Absence||Presence (Ausência || Presença)
EXPERIMENTAL SHORT VIDEOS BY 19 ARTISTS FROM 6 COUNTRIES

For the 13th edition of Manipulated Image, Alysse Stepanian (curator of MI) has invited Kika Nicolela of Brazil to co-curate this show, with selection of experimental videos from Brazil.

Stepanian’s approach is philosophic, as her selections in some way reflect upon living a conscious, authentic, “present” life, rather than one of “absence,” superficiality and oblivion. What Nicolela’s selections have in common is the investigation of the tension between absence and presence of the artist within the video frame.

Nicolela’s selections include 13 videos by artists from Brazil.

Stepanian provides 15 videos by artists from five countries.

For short bios of the curators see here…

There, I’m showing Há Mares, 2009. Seascapes built by the superposition of different oceans. You can watch the video embeded in this post.

For all artists see here

Center For Contemporary Arts, Cinematheque, Santa Fe, CA

Tele_bits 2.0 é uma obra de net art sobre as relações entre telecomunicação e cultura. Com formato pós-cinematográfico, é um projeto afinado com a estética do datamovie ou metacinema que dialoga com a cultura da mobilidade e seus processos de interfaceamento por Realidade Aumentada, remetendo, assim, à TV do futuro.

O público interage manipulando as seqüências visuais via QR-Codes (códigos de barra lidos pelos celulares), alterando sua ordem e expandindo as informações embutidas no mosaico de imagens projetadas.

Tele_bits 2.0 é construído a partir de um banco de imagens armazenado no Flickr.
Um programa especialmente desenvolvido para o projeto carrega as imagens, a partir da sua organização em álbuns, e as disponibiliza na forma dos mosaicos que são vistos na projeção.

Nenhum conteúdo utilizado em Tele_bits 2.0 é original, tampouco foi concebido para saída audiovisual.
Todo o material foi pesquisado e coletado na Internet, tratado e padronizado para compor as sequências que são vistas no recinto expositivo.

Tele_bits 2.0 é um projeto de Giselle Beiguelman e Rafael Marchetti , especialmente desenvolvido para a exposição “Tão longe, tão perto“, realizada pela Fundação Telefonica.

Em cartaz no MAB, FAAP (R. Alagoas 903, Prédio 1), até 23 de maio.
2a a 6a – 10 às 20h. Sábado, domingo e feriados 13 às 17h
Mais informações: http://telebits.art.br/

The Urban Screens Reader é o quinto livro publicado pelo Institute of Network Cultures de Amsterdam, dirigido pelo mestre Geert Lovink. Os livros podem ser pedidos pelo correio e baixados em PDF.

Neste volume, em que participo com um ensaio sobre arte pública em contextos nômades, há ensaios imperdíveis de Saskia Sassen, Sean Cubitt, Scott McQuire e Andreas Broeckman, entre outros.

Mais sobre o livro, abaixo. Para fazer o download, aqui.

about the book: The Urban Screens Reader is the first book to focus entirely on the topic of urban screens. In assembling contributions from a range of leading theorists, in conjunction with a series of case studies dealing with artists’ projects and screen operators’ and curators’ experiences, the reader offers a rich resource for those interested in the intersections between digital media, cultural practices and urban space.

contributors: Simone Arcagni, Alice Arnold, Giselle Beiguelman, Liliana Bounegru, Kate Brennan, Andreas Broeckmann, Uta Caspary, Sean Cubitt, Annet Dekker, Jason Eppink, Ava Fatah gen. Schieck, Mike Gibbons, M. Hank Haeusler, Bart Hoeve, Erkki Huhtamo, Karen Lancel, Hermen Maat, Meredith Martin, Scott McQuire, Julia Nevárez, Sabine Niederer, Shirley Niemans, Nikos Papastergiadis, Soh Yeong Roh, Saskia Sassen, Leon van Schaik, Jan Schuijren, Audrey Yue.

Sometimes Always/Sometimes Never/Sometimes at the inaugural exhibition of Factoria Santiago de Compostela,
Spain Nov. 27 – Feb. 28 2010
Curator: Claudia Gianetti

Exhibition album

Sometimes Sometimes Always/Sometimes Never/Sometimes – Video + Images + Detailed Information

Exhibition folder

Just What Is It that Makes Today’s Delusions So Different, So Appealing?

Delusion, in the context of this exhibition, refers to an image or a deceitful representation of reality suggested by the imagination or a mistaken reading of the information provided by the senses. The show, which bears a title that parodies Richard Hamilton’s famous collage, addresses the notions and systems that underpin the construction of realities in today’s world, as well as exploring the possible idiosyncrasies of the digital age.

In this sense, the art of deception—which embraces both deceiving and allowing oneself, intentionally or unintentionally, to be deceived—appears as the idea that articulates the exhibition proposal. Despite being an abstract concept designed to organise sensitive experience, deception is to be found practically everywhere, appearing even as a biological (and in our case a cultural) imperative.

Several contemporary artists, particularly in the field of media art, have benefited from this fact. Simulation, for instance, with its strategy of producing realities, stands out as one of the most widespread and skilful resources in contemporary art. Artificially generated worlds are absolved of the need to follow the true models of universe and nature, creating their own notions of reality and authenticity.

The works that invoke delusion often resort to metaphorical and confabulatory practices (understanding the world in the Nietzschean sense of fable), surrounding viewers with the narrative thread and thereby making them an active part of the experience of the piece. In our case, realistic staging, fictitious documentation, the simulation of truths, the ambiguous quality of narratives are but some of the procedures adopted by artists in the works presented in this show.

Transdisciplinarity and multiplicity of techniques and media are other features defining the ensemble of works on display, following the guidelines of Factoría, while the selection, which includes Spanish and Latin American artists, endorses its proposal of establishing an effective and not just rhetorical relationship between artistic-cultural agents on either side of the Atlantic.

Semana passada, no dia 13, participei do IV Seminário de Arte & Fotografia promovido pelo Grupo de Pesquisa de Tadeu Chiarelli na ECA-USP.

Essa quarta edição do seminário “Arte, Cultura e Fotografia: memória, outros debates” apresentou além de palestras e comunicações, depoimentos de artistas (Cláudio Tozzi, Hudnilson Jr., Lia Chaia e eu, Giselle Beiguelman), acompanhados de comentários críticos de Rafael Vogt Maia Rosa, Ana Maria Albani de Carvalho, Paulo Sergio Duarte e Daniela Bousso, respectivamente.

Coube a mim e a Daniela Bousso a discussão e contextualização do pós-fotográfico em meus projetos e pesquisas. A conceituação que situou meus projetos sob essa rubrica — pós-fotográfico –partiu de Tadeu Chiarelli. Esse debate me permitiu fazer um recorte dentro de minha produção recente que jamais havia feito, sugerindo-me várias reflexões à luz das seleções que a Daniela fez e dos comentários do público presente.

Uma dessa reflexões desembocou no próprio título da minha apresentação em seu formato final, procurando sistematizar as análises feitas e o exercício de pensar minha produção de imagens conceitual e contextualmente. Em outras palavras, como percursos (de idas e voltas) dos stills on the move ao cinema parado, passando pela dissolução da paisagem.

Visual Foreign Correspondents Berlin is the latest in a series of projects initiated by the Visual Correspondent Foundation in cooperation with WL Projects Berlin in which networks of high-profile public media platforms have been developed as specially curated spaces. In VFC-Berlin we invite a network of artists to reflect in a personal way on the recent events in their region and relate these events to ways in which the world has changed in the two decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Last Exit from VFC_Berlin on Vimeo.

In Last Exit Before Reality Giselle Beiguelman caricatures the politically correct borders imposed by a society of control. The aggressive stream of continuously flashing warning and prohibition signs leaves the viewer without any doubt that s/he is trespassing countless rules in a strictly controlled environment. According to Beiguelman, the steep influx of rules and regulations in our current climate, followed by their almost natural acceptation within civil society, leads to the loss of a possibility for conflict, and thus to a disappearance of -previously negotiated- public space.

Interview with Giselle Beiguelman by Annette Wolfsberger
Die neuen Grenzen, die wir lieben (interview – German – Zeit Online)
All artists
Project

Locations:
Urban Screens
Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin

The individual works and eventually the entire series will be shown on a specifically designed urban screen situated at a platform of the U-Bahn Station Kochstrasse in Berlin, Germany. This central and historic location has always been significant as especially during the divide. Better known as Checkpoint Charlie it became a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of east and west, and — for some East Germans — a gateway to freedom.

21 September – 9 November:
weekdays: 7 am – 9 pm
weekends: 11:30 am – 8 pm

Last Exit Befor Reality at Checkpoint Charlie

Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 9

On the anniversary itself, for one night only, the entire series of works will be shown on the media façade on the outside of the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin the Hungarian Cultural Institute, This modern building is in the heart of the city of Berlin close to where the wall once was. With it’s enormous windows it will be a dramatic and symbolic location for the final night of the project.

Monday 9th of November: 8 pm – 12 pm

Die Wende Festival, Melkweg Amsterdam
The entire series of works will be presented in De Melkweg, Amsterdam in November as part of the festival ‘ Die Wende’ focussing on the events round the ‘Fall of the Wall’ and will be screened continuously during the festival.
www.die-wende.nl

Tele_bits é um ensaio audiovisual interativo sobre a relação das telecomunicações com o cotidiano.

É mediado pela ação do público que o retroalimenta pela Internet, com imagens e textos, e expande as informações manipulando os QR-Codes que rodeiam a projeção no recinto expositivo.

Um projeto de Giselle Beiguelman e Rafael Marchetti comissionado pela Fundação Telefônica para a exposição Tão Longe, Tão Perto.

Na web: telebits.art.br/
Em Brasília:
Local: Museu Nacional da República
Endereço: Setor Cultural Sul 70310-000, Brasília – DF
Período: 20 de agosto a 4 de outubro
Horários: terça a domingo, das 9h às 18h30

Em São Paulo:
Janeiro de 2010.

The Sergio Motta Institute held three festivals in 2008 using three significant Web 2.0 platforms: YouTube, Delcious and MySpace. This initiative responded to the need to develop the Institute’s internet work and broaden the spectrum of the community we dialog with, while generating temporary spaces for creative work also functioning as critical arenas for emerging production. Ths e-book documents the HTTPs festivals and brings crtical texts by Paula Alzugaray, Juliana Monachesi, Marcos Boffa and myself, with many pictures, videos and links. Graphic Design by Marcus Bastos.

HTTPVideo, HTTPtags, HTTPSound. (Giselle Beiguelman and Renata Motta eds.) São Paulo, nstituto Sergio Motta, 2009.

Versão em Português

Carscapes 2006

NUIT A LA FRONTIERE DES GENRES -
31ème Festival International de films de femmes

Cette nuit accueille des réalisatrices qui innovent, cherchent de nouvelles pistes, explorent des formes et des formats inédits, des territoires inconnus et franchissent les frontières du cinéma classique.
AU PROGRAMME TROIS TEMPS FORTS : Un film et deux cartes blanches.
Vendredi 20 mars à 21 heures à la Maison des Arts – Petite Salle
Place Salvador Allende – Créteil – France
More info: http://www.filmsdefemmes.com/Nuit-a-la-frontiere-des-genres.html

The landscape reduced to its more basic elements: its colors

Related work: Há Mares, 2009