Johannesburg calling

A MAZE. calling.

We are seeking for curious, playful and adventurous artists and indie game developers from the sub Saharan region to participate in A MAZE. Interact 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

A MAZE. Interact is an experimental and visionary media art festival, which will take place from 29th of August to the 2nd of September in several locations in Braamfontein, Downtown Johannesburg.

Since 2008 A MAZE. is celebrating the convergence of games, art and society. It is a series of events as well as a conceptual format that offers a regularly emerging platform for interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange. Creatives are encouraged to break down the conventional computer game and surpass established digital or analog concepts of play.

The goal of the A MAZE. Interact Festival in Johannesburg in South Africa in 2012 is to create an annual platform for African and European media artists and game developers. A MAZE. Interact targets the collaboration between artists and the exchange on an artistic, academic and cultural level.

Besides a general interest in the broader field of Gaming and Playing, contributions by the selected artists towards one or several of the allocated modules are very welcome.

*Exhibition:
The exhibition will show artistic computer games, interactive and playful installations, video documentations of public intervention and games.
*Conference:
The conference focuses on the topics "Mobility, Public Space, Games and Play".
*Workshop:
The workshops teach practises of engineering by using open source tools for artistic approaches.
*Public Gaming/ Interventions:
Playful game concepts with amazing and wired rule sets which engages interaction in the public and focuses on social and economical issues.
*Performance:
Performative interventions, music or dance performances, using electronics and micro-controllers in public/ stage, mixing music with realtime visuals, circuit bending.

A MAZE. provides the playground. You are welcome to play with this enviroment and make this festival to a powerful game/ platform for social/media critical discourse with international participants and publicity. Please check us out at www.amaze-festival.de and contact me thorsten@amaze-festival.de

The call is open from February 16, 2012 till June 1, 2012.

Our partners are Goethe Institute Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University, University of Johannesburg, Praekelt Foundation, VANSA, Trinity Session, Transmediale, CIANT, Coded Culture.

The A MAZE. team and I am looking forward getting in contact with you and your artistic outcome.

All the best,

Thorsten S. Wiedemann, A MAZE. festival director

THE THIRD EDITION OF OSLO SCREEN FESTIVAL

March 9th-11th 2012
www.screenfestival.no

FREE ENTRANCE!

Oslo Screen Festival is a 3-day international festival for video art taking place at Filmens Hus, UKS, Litteraturhuset and Ny Musikk. This year we have a varied program which includes film programs, concerts, performances and lectures.
http://vimeo.com/36795336

OFFICIAL OPENING
Friday 9th at 19:00 at Litteraturhuset
Film screening by Max Hattler, musical performance by Steen-Andersen & Sunniva R. Wettre, Amund Sjølie-Sveen, Duo Torquati-Dillon and DJ Lasse Marhaug.

FILM PROGRAMS
Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th at Filmens Hus 13:00-20:00
Bringing together artists who work with the moving image using different techniques, forms and themes, these programs showcase films that seek their own language through subjectivity and experimentation. The festival introduces a lineup of films from artists such as Reynold Reynolds, Joao Salaviza, Kiron Hussain, Momoko Seto, Mattias Härenstam, Pierre Lionel Matte, Kaia Hugin, Bao Lixin and many more!

LUNCH CONCERT
Friday 9th at 12:00 at Ny Musikk
USB - United States of Barents is a solo performance with and by Amund Sjølie Sveen with a political insight on questions dealing with local, global and northern identity, power of definition, borders, and the new political and economical focus at the northern areas.

LECTURE
Friday 9th at 15:30 at UKS
Curator Evelin Stermitz will introduce the ArtFem.TV project and talk about Video Art, Feminism, and Women Artists.

ROUND TABLE
Saturday 10th at 11:00 at Filmens Hus
How does sound shape images? - The role of sound and music in non-narrative moving images. Participants: Marte Aas, Kjell Bjørgeengen, Bodil Furu, Bjørn Erik Haugen. Produced by NOTAM.

BEST VIDEO AWARD
Sunday 11th at 13:00 at Filmens Hus
The Best Video Award will be presented by Saatchi & Saatchi Oslo. Saatchi & Saatchi is well known to support young and promising visual artists, and have presented the New Directors' Showcase for more than 20 years, one of the highlights of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.

COMPLETE PROGRAM CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE
screenfestival.no/2012/program/Program_A5.pdf

Our partners are: Ny Musikk, Notam, Nabroad, Atelier Nord, Plymouth University, art:screen, Magmart, Fonlad, Projecto Videolab, VisualContainer, Aesthetica Magazine, UKS, ArtFem.TV & The Dream That Kicks.

Kindly supported by Norsk Kulturråd, Oslo Kommune, the Austrian Embassy and Saatchi&Saatchi Oslo.

LINKS:
http://www.nymusikk.no/
http://www.saatchi.no/
http://www.notam02.no/web/
http://www.nabroad.org/
http://ateliernord.no/en
http://artscreen.se/
http://magmart.it/
http://fonlad.net/
http://www.visualcontainer.org/
http://www.uks.no/
http://artfem.tv/
http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/
http://www.norskkulturrad.no/

VAN Lagos in Mali

VAN,Lagos will be screening across venues in Sikasso and Segou, Mali between the 10th- 20th February 2012

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.