VIDEO:Video Art Projects
Video Art was born in March 1963, in the Parnassus gallery at Wuppertal, a small town near Düsseldorf. That day, Nam June Paik displayed 13 televisions. Nam June Paik used these small screens, and placed a big magnet on top of them. In doing so, the image distorts, twists, and ends up resembling a spectral and hallucinogenic form, ready to hypnotize us…
Photo: Video Art Miden Archive
Video Art Projects is a new emerging international festival focusing on the artistic video creation, which is organized for the first time by the Municipality of Thessaloniki and the Municipal Art Gallery Casa Bianca, in collaboration with the New Media Laboratory of the School of Visual & Applied Arts – Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with the support of the international festival Video Art Miden. 5 projector screens in the gallery rooms will display different video art programs each day. In the first edition of Video Art Projects, which aspires to be established as an annual event in the future, a rich program of video art screenings from all around the world will be displayed, with more than 140 participant artists and art students from 21 countries. The program includes curatorial selections from invited foreign festivals, specifically from Italy, Germany, Portugal and Brazil. The screenings also include tributes to Greek video art, as well as student works from the School of Visual & Applied Arts – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, curated by the teaching team of the New Media Laboratory. The invited platforms and organizations from abroad include selections from: The New Museum of Networked Art, Visualcontainer, FONLAD – International Video Art and Performance Festival, Strangloscope, and Video Art Miden.
Participant artists: ACCI BABA, APOTROPIA, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, Alexandre Alagoa, Vito Alfarano, Sonia Laura Armaniaco, Gianni Barelli, Allison Beda, Thiago Bortolozzo, Brit Bunkley, Matteo Campulla, Rodrigo Cárdenas, Ilaria Di Carlo, Ana Cigon, Pablo-Martin Cordoba, Laura & Sira Cabrera Diaz, Gianmarco Donaggio, Kokou Ekouagou, Benedetta Fioravanti, Carla Forte, Fu LE, Silvia De Gennaro, Ian Gibbins, Gerald Habarth, Shir Handelsman, Bernhard Hollinger, Max Hattler, Alexander Isaenko, Marco Joubert, Carolin Koss, Katia Maciel, Albert Merino, MO Qian, Rebecca Moure, Helder Martinovsky, Tetsuya Maruyama, Antonello Matarazzo, Iwona Ogrodzka, Lorenzo Papanti, Nelton Pellenz, Manon Pichon, Oliver Poppert, Simona da Pozzo, Isabel Pérez del Pulgar, Natália Reis, Natalia Gonzalez Requena, Duccio Ricciardelli, Caroline Rumley, Ausin Sainz, Duo Strangloscope, TSENG Yu Chin, Sebastian Wiedeman, Hana Yoo, Dimitris Argyriou, Anna Vasof, Babis Venetopoulos, Myrto Vounatsou, Nikos Giavropoulos, Yiorgos Drosos, Georgios Katsangelos, Smaro Katsangelou, Makis Kyriakopoulos, Fenia Kotsopoulou, Anastasia Lamprou, George Boudalis, Kostas Daflos, Stelios Dexis, Athanasios Pallas, Gioula Papadopoulou, Olga Papadopoulou, Yiannis Pappas, Leda Patta, Margarita Stavraki, Alexia Psaradeli, Bill Psarras.
Art students: Stefanos Arfanakis, Anagnostis Zacharoudis, Aphrodite Iliopoulou, Eleni Iatropoulou, Konstantina Kadoglou, Christina Kazantzi, Miltos Kalayas, Yiannis Katranitsas, Manolis Kotrotsios, Vasiliki Konstantinidou, Natassa Mavromatidou, Nefeli Moroyianni, Georgios Othonos, Olga Papadima, Lefteris Tastsoglou, Dimitra Tzalavreta, Chrysa Tsikouridou, Tania Foustana, Natalia Maniaka, Olga Nikoglou, Dimitra Anagnostopoulou, Giorgos Pyrgiotis, Athanasia Patroni, Alexandra Papavasileiou, Nikos Mitsis, Konstantina Fakou, Sophia Simiakaki, Aphrodite Tochantzidou, Mullaj Enid, Alexis Karydas, Tsetsou Stavroula, Kouskousis Ioulios-Iasonas, Souliotis Dimitrios, Michos Konstantinos, Kyparissou Ourania, Karakolis Nikolaos, Karagiannopoulos Nikolaos, Vakaloulis Michail, Moschou Elli, Palanis Christos, Paraskeva Christina, Tsilepidis Ioannis, Kaloudas Athanasios, Koufoudi Panayiota, Makatsoris Konstantinos, Nikopoulou Vasileia, Eleftheriadi Foteini, Iordanidou Efrosini, Koutli Eleni, Kyriakou Chrysanthi Maria, Tamiolaki Antonia, Psarri Aphrodite, Aslanidou Anthoula, Ioannidou Kyriaki, Maridaki Chryssi, Petropoulou Maria, Tzioumaki Aphrodite, Kamatiotidou Maria-Zoi, Komnos Dimitris, Liaros Chris Stephen, Simeonidis Giwrgos, Chatzimpetelis Giannis and members of the student art group “EIKON.VIS.AUTH”.
Photo: Antonello-Matarazzo
Info: Curators: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, Alessandra Arno, Jose Vieira, Claudia Cardenas & Rafael Schlichting, Gioula Papadopoulou, Margarita Stavraki, Olga Papadopoulou, Nikos Podias, Maria Bourika), Curatorial team-New Media Laboratory (Georgios Katsangelos, Athanasios Pallas, Stelios Dexis, Babis Venetopoulos, Gioula Papadopoulou, Yiorgos Drosos, Fani Boudouroglou), Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki – Casa Bianca, 182 Vas. Olgas Av. & Them. Sofouli str., Thessaloniki, Greece, Duration: 18-20/5/2022, Hours: 12:00-20:00, www.festivalmiden.gr/
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