EMYAN :: 1st Online Arts Festival :: October 2008

http://www.emyan.org/onlinefestival/

المعلومات بالعربية:
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شبكة شباب فنانى الأورومتوسطى تعلن عن دعوة للمشاركة فى مهرجان الفنون على الانترنت - الاصدار الاول. سيقام المهرجان على موقع الشبكة فى أكتوبر القادم. المهرجان مفتوح لشباب الفنانين من سن 15 الى سن 30 المقيمين فى احدى دول الأورومتوسطى. و لجميع مجالات الفنون التى من الممكن نشرها على الانترنت. الهدف من المهرجان هو نشر الوعى بأهمية الأدوات المتاحة على الانترنت فى مجالات الفنون المختلفة.

كل المشاركات يجب أن تكون أنتجت بعد أول يناير 2005 , أخر موعد لارسال المشاركات عن طريق الاستمارة الاليكترونية الموجودة على الموقع هو 20 سبتمبر 2008


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Information in English


Introduction:
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The use of internet tools has been in increase in our social and professional lives since new techniques were adapted to facilitate the use of communications tools over the internet in general.

Web 2.0 is a term describing the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.

In order to promote the use of internet tools in arts, EMYAN launched in May 2007 art 2.0 Initiative.

Leaping into the world of information and communication technology gave the today arts a new dimension which will help forming the arts of the future. Giving new ideas of creation of new arts and also merging of some of the existing arts.

New aims and purposes of art have been arisen in the last few years arguing the world to put a definition of this newly created multi-purpose easy to distribute art.

Euro-Med Young Artists Network is launching a call for entries for its 1st Online Arts Festival which is scheduled to be held online on October 2008.

The festival is in its pilot edition and is organized under EMYAN ZeroBudget Initiative, if it is proved to be successful and gets good feedbacks, it will be adapted to be organized annually and put under more development for its second edition next year.

The festival is open for young artists (up to 30 years old) living in one of the Euro-Med countries in all fields of arts that can be published on the web, special section for web-based arts.

Aiming to promote the use of Information Technology (IT) in arts in the EuroMed area. The IT represents a new artistic trend which has been growing in scale in the last few years. Young web users will be able to design and disseminate new production.

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Initiatives:
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- art 2.0 Initiative.
- ZeroBudget Initiative.

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Campaigns:
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- 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.
- 1001 Actions for Dialogue.

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United Nations Declaration and Recommendations related to this theme:
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Articles of the 1980 Recommandation related to this theme:
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V. Member States should promote and protect the status of artists by considering artistic activity, including innovation and research, as a service to the community.

VI. 6. Member States are invited to:
(c) compensate any prejudice artists might suffer in consequence of the technical development of new communication and reproduction media and of cultural industries by favouring, for example, publicity for and dissemination of their works, and the creation of posts. (...)



Points of the 1997 Declaration related to this theme:
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14. The new technologies help to promote artistic exchanges. These technologies constitute a vast field of investigation for artists in terms of their creative and training potential.(...)

The arts and the new technologies:
34. The success of electronic information and communication networks depends to a large extent on the quality of the contents that they will be able to transmit. For this reason :
a) the information technology sector should be encouraged to facilitate the provision of the necessary equipment to art teaching institutions, particularly in the developing countries ;
b) artists should be encouraged to become better acquainted with the new technological tools with a view to increasing their creative opportunities. Co-operation between artists and experts in the new technologies should be strengthened to that end ;
c) it is recommended that the new technologies be used for the safeguarding of the cultural heritage and oral traditions.

35. So as to preserve artistic and cultural diversity, States are requested to support professional organizations of artists in their efforts to master new communication tools, with a view to guaranteeing all artists free access to the distribution of their works while safeguarding their rights.

virtual exhibition at clubinternet.org 4 K.I.S.S.

Announcement for clubinternet.org #4 K.I.S.S.

Opening on august 29th 2008
Featuring works of:
Yariv Alter Fin / John Micheal Boling / Victor Boulet / Mark Callahan / Chris Coy / Benjamin / Coonley / Petra Cortright / Harm van den Dorpel / David L. Mitchell / Constant Dullaart / Daniel Eatock / Justin Kemp / Dennis Knopf / Stan L. / Oliver Laric / Jan Robert Leegte / John Michael Boling & Guthrie Lonergan / Jonathan Puckey / Rafael Rozendaal / Pascual Sisto / Ola Vasiljeva / Jordan Wolfson

KISS principle
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: WP:KISS. For other uses, see Kiss (disambiguation).
The KISS principle (acronym for "Keep It Simple, Stupid") states that
design simplicity should be a key goal and unnecessary complexity
avoided. It serves as a useful principle in a wide array of
disciplines, such as software development, animation, journalism,
photography, engineering, and strategic planning. Common variants of
the acronym include: "Keep It Sweet & Simple", and "Keep It Short &
Simple".

Evergreen Tower, 2001, Yeondoo Jung. Korea.

www.yeondoojung.com/
Evergreen Tower,

Inflatable Sculptures, Joshua Allen Harris, NY

XXXMetropolis, Mariana Bassani

'XXXMetropolis',
digital photography
www.marianabassani.com

'flowers' Nicholas Buer, video

Roadworks, Nick Dawes

Nick Dawes.
Roadworks, 2000
gloss household paint + acrylic on canvas
47 x 47 cm





Nick has employed a system of self imposed rules to navigate and structure the activity of making a painting. The idea originally was to set a limitation on choice, make as few decisions as possible and act upon only those that were absolutely necessary. 'I thought that if the construction of the work was about a denial of choice then what was left out was as important as what was left in. Choosing to ignore the endless variety of the colour chart, and remaining neutral and objective towards the subject, I decided to concentrate on familiar objects that would specifically delineate and control my decisions as a painter.' Nick discovered that by using ordinary traffic signs as visual object matter he could reduce painting down to its basic component parts. Limited by a set of standard lines shapes and colours, the paintings could generate themselves, the signs would dictate how the paintings would be made, what colours should be used, what kind of support they would need, and the material required to paint them.

Escurecendo no Copan, Tata Pedrosa

video: Tata Pedrosa e Nicolas Borja
music: Nicolas Borja
remix por: Tata Pedrosa
Duration: 02:08

'A Sunday Ride', David Medalla, Philippines

An extract of video "A Sunday Ride" - David Medalla performance in Brighton on 10 August 2003.
David Medalla David Medalla is a Filipino international artist, who was born in Manila, the Philippines in 1942. His work ranges from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation and performance art. He lives and works in London, New York and Paris.
Medalla is also the diretor of the London Biennale.

Passaros, Marta Debasa, Barcelona, Spain

action mouse, Eduardo Valle

Eduardo Valle,
pintura digital
www.fotolog.com/dudavalle

The Desert Sweepers, Su-Mei Tse

click on the image to see the film

The Desert Sweepers
This strange and hallucinatory film by Su-Mei Tse depicts a collection of street sweepers brushing the desert sand into piles with plastic brooms. Occasionally the workers stop to take a break and look out over the eternal horizon before continuing with their work, yet the piles of sand never get bigger and their actions never tire, leaving the viewer the only witness to the futility of their task.

Su-Mei Tse
Su-Mei Tse's understated films, paintings and sound installations have been compared to haiku poetry for their elegant and spartan imagery. From her film of road sweepers standing in a vast line across the horizon to the image of a young woman playing a cello amid an alpine landscape, Tse finds the sublime in the poetic and the prosaic. In 2003 she represented Luxembourg at the Venice Biennale and won the Golden Lion award. Since then she has shown in London, Paris and New York.

IdeaFixa art e-magazine

A brazilian art magazine.
the second issue is about 'metropolis'
http://www.ideafixa.com.br/

Giacomo Picca

Giacomo Picca
video,
http://www.giacomopicca.com
The structure of the narrative is based on the mythological story of
Narcissus. The character lost in the urban landscape tries to come to
terms with his different personalities. The burden and constructed
images of his past are constantly reflected in the new realities of the
present as an immigrant in London.

Exposição Living Room: Quarto Vivo na Galeria Emma Thomas

Galeria comemora aniversário de um ano em uma grande exposição com 50 artistas


A Galeria Emma Thomas reafirma seu caráter experimental com uma grande obra coletiva, que comemora o primeiro aniversário e a intensa atividade do espaço de Flaviana Bernardo e Juliana Freire. Trata-se da exposição Living Room: Quarto Vivo, que abre dia 03 de novembro, a partir das 18h, na vila da rua Augusta. Com curadoria das sócias e de Luciana Nemes e Adriano Casanova, a exposição apresenta 48 artistas entre os 100 que já se passaram na Emma Thomas e dois novos artistas convidados para uma individual "Boiruna maculata (Mussurana)", Flora Assumpção e Renato Pera.

Living Room, a sexta exposição da galeria Emma Thomas, traz técnicas como desenho, pintura, fotografia, colagem, vídeo, instalação e sound art. A parte externa da galeria abriga algumas intervenções individuais e trabalhos de seis grupos de artistas com diferentes linguagens que realizam site-specifics.

O espaço interno da Galeria será destinado a obras inéditas e trabalhos já exibidos em outras mostras e selecionado pela curadoria da Living Room. Serão apresentadas novas obras de artistas como Adriana Peliano (fotografias da série "Fluxo Anfíbio"), Roberto Bellini (vídeo arte "Escuro"), Marcos Gorgati (pinturas "Paisagem" e "Conjunto"), Suwud ("Fato"), Anderson Orui (pintura em acrílico e pastel-oleoso “Sem Título”), Lucas Simões (desenhos “Deitaaquicomigo” e “Eu, você, ele, ela”), Tom Lisboa (“Polaroides Invisíveis”), Raquel Kogan (vídeo “Los Meninos”), Rodrigo Borges (“Véu de Noiva”) e Lesser González (desenhos thinplastic.com).

Aos moldes dos “Gabinetes de Curiosidades”; dos Salões da Academia Real de Pintura - Grande Galeria do Louvre 1699/França, a mostra “Living Room – Quarto Vivo” reapresenta um dialogo com os antigos salões europeus. A exposição trará à tona a idéia do artista e do espectador - de maneira homogenia - como integrante da exposição, anulando os padrões expositivos atuais. A ‘exposição-obra’ se apropria dos temas tratados por cada um dos 50 artistas criando uma aglutinação que se sobrepõe à individualidade da obra. Os visitantes conseguirão apreciar uma variedade de peças artísticas, sem cronologia ou ordem sucessiva de apresentação, tornando-se uma grande instalação.

Participam da exposição Living Room: Quarto Vivo os artistas Ademar Ferrera, Ana Starling (Organic Plastic), Roberto Guimarães (Organic Plastic), Antonio Renée, Alexandre Diniz, Cynthia Taboada, Raquel Kogan, Tom Lisboa , Rodrigo Borges, Susana Bastos, Andréa Aly, Anderson Orui, Lucas Simões, Paula Maestro, Peter de Brito, Priscila Gurski, Tarsila Yuki, Wagner Viana, Daniel Athayde, Marcos Gorgati, Adriana Peliano, Carolina Lopes, Fabio Maia, Juliana Freire, K.Patrício, Paulo Beto, Renata Corrêa, Rogerio Andreotti, Roberto Bellini, Beth Barone, Cadu D'Oliveira, Luciana Nemes, Ramses Maçal (Fogo Design), Miguel Sanchez (Fogo Design), Roberto Winter (Suwud), Ricardo Birmann (Suwud), Pedro Terra (Suwud), Adriano Casanova, Alexandra Ward, Christine Röhrig, Danielle Hoogenboom (Canadá), Denis Kamioka (Cisma), Flaviana Bernardo, Hugo Frasa, Lesser Gonzalez (EUA), Wagner Rossi, Thais Gouveia, Lea Van Steen, Flora Assumpção e Renato Pera.

GALERIA EMMA THOMAS
rua Augusta, 2052 – Cerqueira César
Novo horário de funcionamento: de quarta a sexta-feira, das 18h às 21h. sábados, das 20h à meia-noite.
Exposição Living Room: Quarto Vivo
curadoria: Juliana Freire, Flaviana Bernardo, Luciana Nemes e Adriano Casanova.
abertura: 03 de novembro, das 18h às 20h.
Encerramento: 12 de janeiro, das 20h à meia-noite.


Sobre a galeria

As artistas plásticas e estilistas Juliana Freire, 30 anos, e Flaviana Bernardo, 27 anos, são as idealizadoras da galeria Emma Thomas.

A Galeria é um espaço informal inaugurado em 2006 com o objetivo de abrigar a recente produção artística contemporânea brasileira. Conta com aproximadamente, 300m2 - de área interna e externa - para realizar mostras: somam-se ao espaço 6 mostras coletivas, apresentando 100 artistas da nova geração e lançando 2 novos curadores em apenas um ano de funcionamento.

A intenção da galeria é promover a produção nacional contemporânea, fomentar a produção de novas linguagens como vídeo, sound art, arte e tecnologia e difundir a produção laboratorial, dentro do circuito nacional das artes visuais, com jovens artistas e artistas consagrados dividindo o mesmo espaço.

A entrada é gratuita para as exposições. A galeria só abre à noite e quem quiser pode agendar visitas pelo site (www.emmathomas.com.br). As obras à venda podem ser adquiridas durante a exposição.

Desde a sua inauguração, a Galeria Emma Thomas transformou-se em palco de produção e divulgação de artistas que se identificaram com o espaço e com a proposta inovadora de trabalho da Galeria. Durante este período, a Emma recebeu mensalmente cerca de 40 novos portfólios de várias cidades do País, mostrando que realmente existe uma deficiência por um espaço democrático de experimentação artística.

(in)felizmente - exposição nacional de não-currículos

CONVOCATÓRIA PARA A PRIMEIRA EDIÇÃO DE (IN)FELIZMENTE - exposição virtual de não-currículos
http://www.sintomnizado.com.br/infelizmente

1) pode participar de (in)felizmente qualquer artista visual do território nacional que teve trabalhos recusados em curadorias, salões e outros eventos da área;
2) para se inscrever basta enviar para o email tomlisboa@terra.com.br, em arquivo word ou no corpo do próprio email,
as seguintes informações:
itens obrigatórios
a) nome do artista, local em que reside
b) nome da exposição, salão ou evento em que seu trabalho foi recusado
c) ano em que o trabalho foi recusado
itens opcionais
a) comitê curatorial/curador que recusou o trabalho
b) nome e/ou site do trabalho que foi recusado
c) e-mail para contato
Modelo sugerido de não-currículo:

Nome do Artista, Local onde reside, email para contato

2007 "nome da exposição/salão em que foi recusado"
trabalho recusado:
jurado(s) que recusou(aram):
site do trabalho recusado:

3) não serão publicadas imagens nos não-currículos de (in)felizmente;
4) todos os não-currículos que forem enviados e que obedecerem às especificações do item 2 serão publicados;
5) os não-currículos enviados ficarão expostos no site www.sinTOMnizado.com.br/infelizmente ;
6) o período de inscrição é de 25 de outubro a 30 de novembro de 2007;
7) não há taxa de inscrição;
8) não há prêmio.

"The City Quartered", Andy Stiff

click on the pictures for see the videos.

The City Quartered
Andy Stiff
www.stiff97.co.uk/

Our environment, culture and way of life has been transformed by the use of Digital technology. As with photography over one hundred years ago, we are again looking at how we see the world around us. Institutions are no longer bound by the physical nature of building. Banks, shops, offices and homes are being transformed by the internet and networking technology.

The struggle to understand the nature of cities has been going on for centuries. Most cities have continued to develop and evolve over this time, and any one true ideology for the nature of urban living and meaning has proved just as elusive. It is this constant evolution that fascinates me. It is an impossibility to define the urban soul in one gesture, it would be foolish to try to.

My film for the 'Beyond The Digital Surface' exhibition, is an attempt to explore the nature of cities, in particular London, by using the idea of captured digital surfaces. In this project I have decided to take two elements and try to stitch them together to hint at the nature of my urban surroundings. The two elements I have chosen are, architectural structure, and architectural surface.

The structure I have used is from an historical map of Seoul. This map indicates the very formal nature of a walled city, and exemplifies the relationship between structures of habitation, and mankind's desire to formalise his surroundings. Walled Seoul, has a set of strong features that I could use as a structure for the film. The city had four main gates, North, South, East and West. Each gate has its own properties such as colour and a mythical animal. Traversing the city is the river Han. It was the North, South, East and West aspects of the city that I decided to use as a structure for my film.

London was once a walled city too. But these boundaries have long since disappeared, as the urban plan swelled to accommodate an ever increasing population. Small villages were swallowed up by the city to give us the districts that now sit in the centre of the London. The nature of the growth of London has provided us with quite distinctive areas, the city the west end and vast areas of housing that all have a distinct feel and quality. The nature of London's growth means there is no grid or systematised urban pattern. The only place in London to confidently predict direction is the river Thames. The river flows West to East.

So I have a structure, the four gates of Seoul's walled past, and I have imposed on that structure the surfaces to be found in London. It is these surfaces that need re-inventing, to be presented in a manner that reflect the nature and re-purposing of physical structures in the 21st Century. I have filmed areas of London, Canary Wharf, Regents Park, the West End and structures that sit on the south side of the river to represent the four points of the compass. The areas I have chosen all have their own unique qualities in both Architecture and atmosphere.

The treatment for each area attempts to play with the contemporary transient nature of the meaning of buildings in London. The reuse of building types in London for other purposes then the original intention is happening more and more. As digital technology makes redundant the need for the traditional building types, vast areas can be re-purposed utilised and the original nature of areas gets mixed up with the contemporary purpose. No longer do the facades display the purpose of the building and so the surfaces have just become patterns that perhaps can be deconstructed and rebuilt to relate to a new medium in a new era.

In conjunction with:
Matthias Kispert - wksound

Moshe Ladanga, Philippines

An experiment in color to black&white transition, in the context of collaboration
http://mosheladanga.wordpress.com

GET LOST, New York

GET LOST is a collective portrait of downtown New York. Twenty-one international artists were invited to create a personal view of the city and draw a map of downtown New York, uncovering a territory that is both real and imaginary.

GET LOST brings together fictional landscapes, utopian visions, private memories, and obsessive instructions to explore Manhattan, its past, present, and future.

An exercise in emotional geography, GET LOST sketches the coordinates for an endless drift across the streets and myths of downtown New York.

GET LOST is the city as seen through the eyes of: 16beaver group; Francis Alÿs; Cory Arcangel; Jennifer Bornstein; Beth Campbell; Marcel Dzama; Isa Genzken; Inaba and Associates; Dorothy Iannone; Chris Johanson; Christopher Knowles; Terence Koh; Julie Mehretu; Jonas Mekas; Aleksandra Mir; Thurston Moore; Dave Muller; William Pope.L; Lordy Rodriguez; Rirkrit Tiravanija; Lawrence Weiner.

GET LOST is a New Museum production, edited by Massimiliano Gioni.

rAccou, digital painting

rAccou, digital painting
www.raccou.com/