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Nam June Paik: Global Visionary

The artwork and ideas of Nam June Paik (1932–2006) were a major influence on late 20th-century art and continue to inspire a new generation of artists. Nam June Paik: Global Visionary offers an unprecedented view into the artist's creative method by featuring key artworks that convey Paik's extraordinary accomplishments as a major international artist as well as material drawn from the Nam June Paik Archive, which was acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum from the artist's estate in 2009.... READ MORE...

Alfredo Jaar to represent Chile at the 2013 Venice Biennale

Alfredo Jaar will represent Chile with a major new site-specific installation at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Alfredo Jaar (b.1956; Santiago, Chile) is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. With an expansive commitment to art in diverse and distinctive cultural, political, and public contexts, his work has been commissioned, exhibited, and installed throughout the world, including Biennales in Venice (1987, 2002), Sao Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010), and Documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002).... READ MORE...

NIMk is gone at the end of 2012. New foundation LIMA starts in Amsterdam

Beginning in January, 2013, LIMA, located in Amsterdam, is the new platform for media art. Experts who previously worked at the NIMk have established this new foundation to assure that the knowledge, collection, conservation and distribution - which NIMk offered prior to its closing - will not be lost. Gaby Wijers, formerly head of conservation and collection at the NIMk, is the director of this new initiative, workingtitle was Formerly known as Montevideo.... READ MORE...

Pixelache Helsinki 2013

Pixelache Festival 2013 is entitled ‘Facing North – Facing South’ and is organized as a dual-city event, both in Helsinki and Tallinn during 16-19 May 2013. If every North as its South and every South its North, this is an invitation to alternately face North and South from multiple points of views.... READ MORE...

The body in a digital dimension: interview with Marcin Ramocki

Marcin Ramocki is a Polish-born Brooklyn artist. He began experimenting with new media in the mid-1990s, with digital installations and interactive works on the Web. Some of his best known pieces are Virtual Singer (2000), Torcito Project(2005) and Blogger Skins (2009). His works have been exhibited at MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art (New York), Hirshorn Museum (Washington, DC) and many more istitutions... READ MORE...