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ARTBOMB @ Mediamatic
Duintjer CS building cloaked in neon clouds
When the NY times warned for a cultural meltdown in the Netherlands they were right. All over the country (and outside) cultural…
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Verstrengeling / Entwining
INGRID BEVERWIJK is a young Dutch artist, during the past year she produced three video installations.
Ista repercussae, quam cernis, imaginis umbra est: Nil habet ista sui. (Ovidius Met. III 434-435)
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2e Semaine Internationale de Video - Geneve
The need for video art to find selling points beyond the galleries and museums has again brought it to television where, however, it has lost much of its experimental passion.
The latest video productions, as seen in the 2e Semaine Internationale de Video (Geneva, October 1987), are surrounded by a…
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Dreamtime
Speculations on Video as Dream
During the recent The Arts for Television symposium at the STEDELIJK MUSEUM, Amsterdam, the Chicago based artist ED RANKUS…
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Japan video
Remembering an Art of Memory
ALFRED BIRNBAUM's survey of Japan Video Art. These are parts 2 and 3 of the article he started in Mediamatic 2/4
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Mediamatic Magazine vol. 3 # 1:
GOD, IBM and IFP
When GOD condemned the Teutonic reality of the god DONAR as being fiction and installed a new celestial reality he could not have imagined that his reality would in turn be shaken by empiricists such as BACON and NEWTON...
... Still less could he have known that one day he would have to share his heaven with their descendents who would found a rival…
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WillemLa Vidéothèque de Paris
Multi-Channel Video Juke-Box
On February 1, JACQUES CHIRAC opened the VIDEOTHEQUE DE PARIS, a prestigious showpiece of French media politics, an on-line…
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Organisation
BAVO
Architects, philosophers, Brussel / Rotterdam
Nog nooit werd in Nederland zo veel expliciet sociaal geëngageerde kunst gemaakt als vandaag. Maar hoe effectief is deze kunst? In…
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4x25/sec
Four video installations will be touring the cultural centers of Flanders until mid-June.
These video installations were selected from a few dozen commissioned projects - and partly financed - by the federation of these…
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New Order Catalog
The New Order catalog was included in Volume Magazine 32:2 (2012). It features information on the artworks, an interview with Femke…
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Best of Mediamatic
Mediamatic has been around since 1983. Due to a background in both art and theory, we have been able to provide a new, sometimes…
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MaxLa Femme Absente
Interview
Can we imagine a slow fragmentation of faces and gestures, something like the movements of swimmers in heavy water? How should you…
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Pee Wee Hermeneutics
It has only taken a children's TV series and one feature film to make an American comic called PEE WEE HERMAN one of the most talked…
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 1#4:
JansInstallations Video à Bruxelles
This March, an exhibition of video installations was held in Brussels. At Raffinerie Du Plan K. The place alone was worth a visit.…
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EdwinStrangemessenger weblog about ART
By Edwin Stolk
http://www.strangemessenger.blogspot.com/
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Bill Viola at the MOMA
After three years of preparation, New York's MUSEUM OF MODERN ART presented an exhibition of installations and videos by BILL VIOLA in October of last year. It was the museum's first major retrospective show of work by a video artist.
However, BARBARA LONDON, the exhibition's curator, only had half of the INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL GALLERY at her disposal, the space…
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Project geselecteerd om te pitchen tijdens Kom je ook? 7:
EnricaMy guide
Contemporary Art Museum Interactive Guide.
My guide is an interactive guide made for smart phones that uses the museum as an interactive playground where visitors can generate…
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A la Recherche d’un certain Grey
The Belgian artist JACQUES-LOUIS NYST (1942) presented his most recent video production L'Image and his Pyramides installation during the 2e Semaine Internationale de Video in Geneva.
One of the two seminar days that took place during the week on the theme of Video and Writing was dedicated to him.
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Desire and Television Autism
In the early days of video, discussions centered on the dichotomy video-television and judging from the number of exhibitions,…