Focus on "THE SCIENTIST III" Italy

Focus On THE SCIENTIST III
Ferrara International Videoart Festival (Italy)
Curated by Vitaliano TETI – Art Director

19th March - 14th April 2010

VisualContainer is happy to present a selection of video artworks by young authors who partecipated to the third edition of THE SCIENTIST '09 - Videoart International Festival, Ferrara - Italy

The Videoart international festival “The Scientist”, now at the fourth edition, by putting together production and art skills and new prospective programming, has allowed the conceptual video and the electronic arts to restart in Ferrara, a well known location for the production and diffusion of videoart.
The festival is managed by the cultural Association "Ferrara Video&Arte" thanks to international curators and partnership; it mainly focuses on video artworks from universities, Art academies and Art colleges that are perfectly aware of the digital language of contemporary video.
www.thescientistvideo.net

SELECTED VIDEOWORKS:
L’Assedio di Eleonora Tonini, 6’20” – Italy – 2009
Real-lusion di Claudia Carboni, 4’23”, Italy – 2009
Me And My Arrows di Marius Tanasescu, 5’20”, Canada - 2009
(F)* di videolab Tecnologo1, 2’41”, Italy – 2009
Home & Away di Michael Szpakowski, 4’40”, NY - UK - 2009
Current di Rettnoise, 4’11”, Germany – 2008
Fucking CCTv Vision di videolab Tecnologo4, 2’32”, Italy – 2009
Reflexión estética di Dano Avelino Sala, 3’45” – Spain 2007
Body Machine-body Image di videolab Tecnologo8, 2’54”, Italy – 2009
Automata di Blanca Medellin, 5’ – Mexico 2008
Delicate Air of Freedom di videolab Tecnologo 11, 1’30”, Italy – 2008
Iron Dance, videolab Tecnologo12, 2’ 41”, Italy – 2009
Serial killer di Juan Carlos Robles, 3’45” – Andalucia (E) 2006/7
After still life:Timothy Tompkins and Giorgio Morandi di Giovanni Tutti 7’02”, Italy 2009
Improvvvv di Endre Tveitan, 6’14”, Norway – 2007
Shadow of a dreamer di Sarah Dell’Onze 11’, London-GB – 2007
Buscandote en Buenos Aires by Fabio Bobbio 3’, Argentina - 2008

About Art Director: Vitaliano Teti
Teacher of Audiovisual Production at the Ferrara University, has been the art director of the Videoart International Festival The Scientist for three years, a more and more emerging festival within the Italian videoart environment, as well as the curator of the International and Videodance sections and co-curator of the University section together with the teacher of contemporary art history.
As a curator, he has selected video artworks for the Barcellona LOOP festival, Wall Paper Dance in Trieste, the Nave Spacial in Siviglia, High Foundation and Zuni Contemporary Art in Ferrara.
An expert on the theories, language and techniques of video and film, he has organized reviews, seminars and screenings about independent movies and creative editions.

BridA Monography Slovenia

BridA/Jurij Pavlica, Sendi Mango, Tom Kerševan
17th February - 18th March 2010

VisualcontainerTV is glad to present a special Monography about BridA/Jurij Pavlica, Sendi Mango, Tom Kerševan (SLO) on the first birthday of VisualcontainerTV.
From february09, VisualcontainerTv had hosted a lot of International videoart festival and International videoart project and monography, so VisualcontainerTv on his birthday is glad to presents a solo show about BridA, with a special first night of “Nanobug” 2010.

About the premiere of “Nanobug”
BridA / Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango, Jurij Pavlica, 2010

For this video we used a special technique that gives the video a particularly dynamic feel, even if the characters are not moving. We can see and read the video like a comic. The only animation is the creation of the figures itself. The images are created by the sand and this is a tribute to the known physical property of nanoparticles called ‘self-assembly’.
The story is about a bald man who doesn’t have any arms.
He meets with a friend who recommends that he visit a Nano Lab where the nano scientist will help him. Using nanotechnology, the nano scientist makes the armless man’s dream a reality and he gets arms. He is really happy but the next day he is back to the Nano Lab asking for something more, he wants to surprise to his girlfriend with a new haircut! But something goes wrong and he comes out with six hands, like an insect.
His girlfriend gets scared and she runs away. Now he is sad and is asking himself what happened. The science and technology can help us to solve some problems and disease but misuse can end with undesirable effects.

Videos presented:
How big is your heart? - 0:36, 2009
Layers - 2:29, 2008
Lunch break - 19:53, 2008
Nanopill - 0:38, 2009
Nanoplot - 2:09, 2009
Radioteleskop - 9:40, 2008
Viktor - 2:33, 2007

Brida's Contact:
brida@siol.net

BEST OF MAGMART Italy

BEST OF MAGMART
International Videoart Festival
Naples, Italy
Special selection curated by: Enrico Tomaselli
15th January - 16th February

VisualcontainerTV is glad to presents a best of 4th last edition of MAGMART Video under volcano
International Videoart Festival, curated by Enrico Tomaselli.

Artist selected from 4th past edition of MAGMART
Taste / 4th ed.
Murka Maarit
Estonia

A still eye doesn't see/4th ed.
Viana Cleantho
Brazil

Soartem / 4th ed.
Malpede Andrea
Italy

Dreams of the garden/3rd ed.
Bahmermann Bill
United States

Compound eyes / 3rd ed.
Ishii Jun'ichiro, Costur Burcu
Japan

Where are you / 2nd ed.
Zignone Maya
Italy

Stalker / 2nd ed.
Pesci Gabriele
Italy

Selfportrait / 2nd ed.
Fato Matteo
Italy

Svankmajer / 1st ed.
Musser Jerry King
United States

Fuck television / 1st ed.
Straver Ries
Neetherland

Dalek/Zu / 1st ed.
47thFloorStudio
Italy

Them - me / 3rd ed.
Boukhari Nisrine
Syria

ABOUT MAGMART
From October 2009 to March 2010, will take place the 5th edition of Magmart | video under volcano,
international videoart festival.
The Festival is realized in partnership with PAN - Palazzo delle Arti Napoli and CAM - Casoria Contemporary Art Museum.
The Festival activity begins on October 20 with the publishing of the call for participation, and will end with final event, scheduled for March, at PAN - Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, followed by a full screening of all videos at CAM - Casoria Contemporary Art Museum.
Art director: Enrico Tomaselli
www.magmart.it

VIDEOHOLICA 09 Bulgaria

VIDEOHOLICA Special Selection from International videoart festival in Varna, Bulgaria.
1st december 2009 - 15th january 2010

Visualcontainer is glad to presents a special videoart selection curated by Neno Belchev from Videoholica International Videoart Festival from Varna Bulgaria.

Videoholica 2009 took place over the period of 4 -13 August 2009 in Varna and passed under the PEKING DUCK OR VIDEO IN TIME OF CRISIS motto.
The venues of the International Video Art Festival Videoholica 2009 were the Varna Archaeological Museum and Varna Puppet Theater.
344 videos of 138 artists from 31 countries were submitted to the 2nd edition of the Videoholica festival.
The selection of Videoholica 2009 was made by Valeri Chakalov, Tsvetan Krastev, Georgi Krastev, Victor Petkov and Neno Belchev and presented 89 videos by the 71 artists from Australia, Austria, UK, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Canada, Cyprus, Macedonia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, USA, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Taiwan, Tunis, Finland, France, Netherlands, Chili, Sweden, South Korea and Japan.
The VIDEOHOLICA 2009 team comprised: Neno Belchev, Pavlina Mladenova, Petar Atanasov, Maya Manolova, Tsvetan Krastev, Valeri Chakalov, Victor Petkov and Geogri Krastev.

Videoholica 2009 was realized with the support of Varna Municipality, August in Art Foundation, Varna Archaeological Museum, Varna Puppet Theater and Inside Magazine

Artists:
Lia Chavez, USA / UK – “Penetration” – 2006 – 04:19
Guido Salvini, Italy – “Strength Text” – 2009 – 02:24
Andrea Kusti?, Croatia – “You Are Of No Importance!” – 2009 – 0 5:45
Marius Leneweit / Ricio Rodriguez, Spain – “…niland” – 2009 – 06:45
Finda Ozgunaydin, Germany – “Namus Belasi” – 2008 – 04:12
Christin Bolewski, Germany – “Mountain-water-painting” -2009 – 06:12
Roland Wegerer, Austria – “How To Clean A Puddle!” – 2008 – 01:44
Martin Kohout, Germany – “Moonwalk” – 2008 – 02:20
Lemeh42, Italy – “Study on Human Form and Humanity #01” – 2008
Christian Nikolay, Canada – “Ampli fly” – 2008 – 02:43
Justin Randolph Thompson, Italy – “Table” – 2009 – 04:10
Stuart Pound, UK – “Not You Again!” – 2009 – 03:49
Boris Eldagsen, Germany – “The Dying Widow” – 2008 – 06:19
Robin Whenary, UK – “The Boy, the Bike and the Apple” – 2007 – 04:30
Floriane Davin, France – “Cosmos” – 2008 – 01:59
Gordon Culshaw, UK - „Slinky” – 2008 – 03:46
Kristina Bozurska, Macedonia – “Polyptych” – 2008/2009 – 03:58
Charles A. Gick, USA - “Flowers from the mouth” – 2009 – 04:43
Inger Alfnes, Netherlands – “Exercise ?1” – 2008 – 04:44

Videoholica International Videoart festival

STREAMING FESTIVAL - Netherlands

Special selection from STREAMING FESTIVAL - The Hague - NL
31 October - 30 November 2009

 

Visualcontainer is glad to presents 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.
More information: info@streamingfestival.com
www.streamingfestival.com
www.isfth.org

Artists:
The Kitchen Conqueror - Shereen Abdul-Baki
Release date : 25 April 2006
Duration : 00:08:00

Near the car - Elton Eerkens
Release date : 2008
Duration : 00:14:04

Vier Berliner blicke - Rick Niebe
Release date : 25 April 2006
Duration : 00:04:00

Herrie - Jasper Scheepbouwer
Release date : 1996
Duration : 00:12:00

Study on human form and humanity #01 -Lemeh 42
Release date : 20-04-2008
Duration : 00:02:00

Symptom - David Matos
Release date : 16-06-2008
Duration : 00:04:12

Collage - Igor Lesic
Release date : 12 May 2006
Duration : 00:05:00

Book - Marta Daeuble
Release date : 2003
Duration : 00:02:00

Two and a Half Years - Olga Koroleva
Release date : 08-05-2007
Duration : 00:08:28

Queenspark, West 33rd, LG - Jesse Bellon
Release date : 10 April 2006
Duration : 00:03:23

Follow artists' interviews on Streaming Festival web site

ITALIAN VIDEO EMERGENCIES

Italian Video Emergencies
A special selection from VISUALCONTAINER
Italian Videoart Distributor
15 september - 30 october 2009

VisualContainerTv is happy to present a videoscreening with most challenging Italian video artworks, provided by the archive of the sole Italian distributor. After welcoming some of the most interesting international organisations dealing with videoart, it's high time to show a selection of made-in-Italy videos filing under the distinctive feature of emergency: because of both its urge for expressing and comprehending contemporaneity in Italy and beyond and of its ever-growing need for emerging and circulating, also thanks to the promotion by VisualContainer.
The ExhibitContainer section, usually dealing with video compilations from international videoart festivals and curatorial projects, is now presenting 22 artists who have gained national and international reputation.

Artists:
Rebecca Agnes, Francesco Arena, Riccardo Arena, Alessandra Arno', Elena Arzuffi, Barbara Brugola, Silvia Camporesi, Pascal Caparros, Iginio De Luca, Maria Korporal, Luca Christian Mander, Pietro Mele, Patrizia Monzani, Sabrina Muzi, Tomoko Nagao, Christian Niccoli, Matteo Pasin, Cristina Pavesi, Mauro Romito, Sabrina Sabato, Natalia Saurin, Enzo Umbaca, Dubravka Vidovic

Besides, the monographic section "SpecialOne" is welcoming the video project BREATH/RESPIRI by Francesco Arena.
For this work, Arena has produced a series of 23 videos from 2004 to 2008, each of them being interpreted by a different male or female character, in order to give way to two-colour obsessions of faces breathing behind a glass (which often let themselves go to "forced" yet really touching intimate moods).
Each video has been performed by 23 international musicians coming from several environments, who have specifically composed brand new sound tracks.

* all videos are distributed by Visualcontainer  - www.visualcontainer.org

PHILIPP GEIST Monography

Special One selection Monography
from 30 july to 15 september 2009

Visualcontainer is glad to presents monography of Philipp Geist, multimedia and live video performer, on august till september.
This exhibition is a overview about Geist works: live performance, multimedia installation, festival, etc..

PHILIPP GEIST
A self-taught artist based in Berlin since 1999, Philipp Geist (VIDEOGEIST) works internationally through the media of video, performance, photography, and painting. In 2008, he projected his video installation Time Fades across the Piazzetta open space of the Kulturforum in Berlin. In 2007, he screened his video installation Time Lines on the facade of the museum for contemporary art Palazzo delle Esposizioni in the center of Rome. His projects are characterized by a complex integration of space, sound, and moving images. Time plays an important conceptual role in his work, in which this apparently fixed and constant variable is repeatedly subjected to variations.
Music and sound are central elements of Philipp Geist’s work. He enters into a dialogue with music in many of his creations, and this influences the speed, the intensity of the effects, the degree of abstraction, the colorfulness, and also the content of his images. In the course of this process, visual configurations can emerge that do not necessarily accompany the music, but instead challenge it.
The moving image is not given a subordinate role to the music, rather, the two media enjoy equal status. In this way, Geist seeks to overcome the dependency of image on music frequently found in the genre of concert and club visuals.

Selected works:

Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Roma/ Italia) (2007)
"TIME LINES" Facade Video Installation
07./ 08. September 2007 (ReOpening/ Notte Bianca)

Kulturforum / Piazzetta (Berlin/ Germany) (2008)
"TIME FADES" Video Installation
26. Jan 2008

Geneva Palais Eynard, Parc des Bastions (2009)
Mapping Festival
Video Installation 15.May 2009

'RIVERINE ZONES' 2006 - 2009
WATER VIDEO INSTALLATION by PHILIPP GEIST
ongoing site-specific installation project

Berlin - Electronic Church (19. Juni 2008)
Fabrizio Nocci + Philipp Geist
Live Audio/ Visual Set

15 Hertz – The Beginning of Time
Audiovisual Performance
Solu aka Mia Makela (Finnland) – Visuals,
Philipp Geist (Berlin) – Visuals,
Fried Dähn – Sound,
Thomas Maos – Sound,

Württembergischer Kunstverein - Camp-Festival 2007
live visual audio set

NamaTRE.ba 3 BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA VIDEOART

NamaTRE.ba 3 BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA VIDEOART
Curator: IGOR BOSNJAK
4 July - 30 July 2009

Republic of Srpska
Bosnian video art (video Scene:Republic of Srpska) is represented by three varieties: on first place there are
works that refers on recent war and post traumatic elements in society (Dajan Spiric, Igor Bosnjak), but on
the second side there are works that refers on some universal problems and ideas of media and art (Mladen
Bundalo, Nenad Malesevic, Dragana Andjelic), and on the tihrd side there are works that refers to questions
of personal identity and social identity (Borjana Mrdja, Bojana Tamindzija). This selection (compilation) of
video art is a part of namaTRE.ba 3 video project that is some kind of “other” independent scene inside
Bosnia & Herzegovinia that represent institutional art. Those works that are traying to open problems and
question of memory have influenced by war, and post war atmosphere instead of those works that refers on
collective identities and ontological problems which have influenced by artistic and personal trauma.
By Igor Bosnjak

Selected Artists:
Mladen Bundalo: Simulating Dualism 2009 - 3’19”
Dragana Andjelic: Tranformation 2007 - 2’57”
Dajan Spiric: I love world peace 2009 - 4’20”
Bojana Tamindzija: Serbian fairy tales 2008 - 4’22”
Borjana Mrdja: Almost perfect work 2009 - 5’02”
Nenad Malesevic: The butter 2007 - 3’19”
Igor Bosnjak: Bosnian moon 2009 - 3’47”

Claudio Sinatti Monography

Claudio Sinatti
Interview + Mono
4th June - 4th July 2009

About the interview
Within its monographic section Special One, VisualContainerTv is proud to present the first of a long series of interviews to the chief protagonists of the world of video from the past to the current days. The opening
shot deals with one of the most important director in the Italian multimedia environment: Claudio Sinatti. Interviewed by Giorgio Fedeli, the president and critic of VisualContainer, Claudio is discussing some words relevant to his job and works from the origin to the latest production, which are in great demand within the international world of multimedia art, audiovisual communication and music video-clip. With the support of excerpts from his videos and shots of his technical creations, Claudio’s answers open up to his poetics: to his unfailing will to experiment and compare not only with the adult professional rules but also with the children’s powerful vision endowing the world with fantasy and amazement. The emotional dimension finally is the main character in the passionate speech by this multimedia protagonist, who keeps investigating technological equipment with the aim to find and offer an endless show of pure emotions and moods.
In concert with the interview, VisualContainerTv is more than happy to welcome for the very first time a representative selection from the different works by Claudio Sinatti.
by Giorgio Fedeli

Claudio Sinatti: director, multimedia artist.
Started as a graphic and graffiti artist in the early 90s, before moving to film and video. He started directing music promos in 1996 for Italian bands such as Casino Royale, Neffa, Carmen Consoli, Alex Britti, 99 Posse…
In 1999 he founded a collective for audio-visual experimentation that drew together videomakers, photographers, illustrators and musicians.
Since then he has explored the frontiers of live electronics and audio visual installations, constantly crossing between his personal artistic research and commercial projects.
He has collaborated with artists such as Christian Fennesz, Scanner, Stephan Mathieu and worked for brands such as Nike, BMW, Heineken, MTV...

SINATTI’s INTERVIEW is a VISUALCONTAINER production, May 2009
Interview and translation curated by Giorgio Fedeli,
Audio Video Takes: Alessandra Ielo e Paolo de Matteis*
Editing: Alessandra Arnò
Organization: Alessandra Arnò
Support: *IED MILANO

Monography

Elevation
A shaved Mint
Solo
Per mille giraffe
Carillon Radioland
Symbiosis Orchestra

L E M A T R I C E (Fr- Usa)

1st May - 4th June 2009
Curator: Visualcontainer

VisualContainerTv welcomes Le Matrice in the new monographic section “Special One” of the channel!

Le Matrice is a French/American group working in audio video works with a special dedication to live performances.
In this show Le matrice is presenting a project about the Rhino Jazz Festival, with a selection from the 30-hour medley performance specifically played for the celebration of the 30 years of the festival, and AD.LIB 2 another special AudioVideo medley.

Le matrice:
Pascal Caparros - video artist
Benoit Voarick - video artist
Julie Meitz - video artist
Emmanuel Martin - musician
Sebastien Egleme - musician
Cyril Darmedru - musician

Ni JAZZ Ni Maître:
Extract about a video -performance of 30h for the Rhino Jazz Festival
October 2008 (France)

Selected videos:
4T - Pascal (video) + Sebastien (sound)
Hot Jazz - Julie (video & sound)
Candy Dream - Julie (video) + Cyril (sound)
VHSound A - Pascal (video)
VHSound B - Pascal (video)
Kass tete d'affiches - Benoit (video) + Emmanuel (sound)

Ad. Lib.2 - Le Matrice
This video doesn’t actually have a narrative array, as it mostly deals with an abstract pattern of moments, glances and sensations.
Visual situations have been seized/stolen and definitely transformed thanks to video mixering andparticipation from several musicians.
Such videowork is not subject to any chronological issue and is intended for a videoinstallation with ten monitors and ten sound videos being played in random loop.
In virtue of its specifications and intentions, this videowork can be better compared with design artworks than with any film or documentary production. It is important to remark that it is not a finished « object », rather it proposes itself as a vision which is going to progress in time according to casual encounters and occasions.
Pascal Caparros - Le Matrice

VIDEOHOLICA 08

Special Selection of THE INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL AUGUST IN ART, Varna
1st April - 30th April 2009
Curators: Tzvetan Krustev and Neno Belchev

VIDEOHOLICA festival is designed as video art forum with international participation to present to the audience of Varna a remarkable and highly valuable programme of video art works. VIDEOHOLICA festival includes organization and presentation of a series of video art projections and exhibitions as well as discussions and workshops concerning video art topics in traditional gallery spaces in Varna and also in non traditional outdoor public spaces, virgin for contemporary art environment, or where it is less known. Bringing together and collaborating with artists, curators, art critics and other art professionals from all around the world, VIDEOHOLICA becomes a meeting place, where artinvolved people, institutions and initiatives communicate and exchange ideas and experience. VIDEOHOLICA keeps alive the discourse about the place of contemporary art in the nowadays Bulgarian society and makes popular on the Bulgarian art stage one of the most important and greatest trends in the contemporary art forms in the world. The festival addresses the professional public as well as that auditorium, which has had no contact with contemporary art until now, and provokes both audiences through organized art activities to look for new meaning and identity amidst creative environment unknown to them so far. VIDEOHOLICA intends to present art works by well-known artists as well as renders opportunity to young artists, who are working in the field of contemporary art and are pursuing innovative practices in a professional manner, to manifest their works distinguished for their original creative language.
Videoholica is supported by the August in Art Foundation, Varna Municipality and other art institutions in Varna. The debut of VIDEOHOLICA video art festival was held in the period 8 – 15 August 2008 in Varna within the framework of the sixth issue of the International Biennial for Visual Arts AUGUST IN ART www.augustinart.com. This first edition of VIDEOHOLICA presented momentary but very detailed picture of the contemporary video art to the Bulgarian auditorium through a series of projections in public spaces. The art institutions of Varna offered their premises for the VIDEOHOLICA Festival expositions, among which were: The Concert Hall of the Varna City Radio, the inner courtyard of the City Gallery of Varna, the inner courtyard of the Archeological Museum, the Art Gallery “Active Art”, the small garden behind the Puppet Theater, and the inner courtyard of the Art Gallery “Georgi Velchev”. 

VIDEOHOLICA © Neno Belchev and Pavlina Mladenova

Artists:
Nenad Nedeljkov, Serbia, “Passing” – 2007 – 3:45
Jean-Gabriel Periot, France, “Nijuman No Borei” – 2007 – 10:00
Lemeh 42, Italy, “How To Make A Table?” – 2008 – 2:30
Beatriz Albuquerque, Portugal, “Futureoscope” – 2007 – 4:24
Viktor Petkov, Bulgaria, “A Brick” – 2006 – 3:33
Jon Monaghan, USA, “Jesus, Jesus Christ” – 2008 – 3:01
Tobias Sternberg, Sweden, “Ballgames” – 2008 – 2:00
Robin Kiteley, England, “Test Phantom” – 2007 – 5:03
Chiara Fumai, Italy, “The Moustache Woman” – 2007 – 1:05
Thorsten Fleisch, Germany – “Energie!” 2007– 5:00
Zsolt Vasarhelyi, Hungary, “Yamakashi” – 2007 – 4:36
Simone Bennet, Netherlands, “The Truth Machine” – 2007 – 10:45
Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand, USA,“Let’s Get Married”–2008–3:30
Samba Fall, Senegal/Norway, “Consomania” – 2007 – 4:41
Gerard Freixes Ribera, Spain, “Aislado” – 2007 – 3:20
Jennifer Campbell, Canada, “Trigger” - 2007 – 1:00
Jun’ichiro Ishii, Japan/France, “Promenade” – 2007 – 8:30
Victor Mutelekesha, Zambia/ Norway,“Cry the beloved continent”–2007–7:47

ABOUT THE CURATORS
Tsvetan Krastev is a conceptual artist and exhibition curator. He was born in 1961 in Varna, Bulgaria.He graduated from the Specialized Secondary School of Fine Arts in Kazanlak in 1981. He is a co-founder,co-director and co-curator of Videoholica International Video Art Festival. Tsvetan was rewarded with awards of Bulart Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria in 2006; Stalker Graphic Design Studio in 2005; George Velchev Art Museum, Varna, Bulgaria in 2003 and others. Among his major solo exhibitions, the following were arranged at: the National Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria (2005); George Velchev Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria (2003), Yuka Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria (2002); Autumn Exhibitions, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (2001); Bulart Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria (2001), etc.

Neno Belchev works as freelance multidisciplinary artist as well as independent curator. He was born in 1971 in Varna, Bulgaria. He graduated in Mural Painting from the National Academy for Fine Arts in Sofia in 1997. He is a co-founder, co-director and co-curator of Videoholica International Video Art Festival. He has curated projects and exhibitions in Bulgaria, whilst his art has been exhibited abroad.

VIDEOPLAY09

Electronic and Sensitive
Special selection from Play Festival Buenos Aires Argentina

18 - 31 March 2009 on VisualContainerTV

VIDEOPLAY 09 “Electronic and Sensitive” includes records, video performances and other works which, though not clearly framed within the category of art-action, reflect a deep anchorage in the performatic sphere. It is an attempt to reveal the presence of the body that is trapped and mediatized by video technology or else, to highlight the no-presence of a body that has become virtual and electronic.
The selection “Electronic and Sensitive” constitutes an opportunity of access to the best possibilities resulting from the interaction of art and technology. The vitality of the creation in video art appears and shows in works that leave aside the mere experimentation to look for the depth of meanings. All the artists include in the selection show a maturity in the field that makes them get a greater richness in their speech. Almost all the works denote a semantic quality that lets them move through the most subtle aspects of reality. In the genesis of most of them, we can see a conception of the video production where technology gets to a new sensitivity.

Curator: Silvio De Gracia

Suka Off (Poland) – “Liquid fear” – 10’ 52”
Eva Drangsholt (Norway) – “All shall be well” – 5’ 37”
Sinasi Gunes (Turkey) – “After the sheep” – 3’ 41”
Jean-Gabriel Périot (France) – “Under twilight” – 5’
KIM Kang (South Korea) – “Conversation” – 9’ 32”
Igor Bosnjak (Bosnia & Herzegovina) – “Passage of fear” – 6’ 13”

Marta Moreno Muñoz (Spain) – “Desvanecimientos” – 1’ 50”

“The (re)production of space”

 “The (re)production of space” on VisualcontainerTV
12 - 28 febbruary 2009

Project Preview of LOOP Festival Barcelona

“Henri Lefebvre asserted that any society produces a space of its own. Space is a social product, or rather a complex social environment – based upon values and the production of meanings – which involves space relationships and perception.
To film the urban space means to compare the movement of metropolitan structures and people with static architecture, silence with noise, emptiness with fullness, private space with public sharing; but it also means to superimpose images from the emotional memory, sensations and interpretations which do convert the real into mind landscapes.
The selected artists show several interpretations on the social space, that is to say of the urban space: a fragment of the real is set against abstract resolving, levels overlapping, graphic processing and staging.
The video-works thus become procedures of action within the spatial triad enunciated by Lefebvre (i.e. the lived, perceived and imagined space): a way of understanding, dreaming and transforming.” Patrizia Monzani

Patrizia Monzani has followed a cinematographic education and worked as a film director and editor. An author of several videopoems in collaboration with contemporary poets, she is currently involved in the videoart world, also as a curator following cooperations with LOOP festival and Videoartworld.com. She is the starter of the Young Art project Gedanken-strich, for which she has published a magazine with the same title and curated relevant exhibitions.

Curator: Patrizia Monzani

Artists: Kim Collner, Ho-yeol Ryu; Arne Fehmel; Pascal Fendrich - Bernd Härpfer; Beate Kunath; Martina Wolf; Daniel Urria

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