As a network of artists, curators, thinkers and cultural agents, the alt[AV] – Alternative Audiovisual Network from Brazil, proposes a discussion on new paradigms towards collecting, distributing and exhibiting, as well as a reflection on the market for Video and Moving Image practices at large. The talk not only highlights cases of success, but it also encompasses experiences that bring new perspectives over industrial and formal standards (as, for instance, the museological). In bringing about an exhaustive analysis of the features constituting so unique mediums as Film and Video, it spans both the contextual role of private collections in the Multimedia Age, the notions of intellectual property, proprietary platforms and network services, as well as the online and offline status of a video, before being stored (i.e., the possible stages of a multimedia piece’s life).
Cultural manager and curator, interested in urban phenomena of intervention through networks and collective organization. Today he is also part of the ALT[av] – Alternative Audiovisual Network core management group. As a Cultural Manager, he directed a pre-edition of SCREEN São Paulo. He was also responsible for the curation and program direction at Matilha Cultural (São Paulo), an cultural center, focusing on cinema, visual arts and music (2008-2013). In 2001 he founded naOrelha.com.br, the first multimedia website about Brazilian music from the second millennium, for which he has been the CEO until 2007. Among his cultural and curatorial projects “Mapa de Publico” (2014), “Expressions From Revolution” (2011 and 2012), and “Zona de Poesia Árida” (2011) stand out.
Lucas Bambozzi is an artist based in São Paulo, Brazil. He produces installations, single channel videos, short films, interactive projects and large-scale projections. His work has been shown in solo and collective exhibitions worldwide and included at international Biennales (Moma NY, ZKM, Frankfurter Kunstverein, ISEA-Ruhr, ISEA/Albuquerque, Laboral, Arco’s Expanded Box, Http Gallery in London, Havana Biennale, Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico, ŠKUC gallery, Zero1 San Jose, Bienal de Artes Mediales in Chile, BIM Buenos Aires, WRO Biennale and many venues in Brazil). Some curatorial projects include SonarSound (2004); Digitofagia (2004); Life Goes Mobile (2005 – 2006), O Lugar Dissonante (2009), On_Off (2012-2015), Multitude (2014) and Visualismo (2015), among others. He is one of the creators of the Festival arte.mov Mobile Media Art (2006-2012) and of the Labmovel project (Honorary Mention Arts Electronica 2013). He also teaches at FAAP Visual Arts School in São Paulo.
Giselle Beiguelman is a media artist, curator and Professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Sao Paulo (FAU-USP). Her research focuses on contemporary nomadism and digital culture. Her recently published book “Possible Futures: Art, Museum and Digital Archives”, is dedicated to discussing the preservation of digital memory and culture. Beiguelman has also been the curator of Tecnofagias – the 3rd 3M Digital Art Show, and of the on-line festivals HTTP_Video and HTTP_Pix. Her artworks reflect on urbanity and community as seen through digital media and have been exhibited worldwide at festivals and museums such as ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany), Gallery @ Calit2 (UCSD, USA) and the Sao Paulo Biennial. Beiguelman’s interventions in public spaces, networked projects and mobile art applications are often characterised by a strong interactivity. She is also a pioneer in digital poetry and one of her most famous works is “The book after the book”, a hypertextual and visual essay published in 1999.