VIDEOFORMES 2019
Friday March 15 | Maison de la Culture | Salle Boris Vian | Clermont-Ferrand

Italian videoart selection curated by Alessandra Arnò
Free access
4:30 pm

Visualcontainer has been invited to take part as jurist (Alessandra Arnò) and guest of Videoformes 2019 with a special videoart selection in occasion of thew 10th anniversary of Visualcontainer’s platform of distribution and promotion.

Artists: Debora Hirsch -Hwayong Jung – Matteo Pasin – Lucia Veronesi – Eleonora Roaro – Cristobal Catalan – Barbara Brugola – Rita Casdia – Silvia Camporesi – Mauro Folci – Iginio De Luca

Videoart selection:

Debora Hirsch – ETIX, 1’33”, 2003
Hwayong Jung – Euphoria, 4’53”, 2014
Matteo Pasin – Weltanschauung, The world as will to representation, 5’50”, 2016
Lucia Veronesi – Out there, a big night of stars, 4’00”, 2016
Eleonora Roaro – 00:00:01:00, 2’00”, 2016
Cristobal Catalan – Res Nullius, 3’46”, 2014
Barbara Brugola – Loop, 8’38”, 2017
Rita Casdia – Animal, 3’20”, 2016
Silvia Camporesi – Secondo vento, 3’45”, 2010
Mauro Folci – Esodo/Exodus, 1’37”, 2011
Iginio De Luca – C6 H8 06, 2’01”, 2008

Since 1984, VIDEOFORMES is a permanent observatory of new developments in contemporary art and digital video and offers various opportunities for presentation, meetings and reflection artists, professionals and the public.

https://videoformes.com/

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The Nightlight Screenings 2018
3a edizione

Artisti
Judith Albert, Sonia Laura Armaniaco, Barbara Brugola, Rita Casdia, Dirk Koy, Fabio Friedli, Antonello Matarazzo, Anuk Miladinovic, Riccardo Muroni, Mark Olexa e Francesca Scalisi, Thaïs Odermatt, Matteo Pasin, Samuel Patthey e Lucia Veronesi.

Curatori
Alessandra Arnò, co-fondatrice / direttore, VisualContainer, Milano
Chantal Molleur, co-fondatrice / curator di WHITEFRAME

In caso di pioggia, la proiezione si terrà presso il Basler Papiermühle – Museo svizzero della scrittura e della stampa di carta (St. Alban-Tal 37, 4052 Basel)

Programma
Nell’ambito del costante impegno di White Frame per la presentazione di film e video, The Nightlight Screenings esplora opere recenti di artisti svizzeri e internazionali. Questa iniziativa mira a focalizzare l’attenzione del grande pubblico sulle ultime produzioni audiovisive e contemporaneamente a promuovere scambi internazionali con le realtà svizzere.

Questo progetto è reso possibile grazie al sostegno finanziario della Fondazione Christoph Merian.

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INTERFACE |Video Art Event, IXth edition
Curator: Associate Professor Dr. Gabriela Diana Bohnstedt Gavrilas
Visualcontainer’s Selection
The Museum of Tarii Crisurilor, Oradea – Romania
the White Night of Museums
19-20th of May 2017
7.pm – 02.pm

In cooperation with:
University of Oradea – Faculty of Arts – Department of Visual Arts
The Museum of Tarii Crisurilor, Oradea, Romania
Conflux Oradea (Romania)
Visual Container, Milano (Italy)
VisualcontainerTV International Videoart webchannel
[.BOX] Videoart Project Space Milano (Italy)

Artists: Lino Strangis – Flavio Scutti – Debora Hirsch – Cristobal Catalan – Sonia Armaniaco – Barbara Brugola – Lucia Veronesi

INTERFACE*

*
1. A point where two systems, subjects, organizations, etc. meet and interact.
‘the interface between accountancy and the law’
1.1 Physics: A surface forming a common boundary between two portions of matter or space, for example between two immiscible liquids.
‘the surface tension of a liquid at its air/liquid interface’
2. Computing: A device or program enabling a user to communicate with a computer.
2.1 A device or program for connecting two items of hardware or software so that they can be operated jointly or communicate with each other.‘an application program interface’”.

Oxford dictionary
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/interface

“Being able to tridimensionally process images on digital devices allows the video artist to materialize his/her ideas through philosophical approaches of the virtual space, approaches that consider reality the base for future premises.

The interface must be understood not pejoratively, as a superficial surface or a simulation without any conceptual consistency, but as a succession of images representing the same object of reference, transformed in different ways by the artist without losing the concept.

Our proposal is to create hypothetical universes, alternative realities characterized by flexibility and conexions simultaneous to the imaginary world; realities that elude physical, ideological, aesthetic restrictions.

In this manner, the artist selects from the environment and its belonging phenomena, certain features that he/she will eventually either simplify or enrich with abstract elements belonging to the virtual space. Using diverse digital instruments, the artist delivers the idea that dominates the concept of the video project.

The result is an Interface that structures access to the succession of the created video images, that does not depend upon the researched reality because it evolves differently based on the video artist’s subjective and autoreferential choices.

Thus, two apparently contradictory worlds fusion and meet in the world of ideas and they become encrypted, transformed and reinterpreted inside the features and the concept of the future video art film. Although the reality we refer to hallmarks the artistic/aesthetic concept depending on the artist’s choices and attitudes, on his/her perspective on the referential element, the mark that is based on reality will not be visible any longer and therefore, the new image questions the credibility aspect.

The thus created video art brings into discussion the issue of promoting through images the way of perceiving reality through subjectivity, game, scenario, multiple hyper-realities and simulation inside the created virtual space. The end is the destruction of overused conventions on image interpreting; the traditional way of thinking is changed and prejudices about the image itself, about the relation between real and imaginary space, are broken.

We discover, therefore, a virtual labyrinth of ideas that counts on the numerous self-referential elements, apparently simultaneous and arbitrary, dominated by an aesthetic, conceptual chaotic diversity; contrary to this, the video image is an interface between reality and the artist’s video-conceptual subject.”
Curator: Associate Professor Dr. Gabriela Diana Bohnstedt Gavrilas

Visualcontainer’s selection:

Lino Strangis – The dance of wired emotions, 5:15, 2016
Flavio Scutti – Rides, 5:26, 2016
Debora Hirsch ETIX, 1:33, 2003
Cristobal Catalan – Space Scream, 8:00, 2017
Sonia Armaniaco – Disturbed glance – 2:48, 2015
Barbara Brugola – Loop, 8:38, 2017
Lucia Veronesi – Seduti nell’oscurità è tutto più chiaro, 4:00, 2017

Special thanks to: Dott.ssa Gabriela Diana Bohnstedt Gavrilas, Dr. Aurel Chiriac and Tibi Fekete

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