As you well know, 2013 is conventionally considered the 50th of videoart. Was in 1963 that Nam June Paik expose his first videoinstallation, in Germany. To celebrate this event, Magmart Festival launch a new project: 100x100=900. 100 videoartists are be called to be part of project, realizing a video around one year of past century. The artists are selected within the winners of previous editions of Magmart Festival, to assure the gross quality of project. The selection is done with the goal of include artists by five continents. All these videos, will found a relevant corpus, a remarkable narration of this dense present perfect. The project will start its exhibition stage in 2013, with a screening in Naples (Italy) in the course of Universal Forum of Cultures. After, we want take the project around the world, the must widely possible. We are looking for partners, to bring the project around the world. At partner, we ask to organize at least one full screening of the 100 videos, in their country. The look of any event must match the general guidelines of project. The name of partener organization will be listed as partner of project, au pair like all others, and the logos will be showed every where the project will arrive. Any partner is free to find local sponsors for the project, and keep the contribution for the organization of local event; local sponsors will be listed and showed worldwide. When the partners list will be closed, we’ll contact single curator to organize show in uncovered countries and – in case – in the same country of a partner but on different locations (always with the agreement of partner). If you like to contribute at the project, we are at yours disposal to provide more exhaustive and/or detailed informations.
VIDEOARTIST IRAN (curator: Fereshteh Alamshah)[[Iran]
Videoartist is an annually festival take places in Iran. It also holds conference and exhibition in domestic and international level. Videoartist aims to create novel spaces to nurture video as an art form. It provides a platform for young artists to present their experiments, besides it is an opportunity for the well-known and pioneer video artists. The videoartist website tries to provide papers, thesis and all kind of information related to video art and make a progressive space for artists to exchange their ideas and art works.
Director: Fereshteh Alamshah (www.writeart.ir)
International advisor: Samira Hashemi (www.samira-hashemi.com)
Video artist will hold the 100x100 in conjunction with two of its partners Takesh gallery in Isfahan and Raf gallery in Tehran.
Takesh Gallery Address: 43, Kakh Sa’adat-Abaad St., Noth Chahar-Bagh St., Isfahan (Iran) takeshgallery.com / takeshartgallery@gmail.com / +98 311 666 71 33
Raf Gallery Address: 229 Fatemi St., Tehran (Iran) +98 21 8898 7090 www.videoartist.ir
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