IN-SHORT Short Film Festival Lagos.

Video Art Network Lagos in collaboration with the Goethe Institut Lagos will be screening the following experimental videos by Nigerian artists for the IN-SHORT Short Film Festival Lagos.

1. Jude Anogwih: Unstable stables | 02:03mins

2. Jelili Atiku: Alloy wheels | 05:45mins

3. Lucy Azubike: Identity 2009 | 01:20mins

4. Uche Joel Chima: Lying in wait | 05:30mins

5. Victor Ehikhamenor: Coming and going: before the walls crumble | 05:00mins

6. Emeka Ogboh: [dis]connect | 03:00mins

7. Wura-Natasha Ogunji: The epic crossings of an Ife head | 02:05mins

8. Ima Okon: This temple | 03:34mins

9. Mudi Yahaya: The black woman unplugged | 03:50mins


Date: Friday 14th October 2011.

Time: 10am - 12pm.

Venue: Nigerian Film Corporation, Ikoyi, Lagos.




More info: http://www.vanlagos.org/events.html

Acclaimed Works of Video Art on View for 2011/2012 Season

Landmarks Video announces its second season of video art beginning in September 2011.

An ongoing initiative of Landmarks, the video series aims to familiarize the university community with important titles, stimulate conversation and research, and situate the genre of video art alongside the presentation of more traditional works. Each video presentation is accompanied by an entry published on the Landmarks Website that provides an overview of the artist and the work presented.

Landmarks Video features the work of twelve artists annually, one per month, which are screened on a 65" high-definition media station. The station is situated in an open atrium that provides stadium seating and is located in the art building in the College of Fine Arts on the corner of East 23rd Street and San Jacinto Boulevard in Austin, Texas.

The program was inaugurated with the commission of David Ellis's Animal, which will be on view throughout December 2011. The commission represents the first work of video art to be acquired by the university's growing public art collection.

2011/12 SEASON

SEPTEMBER 2011
Pipilotti Rist, I'm a Victim of This Song, 1995

OCTOBER 2011
Josephine Meckseper, 0% Down, 2008

NOVEMBER 2011
Nam June Paik and John Godfrey, Global Groove, 1973

DECEMBER 2011
David Ellis, Animal, 2010

JANUARY 2012
Mike Kelley, The Banana Man, 1983

FEBRUARY 2012
Sigalit Landau, DeadSee, 2005

MARCH 2012
Dara Birnbaum, Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, 1978–79

APRIL 2012
Jenny Holzer, Televised Texts, 1990

MAY 2012
John Pilson, Mr. Pick Up, 2001

JUNE 2012
Martha Rosler, Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975

JULY 2012
Sophie Calle and Gregory Shephard, Double-Blind, 1992

AUGUST 2012
Kalup Linzy, Conversations Wit de Churen V: As da Art World Might Turn, 2006


For more information about Landmarks, visit www.landmarks.utexas.edu.



Contact:
Leah Griffin (512) 495-4315, lgriffin@austin.utexas.edu
Leslie Lyon (512) 475-7033, leslie.lyon@austin.utexas.edu

Video Art Workshop Bamako and Segou

Veuillez trouver ci-joint le flyer d'annonce de l'atelier international sur la vidéo d'art organisé par Soleil d'Afrique en partenariat avec le Centre Culturel Korè Ségou. Prévu du 26 juillet au 10 Août 2011, une douzaine d'artistes prendront part à cet atelier qui déroulera à Bamako et Ségou.

One Minute Africa Workshop Nigeria

Culled from: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/06/the-one-minute-africa/
By Benjamin Okon

Video art was already in practice before the One Minute debut around the end of the last century. Even before the One Minute was formally introduced to Nigeria in 2007, a few artists had grappled with the video technique in various ways.

An image from a video art exhibition
Since the One Minute video workshop organized by the Art Republic in collaboration with the One Minute Foundation and the Sandberg Institute, both in the Netherlands, various workshops continue to introduce more and more artists in Nigerian to the genre. The landscape keeps on widening as the interest in video art increases, especially in the impressive participation of some Nigerian artists in video initiatives in Nigeria and beyond. Yet many may wonder what the One Minute technique is all about.

According to the initiators, the one minute is a mini world movement of exactly 60 seconds videos by the artist. They are visual candies, creative delivery of people and their way of life. The One Minute provides people with an ideal platform at festivals, workshops and the universal awards competition for the best videos. Over the years stories have been told through the video technique, some dense and bulky, others average. But the One Minute presents the opportunity to tell a story in just one minute through creative if imaginative video clips.

Consequently, the One Minute Foundation is interested in finding the opportunity to involve African video makers and institutions in the worldwide One Minute movement. This has been advantageous as over 200 works from 122 markers in nine (9) different countries have been recorded from One Minute Workshops between 2005 and 2008. A substantial part was picked for the World One Minute, a traveling video art exhibition which has been staged in Museums in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, attracting more than 70,000 visitors.

The second One Minute video art workshop was held around October 2008 at Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria. This brought together the video work of twelve artists from different countries whose practice explores the discursive elements of our contemporary society and environment. This was part of a string of video workshops that began in 2007, spearheaded by the Amsterdam-based One Minute Foundation, and facilitated by resource persons from Nigeria, Cameroon, the Netherlands, Brazil and Angola.

This year, the One Minute Foundation, with funds from Art Collaboratory, and in collaboration with its partners in different parts of Africa, is organizing workshops preparatory to the One Minute Africa Awards in Cairo, Egypt. The workshops in Nigeria will be organized by the Art Republic in association with Video Art Network (VAN), Lagos. As C. Krydz Ikwuemesi, Emeritus President of the Art Republic, has said in Enugu, “The 2011 workshops will be held at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in June 2011.

The UNN workshop will include 25 art students selected from University of Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Abia State University, University of Port Harcourt and Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, while that of ABU, Zaria will comprise about 20 art students of that university.

Video art produced by participants at the workshops will be presented at both universities and in Enugu before being subsequently forwarded to the One Minute Foundation and the Townhouse Gallery for inclusion in the forthcoming World One Minutes Exhibition/Award to be held at the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo in September 2011.”

Operating framework for participants
At the workshops, the six categories outlined by for the Africa One Minute competition and awards will be the operating framework for participants. They include: Spoken word and sound: The art of language and sound ranging from oral history to the second on the street; in my backyard: What is it like where you live? What happens there?, Where history begins: With real people in real places, history begins, express your ideas of time and experience, from small, personal history to large scale events, Micro-commercials: small companies run by passionate owners and Portraits: Even in a single minute, the essence of person or object can be revealing portrayed.

Winners will be invited to the awards ceremony hosted by the Town House Gallery in Cairo, Egypt in September. Deadline for submissions July 2011.

ONE MINUTES AFRICA

With less than one month until the deadline, remember to submit your videos to...


One Minutes are videos of exactly 60 seconds. You can now send us your One Minute videos for the first-ever One Minutes Africa competition (flyers attached).

There are 6 Categories to choose from:

1. Spoken word & sound: The art of language and sound, ranging from oral history to the sounds of the street
2. In my backyard: What is it like where you live? What happens there? Give us a sense of the place and the goings-on that surround you.
3. Where history begins: With real people in real places, history begins. Express your ideas of time and experience, from ‘small’, personal histories to large-scale events.
4. Micro-commercials: Small companies run by passionate owners
5. Portraits: Even in a single minute, the essence of a person or object can be revealingly portrayed. What is your One Minute portrait?
6. Privacy: What does privacy mean for you?

8 videos in each category will be nominated for an award. Prize winners will be invited to the awards ceremony hosted by the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, Egypt, this coming September.

Be sure to join our Facebook page, One Minutes Africa, for the latest updates and submissions!

Deadline for submissions: 15 July 2011.

Submitting your video online?

Visit The One Minutes website to fill out the forms and send us your videos through wetransfer.com

Submitting your videos by post?

Living in Africa but located outside of Egypt? Send your video as data to:
The One Minutes
Fred Roeskestraat 98
1076 ED Amsterdam
Netherlands

Living in Egypt? Send your video as data to:
Townhouse Gallery
c/o One Minutes Africa
10 Nabrawy St off Champollion St
Downtown, Cairo
Egypt

Questions still not answered? Email devon@thetownhousegallery.com

Video Art in Public Space

Call for Proposals


Atopia is accepting proposals for the Vitrine Project. Artists of all lands may apply.



Vitrine is a platform for experimenting with video art in public space. It offers the artists and the public a unique opportunity to engage with multi-screen video works right on the side of the street. Every winter artists from around the world illuminate the Vitrine with new video works. Sannergata is a busy route for traffic moving in and out of Oslo, and the Vitrine has the potential of reaching thousands of viewers everyday.


Vitrine is aimed at exploring the potentials of multi-screen video works in public space and the notions of transience – moving images and moving public.

We seek proposals in the form of video works that are innovative in their approach and daring in their exploration.

Sound is not an option for Vitrine and we prioritize non-violent imagery.



The fourth season of Atopia’s Vitrine will run from Nov. 2011 to Feb. 2012.

The four selected proposals will each receive an award of €1,000.



Deadline: 26 August 2011



Entry form: http://www.atopia.no/vitrine.html



Contact: vitrine(AT)atopia.no

CologneOFF 2011 Timisoara II

acollaboration with
TimiShort Fim Festival – Timisoara/Romania & German Cultural Center Timisoara/Ro
4-8 May 2011

Special Selection
Art & the City
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

List of videos and artists:

Daniel Lo Iacono (Germany) - Digital Snapshots, 2:30, 2003
Mikhail Zheleznikov (Russia) - Together - Vmeste, 2010, 4′23
iaaai (France) - Patience, 2006-2007, 4 min 10 sec
Myriam Thyes (Switzerland) - Depression Marquis, 2009, 2:23
Jude Anogwih (Nigeria) – Unstable Stables, 2009, 1:20
Albert Merino Gomez (Spain) – The City and The Other, 2010, 3:09
Ioannis Roumeliotis (Greece) - Picking Cherries, 2009, 15:00
Ira Needleman (USA) – Corporate Art Policy, 2007, 5:30
Giuseppe Girardi (Italy) - “Foreigner-Straniero”, 2008, 6:56
Yuriy Kruchak, Yulia Kostereva (Ukraine) - The 7th of November, 2009, 3:36
Liu Haiping (China) – My Home – My Dream, 2009, 6:13
Ezra Wube (Ethiopia) – Amora, 2009, 2:26
Andres Villa (Mexico) – The Gang: La Raza Loca 2004, 8:00

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a cooperation with the German Cultural Center Timisoara.

For more information visit: http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=1265

Work In Progress

Sub-urban, the Urban Espresso Bar's video-lounge presents:

work in progress

05.04.2011 - 18.04.2011

ALITE THIJSEN : work in progress : 2009 - 2011

The camera is Alite Thijsen's instrument to get a view on social processes. For her the images are
snapshots, inseparable from the context. The author, the subject, the location, the accidental encounters
and the assembly, all those elements determine what is shown.

Over the past twenty years Alite Thijsen has frequently worked and travelled in Africa. Through her
experience she questions the absolute nature of knowledge gathering. The artist's video which is now on
show in Sub urban video lounge is shot in Casamanca (Senegal) during the boukout ceremony. The origin of
the boukout goes way back in the past and seems to be unaffected by evangelisation, conversion,
colonialism and globalization. In an indeterminate moment, once in twenty years, the youngsters in the
village are initiated by the elderly into social practice and tested in their defensibility.

For this important initiation former inhabitants return to their village, coming from all over the world. The fact
that the public part of the ceremonies is now open to an outsider with a camera, proofs that tradition is not a
fixed phenomenon. But what does this mean for this tradition in the future?


coming up :
19.04.2011 - 03.05.2011 : ALITE THIJSEN : CASABLANCA WORKSHOPS




SUB URBAN VIDEO LOUNGE

Screenings: daily from 12h - 17h

Urban Espresso Bar - Botersloot 44A (near Central Library) Rotterdam
sub@urbanespressobar.nl - www.sub.urbanespressobar.nl

INVITATION: Talk & panel discussion featuring curator Jude Anogwih, Wednesday 16 March 6.30pm

Artist and curator Jude Anogwih offers an insight into the contemporary art scene in Lagos, introducing a series of projects and artists currently working in one of the most exciting and dynamic cities in Africa. Anogwih works as a curator at CCA Lagos, a contemporary art centre in Nigeria. He is also a founding member and coordinator of Video Art Network, Lagos.

The talk is followed by a panel discussion on the opportunities and challenges of working across different continents and contexts. Chaired by Alessio Antoniolli (Director of Gasworks and Triangle Network), the panel includes Jude Anogwih, Kerryn Greenberg (Assistant Curator Tate Modern) and Albert Potrony (London-based artist who has recently completed a residency at CCA Lagos).

Jude Anogwih is participating in a curatorial residency exchange initiated by Tate Modern in collaboration with Gasworks and supported by the World Collections Programme. This exchange forms part of the Level 2 exhibitions programme at Tate Modern and will result in a collaborative exhibition curated by Jude Anogwih and Kerryn Greenberg at CCA Lagos and Tate Modern later this year.

SUPERMARKET: Cultural Collaborations in new Constellations. A meeting between Sweden and West Africa

“African Talks”
in collaboration with: In Focus: Nordic and African Art in Collaboration.
February 19, 2 – 4 pm


Culture is a fundamental part of a society, and a fundamental factor in the development of a country. But culture is fragile when faced with economical, and political realities. If a society lacks stability, or an economical and political will, it is difficult for a culture to grow, and to develop freely. But: in places where culture is endorsed and given support, areas can flourish in ways that reaches far beyond the boundaries of art.

The fact that economically strong countries like Sweden support developing countries, and regions with scarce resources is for many people something axiomatic. But, it is a support that rarely focuses on culture. We know that anti-poverty programmes are necessary, but what other processes in a country are also important to support? A somewhat different view seems to be in practise in countries like France and Germany, where cultural support is broad and is being performed all over the world. This type of commitment must also be discussed. As a receiver of such support one might be faced with conditions that are not always suitable for the indigenous context. How does one maintain an independence and integrity in such a situation? How can an independent cultural platform be developed?

In a talk between artists and culture workers from Sweden, Mali and Nigeria we will discuss the conditions of cultural collaborations. What type of experiences do we have, and how do we develop a sustainable collaboration? What do we want to do in the future? The participants will share their own experiences from different projects and collaborations, together with representatives from cultural institutions.

The debate is organized by Supermarket and In Focus: Nordic and African Art in Collaboration, a politically and religiously independent organization that promotes collaborations between artists and producers of culture in the Nordic region and Africa, with a focus on West Africa.

African Talks is supported by the Swedish Institute. A special thanks to the association Afrikultur.

NIMk Distribution and V2_Agency reception at Transmediale.11

The Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam and the V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam have joined forces to introduce their media art dissemination and distribution services.

V2_ launches a new agency for the distribution of media artworks, expanding the institution’s role as a platform for media art research, production, presentation and archiving. NIMk Distribution expands its existing collection of video works and media art installations with a broad selection of computer-based works.

In occasion of the expansion of their activities, NIMk and V2_ collaborated on the production of a shared catalogue of represented artworks, and curated a small showcase of works from this joint catalogue for the Transmediale.11 festival (Berlin, February 1 – 6, 2011). The showcase aims to introduce the two distribution services and present selected art works to the Dutch and international audience of media art professionals, curators and programme makers present at transmediale.11.

We would like to personally invite you to a special drinks reception to celebrate the launch of this initiative on Friday, February 4, 4 – 5 PM, at the Cafe Global Stage, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

The reception will feature a performance by artist Constant Dullaart (NL)

Please RSVP to (NIMk): info@nimk.nl or (V2_): agency@v2.nl

We look forward to see you there.
With kind regards,
Joke Ballintijn and Sandra Fauconnier, NIMk Distribution
Ivana Hilj, V2_Agency
Alex Adriaansens and Boris Debackere, V2_Institute for the Unstable Media
Heiner Holtappels and Gaby Wijers, Netherlands Media Art Institute

This presentation is kindly supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Berlin, and the Virtueel Platform, Amsterdam

V2_Agency | V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media | Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam, the Netherlands | T +31 10 2067272| E agency@v2.nl |
W http://www.v2.nl/agency | http://www.v2.nl

NIMk Distribution | Netherlands Media Art Institute | Keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV Amsterdam, the Netherlands | T +31 20 6237101 | E joke@nimk.nl |
W http://catalogue.nimk.nl | http://www.nimk.nl

Triple Canopy: 2011 commissions program

Triple Canopy: 2011 commissions program

Triple Canopy is pleased to announce its second annual call for proposals. We will be commissioning projects spanning the six areas outlined below—original research, new-media journalism, public programming, Internet-specific artwork and literature, and critical dialogues—to be published in the magazine and presented before live audiences between July 1, 2011, and June 30, 2012. Proposals are due by February 14, 2011. Read more

Project areas

Triple Canopy staff will work closely and collaboratively with contributors as they develop their projects, a process that usually takes between three and six months. Recipients of commissions will be offered a modest honorarium of up to 500 USD, depending on the scope of the project and the cost of its development, in addition to between twenty and thirty hours of work by editors, designers, and developers.

Research Work
Research Work was established to facilitate the creation of research projects that are produced outside academia, for a general audience; employ Internet-specific methods of presentation; and serve a public best reached by making the work available for free online.

Immaterial Literature
Immaterial Literature was established to facilitate the production of creative writing—fiction, poetry, prose—that engages other media (and artists), considers the particular formal qualities of the Web as a medium, and speaks to a diverse and widespread readership.

Internet as Material
Internet as Material was established to support emerging and midcareer artists who have never before made work specifically for the Web in the production of an online project. These projects further Triple Canopy's mission by utilizing the Internet—which is too often understood as a channel for the transfer of information—as a medium for the development of artworks that actively engage readers and viewers.

Thinking Through Images
Thinking Through Images was established to foster conversations about images and videos of cultural, political, and social relevance, between artists, writers, researchers, and other engaged cultural practitioners working in different fields. The program aims to facilitate close readings of popular media and fine art—from nineteenth-century paintings to Internet memes to documentation of current events—that consider these cultural products in a common context.

New Media Reporting
New Media Reporting was established to provide journalists an outlet for—and provide them with the technical resources and expertise to realize—in-depth, critical reports executed in multiple media, with the goal of providing an immersive experience of stories and subjects.

New Programming
New Programming was established to support the development of exhibitions, panel discussions, performances, film screenings, and other public events that examine the intersection of culture, politics, and technology. It serves the general public by offering unique, low-cost educational experiences at community-based nonprofit spaces in the United States and elsewhere.

Submission guidelines

Past commissions recipients


Triple Canopy is an online magazine, workspace, and platform for editorial and curatorial activities. Working collaboratively with writers, artists, and researchers, Triple Canopy facilitates projects that engage the Internet's specific characteristics as a public forum and as a medium, one with its own evolving practices of reading and viewing, economies of attention, and modes of interaction. In doing so, Triple Canopy is charting an expanded field of publication, drawing on the history of print culture while acting as a hub for the exploration of emerging forms and the public spaces constituted around them. Triple Canopy is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization.

Triple Canopy gratefully acknowledges The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, The Buddy Taub Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics (FEAST), The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, New York Council for the Humanities, New York State Council on the Arts, and The Prospect Hill Foundation, as well as the many individuals and in-kind contributors who have generously given their support.

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TrAIN Residency at Gasworks

Residency Dates: 5th April 2011 - 2nd July 2011
Deadline for application: 24th January 2011
The successful applicant will be notified by the end of January-first
week of February 2011.

The residency comprises:
- accommodation and basic living expenses in London
- materials/production budget
- a studio at Gasworks
- an artist's talk and Open Studio, or similar
public presentations, at Gasworks
- administrative, pastoral and curatorial support from Gasworks.

The support, networks and creative environments that Gasworks can offer
will provide the artist with the means to research and experiment with
new work.

This residency is open to emerging and mid-career artists.
The selected artist should be able to engage discursively and
speculatively with Gasworks' environments and London's wider artistic
and cultural context.


TrAIN
TrAIN (transnational art, identity and nation) is a Research Centre
based at Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London.
TrAIN has collaborated annually with Gasworks since 2007 with the aim of
developing a research-based residency programme extending between the
studio and the art school.

Artists’ Brief, 2011
The residency focuses on the archives and special collections held at
Chelsea College of Art & Design Library. We are inviting an
international artist to: either : use these collections as one point of
departure for the development of new work; or : to create and deposit
their own ‘resident archive’ for future researchers at Chelsea College
of Art & Design Library (for examples, a collection of ephemera, a
project to be realised in the future, a set of clues for future
researchers or curators...).

The route into the Special Collections is not prescribed; its size and
complexity allows for diverse and unpredictable responses. Exposing the
processes and ideas of modern and contemporary artists, it invites
contemporary re-readings, re-activations and replies. The artist is not
required to have particular expertise or experience in working with
archives. The residency is process-led and open-ended. It is focused on
the development of a project rather than a finished product. All
Gasworks residencies culminate in an Open Studio exhibition. The TrAIN
Residency is open to emerging and mid-career artists from any country
outside of the UK.

For more information on the Chelsea Collection, please click here.

Application procedure

We prefer digital applications in PDF, Word or Powerpoint formats. There
is a 10MB limit on each email sent to us but you can send your file via
www.yousendit.com if necessary.
Your application should include:
1. A statement outlining how you imagine using Chelsea's collections
(300 word max)

2. An artist's statement describing your practice and areas of interest
in your work (250 word max)

3. A minimum of 10 images of recent work with captions and a short
description if necessary. Postal applications are also accepted but
please do not send originals.

4.A curriculum vitae

5. Any relevant documentation (e.g. articles or papers about the work or
exhibitions, publications, etc).

6. A cover sheet with name, contact address, e-mail, telephone and fax
numbers if available, plus confirmation that you will be available
between April-June 2011 if selected.

Applications should be emailed to:
Residencies Assistant, Gasworks
residencies_assistant@gasworks.org.uk

If you prefer to post your application, please send it to:

Residencies Coordinator
Gasworks International Residency Programme
155 Vauxhall Street
London SE11 5RH
UK

We regret that we are not able to send material back.

Please read this before applying:
Selection and eligibility
The residency is open to contemporary visual artists working in all
disciplines, however one must note the restricted facilities. Emerging
and mid career artists involved in high quality art practice who have
not had the opportunity to work in London before are prioritised.
Applying artists should have a good level of spoken English, and should
feel comfortable engaging in artistic discussions in English.
Gasworks and TrAIN will create a shortlist, from which a panel of
representatives of both organisations will select the artist

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http://www.gasworks.org.uk/content/detail.php?id=314