#videoart news
Dara Birnbaum: True confessions of a video art pioneer | |
 | How the influential artist discovered the medium by accident
Dara Birnbaum’s first institutional show in New York almost never happened. In 1975, the artist returned to her home town after spending a year in Florence, Italy. She found work as a waitress three nights a week and a place to live in SoHo. Rent was cheap. She paid around $125 a month, and devoted much of her time to working on her art. She quickly found a community of artists—including Robin Winters, Willoughby Sharp and Scott and Beth B—with whom she would exhibit in alternative spaces such as apartment lofts. But commercia (read more) (posted on 2013-12-07) |
Why Steve McQueen is proof of video art's cultural irrelevance | |
 | Although the latest Turner prize went to a video artist, the 12 Years a Slave director shows that the art form is just a finishing school for serious film-making.
The rise of video and film art appears irresistible. The Turner prize has just been given to a video for the second year in a row.
Yet in spite of the successes of Laure Prouvost and Elizabeth Price, the triumph of video art is an illusion. It is not a stable, enduring art form; it may not even be an art form at all. It is in reality an experimental space at the margins of a much bigger culture of the moving image – a place for t (read more) (posted on 2013-12-07) |
10th Berlin International Directors Lounge | |
 | You would like to be part of DL[X]? Great!
First, submit your work by using our submission form (required). Feel free to e-mail us additional info along with a few words about your person. In order to make selection possible, we will need a screenable copy, preferably a H264 encoded .mp4 or QT (.mov) file. You may also send DVD-compatible mpeg or VOB files.
Please include at least two stills of the film or photographs of the work (min. width 700px).
If you work with unusable codecs or would like to send us uncompressed files, please get in touch before doing so.
.wmv is not acceptable. AC3 (read more) (posted on 2013-12-06) |
FILE 2014 | |
 | Registrations are now open for the 15th edition of FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, from November 20, 2013 to February 20, 2014.
Since 2000, FILE is a nonprofit cultural organization that has promoted meeting places for the dissemination and discussion of artistic and cultural productions achieved with various technological tools.
For 2014, artists and researchers may submit their work in the three main categories: Interactive Art, Digital Language and Electronic Sonority; besides proposals for FILE Workshop, which aims to disseminate the technology as a means of artistic (read more) (posted on 2013-12-06) |
Salon Video: Matters of method | |
 | A project initiated by Daniela Pălimariu in collaboration with tranzit.ro/ Iași
Guest curator: Luminița Apostu
December 6 - 22 2013
Iași, Romania
Dan Acostioaei [RO] · Felix Aftene [RO] · Marijke Appelman [NL] · Liliana Basarab & Mihaela Varzari [RO] · Matei Bejenaru [RO] · Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen [NO] · Joanna Bonder [PL] · Ștefan Botez [CH] · Pavel Brăila [MD] · Gui Castor [BR] · Gabrielle Conilh de Beyssac & Jules Guissart [FR] · Doplgenger [RS] · Bjoern Drenkwitz [DE] · Giorgio Garippa [GB] · Johannes Gerard [DE] · Stéphane Ghozzi [DE] · Eugenia Gort (read more) (posted on 2013-12-06) |
Oriel Davies Open 2014 | |
 | Artists from all over the world
26 April 2014 - 18 June 2014
Entry deadline Monday 13 January 2014. Call for Entries to this established and successful Open that draws artists from all over the world.
1st Prize £1000 + solo exhibition
1st Student Prize £500
The overall 1st prize winner will be offered a solo exhibition at Oriel Davies as well as receiving their cash prize.
People’s Choice Prize £250
Awarded to the most popular works, or collection of works, in Oriel Open 2014 as voted by the viewing public during the exhibition period. Kindly Sponsored by Newtown Station Travel
Or (read more) (posted on 2013-12-06) |
Videonotte | |
 | Maratona notturna di videoarte dalle 20 alle 24
8 spazi / 12 video / 12 associazioni
DoubleRoom, via Canova 9
Manolo Cocho, "Universo", 2012, Messico, 5’
a cura di Gruppo78
Adriano Perini, "Photo-Syntes", 2013, Italia, 4’
a cura di Photo Imago
MetroKubo, via dei Capitelli 6563b
PierPaolo Koss, "Il tempo dell’ombra", 2011, Italia, 9’47”
a cura di DayDreaming
Scuola del Vedere, via Rittmeyer 18, I piano
"Picasso e la luce", 1985, Francia, Spagna, Gran Bretagna, 10’
estratto da "Picasso: l’artista, la vita, le opere" di Didier Baussy-Oulianoff
a cura di Scuola (read more) (posted on 2013-12-06) |
Cuba art video | |
 | Videoart screening from Cuba, curator di Vladimir Gonzalez Portales; in collaboration with the 26th Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques festival", Marseille, for the 50th anniversary of videoart, from 5 december to 15 january 2014.
Curatorial Statement
In the 1980s, the meeting between video and experimental films gives birth to video art in Cuba. This art lives through different times according to the Island’s historical, social and political fluctuations. It adapts itself and leaves traces that inspired a new generation of artists. My interest in this art form brought me closer (read more) (posted on 2013-12-05) |
PIIGS | |
 | Teatro, live cinema e performance - ibridazioni sul tema dell'identità nazionale ispirate ad un testo di Giacomo Leopardi. Con Francesca Fini e Daniele Sirotti.
PIIGS è un’opera di teatro performativo ispirata ad un testo poco conosciuto di Giacomo Leopardi, "Discorso sopra lo stato presente dei costumi degl’Italiani". L’uso di questo termine, "teatro performativo", è forse improprio perché il teatro – anche quello più lontano dalla tradizione – e la performance art sono linguaggi molto diversi e apparentemente inconciliabili tra loro. Eppure PIIGS è un’opera che cammina in (read more) (posted on 2013-12-05) |
Vite in transito | |
 | La prima personale di Adrian Paci in un’istituzione milanese cattura, ma non convince del tutto. Nella densità di alcuni lavori s’intravede una certa discontinuità. L’esperienza biografica dell’artista ha generato video di indubbia forza. Ma forse la sua opera rimane sospesa tra cinema e videoarte. E le opere d'arte audiovisiva sono come maledette da un nome che impedisce loro di trovare una compiutezza.
Attesa con una certa trepidazione, al PAC di Milano è ancora in corso Vite in transito, personale di Adrian Paci, per la prima volta protagonista di una retrospettiva in uno spazio (read more) (posted on 2013-12-05) |
Video Evening #17 | |
 | Pablo Chiereghin
In the seventeenth Video Evening Photon gallery will present a screening and talk by Italian artist Pablo Chiereghin, who will show a selection of his videos and documentations of performances and public interventions.
Tuesday, 3. 12. 2013 at 7 pm
Photon Gallery
Trg prekomorskih brigad 1, Ljubljana (posted on 2013-12-04) |
Week Five: Video Art in the Sports Bar | |
 | Dream Exhibitions is a new weekly series that asks artists, writers, curators, and other creative types what as-yet unrealized exhibition they’d like to see. Each week, we publish three to five new submissions. Everyone’s invited, so dream a big dream, and send it our way.
This week, it’s time to give exhibitions to those working behind-the-scenes in the arts: art handlers, studio assistants, and security guards. Still trending: Everyone wants to makeover the Guggenheim.
Theodore Darst, artist
-I’d love to see a show where artists who work with large teams of highly trained assistan (read more) (posted on 2013-12-04) |
Brussels is.... a video art project | |
 | Brussels is a unique city, a place many different types of people call home. In an attempt to showcase this, a group of volunteers organized a project through Muntpunt known as Brussel Is. For a year, starting in September 2012, Brussel Is shared moments of everyday life in Brussels with the rest of the world. The community’s tagline, “1,000 Lives, One City,” encapsulates the purpose perfectly.
For one year, Brussel Is worked to show Brussels as an interesting place to live, work, study, and visit. The people of Brussels contributed to this campaign to show the eloquent and inspirationa (read more) (posted on 2013-12-04) |
V*A*P*I*D Video Art Salon | |
 | La Cat Explore invites you to V*A*P*I*D, a special Sunday salon of Video Artistic Photographic Imagery Displays; where the videos are anything but vapid!
We offer:
Visual Animated Panoramic Imaginative Diversity!
Virtual Alternative Pixellated Innovative Dreams!!
Featuring 3D audiovisual-mapping sculptures and kinetic, interactive video installations from media master Jeff O'Riordan, live VJ video-mixing by Mr. Marco Gutierrez, a full line-up of film and animation from local and international filmmaking talent: Moran Been Noon, Stephanie Golden, Lesley Ann Daley, Kate McElroy, Pierre Jol (read more) (posted on 2013-12-03) |
Video art wins Turner Prize | |
 | French artist Laure Prouvost has won this year's Turner Prize for her video installation set in a mocked up tea party.
Turner Prize artist: 'Thank you for adopting me'
After winning the 2013 Turner Prize, Laure Prouvost, said: "Thank you for adopting me, for having a French one, I feel adopted by the UK".
The French artist's art work Wantee is set in a mock tea party setting and opens with the question: "Would you like some tea?"
It is a response to the artist Kurt Schwitters and its title stems from the fact that Schwitters' girlfriend was nicknamed Wantee as she repeatedly asks "want tea (read more) (posted on 2013-12-03) |
Imagen digital - videoarte | |
 | Convocatoria Internacional 2013
Albert Negredo, Barcelona. España
Alberto Magrin, S.Maria Coghinas. Italia
Alfonso Nogueroles, Madrid. España
Ana Rodríguez León, Barcelona. España
Antonella Zito, Francavilla Fontana. Italia
Francesca Leoni and Davide Mastrangelo, Italia
Daria Baiocchi and Libera Mazzoleni, Milán. Italia
Dennis Summers, Torreon. USA
Diego Ramirez, Melbourne. Australia
Monica Elkelv & Ioanna Theodorakou, Londres. UK
Francesca Leoni, Forlì. Italia
Gala Knörr, Londres. UK
Gillian Mciver, Londres.UK
Gruppo Sinestetico, Torreglia. Padova. Italia
Hea Jung Jo (read more) (posted on 2013-12-03) |
Pirate Utopia 2 | |
 | IFAC Arts, Peanut Underground and the Mykonos Biennale present Pirate Utopia 2, an international video art after hours party at Kill Your Idol.
Jorn said, “The avant-garde doesn’t give up.”
Looking for somewhere unpretentious and totally different in South Beach? Live Music, DJ's and Video Art served along with the best priced drinks on the island. Something special for you every night of the week during the ABMB Spectacle. With video installations by Justin Wood and Lee Wells along with a special line up of DJ's nightly and oh so much more !!!!
ARTISTS INCLUDE: Alison Williams, Bett (read more) (posted on 2013-12-03) |
XIII International Kansk Video Festival | |
 | Summer 2014, Kansk, Siberia
CALL FOR ENTRIES from October 20, 2013
Short film and video art festival.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION / SPECIAL SCREENINGS & SHOWS/ EXHIBITIONS / STREET ART / ARCHITECTURE / VIDEOCAMPUS / CONCERTS / NIGHT EVENTS /
International Kansk Video Festival (Russia/Siberia) is not a conventional film festival. It is an experiment in time and space. The place…. the small Siberian city of Kansk, was found on the Internet by chance and selected as its name correlates with the Cannes Film Festival, Kansk in the Russian language is pronounced the same as Cannes. I grew as an (read more) (posted on 2013-12-03) |
Madatac V Edition | |
 | MADATAC is an independent and non-profit springboard, with an cultural diversity approach for cutting edge experimental and new media audio-visual culture, that particularly values innovation, originality and risk-taking art projects. e pone especial énfasis en la innovación, la originalidad y el riesgo de proyectos audiovisuales enfocados hacia el New Media Art.
This unique and leading international event take 's place in Madrid (Spain) each December within the city Mile of Art. Our objective is encourage the participation of citizens in the fields of audiovisual art, video art, digital ne (read more) (posted on 2013-11-29) |
Videoex International Experimentalfilm & Video Festival | |
 | invites you to submit your work for the international & swiss competition VIDEOEX
24 MAY – 1 JUNE 2014 Zurich Switzerland
We are looking for :
experimental films (8mm / 16mm / 35mm (screened in original format), videos, (experimental, videoart, essay, experimental documentary,…) innovative animation, experimental digital & graphic productions (to be screened), experimental documentaries, experimental music videos
Works must have been completed since Sept.2012
VIDEOEX Postfach / Kanonengasse 20 CH-8026 Zurich Switzerland (posted on 2013-11-28) |
Global Art & Moving Images Awards #2 | |
 | Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards are proud to present Global Art & Moving Images Awards #2
2nd touring screening program "art & nature" coordinated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne to be screened on 3 December 2013 and 19 January 2014 @ Florina School of Visual Art – Florina/Greece
Thanks to Gioula Papadopoulou, curator of Videoart Festival Miden!
List of videos
Manuel Ferrer and Alena Mesarosova (Spain/Slovakia) – Irreal Time, 2012, 3:30
exDoc – experimental documentary film festival -curator Agricola de Cologne
Claudia Borgna (It) – Sweep and weep, Weep and sweep, Under, Over, (read more) (posted on 2013-11-28) |
Raul Gabriel "w0rm$" (a video project) | |
 | "Ciò che voi siete, lo siamo stati.
Ciò che noi siamo, lo sarete ... "
The Format – Contemporary Culture Gallery è lieta di presentare: "w0rm$", un video progetto di Raul Gabriel, a cura di Guido Cabib. Opening 2 dicembre 2013 ore 18.30 .
Nella cultura umana osserviamo, fin dalle origini, due cesure fondamentali. La prima, si può riassumerla sotto la voce "invenzione della scrittura lineare"; la seconda, cui stiamo assistendo, sotto la voce "invenzione delle immagini tecniche".
La lotta della scrittura contro l'immagine, della coscienza storica contro la magia, caratterizza tutta (read more) (posted on 2013-11-28) |
DisPlay | |
 | Fleisher Art Memorial’s first edition of the international exhibition Display will feature the audio visual work of 12 artists or collectives projected through large size windows from the Suzanne Fleisher and Ralph Joel Roberts Gallery in the city of Philadelphia. These windows face the diverse region of Southeast Philadelphia. For this reason Fleisher Art Memorial seeks audio visual works that establishes a conversation dealing with international immigrant’s issues, conditions, and exodus manifestations in the recent years.
DisPlay Jurors
Adelina Vlas, Assistant Curator of Modern and Co (read more) (posted on 2013-11-28) |
Sled Island 2014 Video Trailer | |
 | Submission Deadline: December 15th, 2013 – 4pm
The Sled Island Music & Arts Festival is seeking an individual, collective or firm to create a video trailer (live action, animation) for the 2014 edition of the festival.
We are looking for proposals that will creatively convey the spirit, scope and atmosphere of Sled Island; a thoughtful and fun trailer revealing details relating to 2014’s festival (including select headliners as well as art, film and comedy programming, festival dates and relevant links).
The chosen applicant will work with Sled Island staff to create final copy for the (read more) (posted on 2013-11-27) |
Cinema, virtualità e corpo | |
 | XIX Convegno Internazionale di Studi Cinematografici
Con l’Adesione del Presidente della Repubblica
Roma, 26 – 28 novembre 2013 Teatro Palladium – Università Roma Tre, Piazza Bartolomeo Romano 8 - Garbatella
JON JOST – PIPPO DELBONO – OMAGGI A PAOLO ROSA E CARLO LIZZANI CON GIULIANA DE SIO
La XIX edizione dei Convegni internazionali promossi e organizzati fin dal 1994 dal Dipartimento Comunicazione e Spettacolo dell’Università Roma Tre (oggi Dipartimento Filosofia, Comunicazione e Spettacolo), dedicati al rapporto tra il cinema e le altre arti, discipline e metodologie critic (read more) (posted on 2013-11-27) |
What’s wrong with video art? David Gryn | |
 | Tabish is right about duration, distractions and some other details.
I think that whilst there maybe ever-more artists making film/video and the technology is making it better quality, far easier and cheaper, the galleries and their booths at art fairs are showing ever-less and noticeably more so during a financial down-turn – there is a focus on the ‘shifting of product’, as one well known art dealer called ‘art’ recently.
Galleries are showing ever-less, as it is seemingly a very difficult ‘commodity’ to ‘shift’. My view is that the moving image, the installation and the (read more) (posted on 2013-11-27) |
What’s wrong with video art? Tabish Khan | |
 | Video art has been around for some time but it’s never been as popular as it is right now. Almost all art fairs feature video work and in Moving Image, we have an art fair solely dedicated to video art.
In the emerging art scene two of the ten finalists for the Catlin Art Prize were video artists and one of them, Robert Crosse, went on to win Charlie Smith Gallery’s Anthology 2013 competition. Last year’s Turner Prize was 50% video work and Elizabeth Price won it with her video piece.
This is all evidence of video’s ascendancy in the contemporary art oeuvre and the results we’ve se (read more) (posted on 2013-11-27) |
What’s wrong with video art? Ian Rosenfeld | |
 | The previous texts by Tabish and David Gryn expose multiple aspects of video art such as it’s linear interaction with the viewer, market value and preconceived notions associated to a moving image. The current text will further elaborate on the latter topic and explore video art’s need for a unique language.
The boom of video art can be traced directly to the emergence of the digital camera and as a consequence an immediate democratisation of filmmaking. It suddenly became possible for any budding filmmaker to give vent to his creativity without any of the enormous expenses traditionally (read more) (posted on 2013-11-27) |
Shaun Gladwell: Morning of the Earth | |
 | The golden '70s. A time of endless summers and hedonistic surfers. It's just a pity Shaun Gladwell wasn't around to enjoy it.
Born in 1972, Gladwell harks back to this romantic, even utopian age of the Australian beach in his upcoming exhibition titled Morning of the Earth - named after a surf film from that sun-kissed decade.
In video images on the gallery walls, the swell rolls in slow motion as a graceful surfer floats and watches the horizon. Back on the beach this elemental man peels his wetsuit down, stretching his limbs as spray pounds against the rocks.
Gladwell was originally commi (read more) (posted on 2013-11-26) |
Screenings from the residency | |
 | An evening of screenings curated by ZK/U residents. They will present video work they have realized during their time at ZK/U or earlier. After the screenings a time for discussion and debate will be organized.
With David Clark, Beth Dynowski, Noel Qualter, Kristin Tårnes, Teng Chao-Ming and Nancy Woods.
From: 26 Nov 19:30
To: 26 Nov 22:30
ZK/U - Center for Art and Urbanistics, Siemensstrasse 27, 10551 Berlin Germany (posted on 2013-11-26) |
Streaming Festival | |
 | On the 30th of November the 8th edition of the Streaming Festival will start off the at two offline locations, Het Nutshuis in The Hague and Boonika in Zagreb, Croatia.
Both events start at 20.00hrs (GMT+1).
The official festival starts right here, on this website, on Sunday the 1st of December 20.00 (GMT+1). The complete 8th edition program will be announced before the 25th of November.
What’s happening this year?
A very exciting sound program is in store, including soundpieces, noise, silence and music from artists from all over the world.
This program will of course be available here (read more) (posted on 2013-11-25) |
3rd International Emerging Artist Award | |
 | International Emerging Artist Award (IEAA) has partenered with Sabrina Amrani Gallery (Madrid) for its 3rd edition, to uncover emerging talents from all over the world and help them launch their careers as internationally acclaimed artists.
For the 2013-2014 award edition, IEAA is pursuing its mission to offer the best career incentive to its winners with a prize that will motivate any ambitious artist.
The prize consists on a two year full representation by Sabrina Amrani Gallery. This will include one duo show in the gallery space in Madrid, the participation at an international art fair, (read more) (posted on 2013-11-25) |
Short Movies at Group Global 3000 | |
 | 21. December 2013, 6:00 pm -9:00 pm
8 pm Artisttalk What is a gift? What does it mean today? What do donee even if they already have everything material? But have empty hands to the festive invitation? What answers does the artists give?
We invite interested filmmakers, to apply for the Short Movieday: “The Gift”.
Format: Video, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
Deadline for applications: 6.12.13
Location: Projektraum Group Global 3000, Leuschnerdamm 19, 10999 Berlin
Application: Please a short profile (CV, CV) and short description and link, still submit the artistic work (including format, duration (read more) (posted on 2013-11-25) |
Take Me Elsewhere | |
 | Nailed Down: A New Approach to Video Art Reception at Vanity Projects NYC
Video art doesn’t always have the best reception in art galleries or museums: visitors rarely take the time to sit through a whole screening, in a setting where videos are looped and it’s easy to come and go as you please. But what if you were physically compelled to watch video art from start to finish?
It’s not as bad as it might sound: replace the usual nail salon TV programming drivel with a tastefully curated selection of video works by established international artists and you have part of the concept behin (read more) (posted on 2013-11-23) |
Screenscaping Berlin | |
 | Ästhetik des Verfalls; Design for Electronics Sterben
16 LCD screens, 48 ft of LED's,cast plastics, speakers, auto-start media players, HD audio/video tracks 120 in. x 120 in.(10 ft x 10 ft )
A site-specific video sculpture built on location in Berlin,Germany. It is comprised of 16 individual screens in the range of iPad/Tablet to iPhone/Android and iPod/non-smartphone sizes.
The 1080P HD video and audio tracks were also rendered/created in Berlin.
It was created for the show Paradigm Shift, part of Cyberfest 2013,organized by Cyland Media Art Lab.
It is on long-term exhibition in Berl (read more) (posted on 2013-11-23) |
