Festivals, biennales, and major international series pace the economy of contemporary art. The scale of video art production is increasingly challenging financial and logistical means. Video as a medium is faced with important funding, production and promotion issues. If video has the reputation of being a ‘cheap’ medium, it actually requires specific economic conditions. In the framework of this professional meeting, the speakers will share their experience and their vision of the new present and possible future for video. This professional meeting will be an opportunity to define the stakes of multi-level production through practical examples.
María Inés Rodríguez, has a curatorial and institutional practice relating to consolidate the museum as a platform for knowledge trough the exhibition, cultural and educational programs. She is currently adjunct curator for Modern and Contemporary art at MASP, Sao Paulo and Artistic Director at Tropical Papers. She was previously the Director of CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain of Bordeaux; Chief curator at MUAC, Mexico; Chief curator at MUSAC, Spain and guest curator at Jeu de Paume, Paris.
Last update: 17th November, 2020
Alexia Tala currently works as chief curator of the 22nd Paiz Art Biennial in Guatemala, curator of the Solo sector for SP-arte in Sao Paulo (Brazil, 2019-2020) and artistic director of Plataforma Atacama, Brasil a project addressing the relationship between art and place based in the Atacama desert in Chile, developing projects with artists such as Hamish Fulton, Melanie Smith and Paz Errázuriz among others.
Previously curator of Focus Brasil (Chile, 2010), chief curator of LARA (Latin American Roaming Art 2012- 2013); she has also curated Solo exhibitions by artists such as Cadu, Francisca Aninat, Marcelo Moscheta and Hamish Fulton, and was co-curator for the first Performance Biennial Deformes (Chile, 2006); the exhibition Museum Man: Historia de la Desaparición (Franklin Furnace archivesCentro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, Chile, 2007); the 8th Mercosur Biennial Essays in Geopeotics (Brazil, 2011), the 4th Poly/graphic Triennial of San Juan: Latin America and the Caribbean in Puerto Rico, the 20th Paiz Art Biennial in Guatemala, Solo Projects: Focus Latin America for ARCO 2013 and Solo Projects for Summa Art Fair Madrid . She was also curator of the Printmaking Collectors Club and guest researcher of Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende
She writes for art publications in Latin America and internationally. She is the author of Installations and Experimental Printmaking (UK, 2009) and of the next monograph publication on the work of Lotty Rosenfeld.
Last update: 16th November, 2020
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Francesco Urbano Ragazzi is a curatorial duo trained in ontology, gender and media studies whose main interest resides in investigating the narratives that inform the age of connectivity. After having organized two editions of the Internet Pavilion in the years 2011 and 2013, the team curated The Internet Saga, a solo show by avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas presented on the occasion of the Venice Biennale of Visual Arts (2015). The exhibition then evolved in a research platform that over the years has developed commissions for public and private institutions such as Villa Croce Contemporary Art Museum (Genova), Maraya Art Centre (Sharjah), CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research (Genève) and Bucharest Biennale.
Francesco Urbano Ragazzi also curated exhibitions and research programs for, among others, MMCA- Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea (Seoul), Missoni (New York), CRRI- Castello di Rivoli (Turin), Ikon Gallery (Birmingham), Institut Français, Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Ruya Foundation (Baghdad), Emirates Foundation (Abu Dhabi), Futura – Centre for contemporary art (Prague), Sinopale – International Sinop Biennial (TK), Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation (Venice), Italian Ministry of Culture, Italian Ministry of Equal Opportunities (Rome), Swiss Institute (Milan), Boston University (US).
Francesco Urbano Ragazzi lectured in academic spaces and museums. Among them: MAXXI, Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome), François Pinault Foundation’s Teatrino (Venice), Lovers Film Festival (Turin), Macro (Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome), IUAV and Ca’ Foscari University (Venice), Zurcher Hochschule der Künste (Zurich).
The duo has collaborated with the following magazines: Mousse, Purple Fashion, Nero, Not, L’Uomo Vogue, Peeping Tom Digest, AQNB, Flashart, South as a State of Mind.
Last update: November 11th, 2019
Daniela Arriado is a Chilean-Norwegian Curator and Producer. She is the founder and the Director of the Art Republic platform, commissioning contemporary moving image, and the artistic director of Screen City Biennial, dedicated to the expanded moving image in public space. Her curatorial research deals with current social, political, and ecological issues, and explore the relation between image, sound and architecture – often seeking to expand the borders of the cinematic experience.
Arriado also works as an advisor for artist studios, organizations and collectors with a focus on contemporary moving image. She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen. Since 2021, she is a board member of IKT – International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, and a member of The Norwegian Association of Curators. Based between Berlin and Oslo www.artrepublic.no
Last update: November 11th, 2022
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