Latest news from Swedish Artist Anders Weberg
To summarize 2009.
107 official screenings/exhibitions in 39 different countries on all continents except Antarctica and about 100.000 more unofficial screenings worldwide within the p2p art project.
2010
February
Gender?
For Sore Eyes selected for participation by Shachaf Yaron and Limor Weisberg in a exhibition opening February 2010 that features original artistic interpretations to the question:
WHat is your gender?
Check out the exhibition at: www.whcreation.org
Transmediale
A piece of Meaninglessness Act:One is included in the artwork Artvertiser, February 2-7 at Future Obscura, Transmediale 10, Futurity Now, in Berlin, Germany.
January
Shoah
Mamo/Mother is part of the SFC - Shoah Film Collection launched on occasion of 27 January 2010 - International Holocaust Day 65th Return of the Liberation of the Concentration Camp Auschwitz (27 January 1945). More info.
What do you know about Sweden?
A new project. SfB - Sweden for Beginners. An audiovisual performance by
Anders Weberg & Robert Willim.
China
Exhibition at the Beijing Contemporary Art Centre in Beijing runs between January 16 and March 14. AFA - Beijing, HEP2010. I participate with Undisclosed Beauty and Mirror/Mirror.
Anders Weberg : Un type bien
Article by Alain Bourges in the latest edition of the French Turbulences Vidéo magazine.
Link to pdf.
Oslo
Out of 964 entries Mamo/Mother is one of 60 selected for the Oslo Screen Festival that runs at Filmens hus in Oslo, Norway, March 12-14th.
France
For Sore Eyes is selected for the Festival Les Inattendus in Lyon, France and will be screened January 25. I will be at the festival January 25-27 so come and say hello if you are nearby.
More info.
Meaningless
The second act in the meaninglessness series is finished and can be seen here.
Sensoria
A new video work "Sensoria" is finished. It's only available in a sealed digital photo frame in the shop.
2009
December
The .torrent is the art work
New net art work. Uploaded December 30.
Videoformes
My Work MAMO selected for the competition Prix de la Création Vidéo 2010, Videoformes, Clermont-Fearrand, France. The event runs March 10-28.
Shop
I've opened a shop where you can find some limited prints and DVD's. Shop.
Cinemascoop
Mamo, Undisclosed Beauty and For Sore Eyes will be screened in a program "Cinemascoop" selected by Igor Lesic and Ronald Lindgreen of the Streaming Festival, Friday 11 December at State-X New Forms Festival in The Hague, The Netherlands. Peter Greenaway is a part of the event as well with his Vj Show.
Meaninglessness
A new work just finished. Meaninglessness.
Curating
I'm Curating a selection of Swedish video artists for exhibition December 9 at Rauland
kunstforening in Norway. Artists: Nina Lassila, Stina Pehrsdotter, Dana Sederowsky, Niclas Hallberg, Tina Willgren and Antti Savela. Produced by Mona Bentzen, Art Video Exchange.
NOVEMBER
Competition Madrid
Undisclosed Beauty selected for competition in the international
section at MADATAC – Muestra Abierta de Arte Audiovisual Contemporáneo,
The Madrid Festival of Contemporary Audio-Visual Arts that take place a
Academia De Cine, Madrid, December 10-12.
Ljubljana
Curator Michele Drascek selected 4 videworks for exhibition at Kino Siska, Ljubljana, Slovenia. The exhibition runs December 1-14. Selected works: For Sore Eyes, Mamo, Elsewhereness:Yokohama and Mirror/Mirror.
Madrid
I'll be in Madrid this Wednesday November 25 for a round table discussion together with Antoni Pinent, Joseph Morder y Jara Rocha at La Case Encendida. 20.00-21.15. more info
Cyprus
For the third year in a row a work of mine is selected at the Pantheon International Film & Animation Festival 8.0, Pantheon Gallery in Cyprus. November 27-28. Selected Work "Dejected".
World Aids Day
Undisclosed Beauty will be part of a screening at the Athens' central Metro Station (Syntagma) in Greece November 27-28 organized by the Athens Video Art Festival as part of the World's AIDS Day events.
Award
Mamo/Mother has been chosen by the committee of selection for the "Optica Jurado Joven" award. For this category only 10 video art works have been selected.
OCTOBER
Streaming Festival
Mamo, For Sore Eyes and Undisclosed Beauty selected for the 4th edition of the Streaming Festival, November 20-30.
New netart work
theurlistheartwork.com
Canada
This year at Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on October 14, Undisclosed Beauty will be screened.
Germany
Dejected selected for screening in the one minute competition in GIGUK, the VideoArt-Festival in Gießen, Germany, October 31.
Argentina
Screening of The Exquisite Corpse Video Project Vol.1 – Corpse#1 to #9 at VideoDanzaBA, November 14-21, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Marseilles
Mamo selected for screening at the 22nd Festival Les Instants Vidéo, La compagnie, Marseille, France, November 22.
SEPTEMBER
Electro_Online
The P2P ART Project is part of the Electrofringe : festival of media art and culture 1st - 5th October 2009 in Newcastle, Australia. Curated by Samuel Bruce in the Electro_Online programme.
In the same festival Undisclosed Beauty is selected for screening October 3 in Electro projections 2 at Playhouse Theatrette.
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Untamed Reality and Dejected selected for screening at the namaTRE.ba in Trebinje, Bosnia & Herzegovina, September 24-26.
Canary Islands
Elsewhereness has been selected for the net art category at the International Meetings of Creativity, Innovation and Digital Culture at the Espacio Enter, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Canary Islands in September 22-27.
Greece
Mamo and Dejected will be screened together at the Thess Short Film Festival October 11 in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Belgrade
The ECVP [Exquisite Corpse Video Project] Volume 2 will be screened at Magacin in Belgrade, Serbia, October 8, 19-22.00.
Sweden vs Norway
I'm the Curator for a DVD with Swedish Video Art for screening at Rauland kunstforening Rauland, Norway October 7-11 and Salon of Video Art at Atopia in Oslo October 22 - November 8.
Istanbul
Undisclosed Beauty and the ECVP Volume 2 will be presented By Formverk Gallery at the 1st International Artist Initiatives Istanbul Meeting in Turkey October 2-6.
Interview
Swedish only. Flyktiga värden som består med anledning av releasen av 090909 som fildelningskonst. Av Mathias Jansson på konsten.net.
Innovation in Mind
Elsewhereness was exhibited at the conference Innovation in Mind and the event Qday in Lund, September 15-17.
090909 09:09:09
The 9 hour 9 minute 9 second and 9 frames long film 090909 is now released on the filesharing networks and the original file and all the material used to create it deleted.
P2P Art - The aesthetics of ephemerality.
South Africa
Elsewhereness:Cape Town will be screened at the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown in South Africa between June 20 and July 4 2010.
Canary Islands
The Elsewhereness project selected for exhibition in the net art category at the International Meetings of Creativity, Innovation and Digital Culture at the Espacio Enter, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Canary Islands in September 22-27.
Korea
For Sore Eyes is invited for screening at the Art Space Bandee in Busan, South Korea during the 6th Busan International Video Festival October 11-18.
California
The first volume of the "Exquisite Corpse" video art collaboration will be screened at the Artists' Television Access in San Francisco September 18 starting at 8pm.
AUGUST
London
On August 29 at the Corbet Place in London an event called Visual Deflections will take place. For Sore Eyes and Dejected will be screened among other lens based artists as Pipilotti Rist.
Cyprus
For the 4th year in a row I'm participating with work at the Pantheon Xperimental Festival. This year Dejected was selected. The festival runs in November.
Spain
Undisclosed Beauty is selected for competition in the new media section at the 14th Ourense Film Festival , October 10-17 in Ourense, Spain.
Bolivia and other places
Mamo/Mother will be screened at the Optica Festival in the following cities.
- November: Optica Festival Coruña, Spain.
- October 29-31: Optica Festival Gijón, Spain.
- October 15-17: Optica Festival Madrid, Spain.
- October 1-3: Optica Festival Navarra, Spain.
- September 24-26: Optica Festival Paris, France.
- September 10-12: Optica Festival Córdoba, Spain.
- August 27 - September 1: Optica Festival Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- August 20-25: Optica Festival La Paz, Bolivia.
Madrid
MAMO/MOTHER is selected for participation in a program titled El ruido y el pixel: cine bastardo programmed by Gonzalo de Pedro in October-November at the La Casa Encendida in Madrid, Spain.
London
Dejected, Undisclosed Beauty and For Sore Eyes selected for screening at Act Art 7, Childred of the Damnded, November 6, Hidden Club in London, Uk.
JULY
New York
Dejected and For Sore Eyes selected for screening at the Yoveo International Video Festival, CVS Cultural Center, New York, between July 31 and August 2.
Fragments
The collaborative "Fragments" project have it's world premiere July 25 at the Berkeley Commonplace, 2571 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA, US.
Unpixelated
A new work finished. Unpixelated will have it's premiere in October at Formverk Art Center, Eskilstuna, Sweden.
Switzerland
Dejected selected for competion at the One Minute Film & Video Festival Aarau in Switzerland August 21-23.
Brazil
Exhibition of Exquisite Corpse Video Project vol. 1 – Corpse#1 to #9 and photos at the DConcept Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil, August 11-22.
Macau, China
Undisclosed Beauty selected for exhibition by curator Jose Drummond at the HEP2009, AFA, Portuguese Bookshop Gallery, Macau, China, August 8 to September 4.
New film
Just finished a collaboration with South African artist Alison Williams. The result is a video titled Mirror Mirror.
Spain
Undisclosed Beauty selected for screening July 16-18 in a program titled Magnetism at Tramuntana09, Cadaqués, Alt Empordà, Girona, Spain.
Buenos Aires
The Exquisite Corpse Video Project will be a part of the Festival VideoDanzaBA in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 14-22.
JUNE
Georgia
Undisclosed Beauty as part of the Human Emotion Project will be screened at the International Fest of Contemporary Art, iNova in Villa Garikula, Akhalkalaki in Georgia between August and October.
Paris
Undisclosed Beauty selected for screening at the Festival Signes De Nuit in the Cine Trans Europe program in Paris , France, June 23-27.
Poland
The 3 films of mine: For Sore Eyes, Undisclosed Beauty and Dejected is selected by Curator Antoni Karwowski for an exhibition at a place of art "OFFicyna" and the National Museum in Szczecin, Poland, June 18-21.
Marseilles
P'Silo / Festival Images Contre Nature in Marseilles, France, selected the 2 works Mamo and Dejected for screening in their Identity Section July 7-11. This is the 4th year in a row I participate with work. It's a lovely festival with very nice people and if you ever have a chance to go it's highly recommended.
Ljubljana
The excerpt from the upcoming film 090909 is selected for exhibition at SONICA, Gallery Jakopic, Ljubljana, Slovenia curated by Marjan van Mourik, Culturetv. The exhibition will run between June 6-30.
Finnish Magazine
The Elswehereness project is featured in the first edition of the Finnish Magazine Taide & Design.
Switzerland
Undisclosed Beauty selected for screening at the Journées des 5 continents, Centre de Loisirs et Culture de Martigny, Martigny, Switzerland, June 12-13.
Berkely, USA
The Exquisite Corpse Volume One and The Fragments project will be screened on June 6th and 13th at the Berkeley Commonplace Community Screening Center, Berkeley, California, USA.
MAY
Ljubljana
Untamed Reality will have it's first public screening at the Filmski Festival 600 at Stara Elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana in Ljubljana, Slovenia May 28-29.
Presentation Cape Town
A presentation of my work at VANSA, Visual Arts Network of South Africa, Cape Town, May 28, 6pm.
re:new in Copehagen
Will participate with work in the festival that will be screened on the Monolith: a 6.72 meters wide, 11.69 meters high, and 1.50 meters deep video screen made from 10mm SMD LED video tiles with an embedded, hi-powered d&b PA system. May 18-22 between 16.00 - 22.00 each day. Program.
Romania
Mamo/Mother selected for the video program at Simultan05, Video and Media Arts Festival, Timisoara in Romania May 21-23.
LOOP Barcelona
Dejected and For Sore Eyes on exhibition at Room Service Design and Undisclosed Beauty at ALMAZEN, Barcelona May 21-31. Curated by Pedro Torres for the LOOP Video Art Festival.
London
Mamo/Mother selected for exhibition at Visions in the Nunnery, the nunnery, Bow Arts Lane, London, UK, May 23-31. Selected by Tessa Garland and Cinzia Cremona Visions 09 features 56 artists from 12 different countries to highlight an exciting art form thriving with enthusiasm and challenges.
Armenia
Dejected will be screened at the 7th International Film Festival Yerewan, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerewan, Armenia, May 17-24.
Athens
Undisclosed Beauty selected for screening at the Athens Video Art Festival that runs May 14th-17th at "Technopolis" Municipality of Athens (100, Pireos, Gazi, Metro Station "Kerameikos"), Greece.
Budapest
Undisclosed Beauty selected by the Jury for exhibition at the Crosstalk Video Art Festival in Budapest, Hungary, June 25-30.
Italy
Dejected selected for screening within the HEP2009 project in Video Dia Loghi at Velan, Center for Contemporary Art in Torino, Italy, December 14-23.
APRIL
HULL
Undisclosed Beauty selected for screening as part of Glimmer : The 7th Hull International Short Film Festival, HULL, UK, April 26.
Torino
Pitsin as part of the The Vitruvian Woman Installation will be exhibited at the Video Dia Loghi at Velan, Center for Contemporary Art in Torino, Italy, December 14-23.
Anonymus
The fifth release from the P2P ART project released. A 45 minute film titled Anonymus where the original file and all the material is deleted and one copy is uploaded on the filesharing networks.
Montreal
Dejected selected for Derapage 9, April 23 at Centre de Design de l'UQAM, 1440, rue Sanguinet, Montreal, Canada.
Sverige, SVT2
Swedish national television will broadcast a feature on Surreal Scania as part of the program Sverige, SVT2. April 12, 2009.
EMAF
Undisclosed Beauty selected for screening in a program titled "Cine Trans Europe" at the 22 European Media Art Festival, EMAF in Osnabruck, Germany April 22-26.
090909
A first preview from the upcoming 9 hour, 9 minute and 9 second long film titled 090909 is online now. This will be the fifth release so far from the P2P ART Project.
MARCH
Presentation
June 25th:Evocations of Geographies:Robert Willim and Anders Weberg (The Auditorium 19.00.)
NECS - European Network for Cinema and Media Studies 2009, The Lund Conference "Locating Media" Lund, Sweden, June 25-28, 2009.
Cape Town
I got a travel grant to visit Cape Town, South Africa from the Swedish Arts council (Konstnarsnamnden) in May.
Spain
For Sore Eyes and Dejected selected for HEP 2009 screening by Curator Debbie Douez in Spain April 17th-25th at "LaSala" in Cigunuela, Spain.
Eskilstuna this weekend
I will attend the opening at Formverk in Eskilstuna this Saturday March 14th where I'm participating with 2 new videoworks. Please join us if you are nearby. Starts 18pm and the bar is open.
Mexico
Film 1-6 from the The Exquisite Corpse Video Project will be screened at Muestra Internacional de Video GEN XY in Vera Cruz, Mexico, March 5-28.
FEBRUARY
The Sydney Morning Herald
Andrew Frost has some interesting words to say about Surreal Scania and a number of other locative artworks in The Sydney Morning Herald February 27th.
Elsewhereness:Cape Town
The second film within the Elsewhereness project that I do together with Robert Willim is finished. This time we are investigating Cape Town in South Africa. Elsewhereness:Cape Town
Boundaries
Finished a new film titled Boundaries for the collaborate videoart project. The Exquisite Corpse Video Project.
When in Rome
Dejected as part of the Human Emotion Project (HEP2009) will be screened March 14 in Rome, Italy.
Supermarket Art Fair
The Gallery Formverk participates in the Supermarket Art Fair at the Clarion Hotel, Stockholm, with The Exquisite Corpse Video Project February 12-15.
TV
Two films from me, Interim and For Sore Eyes is part of the Transfera Video Art program # 31, that will broadcast Friday 13 and Wednesday 18 at 21:00 PM from Madrid by Canal Autor, and offers the program SIGNALS «-» INTERFERENCES, with the works of MIT BORRÁS (Spain), RAFAËL (Belgium) , PASQUALE NAPOLITANO (Italy),
ANDERS WEBERG (Sweden), DENICA SABEVA (Bulgaria/Spain), ROBIN LYONS (UK).
Berlin
For Sore Eyes and Undisclosed Beauty will be screened at the 5th Berlin International Directors Lounge that takes place from 5. - 15. february, at the time of the 59th Berlin International Festival. Program here.
Damaskus
For Sore Eyes invited to AllArtNow 1st International video art festival
2009 From 3 to 14 of February in Damaskus, Syria.
Human Emotion Project
Dejected as part of the Human Emotion Project, HEP 2009, will premiere at Guilford Lane Gallery in Melbourne, Australia on February 24. The exhibition runs until March 9.
JANUARY
Videoformes
Undisclosed Beauty selected for the Videoformes - Festival for Video and New Media 2009 in Clermont-Ferrand, France, March 11-29.
Outcasting
For Sore Eyes selected for the forthcoming Season 6 on outcasting which goes live on the 1 February and runs until 31 March.
Move
Currently relocating both home and studio to Malmo from Angelholm.
Morocco
I will be in Morocco working on a new film between January 8 - January 15.
2008
DECEMBER
Edinburgh
For Sore Eyes and Undisclosed Beauty selected for screening at Minividfest 2, Total Kunst Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Culture TV
Mamo/Mother is selected for screening on the online tv channel, Culture TV.
See you in Koln/Cologne?
The music film Polyradah that i finished in 2006 after working on it on and off since 2003 is now released on DVD. There will a screening and release party Friday 12/12 in Koln, Germany and you are most welcome to join. I will be there together with DOP Fredrik "Emil" Emilson. Location is Filmforum NRW e.V. im Museum Ludwig and it starts 19.00.
Esteticas fronterizas / Bordeline Aesthetics
05.10.38 and Undisclosed Beauty will be broadcasted on Transfera TV, Madrid, in a program titled Bordeline Aesthetics December 12.
Hardcore art, posbondage, neoporno, gender identity, change of sex... The assault on videoart in behalf of an aesthetic terrorism, subdue the screens with subverted pixeles and a re-assimilation of the relations between body and technology.
Here We Are
Mamo/Mother and Undisclosed Beauty is part of the 4th Cologne Online Film Festival curated by Agricola de Cologne and it was launched December 11.
Direct link: http://coff.newmediafest.org/feature04.html
NOVEMBER
New work
A new experimental film titled "Dejected" finished. It's part of an upcoming exhibition program "Human Emotion Project 2009" curated by South African artist Alison Williams.
Belgrade
Undisclosed Beauty selected for screening at the competition program of the festival, Alternative Film/Video 2008, which will take place in Students City; Cultural Center in Belgrade, Serbia, December 10-14, 2008.
ARTE P2P
Article about my p2p art project in magazine Extravaganze no 59
Nuremberg Shortfilm Festival
Undisclosed Beauty as part of the CologneOFF IV OFF curated by
Agricola de Cologne will be screened between Friday, 7 November 2008, 21h and Saturday, 8 November 2008, 21h at Filmhaus Nuremberg, Germany.
Transfera TV Madrid
Undisclosed Beauty and For Sore Eyes will be broadcasted on Transfera Tv.
Transfera, a space were to show and watch contemporary audio-visual creations that broadcasts from Madrid by Canal Autor, returns again to keep awake the mysteries of videocreation. www.transfera.es
OCTOBER
Loclet
SurrealScania.se is currently featured in a downloadable program developed by Sony Ericsson Reasearch Center which lets you browse location based content in your mobile phone.
http://www.loclet.com
Lille
Undisclosed Beauty is selected in the experimental competition at the 8th Lille International Short film Festival, France. The festival will take place from the 22th to the 30th November at L'hybride, The Palais des Beaux-Arts and at Le TriPostal.
Video Vortex 3 Ankara
The P2P ART Project in group exhibition with Perry Bard, Caterina Davinio, Martijn Hendriks, Keith Deverell and Seth Keen, Dan Oki, Xurban, curated by Andreas Treske at FADA Art Gallery, Ankara, Turkey. October 10-12.
Dark House
Domestic Safari will be screened at SF Cinemateque in San Francisco. The screening is part of the program Dark House, curated by Jessica Allee and Wago Kreider. November 30th.
Fragments
Undisclosed Beauty selected for screening at VIDEOCLUB as part of VIDEOPHILE video art festival at Phoenix, Brighton, UK, October 12.
Romania
Undisclosed Beauty is selected for screening in the video section of the Simultan04 Festival,
which will take place from October 23 to 25 in Timisoara, Romania.
Best in Show
Undisclosed Beauty awarded Best in Show at the Oculi Experimental Film Showcase, Bottega Gallery, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA on September 20.
SEPTEMBER
Gdynia, Poland
Undisclosed Beauty selected for TRANSVIZUALIA 008: MEDIASCREAM in Gdynia, Sopot, Poland, October 2-10.
Gijon
Undisclosed Beauty selected for exhibition at the Optica Festival that takes place November 6-8 in Gijon, Spain.
Greece and Marseilles
Undisclosed Beauty selected for AZAdigitalCINEMAfestival in Thessaloniki September 25-27 and
also to the 21th Instants Video Festival in Marseille, November 10.
Lausanne
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, selected "For Sore Eyes" for the short film competion Oktober 15-19.
Bottega Gallery
"For Sore Eyes" and "Undisclosed Beauty" selected for screening September 20 at Oculi Experimental Film Showcase, Bottega Gallery, Wilmington , North Carolina, USA.
Elsewhereness:Yokohama now online
A new work made in together with Robert Willim for the exhibition Dislocate 08 in Yokohama, Japan, is online. Visit http://www.elsewhereness.com to see the film.
Article in Belgian Magazine
A write up on P2P Art project in the latest issue of Belgian magazine Knack.
Cyprus and Lausanne
The film Undisclosed Beauty selected for screening at Oblo Film Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland september 5-7 and at Pantheon International Xperimental, Cyprus in November.
AUGUST
Article in Spanish Magazine
Gonzalo de Pedro writes about the P2P Art Project in the Publico newspaper
http://www.publico.es
El Pais
Being There is mentioned in an article in the Spanish daily paper El Pais.
Venezuela
For Sore Eyes as part of the "Slowtime/Dreamtime" program curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne will be presented on 5th Salon de Arte Digital
in the 1st week of October 2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Maracaibo/Venezuela.
080808
On August 8 an 8 hour 8 minutes and 8 seconds long experimetal film will be released as a copy and the orignal film and all it's material will be deleted.
It's the 4th film within the P2P Art project.
http://www.p2p-art.com
JULY
New Work
A new film entitled "Organic" is finished. A short film interpreting an improvised piano piece by Håkan Lidbo for release on a forthcoming DVD. Duration 3:21min.
Article
In the latest Spanish film magazine CAHIERS DU CINÉMA there is an article about the P2P Art Project.
Interview
The article about the P2P Art project and interview with me in Digimag is now available in English.
Olympolis
"Undisclosed Beauty" in exhibition in Olympolis contemporary arts events as part of the 37th program of the Olympos Festival
July 12-20, Katerini, Greece.
JUNE
Video Art Festival Miden
Undisclosed Beauty will participate in Video Art Festival Miden
The Video Art Festival of Kalamata, Greece,
July 4 - 6.
Celluloid Experiments 2008
For Sore Eyes selected for screening at Fantasia in Montreal,
Canada. July 3 - 21.
Syntetic Zero
"Undisclosed Beauty" selected for screening Saturday, June 28th, 3pm-6pm, at the brand new Synthetic Zero Art Space, Bronx, NY (map).
Biennale of Sydney 2008
Surreal Scania selected for exhibition at Australia's Festival of Contemporary Art, Biennale of Sydney 2008,
June 18 - September 7.
Digicult.it
Article on the P2P Art project published in Digimag 35. Written by Valentina Tanni. (Only available in Italian at the moment).
Expanded Unreal
"Undisclosed Beauty" in exhibition “Expanded Unreal” at the Museo internazionale della caricatura luigi mari, Tolentino, Italy. Curated by Camilla Boemio. July 12-15th. more info >>
The Exquisite Corpse Video Project
Inspired by the Surrealist invention, the "Exquisite Corpse", a method of sequential, collaborative image production, these video shorts were composed over a period of two weeks by 14 artists from 9 countries.
3 videos where created in collaboration that will premiere on June 4th, 2008, simultaneously:
- as a video-installation at the gallery Formverk, in Sweden
- on Formverk's website: www.formverk.se
- on www.artreview.com/profile/excorpse
Phuket
For Sore Eyes will be screened June 7th in Phuket, Thailand.
5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival "On Tour".
Rögle
A new film "Rögle Brownfields" in a show of multiples at Rögle Konsthall, 19 participating artists including: Kalle Brolin, Klara Kristalova, Astrid Göransson and David Skoog among others.
Opening June 7th.
Jury Award
Undisclosed Beauty won the jury award for Best Experimental Film at the Filmski Festival 600, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Elsewhereness
A new work toghether with Robert Willim will be presented at Dislocate08 in Yokohama, Japan, Aug 30 - Sep 23.
www.elsewhereness.com
Marseille
For the third year the P’Silo / Festival Images Contre Nature selected a film for screening. Undisclosed Beauty will screen between July 2 and July 5.
May
Sweden
Undisclosed Beauty and For Sore Eyes selected for exhibition in NON STOP VIDEO ART in June 4-7, 2008 at Formverk, Nyköping, Sweden.
Slovenia
Undisclosed Beauty selected for screening in competition at Filmski Festival 600, 22-23 May, Stara Elektrama, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Paris
Domestic Safari has been chosen to be screened at the 4th edition of the Pocket Films Festival in the International Competition - Mobile Screen which will take place at the Pompidou Center, Paris, from June 13 – 15, 2008.
April
Basel
the 404 International Festival of Electronic Art will travel from Trieste, Italy to Basel, Switzerland during the Art-Basel fair
June 4-7. For Sore Eyes will be screened.
Screening
For Sore Eyes at Glimmer : The 6th Hull International Short Film Festival, Hull, UK, Thursday 17th April 10pm - 12pm.
Screening
For Sore Eyes selected and will be screened at 5th Naoussa Film Festival that will take place the period from 8 to 11 May, 2008, in the city of Naoussa, Macedonia Region, Greece.
March
Exhibition
Being There and Surreal Scania on Digital Media Valencia
2008 festival, exhibition & symposion, Valencia, Spain,
17 April - 10 May.
Curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne.
Live
I will give a presentation about my work at the Industrial Design programme, Lund Institute of Technology (LTH), Lund University, Sweden, April 4th.
P2P
A third film titled "Emphasis" within the P2P Art project is finished.
All the material used creating it and the finished master was destroyed 2008-03-16.
A single copy was uploaded on the filesharing networks using bittorrent and then deleted and the film is now only existing as long as other users share it.
P2P Art - The aesthetics of ephemerality.
>> More info
Screening
the 404 International Festival of Electronic Art will screen
For Sore Eyes in Trieste, Italy, from 28th to 31st May.
Exhibition
Domestic Safari selected for exhibition at 2008 Shanghai International Science and Art Exhibition held on May 16th to 26th in Shanghai Pudong Exhibition Hall, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China.
Screening
For Sore Eyes is selected for screening at the 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand March 26-30.
February
For Sore Eyes is selected for screening at the April Meetings Festival, V.I.P.Art Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia between April 1 and 4th.
IdontBlog
Domestic Safari is selected for screening at the third
annual CARTES Flux Festival of Media Art, Center of Art and Technology, Espoo, Finland. This event will take place between May 6 to 18.
For Sore Eyes will be screened at Another Roadside Attraction in London February 27th.
January
For Sore Eyes as part of the program "Slowtime/Dreamtime"
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne will be screened at the French Cultural Centre André Malraux in Sarajevo/Bosnia-Hercegovia 8-21 March 2008.
For Sore Eyes is selected for competition at the Nothern Wave Film Festival in Grundarfjörður, Iceland that will take place on the 22nd of February till the 24th of February.
Being There is selected for "ubuntu.kuqala" the online digital arts exhibition curated by Dale Hudson and Sharon Lin Tay. It is a part of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), March 31 - 6 April 2008. Organized by Ithaca college, NY, US.
//2007
December
transmediale.08 - CONSPIRE
The films from the Being There project has been selected for Transmediale08, the festival for art and digital culture, that will take place in the House of World Cultures, Berlin, 30 January-3 February.
For Sore Eyes as part of the program “Cinematheque” - Slowtime/Dreamtime 2007 curated by Agricola de Cologne will be screened at the 3rd annual CeC & CaC presented by The Academy of Electronic Art New Delhi, India, through February 15-16-17, 2008.
The film will also be screened at The Cineculture Club at California State University, Fresno, in a program called "120 reasons to disappear: eight videos of the selection Images Contre Nature 07"
on February 29.
Domestic Safari and For Sore Eyes is featured in Issue One of Atomic Unicorn, a new online magazine for art and new media
to be launched in the beginning of December 2007.
Neural
The DVD-compilation Mediaterrae vol 1 including the film Stich der Tarantel with audio by Burnt Friedman will be distributed with the Italian magazine Neural. more info >>
For Sore Eyes is selected for a Australian DVD compilation by Tapeprojects, Melbourne, Australia that will be released in December.
November
Athens
For Sore Eyes is part of the «Video Art – Start from Zero»,
Festival Miden in Athens, Alekton artspace, Athens Greece,
December 7-9.
Globetrotter
Screening in 6 different countries between November 15-21.
Scotland, Argentina, Romania, Spain, France and Israel.
Surreal.
Israel
For Sore Eyes will be screened November 21 at Laptopia experimental art festival, levontin 7, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Surreal Scania is selected for File , Electronic Language International Festival, Rio 2008, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, between February 26th and March 29th.
New film finished.
Domestic Safari with audio by Robert Willim.
See it on the projectpage www.domesticsafari.com
October
The Amsterdam Film eXperience (AFX) international short film and new media festival selected For Sore Eyes this year .
November 2-3-4 @ Het Ketelhuis, Amsterdam.
A new film "Interim" is selected for Belgium One Minutes, Ghent Belgium, 9-10-11 November.
For Sore Eyes selected for Transvisualia Mediascream 2007, Gdynia, Poland, October 18-21.
For Sore Eyes on exhibition this month at 00130Gallery, Korkeavuorenkatu 27 sisäpiha, Helsinki, Finland.
September
Fore Sore Eyes selected for: 20th Instants Video Festival in Marseille on November 21 and Optica: the Gijon International Festival of Video Art November 16-18.
For Sore Eyes is selected in a program "Slowtime/Dreamtime 2007" curated by Agricola de Cologne and will be screened in the framework of NewMediaFest2007 & 3rd Digital Art Festival Rosario/Argentina
15, 16, 17 November 2007.
Being There has been selected for screening at SparkVideo
on September 27th at Spark Contemporary Art Space in
Syracuse NY, US, and also at the backup_festival at the
e-Werk of Weimar in Germany October 18-21.
P2P ART
New film released on the filesharing networks only.
The 45 minute experimental film "Transient" was uploaded
on September 15 and then I deleted the original and
all the files.
”P2P Art - The aesthetics of ephemerality.”
more info: www.p2p-art.com
Lectures
Hyperisland in Karlskrona, September 3 and 7.
Digitalmediadistribution in Hultsfred, September 5.
Mediafestival at Högskolan Väst, September 20.
"For Sore Eyes" is selected for screening in a program called Flesh at the Isfilmu Nakts (IN) on October 27in Latvia.
August
Art Channel - Television as Art.
This interesting French project has selected the film "For Sore Eyes" for broadcast, starting in September.
"For Sore Eyes" selected to Slowtime 2007 - Quicktime as an artistic medium. Online exhibition curated by NewMediaArtProjectNetwork: Cologne. Programme online from September, see www.nmartproject.net
"Being There" is selected for ElectroOnline, ElectroFringe, Newcastle, Australia. Sept 27 – Oct 1st.
Consequence Screenings
I just finished a new film with the title "Exposure". It will be screened at the Lowsalt Gallery, Glasgow 19-21 October and the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, November 16. The Consequence Screenings is
selected by Alex Hetherington & Janie Nicoll.
"Surreal Scania" is selected for FILE São Paulo, Brazil.
August 13 to September 9.
FILE - Electronic Language International Festival, promotes its eighth edition at SESI Art Gallery, with installations, performances, screenings, documentaries, and lectures with artists and scholars from 30 countries exhibiting the latest production in world Art & Technology.
"For Sore Eyes" is selected for screening at this years
Xperimental Film & Animation Festival 6.0. Nicosia, Cyprus on November 24th.
It will also be screened in the IN-DIFFERENCE Festival
V.I.P.Art Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, November 12 -17th.
"05.10.38" will be screened in the New media, performance, video festival Pilsen, Czech Republic, August 28-31th.
July
30/7 - RIP Ingmar Bergman 1918-2007.
Being There is selected for a screening on July 20th.
Studio 27, a San Francisco showcase for avant-garde film and video, presents Danger Zone, a program of twelve short experimental films and videos that address boundaries of conformity or danger in both public and personal spaces.
Films by Roger Deutsch, Thorsten Fleisch, Tony Gault, Sturla Brandth Grovlen, Elizabeth Henry, Lori Hepner, Darrin Martin, Sang Nam, Rafael, Juan Recaman, Peter Snowdon, Anders Weberg, Robert Willim.
Curated and presented by Tomonari Nishikawa.
I will be in Marseille for the Festival Images Contra Nature, P'Silo, between July 3-7. The film "For Sore Eyes" will be screened. Come and have a drink if you are in the neighbourhood.
June
I'm trying to reorganize this webpage since it's just keeps getting more and more chaotic.
I have been busy this spring with lectures and working on new videoprojects. (more info soon).
The Italian magazine Neural has published a small report from Mediaterrae Night, mentioning my and Robert Willim's collaboration with Burnt Friedman and Jaki Liebezeit.. link.
Here is a small clip on youtube from the event.
April
Danni Zuvela has written an article called some notes on the network in the Australian contemporary art publication Machine. The article includes some of my work and you can download it as a pdf here.
February
The Perpetual Body
Curated by Chris Borkowski / [PAM]
Scope New York · February 22- 26, 2007 · Lincoln Center · New York, NY · 10AM-8PM Daily
The Perpetual Body is a collections of works that focuses on the human body in form and movement. 120 yeas ago Edward Muybridge began to articulatetechnologically & culturally speaking, our collective fascination with the human form in motion. Although the tools and techniques have changed theimpetus and desire to photograph said subjects has spawned into a multitudeof works with varying motives and sensibilities. The perpetual body runs the gamut body art atheists offering varying degrees of intimacy oscillating between both viewer and subject. Hackworth Ashley, Kisito Assangni, Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli, c-trl lab, Monica Duncan, Hasty + Hasty, Yuko Kamei, Kirk Nelson, Maria Petschnig, Alan Sondheim, Andrew Sroka, Anders Weberg, Roberto Zitolo, and others
New Experimental film made exclusively for the online project
Share a brainwave,
Title: Ripple.
Duration: 1 min. loop
Video: Anders Weberg
Sound: Robert Willim
see it
Artist-in-Residence
"Mediaterrae Vol.1 - Irpinia Electronic Landscape". Me and Robert Willim have been invited to make an artwork inspired by the Irpinia-region in southern Italy. February 19-24 we will be working in the town Montemarano. The event is curated by Valentina Tanni and Leandro Pisano.
Link to project site.
Workshop
February 26-March 9.
Digital Storytelling with web video at
Media Technology directing towards interactive systems, BTH Campus in Karlshamn. Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden.
March
Lecture
March 27 - April 4
A will give a short course about netart, new media technology and creative use of moving images for the students at Crossmedia, Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden.