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LADYFEST_Roma – 21_22_23_24 maggio ‘09
Il primo Ladyfest e’ stato organizzato ad Olympia nel 2000. Da allora si sono susseguiti centinaia di Ladyfest in tutto il mondo: una rete internazionale il cui nucleo concettuale condiviso è la promozione dell’arte indipendente, la decostruzione di modelli imposti e restrittivi, la rivalutazione del corpo e della sessualità come sperimentazione nelle sue infinite forme, in una prospettiva queer, antirazzista, transgender e femminista.

Il Ladyfest romano è un festival “do it yourself” e no-profit che si svolgerà in maniera itinerante con workshop, mostre, concerti, djset, teatro, proiezioni video, installazioni e merchandising di autoproduzioni.

Over 80 participants from over 20 countries including Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America, and Venezuela, have contributed to the festival programme of performances, exhibitions, workshops and lectures scheduled throughout one week between Saturday, April 18, and Saturday, April 25, 2009.

ENTER is an international biannual showcase of creative practices positioned at the intersection of art, science and technology. In 2009, the fourth edition of the festival brings together artists and researchers to present and discuss current developments in what we sometimes call new media art, while addressing a theme of adaptation. The projects of Czech and international artists share the following set of tags, among others: nano, micro, macro, living, non-living, luminescence, ionosphere, space, data, exploration, spectrum, magnetic, perception, primitive, ritual, brain, code, motion, robot.

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS OVERVIEW

|18|04| ADAPT! (1/2) exhibition opening at MEETFACTORY
|19|04| YOUNG & SOUND exhibition opening and lecture about Scandinavian sound art at CIANT GALLERY
|20|04| QUINTET.NET: network concert by EUROPEAN BRIDGES ENSEMBLE at FRENCH INSTITUTE
|21|04| Discussion about networked and distributed creativity at DOX
|22|04| ADAPT! (2/2) exhibition opening and GOLEM performance by IMMEDIATE COLLECTIVE at DOX
|23|04| SLICES: performance by JACOB SELLO & STEFAN WEINZIERL at DOX
|24|04| WHAT BURNS NEVER RETURNS: GPS-driven dance performance by ALESSANDRO CARBONI at DOX
|25|04| EVOLUTION NIGHT: experimental audiovisual evening with RUDOLFO QUINTAS and THE TRONS at MEETFACTORY

And many more lectures, presentations, performances…

ENTER festival is scheduled to run in parallel and collaboration with Science beyond Fiction: The European Future Technologies Conference (FET09) that is a new European forum dedicated to frontier research in future and emerging information technologies. Leading scientists, policy-makers, industry representatives and science journalists will convene over 3 days (April 21-23) to discuss today’s frontier science, tomorrow’s technologies and the impact of both on tomorrow’s society. (http://ec.europa.eu/fet09)

The International Guerrilla Video Festival (IGVFest) is a mobile festival integrating video art with the urban and social environment. The festival removes the technologically complex medium of video out of the institutional situation re-positioning it as open and reflexive in the public domain. The artworks have site-specific thematic relations to the space where they are shown, engaging and reflecting upon the unique architectural, historical, and interpersonal context of each area the festival travels to.

One of the aims of the festival is to create a continuous dialogue from the videos into the community, focusing on lapses in the current framework such as an absence of communication or invisible components of the area. Open to local and international artists, the festival widens the panorama of the discourse to include the perspective of communities elsewhere that have parallel circumstances.

A self-contained, transportable GPU (Guerrilla Projector Unit) facilitates the incursions into the public realm. Transforming public space into a fertile ground for experimentation toward new possibilities in the relationship between art and society.

The International Guerrilla Video Festival (IGVFest) will be held 19-20 February in three unique areas of the Dublin: Talbot Street, Parnell Street and Rathmines. Using a converted rickshaw, the festival navigates the city, stopping to project films directly on building facades, monuments and temporary structures, illuminating the urban landscape.

The festival aims to counter the ever-present billboards and advertising screens that have transformed the urban setting into a homogeneous landscape from New York to Shanghai. Over 50 international artists will be participating with films that engage the distinct social and architectural character of each site. The International Guerrilla Video Festival, previously held in Florence and Milan, suggests new possibilities in the relationship between art and the social context.

The HAIP Festial puts on display multimedia art forms resulting from creative use of open technologies. HAIP is an acronym that stands for “Hack-Act-Interact-Progress”. The festival features individuals and groups with a critical approach towards the technologies that surround us and shape our everyday environment. They generally use open technologies, either as a practical or an ideological choice. Modern practices of technology and creativity often refer to diverse possibilities and choices at the individual’s disposal – everybody is involved in the social progress and development. And if we take a moment to reflect on what we eat, how we communicate, who dictates how we connect, interact, protest, and participate, we quickly realize that it’s our turn.

The main line of presentation will focus on new art of free digital media – and the new media content that enabled it in the first place – while laying special emphasis on technical and legal aspects of new digital media with free access. The topic was selected with regards to the current time of political involvement in the changes of national strategies regarding the digitalization of mass media and the significant political, contentual and creative consequences thereof.

Date: 18.10.-25.10.2008 Krakow (PL)
This year’s festival celebrates its 6th edition with what is by far our most ambitious program. Across seven days, we’ll bring together a range of international artists, many utilizing technology and electronics in their work. But that is not the guiding force in their selection. Unsound is about innovative tendencies, the desire to surprise. We’ll showcase work existing on the borders of different genres: classical, ambient, clubbing and experimental. With radically diverse artists such as Michael Nyman, Max Richter, Skream, Benga, Ben Frost, Xiu Xiu, Pan American, Bruno Pronsato, The Necks and Colleen, we place emphasise on the new. Several works are commissioned especially for this year’s festival, most notably the Warhol Series, to be taken to New York in 2009.
New venues also reflect Unsound’s expanding vision, including a 19th century power station, a gothic church more than 500 years old, the Galicia Jewish Museum and Manggha Museum of Japanese Art & Technology.

In October, Freewaves, a global arts organization, will present “Hollywould,” its 11th festival of new media art along Hollywood Blvd. in the heart of Hollywood, California. For five days and nights – from Thursday, October 9 through Monday, October 13, 2008 – the festival will showcase 160 experimental videos, films and media art from around the world on the Freewaves web site and on the iconic Walk of Fame.
The festival will transform the world-famous boulevard into a massive, multi-faceted screening room. Selected works will be activated by live events, displayed on LCD screens inside stores and installed in storefront windows.

Special events, screenings, and site-specific happenings – most free unless otherwise noted – will take place at various venues such as LACE, American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre, the Roosevelt Hotel, the Musicians Institute, and the Knitting Factory as well as portals connected to the festival’s unique web-based content.