The meeting aims to reflect on the differences and similarities that connect these two forms of artistic expression. In this sense: Are there really boundaries between both genres? Could a dialogue be set up between them? And does technology continue to be a distinctive criterion to between cinema and video art?
Roberta Bosco is a journalist originally from Italy, now based in Spain, specializing in contemporary art and digital culture. Since 1998 she has regularly written for El País. Since 1990 she has written periodically in journals for the publisher De Agostini-Rizzoli and is the Spanish correspondent for Il Giornale del Arte, the chief journal of Italian art and founder of the network that includes The Art Newspaper y Le Journal des Arts.
She, along with Stefano Caldana, is the creator of Arte.Red. (1994-2005) , a subjective and interactive internet-based story of creation for El País Digital and El País’ blog, El Arte en la Edad del Silicio.
Together she and Caldana conceived and directed LOOP LIVE EXPERIENCE, a real-time debate project for Loop 2013 and the online participatory project “ARCO Bloggers” for ARCOMadrid.
They have also curated, among other projects, Conexión remota, a selection by net.art for the exhibition Antagonismos. Casos de Estudio at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Barcelona (MACBA); the exhibiions Digital Jam and Web as Canvas at the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (CCCB) for the Art Futura festival; London Calling for the Sonar Festival; Donkijote for LABoral centro de Arte y Creación Industrial de Gijón and, last January, Harddiskmuseum in Virtual Reality at Arts Santa Mònica.
She often collaborates with Italian and Spanish publications; writes for catalogs; participates in juries for competitions, prizes and scholarships; Participates in roundtable discussions and panels; Offers postgraduate courses and lectures and presents books and works by artists.
Last update: May 18th, 2017
Laurent Fiévet was born in 1969 in Boulogne-Billancourt (France). He lives and works in Paris. He got a PhD in Film studies at Sorbonne nouvelle in 2001.
Visual artist since 2003, Laurent Fiévet creates found-footage video intallations. Using films excerpts and reproductions of well-known paintings, he reworks them through video editing and reorganizes them in exhibition space.
Organized into thematic series, his works question our mechanisms of perception and critically examine our contemporary societies through different type of perspectives. Ambivalent and subject to varying interpretations, they point out the dysfunctions of our individual and collective memory.
Laurent Fiévet’s work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions. The artist collaborates regularly to the creation of theatrical plays and video concerts. Since 2010, Laurent Fiévet is also Director of Lab’Bel, the Bel Group art Laboratory ; he curated many art shows in this context.
Last update: 15th May, 2017
Adrian George is a curator, commissioner, writer and educator with over 19 years experience working in some of the most influential art institutions in the world including the New Museum, New York; Tate Modern and Tate Liverpool. He is currently Deputy Director and Senior Curator with the UK Government Art Collection – an accredited museum and national collection with more than 14,000 works of art spanning the 16th century to the present day. Adrian and his curatorial team make exhibitions and displays in British Government buildings in the UK and in over 300 cities across the world as well as running research and engagement programmes and acquiring new works for the Collection.
His most recent published writing was for The Art Newspaper China and Art Hong Kong magazine in Spring 2017. His 2015 publication The Curator’s Handbook is available in four languages and is a key text for many UK curating courses. HIs 2003–4 exhibition at Tate Liverpool Art, Lies and Videotape was the first Tate exhibition to investigate the role of performance documentation in setting performance art histories within a museum context.
Adrian is a selector for Wales in Venice (Venice Biennale 2017 and 2019) and a trustee of the Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London – a charity that supports affordable studio spaces for artists in the capital. He is a Representative at Court of the Royal College of Art and curatorial advisor to PIFO Gallery, Beijing.
Last update: May 24th, 2017
Greta Hewison – FLAMIN Productions Officer.
Greta acts as an across FLAMIN’s varied schemes and projects, supporting the production of artists’ moving image work through commissioning and development.
Prior to joining Film London Greta worked in commissioning and production for Frieze Projects, the not-for-profit commissioning arm of Frieze Art Fair, and for Bold Tendencies, a not-for-profit creative enterprise and arts organisation based in Peckham, South East London.
Last update: May 19th, 2017
Sooyoung Lee is currently Curator of Nam June Paik Art Centre. She curated a number of exhibitions and performances including Utopian Laser TV Station(2016), Haroon Mirza (2015), Intermedia Theater(2015), Good Morning Mr. Orwell 2014(2014), Video Concert (2012) and X Sound (co-curating, 2012). She also worked on major collection displays at Nam June Paik Art Center as a key member of its curatorial team. Before joining Nam June Paik Art Center, she was curator of ilmin museum of Art in Seoul and curated a number of exhibitions including Endlessly Forking Pathes. Born in South Korea, Lee was also a part-time Lecturer at Seoul National University in Seoul.
Sooyoung Lee has a long-standing interest in contemporary art conservation with specific expertise on new forms of artistic practice, including the new media art, time-based works of art and performance art and the changing relationship between the art and technology.
Last update: May 18th, 2017
Isaac Leung is a practicing artist, curator, and scholar in art and culture.
In 2003, Leung received an Honorary Fellowship of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the New Media Art Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since then, his works have been exhibited in over 30 venues across the globe, including Zolla/Lieberman Gallery (USA), Para Site (Hong Kong), Videotage (Hong Kong), Connecting Space (Hong Kong), MOCA (Shanghai), and Venice Biennale of Architecture (Italy). Leung’s works are centered on critical issues concerning technology and social media, and they have been featured on National Public Radio (USA), and in Agence France-Presse (France), Chicago Tribune (USA), NY Arts Magazine (USA), Chicago Readers (USA) and the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong).
In 2013, Leung was appointed as the Chairman of Videotage. During his tenure, he initiated and participated in projects that included exhibitions, workshops, lectures, publications, online projects, and symposia. Some of these include 40 Years of Video Art in Germany and Hong Kong (Hong Kong and Germany), The 12th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition (Italy and Hong Kong), Perpetual Art Machine (USA), Time Test – International Video Art Research Exhibition (China), ISEA Festival (Hong Kong, China), Both Sides Now (Hong Kong, UK, and various countries), Loop Barcelona (Spain), One World Exposition (Hong Kong), China Remixed (USA), Clockenflap (Hong Kong), and Art Basel Crowdfunding Initiative (Hong Kong). In recent years, Leung has been active in promoting international exchanges of video and media arts. He is also a staunch supporter of exploring new models for interdisciplinary collaboration and creative entrepreneurship. In addition to his contributions to Videotage, Leung has also served as advisor and assessor for diverse international institutions, previous services include projects presented by Home Affairs Bureau (Hong Kong), Hong Kong Arts Development Council (Hong Kong), and Prix Ars Electronica (Austria).
In the same year of 2013, Leung received his PhD degree, specializing in the contemporary Chinese art market. Leung has given lectures at several prominent conferences, including Transmediale (Germany), International Arts Leadership Roundtable 2016 (Hong Kong), Art Basel Salon (Hong Kong), and ARCO Contemporary Art Fair (Spain). Leung has taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Baptist University, the City University of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He will serve as Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts of the Hong Kong Education University in July, 2017.
Last update: May 23th, 2017
Cristina Lucas is interested in exploring the mechanisms of power and the contradictions between official history, the real history and collective memory. She lives and works in Madrid and Paris, after she finished her studies at Universidad Complutense in Madrid, University of California Irvine and Rijksakademie Amsterdam. Her works have been exhibited at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Herzliya Museum, Tel Aviv, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, MUSAC, León; CAC Malaga Contemporary Art Center; IVAM, Valencia; MARCO, Vigo; and the Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, among others. Her work can be found in collections like Centre Pompidou, Paris; KIASMA, Helsinki; FNAF; Colección ALTADIS, Obra Social Caja Madrid; Fundación NMAC Montenmedio. Lucas has received numerous awards, among which stands out the “Ojo Ctitico” of Fine Arts.
Last update: May 23th, 2017
Fernando Sánchez Castillo is one of the most relevant Spanish artists of his generation. He develops a critique from different perspectives to monumental discourses with the intention to disarticulate agents of power and representation. His work is an attempt to rewrite historical events, or at least to make us more aware of its complexities and traces, showing that history is constructed from many positions of power. Fernando Sánchez Castillo’s had solo exhibitions at important museums such as CA2M (Madrid), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Center for Contemporary Art (Linz, Austria), CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (Malaga, Spain), MUSAC (León, Spain), among others.
His work is part of the most important museums and collections such as the Centre Georges Pompidou; Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; MUDAM (Luxembourg); Fundación NMAC, Rabobank, Caldic Collection, CA2M, Utrecht Centraal Museum, Skissernas Museum, Marta Herford (Germany), IVAM (Valencia, Spain), PAMM (Miami, U.S.A); Suzuki Collection (Japan), City of Arnhem and City of Amsterdam, among others.
Last update: October 2021
Jinsuk Suh is a director of Ulsan Art Museum. He graduated School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), then became the first generation independent curator who established the Alternative Space Loop and has run for 15 years since 1999. He s been invited to International art biennales such as Tirana Biennale (2001) and Liverpool Biennial (2010) and participated in Media Archive Network Forum (2006). Suh served as the director of the Nam June Paik Art Center from 2015 to 2019, and he is an adjunct professor at the Ewha Woman’s University.
Director, tegenboschvanvreden gallery, Amsterdam.
Last update: May 29th, 2017
Eulàlia Valldosera studied at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, and in the 90s she moved to the Netherlands where she continued her training at the Rietvel Akademi. The Reina Sofia Museum, the Witte de Wit and the Tàpies Foundation have held solo shows of the artist. She has participated in major international art events such as the Venice Biennale, the Sao Paulo, Sydney, Istanbul and Lyon Biennials, among others. Her work has also been part of the Skulptur Project in Munster and Manifesta. In 2002 she was awarded the National Prize of Plastic Arts of the Government of Catalonia.
Last update: May 22th, 2017
Director of Aceton, Filmmaker, Video Artist, Musician and Writer. His career has developed mainly in cinema, video installations and theatre. With his documentaries and films he has been selected for various awards and venues such as the AlJazeera International Documentary Film Festival, PriMED, LOOP-Barcelona.
At LOOP 2016 he presented his Artwork “Power no Power” (2013) which considered new forms of power and “El Olivo”(2010), a metaphor for the humanization of the savage through technified industry. He also conducted the UMVA (Unitat Mòbil De Video Arquitectura) workshop.
At Loop 2017 he will present “Orígen, cuerpo, ciudad”, the film is a joint work of the participants of the workshop led by artist Claudio Julian and Matteo Guidi at the centre Torre Barrina in L’Hospitalet. As contribution to the overall theme of this year´s Loop Festival on the beginnings of video art, the film offers a personal mediation on Nam June Paik´s oeuvre. It is also an exploration of the city of L’Hospitalet through the performance of young members of the local Associació Ítaca and the images that the urban environment may suggest.
Last update: May 15th, 2017
Sulina Tans is 22 years old and born in the Netherlands. She did her bachelors in psychology at Maastricht University and at the moment, she is finishing her masters program in Psychology and law. Next to her studies, she has always been involved in several side projects, including study associations, research and volunteer work. During her masters program, she followed her interest for art when choosing to work on a project for Video Power to investigate the market of video art. As part of this research, she and her team attended LOOP Barcelona to make connections and share some ideas with the experts about the video art market.
Last update: May 23th, 2017