5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale
The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (media_city seoul 2008) will be held in Seoul Museum of Art from September 12 to November 5, 2008. Seoul International Media Art Biennale has continued and prospered the event and its quality through the past four Biennale since 2000, being much recognized both domestically and internationally as a notable media art festival.
The Mirror Stage - Press Release
NeMe, in collaboration with Lanitis Foundation and the Cyprus University of Technology presents “The Mirror Stage”, a video program and talks at Lanitis Foundation and other places in the Limassol city centre.
U-Turn
The focal point of the quadrennial is the notion of the U-TURN as a movement and a radical change of direction. Art stands in a dynamic relation to changes in contemporary culture, and it is in itself an expression of cultural processes. With U-TURN sights can be set in new directions – offering a new outlook for the audience and new insights into critical cultural self-awareness.
The 4th Bucharest Biennale under the curatorship of Felix Vogel
Felix Vogel chose as theme of research for BB4 Handlung. On Producing Possibilities. BB4 takes the ambiguity of the German term “Handlung” – that is impossible to translate in all its levels of meaning, but it is somehow located between action, activity, agency and participation, but at the same time it could also mean story or even narration – as a starting point to examine diverse practices, which are proposing various forms of action. BB4 attempts to scrutinize and to exhaust the promise – that might just be a supposition – of art taking place in the public sphere and is it thus creating possibilities for (political) action or does the artwork itself has already inherited this moment of action? Therefore, the exhibition rather tries to articulate questions and suggests different prospects than to formulate answers. The biennial aims to intensify the interaction with the urban and political context in Bucharest by inviting participants, coming from different fields like arts, architecture, politics, anthropology etc.
Brussels Biennial 1
Widely acknowledged as the international centre of the European Community, Brussels inaugurates its first contemporary art biennial in 2008. The Brussels Biennial responds to the ever-increasing impact of Brussels and its potential to provide a specific context for the presentation of contemporary art. Characterized by its intuitive insight into the art scene of the highly urbanized region between the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany, the biennial takes place from October 2008 through January 2009. With contributions from more than 40 international artists, the biennial incorporates exhibitions by experimental art institutions in Brussels. It represents a first step in a larger project designed as a trans-national endeavour that will unfold in two steps until 2010.
The Mirror Stage - selection results
NeMe has received 634 individual video submissions from 312 video makers collectively amounting to over 120 hours continuous viewing. This meant that the time we needed to preview all the works was much longer than we initially anticipated.
11th International Architecture Exhibition
The 11th International Architecture Exhibition entitled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, directed by Aaron Betsky and organised by La Biennale di Venezia presided over by Paolo Baratta, will take place in Venice from Sunday, September 14th to Sunday, November 23rd 2008. The preview will be on September 11th, 12th and 13th.
NeMe reBlog
We started a new experimental service in our site where we hope to provide curated information from sites we visit.
28th Bienal de São Paulo
In 1951, in the introduction to his essay of the catalogue for the inaugural Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, the artistic director, Lourival Gomes Machado, wrote:
By definition, the Bienal should fulfill two major tasks: it should place Brazilian modern art, not in simple confrontation, but in living contact with the art of the world, and at the same time the Bienal should strive to position São Paulo as a world artistic center. (page 14).
The optimistic tone, the rhetoric filled with hope, the engagement with the age of reconstruction after the traumatic events of the Second World War, sound today like a prophecy, the setting out of an utopia, which after fifty-eight years has been realized: São Paulo has become an international artistic center, a cosmopolitan city, a reference in the globalized art scene, Brazil in turn has become a point of attraction for artists, curators, gallery owners, and international collectors. Brazilian artists occupy important positions within the history and discourse of post-war modernity and in the production of contemporary visuality. The objectives of 1951 have been accomplished.
3rd International Biennial Of Seville
In the global context of the information and communication society, the third edition of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (Biacs3) will make a new map of Global Art, World Art, addressing the specific aspect of media, environment and technology. Under the title YOUniverse, the Biennial of Seville will show how contemporary art worldwide has changed through the influence of media, technology, science and architecture by fostering one main goal: the participation of the public and a new equation between man and his environment.
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