Presentation of archive for video art and screening
November 3 and 4, 2010
Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Stary rynek 6, Poznan, Poland

Archive for video art DIVA Station presents at Arsenal Municipal Gallery Poznan followed by a screening of video materials. Different aspects of creating video and media archive DIVA Station will be presented by SCCA’s director Barbara Borčić who will speak about the context and historical necessity to form archives of temporary arts. Technical details of preserving video materials and the structure of video signal will be presented in an animated lecture by critic Ida Hiršenfelder based on lectures by artist Neven Korda. Screening program as a case study of specific historical landmarks in the development of video art in Slovenia will be presented by curator and critic Miha Colner.

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August 16-20, 2010
Ohrid, Macedonia

Conference/workshop to exchange experiences, opinions, attitudes, knowledge and skills that will lead to development of enhanced models and forms of storage of cultural heritage, cultural events coverage in audiovisual format in various countries. It will also reveal models and ways to exchange information in regard to it.

The event will gather media professionals and cultural experts aiming to join their experiences, opinions, attitudes, knowledge and skills that will result in development of enhanced models and forms of storage of cultural heritage and cultural events in audiovisual format in various countries. It will also reveal models and ways to exchange information in that regard, contributing in more qualitative presentation of culture and arts in media.

Barbara Borčič, Miha Colner and Dušan Dovč (SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana) will attend the conference. Barbara Borčić will present DIVA Station, a physical and web archive of video art which has been developing since 2005, and is one of SCCA projects, which is focused in the research, documentation and archiving of video art. Miha Colner, free-lance curator and collaborator of SCCA-Ljubljana, will join the presentation of DIVA Station and prepare the report from the conference. Dušan Dovč will present Artservis, a web-based information resource for artists, theorists and cultural managers. Artservis is run by SCCA-Ljubljana since 2001.

More, the conference aims to develop standards to follow, with the final aim to produce or to support production of a regional TV show that will cover arts and culture (as a follow up activity of the conference). The mix of the professional profiles and the experiences of the participants in the conference will hopefully help define optimal ways of including such a media product in a regular weekly program schedule.

The conference takes place in the period reach with artistic and cultural content (Ohrid Cultural Summer, 2010) and significant part of the conference will be dedicated to the events themselves in terms of practicing standards developed in the previous sessions of the conference as well as on the cultural and tourist site visits.

The conference is organized by Centre for Media Activities from Skopje and will join journalists, cultural workers and artists from the Region.

The conference is supported by Central European Initiative Fund (CEI) and contributed by Ministry of Culture of Republic of Macedonia.

More information and agenda
Centar za mediumski aktivnosti
Nebojša Ilijevski (nilijevski@gmail.com)
Program (pdf)

(Information program of Cinemaniac 2010)
Exhibition

July 18-August 6,2010
MMC Luka, Pula, Croatia

Cinemaniac established in 2002 as the support programme at the Pula Film Festival in order to present innovative events in art and cinema, thus creating a new social space to introduce recent achievements in the fields of experimental video and filmmaking, and multimedia installations. Within such practices, contemporary art reveals itself as both a kind of parallel history and a signpost to possible futures for avantgarde and experimental filmmaking – as well as a space where the depths of possibility are plumbed, borders argued, and the language of film image – and, crucially, new cinema forms – investigated.

The 9th Cinemaniac festival is dedicated to MAFAF – the Inter cine club Alternative Amateur and Artist Film Festival, which ran from 1965 to 1990 in Pula as an annual prelude to the Yugoslav Feature Film Festival. Two decades later, aided by available documents and archive material, we want to try and make the festival’s invisible history visible, in order to best contextualize it, reassess its real significance and rehabilitate the memory of an important event where the sheer number of applicants and their works made it the biggest event dedicated to alternative and non-professional filmmaking in Yugoslavia.

Twelve years on, Cinemaniac brought MAFAF forcefully into the 21st century by retaining a flair for researching practices in moving images, and inviting to Pula a number of the erstwhile MAFAF participants along with a new generation of visual artists. Amongst them are two artists from Slovenia, who have already participated at the previous editions of MAFAF. Marko Kovačič re-participates at the exhibition The InVisible MAFAF with his film Casus Belli (Super 8, ŠKUC, Ljubljana 1983, 15′) and Mirko Simić with his two films Passer by (VHS, BRIS & V.S. Video/Forum, Ljubljana 1990, 4′ 18”) and Positive Connection II (VHS, BRIS & V.S. Video/Forum, Ljubljana 1990, 3′ 16”).

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The InVisible MAFAF
Pula Film Festival

A series of curated programs of video art in Slovenia produced by SCCA-Ljubljana.

Here you can find a wide range of works showing shifts in understanding and usage of video as a media of artistic expression from its beginning in 1969 up until now. The selections include various genres from art video and video dance to music clips and documentary video.

Programs present an overview of technological, media and content shifts through time and are focused on specific topics and themes. They serve also as complementary screening programs to the lectures on video art in Slovenia that we have presented all over Europe, Asia and US…

Together with Videodokument they lead you through the story of video art in Slovenia and stimulate the usage of the SCCA video archive that is soon to be available on the net as DIVA Station.

If you are interested in the (hi)story of video art in Slovenia or you would like to offer/present it to your audience, don’t hesitate to contact us.

We wish you an exciting journey!

Videospotting Team