Initiated by French video art collectors Isabelle & Jean-Conrad Lemaître in 2007, and endowed with € 6,000, the StudioCollector prize rewards an artist from Fresnoy – National Studio, selected for the Panorama exhibition, an annual creation meeting at Fresnoy. The winner is chosen by a collector or a curator appointed each year by the Lemaître. The 14th StudioCollector Prize, which was to be presented in Barcelona as part of LOOP 2020, will be awarded online by writer and curator José Carlos Mariategui.
José-Carlos Mariátegui es escritor, curador y emprendedor en cultura y tecnología. Estudió Biología y es Bachiller en Matemáticas Aplicadas por la Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Lima). Tiene una Maestría (MSc) y Doctorado (PhD) en Sistemas de Información e Innovación, ambos por la London School of Economics and Political Science – LSE (Londres). Fundador de Alta Tecnología Andina – ATA, dedicada al desarrollo de proyectos en arte, ciencia y tecnología en América Latina. Miembro del Comité Consultivo del Bicentenario de la Independencia del Perú, del Comité Editorial de la Leonardo Series, libros sobre arte, ciencia y tecnología publicados por MIT Press (USA), del Advisory Board de AI & Society (UK) y miembro de Consejo Directivo del Museo de Arte de Lima – MALI. Recientemente ha co-editado con M. Hernández y J. Villacorta El mañana fue hoy 21 años de videocreación y arte electrónico en el Perú (2018). Ha publicado en revistas tales como Third Text, The Information Society, Telos y Leonardo y ha trabajado en proyectos de arte, ciencia y tecnología por más de dos décadas.
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Alain Fleischer was born in Paris in 1944. After studying literature, linguistics, semiology and anthropology at the Sorbonne and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, he taught at the Université de Paris III, the Université du Québec à Montréal, and a number of art, photography and film schools (including IDHEC/FEMIS in Paris). Winner of the Prix de Rome, he was a resident at the Villa Medici from 1985 to 1987. He was tasked by the French Culture Ministry with conceiving Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, which he now directs.
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Paris-based Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaître are among the most cutting edge international contemporary film and video collectors. They began collecting contemporary art in 1983. Their collection includes painting, sculpture and photography, but their focus over the past ten years has been video art. This deep interest in video art has its origin in their passion for cinema. The Lemaîtres have been generous in lending works for museums, exhibitions and showing their video art at home. They support a number of public institutions. They are Friends of the Pompidou Centre and Friends of Fondation La Maison Rouge in Paris. Lemaître have also created and sponsored “StudioCollector” prize at Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing, which is a prize for young video artists. The Lemaître collection includes work by the Turner Prize-winner Gillian Wearing, Mark Wallinger, Tacita Dean, Isaac Julian, Steve McQueen and Keith Tyson, among others.