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To celebrate 50 years of videoart, conventionally recurrent on 2013, Magmart | video under volcano organize the videoartistic project 100x100=900 (100 videoartists to tell a century).
100 videoartists from all the world create 100 video artworks, each of which is based on one year of 1900s, matched randomly.
With a wide network of collaborations, the project itself will be showed around the world, in an innovative way that will reach many nations along 2013.
100 x
100 =
900
100 artists
to tell the century
Int
ro
The 20th century is characterised by the ubiquitous presence of moving images (cinema, television, web). In the attempt of proposing an overall narration of the last century, each of the one hundred artists will interpret a different year. Videoart is intimately close to the contemporary languages and to their grammars and syntaxes, probably as never before in art. Furthermore, the progressive switchover to digital media, occurring in any form of expression through images, has been reducing the separation from other usages of the digital technologies. In this perspective, the tools of videoart may be defined as the most suitable ones for the artistic communication between the two millennia. Videoart has the from other usages of the digital technologies. In this perspective, the tools of videoart may be defined as the most suitable ones for the artistic communication between the two millennia.
Videoart has the greatest potential in influencing current forms of communication.
The present approach to a collective and visionary narration of the century, through an artistic and plural outlook, aims at stimulating the public discourse about the forthcoming roots of our present. The artistic freedom granted to the artists,
The 20th century is characterised by the ubiquitous presence of moving images (cinema, television, web). In the attempt of proposing an overall narration of the last century, each of the one hundred artists will interpret a different year.
Videoart is intimately close to the contemporary languages and to their grammars and syntaxes, probably as never before in art. Furthermore, the progressive switchover to digital media, occurring in any form of expression through images, has been reducing the separation
Con
cept
Ar
tists
The project is born under the umbrella of Magmart | video under volcano, the international videoart festival, which along the years has built a community of videoartists, as well as a network of international organizations mainly focused on videoart. In this perspective, the most natural choice has been to invite one hundred of these artists, who have been selected mainly from the winners of last editions of the festival.
From this ‘parterre’, we have extrapolate a list of one hundred names, including – whereas possible – the widest range of styles and of cultures, in the aim of offering a heterogeneous outlook.
The official website of the project (www.9hundred.org/artists.php presents the entire list of the participating artists, with their bios/statement, and of the years on which they will work.
The project has developed a partnership program, to show the project worldwide. With the artistic direction of Enrico Tomaselli, Magmart Festival Art Director, and thanks the collaboration of various curators in any nation, (http://www.9hundred.org/curators.php), has been created a very wide and relevant screening plan (http://www.9hundred.org/calendar.php), in continual grow.
Here (http://www.9hundred.org/partners.php) is available the list of partners updated daily.
At now (2013/03/23) this list count the following 31 partners, that collaborate to realize an international tour that will reach 19 nations. The widest screening show never done!
VIDEOPLAY [Argentina], NAPOLI FILM FESTIVAL [Italy], LAB-YIT [China], C.A.R.M.A. [Italy], GALLERIE CHARTIER [United States], ATHENS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL [Greece], NOW&AFTER
[Russian Federation], RICHLAND COLLEGE [United
States], PROYECTOR [Spain], VIDEO BABEL [Perù], THE FORMAT [Italy], INTERNATIONAL IMAGE FESTIVAL [Colombia], AVAART [Spain], VIDEO ARTIST IRAN [Iran], INSTITUT FÜR ALLES MÖGLICHE [Germany], EAST ART GALLERY [Iran], ZETA GALLERY & ART CENTER [Albania], TORRANCE ART MUSEUM [United States], XX.9.12 FABRIKARTE [Italy], FESTIVAL MEM [Spain], JAAGA [India], DIMANCHE ROUGE [France], LECTIO [Romania], AAC [Italy], NEWHAM NDP [United Kingdom], ARMENIAN CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY EXPERIMENTAL ART [Armenia], KROWSWORK [United States], SMART [Hungary], THE SCIENTIST [Italy], GLOWARP [Italy], ARTUR FIDALGO GALERIA [Brazil].
Part
ner
ship
© project art director: Enrico Tomaselli
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