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.

FESTIVAL MEM

MEM, is an alternative festival oriented to audiovisual arts that take place in the city of Bilbao, in the Basque Country, Spain, the city of Guggenheim Foundation in Europe.
MEM explores experimental and industrial electronic music, performance, video, dance, cinema, actions, installations, exhibitions and conferences.
MEM is a festival that search to join artists and art works that share a philosophy of multidisciplinarity and conceptual and aesthetic transgression.
MEM supports transgressor projects in a moment in which creation don¹t take many risks, works that combine high technology with a counter-culture view, punk heritage, "do it yourself", and thought and criticism.
MEM combines international and local views, looking for a fruitful dialogue among all different participant artists.
MEM states a Bilbao between two worlds, a reminiscence of industrial pollution and a new Bilbao of the information era and new technologies.
Each year MEM makes a presentation of the festival with basque artists, in a different town in the world, places like London, Bruxelles, Copenhaguen, Washington DC, New York, Marseille, Pärnu.