Ho Tzu Nyen: Artspace
Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen creates works that are fields of concrete sensations. In association with Sydney Festival 2011, Artspace presents the first major exhibition of his work in Sydney... READ MORE...
Video Art
Artefact Festival
The Emergence of Things brings together some 20 artists who investigate the fundamental components or "elementary particles" of media, technology and their production processes. Like anatomical surgeons or archaeologists, they dissect our everyday instruments and image production. Some artists approach the theme from the social or political implications of certain 'tools' and the power structures that are interwoven with them.... READ MORE...
Re-focussing The Lens. New Media And Film Festival
A familiar exhibition platform for artists working in the media art field is the international art and technology festival circuit. It is a healthy scene, with regular events such as Transmediale (Germany), Ars Electronica (Austria), ISEA (various locations), 01SJ (USA) and arte.mov (Brazil) showcasing the latest work by artists from across the world. These events show both emerging and established artists and provide context and discussion through related conferences and workshops. However, for many artists in the field, there are limited opportunities for exhibiting outside of these contexts.... READ MORE...
The Perturbing Image. Interview With Francesca Fini
Francesca Fini is an image-woman: she creates (moving, static, real and synthetic) images; she is an art performer and filmmaker, interaction designer and (hyper) graphic dealing with every kind of hybridizations and contaminations. During her life she has been trying her hand at several media. Her first work was the autobiographical novel 'Thus Spoke Mickey Mouse' (1996), then she began to work in the fields of cinema and TV.... READ MORE...
Nam June Paik
Media artist, performance artist, composer and visionary, Nam June Paik (19322006) was one of the most innovative artists of the twentieth century. Paik's radical ideas on art and technology transformed what we now understand as video and media art. Renowned for his spectacular video installations and manipulated images of avant-garde performances, pop singers and television commercials, Paik paved the way for the sensibility of the MTV generation and YouTube phenomenon.... READ MORE...
Alterating Conditions
When it comes to the Bag Factory Artists' Studios and GoetheonMain in Johannesburg, South Africa, both white-washed spaces, one might want to keep in mind, that the white cube is close-knit with (post-war) western art. How might either the production spaces at the Bag Factory or the project space at GoethonMain function for the presentation of performance art, while both the artists' studio and the white cube are full of both internal (art) historical mythologies and connotations?... READ MORE...
Robert Wilson Video Portraits
Jiri Svestka Gallery is announcing the new exhibition by American artist Robert Wilson, showing videos from the VOOM Portrait series. A large selection of the video works by the famous theatre director and stage designer will be on show from 13th November 2010 until 22nd January 2011, portraying celebrity actors and writers, such as the Princess of Monaco, Johnny Depp, or Winona Ryder.... READ MORE...
Digital Art In Finland. Chronicles Of A Travelling Week
This article is the first part of an overview of digital art which took place in Finland, the second country in the world located further north, bordering with Norway, Sweden and Russia, and a quarter of whose surface area is located beyond the Arctic Circle.... READ MORE...
The Lost Cemetery Of Images.a Conversation With Carlos Casas
The use of archive material is a tendency which has established itself in the last few years as a common practice in audiovisual contaminations. It is an ongoing search which paves the road to countless approaches to the work, as well as involving the individuality of the artist in the reprocessing of traces and memories in an imagination which is set on the present. With Cemetery (Archive Works), inaugurated on 28 October and ongoing until 14 January at the Marslleria in Milan, Carlos Casas steps onto this path at its edges, balancing between visual anthropology and rethinking images as a form of trans-cultural memory.... READ MORE...
Jason Mena We all shall play in the ruins
Jason Mena's work entails a multi-faceted approach to contemporaneity that, drawn from conceptualism and minimalism, reveals the complexities and contradictions of the ever increasing urbanization of space. The City and its architecture becomes the main protagonist and consequently witness of the post-modern condition. Reality and fiction converge, they appear and disappear in the urban landscape, provoking multiple reactions and interpretations.... READ MORE...
Orlan aaka Orlan
Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani will be opening the exhibition ORLAN AAKA ORLAN, curated by Eugenio Viola, on Thursday 18 November in its Milan premises in via Ventura, and on Saturday 20 November in the church of San Matteo in Lucca. ORLAN's work simultaneously brings into play matters concerning identity, taboos about opening up the body, the shattered myths of a dispersed femininity, the public and private spheres, and the limitations of art, language, and life.... READ MORE...
Argos Open Archive 2
With more than 2500 titles, ARGOS centre for art and media administers the largest and most accessible archive of audiovisual art in electronic and digital format in Belgium. Have a look at the collections in our multimedia library, and feel free to leaf through over four thousand publications catalogues, theoretical works, artists' books and others that contextualise this selection.... READ MORE...
The State of the Art
On the 10th of December 2010, at 7 pm, at the Romanian Academy in Rome, Kunsthaus presents The state of the Art, a collective multimedia exhibition of selected artworks in different sectors such as video art, photography, installation, performance and painting. The exhibition, curated by Luisa Conte, is supported by the Romanian Academy in Rome and patronaged by the Department of Rome for Cultural Politics and Communication.... READ MORE...
Anders Weberg. Url And Networks As Artworks
Web based art, must have an address, an URL, which tells the user where the artwork is stored on the web. This obvious, but inescapable fact has the Swedish artist Anders Weberg among others, thought about in there art works. So, If you digit www.theurlistheartwork.com/, in your browser you will be taken to a homepage with the text: The url is The artwork by Anders Weberg, October 2009. The actual address, the URL is in this case the artwork. Can a net.art work be more minimalistic and sublime than just a simple URL?... READ MORE...
Tv/arts/tv – Beyond The Screen! An Interview To Valentina Valentini
The combination is hot, at first sight. In the exhibition at Arts Santa Monica in Barcelona - in this beginning of autumn 2010 - we think, reflect and make questions on the convoluted and controversial relationship between Art and TV. TV / ARTS / TV is a multi-directional path that starts from the '60s and ends to the present day: works that are now part of art history and current trials of young artists / researchers straddling art and new technologies, give life to a project that provides multiple points of view concerning TV medium... READ MORE...
The Power Plant Ian Wallace & Pae White
Fall 2010 at The Power Plant features the premiere of two new projects by two acclaimed artists as part of the gallery's annual Commissioning Program, which has seen the creation of new work by artists such as Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Simon Starling, Scott Lyall, Candice Breitz, and Lawrence Weiner. The 2010 Commissions have been awarded to senior Canadian artist Ian Wallace and mid-career Californian artist Pae White. Both artists' commissions act as the centrepieces of their respective solo exhibitions on view at The Power Plant.... READ MORE...
Cornerhouse: Unspooling Artists & Cinema
Celebrating 25 years of Cornerhouse and produced as part of Abandon Normal Devices, the curators, Andrew Bracey and Dave Griffiths present UnSpooling Artists & Cinema, a large and ambitious group exhibition that straddles two giant bodies of reference art and cinema showing 19 international artists: Michaël Borremans, Cartune Xprez, David Claerbout, Sally Golding, Ben Gwilliam & Matt Wand, Roman Kirschner, Kerry Laitala, Wayne Lloyd, Sheena Macrae, Elizabeth McAlpine, Juhana Moisander, Alex Pearl, Greg Pope, Mario Rossi, Gebhard Sengmüller, Harald Smykla, Ming Wong and Stefan Zeyen.... READ MORE...
RE:akt! Reconstruction Re-Enactment, Re-Reporting
Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana and the Maribor Art Gallery are proud to announce "RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting", the exhibition of the works realized in the last three years within the platform "RE:akt!".... READ MORE...