsocialmedia.com/blog
Video Vidi Visum : Virtual - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vvvv/

Bethany Fancher

Bethany Fancher

image from video

Construction and Deconstruction of the 43rd President
by Bethany Fancher

http://www.bethanyjean.com/

Construction and Deconstruction of the 43rd President, 2006SD VideoFancher questions her place and responsibility in relationship to America through her performance-based video installation, Construction and Deconstruction of the 43rd President.

Her examination tool is Wonder Bread - the prototypical American industrially produced food product, as a symbolic gesture of her disgust at how we are marketed information devoid of any real substance.Bethany Fancher currently lives and works in Queens, New York. Connection to the animal world combined with alienation from humankind in general with all its oppression, repression, and depression runs thematically through her work in video, performance, sculpture, photography, and painting.

She attended the I-Park residency in East Haddam, Connecticut in 2001, the Jentel residency in Banner, Wyoming in 2004, the McColl Center for Visual Arts residency in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2005 and exhibits her work nationally and internationally.