Sat Oct 31, 2009 00:00 - Mon Oct 19, 2009

Streaming Festival on VisualcontainerTV videoart web channel
31 October - 30 November 2009
Only on VisualContainerTV - http://www.visualcontainer.tv

Visualcontainer is glad to present a special videoart selection from STREAMING FESTIVAL, international
audio visual art and film event (Netherlands)
The Streaming Festival is an international audio visual art and film event. This event takes place on the
internet, where films are broadcasted full screen on streaming servers with high image quality. The
Streaming Festival takes place once a year.

The Streaming Festival focuses on artistic and innovative audio visual art and film. Selecting works from
emerging artists and professionals alike. Not only is this quality of selected works important, but also the
way the festival presents these works. With the support from xs4all the festival can ensure a high quality
broadcast through their streaming servers.

The Streaming Festival is organized by the isfth foundation.
Isfth is a non-profit foundation that provides support for projects that encourage the understanding of
audiovisual art.
The foundation is based in The Hague, The Netherlands.
More information: info@streamingfestival.com
www.streamingfestival.com
www.isfth.org

The Kitchen Conqueror - Shereen Abdul-Baki
Reem wanders the aisles of her neighbourhood
market, slipping into dreams of fortune-telling
teacups and chicken slaughtering aunts who offer
advice on love, cultural identity and independence.
Release date : 25 April 2006
Duration : 00:08:00

Near the car - Elton Eerkens
A man is standing near his car. A lifetime of
waiting captured for a few moments.
Release date : 2008
Duration : 00:14:04

Vier Berliner blicke - Rick Niebe
Vier berliner blicke (four berliner views) is a video
suite of four 1 minute long works. Each video is a
sequence of still images of Berlin from three
webcams and a satellitar map, downloaded from
the web and processed in Italy.
Release date : 25 April 2006
Duration : 00:04:00

Herrie - Jasper Scheepbouwer
Neighbours don't always get along.
Release date : 1996
Duration : 00:12:00

Study on human form and humanity #01 -
Lemeh 42
the act of writing a dream is the clear
manifestation of the uncertainty in which the
human being lives his/her own existence and
therefore his/her humanity.
Release date : 20-04-2008
Duration : 00:02:00

Symptom - David Matos
A dream and a train. An inconsistent movement and
an undefined pattern. Symptom represents an
obsession through physical space (thus visible and -
perhaps - diagnosable). The video was inspired by
"s" theme, from ocp
Release date : 16-06-2008
Duration : 00:04:12

Collage - Igor Lesic
A short editing excerise.
Release date : 12 May 2006
Duration : 00:05:00

Book - Marta Daeuble
This stop motion animation unravels the mysteries
of the written page when the book is brought to life,
only to reveal the ever lasting search for love and
self identity.
Release date : 2003
Duration : 00:02:00

Two and a Half Years - Olga Koroleva
A personal document of Olga Koroleva’s close
friends’ experiences over a period of two and a half
years in Russia in her absence.
Release date : 08-05-2007
Duration : 00:08:28

Queenspark, West 33rd, LG - Jesse Bellon
The videos explore the nature of contemporary
western society, juxtaposing the sights and
experiences of the everyday within a single plane.
Release date : 10 April 2006
Duration : 00:03:23

VisualContainerTv is the first Web Tv interely devoted to the International videoartworld!
A project by VisualContainer, the first videoart Italian distributor.
The channel is welcoming solo and group exhibitions and festivals under the care of
artists and curators from all over the world.
For info about VisualcontainerTV contact:
info@visualcontainer.tv

Tue Sep 15, 2009 00:00 - Mon Sep 14, 2009

Italian Video Emergencies
A special selection from VISUALCONTAINER
Italian Videoart Distributor

15 september - 30 october 2009
Only on VisualContainerTV - http://www.visualcontainer.tv

VisualContainerTv is happy to present a videoscreening with most challenging Italian video artworks,
provided by the archive of the sole Italian distributor.
After welcoming some of the most interesting international organisations dealing with videoart, it's high
time to show a selection of made-in-Italy videos filing under the distinctive feature of emergency:
because of both its urge for expressing and comprehending contemporaneity in Italy and beyond and of
its ever-growing need for emerging and circulating, also thanks to the promotion by VisualContainer.
The ExhibitContainer section, usually dealing with video compilations from
international videoart festivals and curatorial projects, is now presenting 22 artists
who have gained national and international reputation.
Artists:
Rebecca Agnes, Francesco Arena, Riccardo Arena, Alessandra Arno', Elena Arzuffi, Barbara Brugola, Silvia Camporesi, Pascal Caparros, Iginio De Luca, Maria Korporal, Luca Christian Mander, Pietro Mele, Patrizia Monzani, Sabrina Muzi, Tomoko Nagao, Christian Niccoli, Matteo Pasin, Cristina Pavesi, Mauro Romito, Sabrina Sabato, Natalia Saurin, Enzo Umbaca, Dubravka Vidovic

Besides, the monographic section "SpecialOne" is welcoming the video project
BREATH/RESPIRI by Francesco Arena.
For this work, Arena has produced a series of 23 videos from 2004 to 2008, each of
them being interpreted by a different male or female character, in order to give
way to two-colour obsessions of faces breathing behind a glass (which often let
themselves go to "forced" yet really touching intimate moods).
Each video has been performed by 23 international musicians coming from several
environments, who have specifically composed brand new sound tracks.

* all videos are distributed by Visualcontainer http://www.visualcontainer.org

VisualContainerTv is the first Web Tv interely devoted to the international videoartworld
A project by VisualContainer, the first videoart Italian distributor, the channel is
welcoming solo and group exhibitions and festivals under the care of artists and
curators from all over the world.
For info about VisualcontainerTV contact:
info@visualcontainer.tv

Tue Sep 01, 2009 00:00 - Mon Aug 31, 2009

During September 2009, VideoChannel will feature a selection of art videos by Visualcontainer/Milan - Italian video artists, curated by Giorgio Fedeli

http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/2009/italy-feature.html

Curatorial statement:
Memory and identity have been major issues in videoart investigation in the last decade of the 20th Century. Since the inception of the “new-economy”, “post-modern” and “virtual reality” era, artists have suffered from a lack of identification and placement within the world, having all the traditional assertions of gender, religion and biological property been cancelled, infringed or mixed-up. Urged by the cyborg and bioengineering promises, during the late 90’s the electronic eye investigated the problem of giving an identity to objects and people within an unpredictable changeableness of roles and denominations, in most cases by simply shooting everyday life just as it was.
At the beginning of Y2K era, challenged also by economy crises, terrorism and immigration flows in and out of mass participation, identity has still to be steadily and continuously looked for in ordinary life. In the last ten years the global world has gotten used to most of the ever-shocking technological and biotechnological innovation: we all have learnt to face blurring biological boundaries on Tv programs and to resort to “fluid” ways of existence and interrelationship thanks to the Internet and daily tech facilities. Apparently, we are more confident with our tools and with our new way of approaching ourselves and the others both physically and - more often - virtually. Yet, something is missing, some part of our self-identification eventually lacks in the complicate puzzle of our (post)modern, contemporary construction.
The videoart world has never dropped the urge for addressing such a topic and now calls for attention in an only apparently less anxious bunch of outcomes. Many are the artists within VisualContainer’s archive who have in fact chosen to face the several disguises of everyday life, trying to ask questions about their - and our - identity right now and in a near future.
Of course, no unique answer can be found from their works but an identifying line of poetical approach - a weapon as we may call it, for the most of them - seems to be fitting to the theme of memory. Again, memory is the mirror in which the artists dare search for their face and body, their ultimate inner skeleton and sensing to the outer world.
Memory can thus become a revelatory physical matching with a parent, a more dramatic real match with a facing counterpart or just a heaping up of faces at the rhythm of most contemporary audio-video practises. Nevertheless, identity can also be sought in the presentation of the past after mixing up with current landscapes, or just through the contact to our very self imprisoned by the jail of our own body or by a crowd. A blink of identity can also suddenly peep in from an astonishing resolution of an ordinary event.
All in all, where we eventually get to is not what/where we initially were at the “identification start” before playing the video: if not a solution at all, this is at least a good place to gather forces and dig into our presence.
Giorgio Fedeli

selected artists:

ALESSANDRA ARNO’
ELENA ARZUFFI
BARBARA BRUGOLA
PASCAL CAPARROS
IGINIO DE LUCA
PIETRO MELE
PATRIZIA MONZANI
CHRISTIAN NICCOLI
MATTEO PASIN
CRISTINA PAVESI
SABRINA SABATO
ENZO UMBACA

ALL VIDEOS ARE DISTRIBUTING BY VISUALCONTAINER
for info: info@visualcontainer.org

VideoChannel came alive when Agricola de Cologne started his global networking project [R][R][F]200X->XP in 2004, as a project environment focussed on new forms of video within the thematical context of “memory & identity”.

In 2005, VideoChannel started the first screenings of selections from the comprehensive video collection in collaboration with media art & video festivals around the globe.

One basic aspect of VideoChannel represents the invitation to curators from all parts on the globe for preparing a curatorial contribution of videos. Meanwhile 18 curators from as many countries joint VideoChannel and their selections form the basis of an extraordinary challenging collections of videos on the theme “memory & identity”.

VideoChannel became meanwhile a project environment of itsown including a variety of aspects, but it still belongs one of the most relevant parts of the global networking project [R][R][F]200X->XP.

VideoChannel is constructed in two parts, a low-tech administrative body, which is containing all textual and documentary information, and a high-tech Flash based body containing basically the videos.

VideoChannel
director & chief curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Sat Aug 01, 2009 00:00 - Tue Jul 28, 2009

Italy

FACE FESTIVAL 09 festival di Arte Creatività Ecolcultura.
Catona, Reggio Calabria
1 Agosto / 7 Agosto 2009

Visualcontainer presents a special videoart selection!
Artist selected:

Rebecca Agnes
The Big Bean that landed on Earth
Video animazione. Musica di Jermozero.
04' 00"
2008

Barbara Brugola
Finger 2.0
Animazione
2009

Maria Korporal
Passing by
7'39"
2008

Natalia Saurin
Happily even after
3'20"
2008

Alessandra Arnò
Save ours Souls
02' 46"
2008

Luca Christian Mander
Eppursimuove
03' 40"
2009

Pascal Caparros
CORPUS
06' 04"
2007

Matteo Pasin
Disappear
03' 41"

Patrizia Monzani
Stadt-Fisch
5' 00"
2006

Iginio De Luca
Autofocus
04'10"
2006

+ VideoInstallation by:
FRANCESCO ARENA Breath/respiri 2008

for more info about FACE FESTIVAL
www.facefestival.org

For more info about VISUALCONTAINER
www.visualcontainer.org
info@visualcontainer.org