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ON VISUALCONTAINER TV: VIDEOART WEB CHANNEL
UNTIL 30 NOVEMBER 2009
Visualcontainer is glad to present a special videoart selection from Streaming Festival, international
audio visual art and film event (Netherlands).
The Streaming Festival is an international audio visual art and film event. This event takes place on the
internet, where films are broadcasted full screen on streaming servers with high image quality. The
Streaming Festival takes place once a year.
The Streaming Festival focuses on artistic and innovative audio visual art and film. Selecting works from
emerging artists and professionals alike. Not only is this quality of selected works important, but also the
way the festival presents these works. With the support from xs4all the festival can ensure a high quality
broadcast through their streaming servers.
The Streaming Festival is organized by the isfth foundation.
Isfth is a non-profit foundation that provides support for projects that encourage the understanding of
audiovisual art.
The foundation is based in The Hague, The Netherlands.
The Kitchen Conqueror - Shereen Abdul-Baki
Reem wanders the aisles of her neighbourhood
market, slipping into dreams of fortune-telling
teacups and chicken slaughtering aunts who offer
advice on love, cultural identity and independence.
Release date : 25 April 2006
Duration : 00:08:00
Near the car - Elton Eerkens
A man is standing near his car. A lifetime of
waiting captured for a few moments.
Release date : 2008
Duration : 00:14:04
Vier Berliner blicke - Rick Niebe
Vier berliner blicke (four berliner views) is a video
suite of four 1 minute long works. Each video is a
sequence of still images of Berlin from three
webcams and a satellitar map, downloaded from
the web and processed in Italy.
Release date : 25 April 2006
Duration : 00:04:00
Herrie - Jasper Scheepbouwer
Neighbours don't always get along.
Release date : 1996
Duration : 00:12:00
Study on human form and humanity #01 -
Lemeh 42
the act of writing a dream is the clear
manifestation of the uncertainty in which the
human being lives his/her own existence and
therefore his/her humanity.
Release date : 20-04-2008
Duration : 00:02:00
Symptom - David Matos
A dream and a train. An inconsistent movement and
an undefined pattern. Symptom represents an
obsession through physical space (thus visible and -
perhaps - diagnosable). The video was inspired by "s" theme, from ocp
Release date : 16-06-2008
Duration : 00:04:12
Collage - Igor Lesic
A short editing excerise.
Release date : 12 May 2006
Duration : 00:05:00
Book - Marta Daeuble
This stop motion animation unravels the mysteries
of the written page when the book is brought to life,
only to reveal the ever lasting search for love and
self identity.
Release date : 2003
Duration : 00:02:00
Two and a Half Years - Olga Koroleva
A personal document of Olga Koroleva’s close
friends’ experiences over a period of two and a half
years in Russia in her absence.
Release date : 08-05-2007
Duration : 00:08:28
Queenspark, West 33rd, LG - Jesse Bellon
The videos explore the nature of contemporary
western society, juxtaposing the sights and
experiences of the everyday within a single plane.
Release date : 10 April 2006
Duration : 00:03:23
VisualContainerTv is the first Web Tv interely devoted to the International videoartworld!
A project by VisualContainer, the first videoart Italian distributor.
The channel is welcoming solo and group exhibitions and festivals under the care of
artists and curators from all over the world.
http://www.visualcontainer.tv/
http://www.streamingfestival.com/
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SINCRONIE FESTIVAL : DATA
EVELINA DOMINITCH & DIMITRI GELFAND
LECTURE + VIDEOSCREENING + CONCERT
15 DECEMBER 2009 - TEATRO ARSENALE MILAN
Sincronie is a festival of contemporary and experimental music born in 2003. As in the past, this 2009 edition is developed from a theme too, which will be the relationship between music and number. The third event of the festival program focuses on a critical reflection of the relationship between contemporary art and science in relation to digital, electronic and analog technologies, based on mathematical processes, numbers, abstractions and logical formulas. The event is curated by Marco Mancuso for Digicult and focuses on the work of Portable Palace, duo composed by Soviet artists Domnitch Evelina and Dmitry Gelfand. A presentation of their work will be followed by a Videoscreening devoted to some examples of artists who work, through different techniques, to relationship between sounds and images generated by physical, chemical, mathematical, electromagnetic, and nanoscale phenomena. The performance 10000 Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid will conclude the night.
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VIDEOSCREENINGS - PLATEAUX FESTIVAL
VISUAL MUSIC / +39:CALL FOR ITALY
20 - 21 NOVEMBER 2009 - TURUN (POLAND)
Plateaux Festival is a 4-day festival, 19.-22.11.2009 in Torun and Bydgoszcz (Poland), presenting the newest and most interesting multimedia artists, praised and prize-winning audiovisual art, experimental films, electronic and electro acoustic music and vj-art. Digicult was included in the program of the festival with 2 videoscreening, curated by Claudia D'Alonzo (+39:Call for Italy Videoscreening) and Marco Mancuso (Visual Music). The screenings will be project on the nights of Friday 20th of November and Saturday 21st of November. The +39:Call for Italy videoscreening is the video selection taken from the seminal project +39:Call for Italy, while Visual Music is the screening extract from the original long selection curated for Dissonanze 06
+39:Call for Italy: Videoscreening Critical Text
Visual Music: Critical Text
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CONFERENCE: STELARC & MARCELI' ANTUNEZ ROCA
23-26 OCTOBER 2009 - LUGANO
The remixed Beauty, the event dedicated to Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca and Stelarc,
pioneers in using interactive and robotics technologies in
live performances is the first of a three-year programme
(2009-2011) of interdisciplinary festivals, productive
labs, workshops and discussions with international
guests. Marcel.lì Antùnez Roca, one of the founders of Fura dels Baus, and Stelarc, australian artist and performer, will present shows and performances, will host workshops for young artists and will meet each other for the first time to share their artistic paths and researches within hybridization, sistematurgy, cyborg. Meeting with: Pier Luigi Capucci, Tommaso Trini, Marco Mancuso, Carlo
Infante, M.G. Mattei
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Sea, the company operating Milan airports presents"La Porta di Milano", a new architectural project for realizing a work of art that will contribute towards changing the appearance of Malpensa airport. SEA, the company that manages the airports of Milan, would like to inform you that the deadline for the Competitive Tender Notice with regards to the presentation of the ideas and construction proposals to create a new grand scale project at Malpensa Airport, has been postponed from Monday 20th July 2009 to Monday 21st September 2009. La "Porta di Milano”, which will come to life between the airport and the Malpensa Express railway station, will be an area of great creative impact, a perfect blend of art and architecture, with which Milan will welcome the whole world in an entirely original manner: a sensorial itinerary pointing straight to the heart and mind of the travellers. The notice of competition, with the object of involving not only the Italian but also the international world of architecture and design, plans to create a space with a high aesthetic value, virtually representing the door to the city of Milan. An estimated 1.7 million Euro is planned to be invested in completing the entire work.
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TRANSMEDIALE.10
BERLIN:
02-07 FEBRUARY 2010
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At the House of World Cultures, transmediale.10 FUTURITY NOW! explores how internet evolution, global network practice, open source methodologies, sustainable design and mobile technology form new cultural, ideological and political templates. From 2 - 7 February 2010 - in an emblematic year for past images of the future - the festival presents conferences, workshops, screenings, performances and exhibitions dedicated to the identity crisis the future seems to be experiencing. transmediale.10 invites artists, scientists, media activists, thinkers and visionaries to ask not what the future has in store for us, but what do we have in store for the future?
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SONIC ACTS XIII
AMSTERDAM: 25 FEBRUARY - 25 MARCH 2010
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Since its inception in 1994, the annual Sonic Acts festival has questioned, examined, assembled and exhibited contemporary and historical developments at the cutting edge of art, technology, music and science. The thirteenth edition of Sonic Acts will take place in Amsterdam from 25 February to 25 March 2010 in Paradiso, De Balie, Netherlands Media Art Institute/Montevideo (NIMk) and Steim.
The title of this edition of Sonic Acts, The Poetics of Space, is a translation of La poétique de l’espace, a book by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, published in 1958. In it, Bachelard meticulously explains the influence of space and architecture on the individual, making an implicit plea for a new form of architecture founded on experience and imagination, rather than science and functionality.
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FOODPOWER
MILAN: 02 FEBRUARY 2010
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Tuesday the 2nd of February 2010 at 5.30 PM Dissapore presents Beggar’s Food | I’m Hungry / Are You Hungry?, a performance developed by the artist Franca Formenti and created in collaboration with the director of Dissapore, Massimo Bernardi. The event was triggered by FoodPower, a project created by Franca Formenti in 2007 and developed into a series of actions and performances through which to re-think about food, intended as a core instrument of power mechanisms. FoodPower is a work in progress of actions and situations that involve the audience and professionals of the world of food, creative incursions that act on the various ways of experiencing food and the behaviour that it creates.
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CALL FOR ARTISTS AND PROJECTS
This sections is developed in collaboration with Sagasnet - http://www.sagasnet.de/. Sagasnet is an independent non profit network for professionals engaged in the development and production of interactive narrative content that sprang from a training initiative funded by the European MEDIA Training Programme.
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