Rainer Gamsjäger, "Cluster", 2010, photo: Otto Saxinger
The exhibition features innovative works of art created by six partner organisations from Belgium, Italy, Austria, Germany, France and Poland through 2009-2011
"Moving Stories" is a project that crosses borders and opens up new horizons, an inquiry into narrative modes in media art. The six European partner organisations function as a laboratory for innovation in exhibition and presentation, funded with the support of the European Union.
Six artists were asked to explore new or innovative strategies involving moving images, each in a highly personal artistic way: along the lines of fiction or documentary, fact or suggestion, linear or interactive approach. Each partner co-produced the work of one artist. The end results are six fully developed works of art, all of them variations on the same theme, i.e. innovation of narration.
"Moving Stories" is a travelling exhibition. The works are presented by the six partners in their homee countries throughout 2011. A publication compiling materials related to the projects is also planned.
Artists:
Nicolas Provost (Belgium)
Candice Breitz (Germany / South Africa)
MASBEDO (Italy)
Rainer Gamsjäger (Austria)
Mihai Grecu (France / Romania)
Paweł Janicki (Polska)
Organisers:
EMAF - European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück, Germany)
INVIDEO by aiace (Milan, Italy)
OK Center for Contemporary Art (Linz, Austria)
Vidéoformes (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
WRO Art Center (Wrocław, Poland)
Contour (Mechelen, Belgium)
Exhibitions:
March 16 - April 3, 2011
Vidéoformes (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
Vidéoformes Festival
April 12 - April 17, 2011
OK Center for Contemporary Art (Linz, Austria)
Crossing Europe Festival
April 27 - May 29, 2011
European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück, Germany)
May 10 - September 18, 2011
WRO Art Center (Wrocław, Poland)
June 2011
INVIDEO (Milan, Italy)
August 27 - October 30, 2011
Contour (Mechelen, Belgium) 5th "Moving Image" Biennale
About the artists:
Nicolas Provost is a filmmaker and visual artist who lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. His work is broadcast, screened and exhibited worldwide on both visual art platforms and film festivals. It has earned the artist a long list of awards and screenings at prestigious festivals such as The Sundance Film Festival, The San Francisco International Film festival, Cinevegas, The International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Viennale and The Locarno Film Festival.
Candice Breitz: Since the mid-1990s, Berlin-based South African artist Candice Breitz (born in Johannesburg in 1972) has produced a body of work treating various aspects of the structure of identity and psychological identification. Since 1999, she has predominantly created multi-channel video installations, in which the relationship between an individual channel of footage and the larger grid of moving imagery provides a space in which to think about the relationship between individual and community.
MASBEDO is an artistic duo, living and working in Milan. The name is derived from the names the duo's members: Nicolò Massazza (born in Milan in 1973) and Lacopo Bedogni (born in Sarzana in 1970). Since 2000, they have exhibited in museums internationally and have taken part in various film festivals, including Locarno, Rome, Trieste, Lisbon, Athens, Bologna and Milan.
Mihai Grecu was born in Romania in 1981. After studying art and design in Romania and France, he has pursued his artistic research at the Fresnoy Studio of Contemporary Arts. Recurring topics such as environment, water, city life and war articulate the whole of his exploration of mysterious and subconscious beginnings. These visual and poetic trips mix several techniques and styles and may be seen as propositions for a new dream-orientated technology.
Rainer Gamsjäger: The Austrian artist works, in a manner of speaking, in the old genre of landscape painting, even if nature photography supplies him with no more than the raw material for his computer-generated works. He aims for a structural analysis of video as a medium; proceeding from the notion of a digital space that video is based on. Gamsjäger intervenes in the video's linearity using self-programmed software. This intervention in the digital structure creates irritatingly alienating effects that exert a kind of magical pull on the viewer.
Paweł Janicki (born in 1974) creates interactive audiovisual systems, installations and performances, focussing mainly on microsound and algorithmic composition. Janicki, who majored in cultural studies at Wrocław University, works with the WRO Art Center as a curator and the head of R&D and teaches in the Intermedia Department of the Poznań Academy of Fine Arts. In 2004, his Internet musical performance ‘Ping Melody' was awarded the ‘netarts.org' grand prize by the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts in Tokyo, and was nominated for an award at the Viper International Film, Video and New Media Festival in Basel.
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Source: e-flux