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