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.

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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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

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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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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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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