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AVE-Norway at art:screen fest 2012, October 5-7                                                                       Curator: Mona Bentzen                                                                                                          Download program

Small Projects in collaboration with Art Video Exchange invites the public in Tromso, Norway to an international video event featuring programs from eleven countries by thirteen curators. The curators will have a symposium about new screening practices and challenge of video art to day. In connection to that the French artist Justine Emard is special invited to exhibit her installation ScreenCatcher at the Small Projects Gallery. Justine Emards ScreenCatcher is a new way of both producing and view video where the audience interact using their device.

Justine Emard's project with drawings and agumented reality   
In the way of Navajo's DreamCatchers, the artist made the ScreenCatcher application. Justine Emard places the viewer in the center of an interaction between art and technology. The installation evokes the disappearance of Drive-In Theaters, outcinemas where spectators watch movies from their cars. She drew these places focus to abandoned screens. The work takes a special dimension through the screen of smartphones and tablets. Videos appeaer and show ghost pictures from the past. It's a work about image and landscape, like persistence of vision.                                                     
Everyone is invited to download on their smartphone or tablet then ScreenCatcher application (only android systems) on the website: www.justineemard.tk                  
Tablets are available in the gallery.

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ART VIDEO EXCHANGE AT ATOPIA

Collaboration between Atopia and Art Video Exchange-Norway                                                                  Organized  and curated by Mona Bentzen in collaboration with Farhad Kalantary, artistic leader Atopia

International video art screening and curator meeting at Atopia www.atopia.no

Friday June 3 at 19-22 and Saturday June 4 at 16-19

During two days 55 works will be screened selected by 11 curators from 8 countries: Hong Kong, Russia, USA, Lebanon, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Germany and Norway.

The curators will attend and present their program. After each program there will be time for questions and discussion. Light refreshments when arriving, during pauses and wine after the last screening.

Since its first appearance in the 1960s video art has become one of the most significant channels of contemporary artistic expression. Technically, video's versatility makes it possible for artists to address political, social and anthropological issues and articulate their visions on increasingly introspective and personal levels. This dialogue and the exchange of ideas with other media makes video into a hybrid language stimulating minds of the artists, the audience imagination and critical thinking.

AVE aims to offer spectators a selection of works through which they can examine various artistic approaches and discover both the contrasts stemming from differences in cultural context as well as the common features due to the increasing globalization of the art world.

You can download the individual program here:

PROGRAM FRIDAY JUNE 3 at 19-22:

What If Artist Group - www.what-if.hk
Hong Kong: Vik Lai and Beatrix Pang - Program

Art Video Exchange - www.artvideoexchange.com
Lebanon, Beirut: Eli Souaiby - Program
USA, New York: Madeline Djerejian - Program

CYLAND MediaLab - www.cyland.ru
St. Petersburg, Russia: Vika Ilyushkina - Program

PROGRAM SATURDAY JUNE 4 at 16-19:

namaTRE.ba project - www.namatre.ba
Trebinje, Bosnia & Herzegovina: Igor Bošnjak - Program

Festival Signes de Nuit - www.signesdenuit.com
Germany: Dieter Wieczorek - Program

Art Video Exchange - www.artvideoexchange.com
Serbia, Belgrade: Romic - Program
Norway, Oslo: Mona Bentzen - Program

Locus - www.locusart.org
Norway, Oslo Thale Fastvold and Tanja Thorjussen - Program

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The event is a collaboration between Atopia and Art Video Exchange-Norway
Initiative: Farhad Kalantary, Atopia
Producer and main curator: Mona Bentzen, Art Video Exchange-Norway

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