Monday, July 28, 2008

Bolsa Iberê Camargo



Some time ago I was awarded a Honorable Mention in the "Bolsa Iberê Camargo" program. The award was an article in their website featuring my work, and the ten other artists awarded the honorable mention. They published my article recently.

Here is the link.



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Friday, July 25, 2008

Resposta 2008



Our group show "Resposta" closed yesterday, in Galeria Arlindo Corrêa, at the Palácio das Artes in Belo Horizonte. We are all very happy with how it turned out.
We have also setup a website, with texts, pictures form the show including the essays by our friend and collaborator André Brasil.

www.resposta2008.com


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Sunday, July 06, 2008

Resposta



After many months of hard work, our group show "Reposta" is up in gallery Arlinda Corrêa at Palácio das Artes in Belo Horizonte. Soon I'll have a section in this site with the work, text and images of the show. Here's the link to more info.

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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

This Land Is Your Land Video

I recently found this video which shows in some detail the work in "This Land is Your Land" at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.




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BRAZIL KNOWS WHAT VIDEOART IS

image: Carlos Magno

In the end of March four of my works will be in this screening at Le-Cube in Paris, curated by Francesca Azzi. She put together a nice grouping of works, with ome great people!
Here's the program:

« Sebastião, the man who used to drink kerosene » de Carlosmagno Rodrigues – 2007
« 14 hours, 54 minutes, 59,9... seconds » d’Alice Micelli – 2006
« Landscape theory » de Roberto Bellini – 2005
« FF (fast forward) » de Karenina de los Santos, Leticia Nabuco, Marcello Stroppa et Tatiana Gentile – 2007
« 99,9...meters » d’Alice Micelli – 2006
« Framed » de Leandro Lima et Gisela Motta – 2007
« I give up » de Roberto Bellini – 2004
« Opposite sensations » d’Amadeu Alban, Jorge Alencar, Matheus Rocha – 2007
« Through the glass » de Roberto Bellini – 2007
« Before the abyss of your eyes » de Carlosmagno Rodrigues – 2006
« Hole » de Leandro Lima et Gisela Motta – 2007
« Jerk offs » d’Alice Micelli – 2007
« Amor fati » de Sara Ramo – 2007
« Opaque » de Roberto Bellini – 2006
« I321 » de UDD QEM – 2005
« Spree » de Marcellvs l. – 2007


For more info:Le Cube


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Paraisos Indomitos/Untamed Paradises

I'll be in Spain in March for this show,curated by Virginia Torrente.
It will happen at MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo and at CAAC, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Sevilla.

From the release: "The exhibition departs from the fascination that produces the last border places, where nature has its own rules. These are spaces of resistance, the last untamed paradises. The exhibition shows an almost Utopian romanticism, based in Henry D. Thoreau's experience, as well as the project is also focused on conflicts provoked by the intervention of human being in nature."

Artists:
ALBERTO BARAYA, GUILLEM BAYO, SERGIO BELINCHÓN, ROBERTO BELLINI, ANDRÉ CEPEDA, PETER COFFIN, THOMAS JOSHUA COOPER, NIR EVRON, CYPRIEN GAILLARD, RODNEY GRAHAM, MARINE HUGONNIER, EVA KOCH, MIREYA MASÓ, HEATHER & IVAN MORISON, MARJETICA POTR_, GONZALO PUCH, CAIO REISEWITZ, THIAGO ROCHA PITTA, ERIC ROSOMAN, GUIDO VAN DER WERVE.

For more info check out: MARCO


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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

This Land Is Your Land


image:Greg Stimac, Still from Peeling Out, 2007

Landscape Theory will be in a show at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, from February 1 to March 22, 2008.

From the release:

Chicago–– In February 2008, the MoCP will open a group exhibition of work by seven artists—two of whom are American, and five of whom are not—offering diverse perceptions of the United States. Their artwork touches upon some of the most current American concerns as well as some of its most enduring stereotypes. They use current events, personal observations, and often humor to comment on the political, religious, and cultural climate of this country. In their work they demonstrate that our nation’s character is not tribal, but rather it is a constantly shifting confluence of traditions, stereotypes, and opinions, as understood from both within the country and from the outside. MoCP curator Karen Irvine titled the show after Woody Guthrie’s 1940 song, written in response to what he felt was the overzealous glorification of the country in the lyrics of Irving Berlin’s song “God Bless America,” widely released in 1938. Guthrie was reacting to what he believed was a disconnect between the exalted adoration of the country in Berlin’s song and the reality of social problems such as the extremely unbalanced distribution of wealth that existed at the end of the Great Depression.

Sixty-seven years later, “This Land is Your Land” has become one of the most popular patriotic songs of all time. But what seems to be patriotic, even positive, on the surface is not always what it seems, and the works in this exhibition reflect the polarizing issues our nation faces today: the complicated and messy War on Terror, as well as battles over immigration, security, abortion, and economics. However, Irvine says that “perhaps these fissures are indicators of patriotism in its higher form – the questioning of one’s country in a desire to make it better.”

Work by:
Roberto Bellini
Peter Granser
Christian Jankowski
Simon Roberts
Greg Stimac
Bryan Zanisnik

for more info check the website

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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Invisible Garden

My newest piece "Invisible Garden" has won an honorable mention in the 7th Sergio Motta Art and Technology Award! Here's a complete list of the awards:
| Líber Award |

Arlindo Machado

| Concluded Work |

Grupo Cena 11 Cia. de Dança, Florianópolis
“Pequenas frestas de ficção sobre realidade insistente”, 2006, dance

Rachel Rosalen, São Paulo
“The Garden of Love”, 2006, interactive video instalation

| Grants |

Carlos Praude, Brasília
“Híbridos”, 2007, interactive instalation

Lali Krotoszynski e Jarbas de Moraes Neto, São Paulo
“Bodyweave 2.0”, 2007, digital base

Milena Travassos e Alexandre Veras, Fortaleza
“Náiades”, 2007, video instalation

Paulo Meira, Recife
“O Marco Amador-sessão Cursos”, 2007, video instalation

| Honor mentions |

Cine Falcatrua
“Festival CortaCurtas”, 2006, movie festival

Corpos Informáticos
“UAI:Ueb Arte Interativo”, 2006, interactive website

Fernando Cocchiarale
“Filmes de Artista: Brasil 1965-80”, 2007, curatorial project

Graziela Kunsch (A.N.T.I. Cinema)
“Mutirão: Refazendo a cidade”, 2007, website

Jair de Souza, Rio de Janeiro
“Auto-Retrato Falado”, 2007, interactive instalation

Manuel Pessôa e Otávio Machado
“Sonorocidades”,2007, instalation

Marcellvs L.,
“enchendo.vazando”, 2006, video instalation

Marcus Bastos e Nacho Duran
“Partidas/Chegadas”, 2007, website

Mariana Manhães
“Soporosos”, 2007, instalation

Roberto Bellini
“Jardim Invisível”, 2007, HD digital vídeo

click here for more info.



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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Nexus Texas

From August 18 to October 21, my video Landscape Theory will be up in the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston.

"Organized by the CAM’s three curators—Valerie Cassel Oliver, Toby Kamps and Paola Morsiani—Nexus Texas presents different generations, various subjects and media to produce a eclectic group of artists living and working in the state today. Artists include: Sterling Allen, Roberto Bellini, Amy Blakemore, Justin Boyd, Margarita Cabrera, Augusto Di Stefano, Leslie Hewitt, Lauren Kelley, El Franco Lee II, Richard Patterson, Paul Slocum, Cauleen Smith, George Smith, Michael Smith, Gary Sweeney and Jeff Zilm."

for more info see the CAM's website

And here for a review.

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

22nd New American Talent



Ironically just as I moved back to Brasil I participate in the New American Talent show curated by Anne Ellegood who is Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden. The show is up until August 19.

For more info click here.

Also read two reviews of the show in Austin American Statesman
and ...might be good

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Monday, April 23, 2007

ACCIDENTS



MNAC in Bucharest, Romania

ACCIDENTS
A selection of recent Brazilian videos
Curator: Wagner Morales

April, 24 - June, 10
opening: April, 24 h 19.00

Artists: Roberto Bellini, Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain, Cao Guimarães, Marcellvs L., Renata Lucas, Cinthia Marcelle, Wagner Malta Tavares, Wagner Morales, Amilcar Packer, Sara Ramo, Nuno Ramos.

"Accidents" is a selection of Brazilian videos made over the last six years.
For this screening, I chose video works that share an involvement with the idea of recording/ registering - an emphasis on what is in front of the video camera instead of what might be behind it (a constructed story, a formal device like abstract images of pixels or colors dissolving etc.) Instead of the complicated constructions of the film maker, the artists whose works are presented in "Accidents" deploy a performative engagement with the strategies of video art. Even if it presupposes that the artist instigates something to happen, activates the very process he or she will film, the perfomative is a way of allowing accidents into the work, of instrumentalizing the spontaneous and the possibly disruptive.
The risks and accidents, the errors and the imponderable factors that tend to be cast aside or suppressed in the video editing process, are here incorporated as structural elements of the works, articulating a plane on which it is possible to stroll and gain interpretive access to the works.
Wagner Morales

More Info

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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Lone Star Video

Video Art from Texas

Curated by: Danna Taggar


February 20, 2007 at 8 p.m

Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

60 Min.

Artists featured:
Ronnie Bass, Roberto Bellini, Ben Coonley, Eileen Maxson, Jill Pangallo, Bogdan Perzynski, Cauleen Smith, Michael Smith, Joshua White

From the release: "The Texas video event at the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv is an eye opener for local audiences to the artistic activity taking place today in the Lone Star State, also known as "The second largest state in North America after Alaska". Within Texas exists a lively art scene, with vibrant traffic among the various art –dominant cities: Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas and Fort Worth. Texas is thriving with national museums of highly sophisticated architecture, contemporary art galleries, art fairs, large thesis exhibitions and residencies for artists. Clearly from the 2006 Whitney Biennale, there is a renewed awareness to the entire spectrum of artistic work being made in Texas, establishing it as another focal point for artistic creation in the U.S, next to New York and California."

For more info: Click Here

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Saturday, December 23, 2006

Texas Biennial

Well, this is probabbly my last year here in Austin, Texas. I'm starting to come to terms with leaving and the recent news that my video "Dark" (It's not online yet) was chosen to participate makes me very happy!!

Check out the list of artist's who will be showing.

Click here for a complete review.
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Best Video Prize!!


My video "landscape Theory" has won best video prize in the 10 Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira!

Click here for more information and the whole list of winners.

This was a great festival and I was very pleased to see so many good brazillian and portuguese films, hope I can come back next year!

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Monday, November 20, 2006

Kun.Kortfilm International Short Film Festival


Landscape Theory in Denmark, from the website: Kun.Kortfilm International Short Film Festival aims to create a festive environment around
international short films in Copenhagen.

We move out from traditional cinemas to cozy cafés, where people have better opportunity to share their film experiences. All in all, human contact will be an important part of the festival spirit.

We have received more that 100 short films from around the world, including animation, fiction, documentary and experimental films. Most of these films have won international prizes in festivals during the latest years.

The Festival will be holdt from the 17th to the 21st of January 2007, and it will take place in three venues in the heart of Copenhagen: CaféTeatret, PH-Caféen and LiteraturHaus.

site: FilmPlatform

ps- imagem de "O Monstro" de Eduardo Valente.

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Monday, October 30, 2006

Acidentes exhibition

November 24th
CURATORIAL DIALOGUES
Wagner Morales (Brazil)
Mihnea Mircan (Romania)

Curators Wagner Morales (Brazil) and Mihnea Mircan (Romania) will inaugurate the Curatorial Dialogues of the SESC Videobrasil Meetings with the Acidentes exhibition, in which they assemble recent artwork from the two countries, selected based on the theme of accidentality and its coincidental implications for the history of both countries. “In Brazil and in Romania, both the notion of 'reconstruction' and the conflicted relationships with the past reflect widely in contemporary artistic practice. In that sense, in both cases, the choice of works employs the concept of accident and its features of unforeseeability, wide-scale transformation, chance, and contingency,” Morales and Mircan wrote. After the exhibition, they will discuss the curatorial process that justified it.

Wagner Morales (Brazil, 1971) has been doing audiovisual work since 1995, producing documentary films, fiction, installations, and performances. He directed the Vídeo de cinema series (2003-2005), which deconstructs classic film genre clichés, and the documentary film I Like Girls in Uniform (2005), about US-based artist Coco Fusco.

Mihnea Mircan (Romania, 1976) is an artist, essayist, and one of the leading promoters of the new Romanian electronic production. The curator of MNAC / National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest since 2002, he edited Tura_bar, a contemporary culture parasite-magazine that circulated within important media vehicles, among other publications.

8:00 p.m. Exhibition: Acidentes
Auditorium and Gallery

Sample City, by Calin Dan (2003)
Un chien andalou + Fall, by Ciprian Muresan (2005)
The Trial + The Rain, by Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor (2004-2005)
Auditions for a Revolution, by Irina Botea (24', 2006)
2544, by Cristian Pogacean
Deeparture, by Mircea Cantor (2005)
Merréis, by Leandro HBL (10', 2000)
Imprescindíveis, by Carlos Magno (5'22”, 2003)
Roupa para tirar retrato, by Sérgio Roizenblit (2'55”, 2004)
man.road.river., by Marcellvs L. (9'56”, 2004)
Landscape Theory, by Roberto Bellini (3'55”, 2005)
Casco, by Nuno Ramos (28', 2004)
Nanofania, by Cao Guimarães (3', 2003)
Word/World, by Cao Guimarães and Rivane Neuenschwander (8', 2001)
Da janela do meu quarto, by Cao Guimarães (5', 2004)

9:00 p.m. Debate between the curators
Auditorium

* The works of the Acidentes exhibition will remain on display at the gallery of Unidade Provisória SESC Avenida Paulista until November 26.

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Sunday, October 15, 2006

Mass Gallery - 20MB

I was included in cool little show here in Austin, where all the artist's had to send in a video under 20mb, here's the press release:

also click here to see my contribution!!

"Increasingly, media is breaking down into digestible bytes of data that make their rounds not in movie theaters or on television sets, but on computers, cell phones and iPods. A common denominator among these current forms of media is the download and upload file size limit of 20 megabytes, a fractional capacity that necessitates compression of quality and concision of content.

MASS is taking these small video files and bringing them back to the TV.

For 20MB, curators Aaron Dubrow (Austin) and M.F. Tichy (New York) solicited videos under 20 megabytes in file size from over 20 international artists, including animators, documentary and experimental filmmakers, painters and new media artists, all drawn from national and global telematic pathways.
Among the artists included in the exhibition are Paul Pfeiffer, Mike Smith, Oliver Herring, Cauleen Smith, Thomas Comerford, Mckendree Key, Alexander Stewart, Timothy Hutchings, Elizabeth Huey, Karen Skloss, Roberto Bellini, Sarah Frantz, Jill Pangallo, and many more.

The resulting videos will be on view at MASS Gallery (916 Springdale Road, Austin, Texas) from October 13th to November 9th, with an opening from 8p.m. to midnight on Friday, October 13th."

Mass Gallery is open Wednesdays 7-10pm and Satudays 1-5pm.
For more information about the show and MASS, see our website:
massgallery.org

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Friday, September 01, 2006

Dossier FF>> Roberto Bellini


The fine people at the VideoBrasil Association have given me the pleasure to be featured in their Dossier project, they did a wonderfull job and made me look very good!

Beginning this month, the FF>>Dossier will dedicate six issues to the Outros espaços series, aimed at reviewing the issue of space and its relation with electronic art, based on works exhibited in the 15th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival (2005). The series is being curated by Eduardo de Jesus, professor at the School of Communication and Arts at PUC-MG, and will kick off with an issue dedicated to Brazilian artist Roberto Bellini.

Read More

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Thursday, August 17, 2006

Circuito Audio Visual Mineiro

... is a very interesting project that is showing a wide range of new video work throughout the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil. It's a great iniciative to introduce the work of these younger artists to their own state! It will be the first time one of my videos is shown in my hometown, Juiz de Fora.
also in the show:

Conrado Almada
Marcellvs
André Amparo
Joana PMRO
André Novais Oliveira
Chico de Paula e Patrícia Werneck
Alexandre Milagres
Louize Ganz
Carlos Magno
Ricardo Cristofaro
Cláudio Santos e Alessandra Soares

They also have a very nice website. Also in the website is a great essay on the works, which I'll post in the "press" section, in portuguese.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Crazy Train

This past month has been crazy! So much going on and very little time to up-date this blog. Well In Austin right now there are two shows where my work can be seen:

Juventud Desenfrenada
August 3 - October 1, 2006
- YLA 11: Juventud Desenfrenada – Sponsored by Austin American-Statesman, Azteca America & Cantanker Magazine

The Annual Young Latino Artists Exhibition, now in its 11th year, stands as one of the most important exhibitions through which emerging Latino/a artists display their work in the State of Texas. Past curators have explored themes and ideas relevant to their particular historical moments and circumstances.

YLA 11 will include artwork from Roberto Bellini Monteiro (Brazil), Catherine Berlanga (Corpus Christi), Kimberly Garza Campbell (San Antonio), Jaime Castillo (Austin), Eric Daniel Chavera (Corpus Christi), Michael García (Austin), Hector Hernandez (Austin), Joe Peña (Corpus Christi), Luz María Sánchez (San Antonio), Angel Quesada (Austin), Cesar Alexander Villareal (Austin) and Grace Zuniga (Corpus Christi).

At the Mexic Arte Museum

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Making It Together
August 12 - September 2, 2006
- Making It Together is the second of two summer exhibitions organized collaboratively by students in the Department of Art and Art History. The artists featured in Making It Together are Sterling Allen, Jarrod Beck, Roberto Bellini, Erin Cunningham, Erin Curtis, Ali Fitzgerald, Anna Krachey, Christa Mares, Jill Pangallo, Karri Paul, Scot Proctor, Laura Turner, Stephanie Wagner and David Woody. Curators are Andy Campbell, Erika Cole, Rachel Mohl and Ashley Schmiedekamp.

At the Creative Research Lab.

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Thursday, May 18, 2006

AMODA Digital Showcase

I'll be showing some videos with a bunch of other artist's at this month's AMODA Digital Showcase.

Come check it out:
Digital Showcase 37
Friday, May 26th, 2006

Copa (3rd & Congress)
9pm-2am
$9 general
$5 for AMODA members
Free with memberships purchased before 10/05
18 and up

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Saturday, April 29, 2006

Austin Soundtrack Performance



I was invited to collaborate with artist Mario Ramiro on one of his projects called Austin Soundtrack, where I was responsible for the live video part of the night. I'll try tro have some of the video up soon, which has the great soundtrack done by Mario and Skyler. read more about it:

Austin's Soundtrack

Performance by Mario Ramiro
in collaboration with Skyler McGlothlin
and Roberto Monteiro | Belo Horizonte/Austin

Ramiro's work was recently featured in the Havana Biennial, where he and his band, the Hostilzinhos, performed their "accidental rap" created from ambient sounds encountered in the city streets, which they then combined with electronic music. Ramiro's project in Austin is similar - this time he is working with local musician Skyler McGlothlin to create music based on the unique sounds of the city of Austin. Ramiro is also joining forces with Roberto Monteiro, a video artist and MFA student at the University of Texas, who will provide video documentation of Ramiro's working process. This event will feature the results of Mario's work in Austin and Havana.

This event is part of the symposium Sin Título, 2006, and is organized by Creative Research Laboratory and the Austin Museum of Digital Art in conjunction with the Blanton Museum of Art.

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Friday, April 14, 2006

Review of the 15 VideoBrasil on Frieze

I missed this when it came out, might be a bit old but the Frieze site published
a review of 15 VideoBrasil Festival. It mentions my video Landscape
Theory
, also the great Federico Lamas and sweet Nesrine
Khodr
. Read the review on Frieze.

Big hugs to all those VideoBrasil guys and gals!

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Saturday, April 01, 2006

Athens!

My video Opaque, will be screened at the 2nd Athens Video Art Festival!

"After the successful materialization of the first Athens Video Art Festival, an innovative festival for digital art in its moving form, which is one of the most radically developing forms of art combining photography, movement, music and experimentalism, Multitrab Productions** invites again all the lovers of the moving image (regardless of age) to take part in the 2nd Athens Video Art Festival which will take place in April 2006."


click here for more info.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Ways of Seeing

I have been included in a group show at Centro Fundación Telefónica in Lima, Peru. The show is called "Ways to see: places and landscapes", it was put together through Fundación Telefónica España, and curated by Juliana Mundim.
It's a video and photo show featuring artists that portray landscapes with 3 different approaches:

1. artist as a distant observer;
2. artist as an active element inside the space;
3. artist becoming landscapes by creating his own.

here they are:

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Prize!


My video "Landscape Theory" has been awarded a prize for best short done without government funds at the Mostra do Filme Livre 2006, In Rio de Janeiro. The Festival happened from the 7th to 19th of February and screened 210 films from all of Brazil. Some of the other films and videos awarded were:

"A Sentinela", by Michelle de Paula (BA)
"Nada com Ninguém", by Marcos Pimentel (MG)
"Nascente", by Helvécio Marins (MG)
among others...

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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Mostra do Filme Livre

From February 7 to 19 in Rio de Janeiro, will occur the 2006 version of the "Mostra do Filme Livre". It's the first time I'm participating but it seems like an amazing festival with ALOT of films and vídeos, including special thematic screenings and retrospectives. I especially like the fact that 90% of the productions being shown were done without help from the government... (nothing against government sponsered cultural production but it's interesting to see the production that is done in the margins of this system.)
Take a look: Mostra do Filme Livre 2006

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Sunday, November 20, 2005

...might be good

The web project ...might be good has done a small interview with me about my video "Landscape Theory", and a few other things. There is also a piece on UT graduate Lynn Richardson. I think it turned out really well, thanks Caitlin!

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Monday, October 24, 2005

Shade group show


I just recently found that the CRL Gallery here in Austin has put up the essays from the catalog on the site.
Here's the link to the essay on my piece "Interval" written by Alberto McKelligan Hernández. Make sure to check out all the work in the show, good stuff!

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Saturday, October 22, 2005

Imagem Dos Povos

This is an interesting project happening in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais. The festival Imagem dos Povos. Two of my videos "Landscape Theory" and "How Things Work" are included in the screenings.

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Friday, October 21, 2005

KunstFilmBiennale

My video "Landscape Theory" is being shown in Germany at the KunstFilmBiennale, in a program called:
Focus on South America
Six programmes comprising art films from South America that have never or rarely been shown in Germany, compiled by Brazilian curator and producer Solange Farkas. From experimental film to dance and video art to political manifesto.

check
the site for more info.

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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Interview with Marcellvs

Hey people, finally back from my two week Brasil trip, it was amazing and the Festival was great, lot's of amazing people and good work. So a couple of things, first check out this interview with fellow artist from Belo Horizonte, Marcellvs. There's also some clips of his work.
Also I found this very cool little site called Vimeo. It's a Blog very much like Fotolog with the diference that it allows for posting video! I will try to use this from now on... so check it out every once in awhile.
cheers!

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Friday, September 09, 2005

Coco Fusco


Too bad I missed this!

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Wednesday, September 07, 2005

15th VideoBrasil

Allright, next Monday I'm off to São Paulo for the 15th VideoBrasil. My video Landscape Theory will be shown in the competitive screening "Southern Panoramas" in the "Contemporary Investigations" division which: "...brings together instigating research in video, works that generate a new restlessness concerning the processes of audiovisual production, experimenting with concepts and languages and seeking to expand their boundaries. These are works that frequently point towards future developments and expansions in electronic art." Check out this part of the site to see what's going on... lot's of fun stuff!

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Saturday, September 03, 2005

Isabela Prado at SoFA

My friend and former teacher at the School of Fine Arts at UFMG in Brasil, who is now completing her graduate studies at the Indiana University, just made a new performance. The results can be seen at the SoFA Gallery. Nice pictures of the performance available at the site.

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Friday, September 02, 2005

Brasil Year in France

Well, it's Brasil Year in France and as part of all the cultural exchange that will happen this year, a film/video screening with many artist's from Minas Gerais was set-up in August. To see a list of films and vídeos check out this newsletter from Cine Humberto Mauro (in portuguese). Included vídeos are:

VIDEODIVERSIDADE I
Clandestinos (dir. Patrícia Moran, 2002, 12’)
Man Road River (dir. Marcellvs L., 2004, 9’)
Imprescindíveis (dir. Carlos Magno, 2003, 5’)
Papilas (dir. Renata Alencar, 2003, 3’)
Oceano Possível (dir. Sara Ramo, 2002, 3')

VIDEODIVERSIDADE II
Merréis (dir. Leandro HBL, 2000, 10’)
Cerrar a porta (dir. Pablo Lobato, 2000, 4’)
Ainda agora mesmo versão 1.0 (dir. Eduardo de Jesus, 2004, 5’)
Não Mais (dir. Conrado Almada, 2004, 4’)
How things work (dir. Roberto Bellini, 2002, 6’)
Cinco (dir. André Amparo, Francisco de Paula, Rodrigo Minelli, Marília Rocha, Cláudio Santos e Marcelo Braga, 2000, 12’)

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CRL press release

Take a look at the Creative Research Lab to read a bit more about the group show "Shade" which I was in. There are also some images from the show. The vídeo "Interval" that was in this show will soon be up in this site.

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Thursday, September 01, 2005

I'm back!

Okay, so I have finally been able to get my own domain and put my site back on-line! So hopefully i can keep this up to date with my recent work. Recently my video "Interval" was in a group show here in Austin, Texas, called Shade. You can read a review of the show from the project "It might be good" done by Fluent Collaborative.

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