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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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:

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…

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

…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!