Sonar 2007
The Beastie Boys, Devo, Cornelius, and the latest in cosmopolitan music are the highlights of a multi-faceted bill with a party spirit. The fourteenth Sónar festival will be held this year on 14, 15 and 16 of June.... READ MORE...
Video Art
Digital Barcelona Film Festival
Dal 23 al 27 maggio 2007 a Barcellona si terr la terza edizione del DiBa (Digital Barcelona Film Festival). Si tratta di un Festival giovane ma cresciuto rapidamente grazie alla sua originalit e qualit, che si propone di presentare le ultime tendenze audiovisuali nell'ambito di una vasta gamma di generi (lungometraggi, documentari, animazione, videoclip, cortometraggi), ma soprattutto vuole essere un'occasione per entrare in azione e fare cinema condividendo questa esperienza con chi animato dalla stessa passione.... READ MORE...
Closed Circuit
For the first time in the Metropolitan Museum a community gives an overview of the last ten years of videoartistic productions. Closed Circuit is a gathered and concise exhibition showing at the same time a growing interest for new medias, still 'hosted' in the Fotographic section, from institutions like Met.... READ MORE...
Mixing Identities: Quali Direzioni Per I Vj Italiani?
é in uscita per l'etichetta Minus Habens-Mixing Identities, la prima raccolta in forma di videoclip sul vj'ing italiano, nato dalla collaborazione tra VjCentral.it e la Fondazione Arezzo Wave.... READ MORE...
Doug Aitken: Sleepwalkers
Tutto attorno al MoMA, ogni sera per 4 settimane, una videoinstallazione ha mostrato 5 storie particolari, ambientate in una citt altrettanto particolare. Le storie svelano vita e visioni di donne e uomini interpretati da attori come Donald Sutherland e Tilda Swinton, colti in una quotidianit sbiadita e ripetitiva che, all'improvviso, scivola un'esperienza quasi mistica.... READ MORE...
Evil Evolution
Technology progress miracles have always generated utopia and nightmares. Hopeful visions of a better future, but gloomy and catastrophic predictions too. The risk within the rash use of scientific discoveries and their products is a subject which, since the First Industrial Revolution, when the panorama of cities and suburbs started to show the signs of a firm 'artificial' invasion, has been animating sociologic debates as artists, writers and filmmakers do.... READ MORE...
New Music Shorts: New Talents Growin’up
The new short forms of audiovisual communication live nowadays continuous contaminations of genres and shapes. If we observe short movies and music videos we can see happily that separation between genres is not so defined.... READ MORE...
Jonas Mekas, Video Art Of Improvisation
Jonas Mekas says about his films that they are linear and horizontal, that there's a past and a present and it deals with mostly stolen moments from his everyday life, friends, places and discussions. There's no solution of continuity between one video and another, the only link is himself who decides to switch on the video camera following the instantaneous impetus without an exact plan and then he selects them, he establishes the possible assemblage and he defines the sequence... READ MORE...
Gianni Toti
Gianni Toti. Videoartista, poeta, scrittore, intellettuale militante, grande viaggiatore; citando Marco Maria Gazzano, "Gianni Toti è riuscito a trasformare anche la sua biografia in un racconto: epico, certamente, e irresistibile
". Nato a Roma, non ci è dato sapere quando, ma la sua età, come Toti stesso sostiene, dovrebbe aggirarsi sui "settanta milioni di anni".... READ MORE...
Videomedeja
Videomedeja presents and promotes brand new videos, video and sound installations, interactive art, VJ performances...videomedeja festival is stricly dedicated to art, completely independent from sociopolitical establishment and all kinds of negative influences.... READ MORE...
Alterated States Of Perception
The show managed by Richard Castelli called Sensi Sotto Sopra have been present at the Palladium in Rome since last 20 th October and included in the 2006 program of the Romaeuropa Festival. Through interactive and immersive works, Richard offered an experimentation of perceptive modalities with whom everyone rapports to art, movies and communications means, but also underline the distortion of the relationship work-spectator triggered by the use of digital, classic theme of the mix art-technology.... READ MORE...
Debackere: Electronic Live Cinema
Rotor is a young creature that enchanted thousands of people since its born a year ago. The show treaded the boards of the most important new media festivals in the whole Europe - from the debut to V2 going through Netmage , Sonic Acts , STRP! citing some examples. The two Belgian authors of Rotor, Boris and Brecht Debackere , came back to Italy to participate at ScreenMusic, curated by Digicult .... READ MORE...
Invideo
L'ormai storica manifestazione dedicata alle arti elettroniche, al video indipendente e non narrativo, alle nuove forme di sperimentazione cinematografica e digitale, è giunta alla sua XVI edizione e nel corso degli anni ha articolato e arricchito i modi e i temi della immersione totale nelle visioni "indisciplinate" che propone.... READ MORE...
Resfest
Dopo il grande successo dello scorso anno, il RESFEST torna in Italia per la seconda volta presentato da Fox International Channels Italy per proporre il meglio dell'innovazione mondiale nel campo delle arti visive, dal cinema digitale alle nuove tecnologie.... READ MORE...
The Technological Beauty
in the creating scene of New York emerge withouth any doubt a Soho studio, where the director Arvind Palep and the producer Serge Patzak direct 1st Avenue Machine, an agency that realizes spots and music videos in computer graphic and 3D animation since 2004... READ MORE...
Video Online, The End Of The Beginning
The Net is the most huge communication prosthesis ever created. It is part of the definition new media and it is therefore different from the old media. The distinction is necessary as the Net can be considered a real new media, a big ensemble with numerous subsystem, included the traditional media... READ MORE...
Jankowski, Ahtila: Psyche In Video
You need a little bit of sense of humour to face horror. This seems to be the moral lesson of the tales of ordinary craziness by two video-artists whose technique and thematic are very different. Christian Jankowski's and Eija-Liisa Ahtila's exhibitions take place in New York respectively at The Kitchen and at MoMA... READ MORE...
CUM2CUT
Unlike mainstream porn, the CUM2CUT Indie-Porn-Short-Movies-Festivalfocuses on the activities of the international independent and countercultural queer movement and presents a platform where artists, filmmakers, djs, actors and everyone interested can collaborate.... READ MORE...