Presentation of video art in Slovenia and screening program

Thursday, April 28, 2011, at 7 pm
LUX, 3rd Floor
Shacklewell Studios, 18 Shacklewell Lane, E8 2EZ, London, UK

You are kindly invited to attend a presentation of video art in Slovenia accompanied by screening on Thursday, 28th April at 7pm within the program LUX Salons at LUX (London).

A short history and context for artists’ video in Slovenia, the media archive DIVA Station and the work of SCCA-Ljubljana will be presented by SCCA’s director Barbara Borčić and curator and critic Miha Colner.

The presentation will be accompanied with the screening of video program DIVA Station_Presents (2009), curated by Barbara Borčić, Miha Colner and Ida Hiršenfelder. DIVA Station_Presents is chronologically selected video program includes 15 videos, which present important shifts in understanding and usage of video as a means of expression from 1983 to 2007.

LUX Salon takes place at LUX, 3rd Floor, Shacklewell Studios, 18 Shacklewell Lane, E8 2EZ. See www.lux.org.uk/about/index.html for directions.
Admission free, booking is essential – to book a place email salon@lux.org.uk!

Special thanks to
LUX & Benjamin Cook for hosting the presentation of DIVA Station and for organizing the video screening.

SCCA-Ljubljana program is supported by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana.

Video screening. Accompanying event of the festival Spring Forward

Friday–sunday, 25–27 March, 2011, from 10 am
Spanish Fighters – Cultural Center/Internacionala, Zaloška 61, Ljubljana

Aerowaves Spring Forward is the first ever compact format gathering for new European dance. In a helter-skelter celebration, 22 companies from 13 countries will perform works of 15-40 minutes in 5 theatres over 3 days. These artists are eager to show their pieces to a new, informed audience and meet each other; and presenters, organisers and the Ljubljana public will grasp the unique opportunity to see what’s new in dance.

As the accompanying event in the Spanish Fighters – Cultural Center, SCCA-Ljubljana will prepare video screening of curated video program Videodance_6 (2008) and thus give an opportunity to the visitors and performers for creative and non-formal gathering during the festival, before and after the performances. The selection Videodance_6 is a part of the program Videospotting.

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Evenings of Intermedia Arts
DIVA Station
Demonstration of physical and web archive of video art in Slovenia

Tuesday, January 11, at 6 pm
Trubar Literature House, Stritarjeva 7, Ljubljana

DIVA Station is starting with the series of demonstration in 2011 at the Trubar Literature House. Barbara Borčić in Ida Hiršenfelder, heads of the archive, will present the context and purpose of DIVA archive.

The presentation will be followed by the screening of the video essay Digital Video Archive (script, camera, editing, and text: Nika Grabar, 16 min, production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2009). Video essay was produced in the framework of the study exhibition Diva at Škuc Gallery in 2009. The author says: “Archiving is really keeping some kind of memory alive. DIVA is trying to find memory for images and enable us to think the space of art. Without it we are caught in the image of a world that is reproducing us in a mechanical way.”

The event is part of the program Evenings of Intermedia Arts of the Municipality of Ljubljana, Department for Culture.

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Presentation of archive for video art and screening
November 3 and 4, 2010
Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Stary rynek 6, Poznan, Poland

Archive for video art DIVA Station presents at Arsenal Municipal Gallery Poznan followed by a screening of video materials. Different aspects of creating video and media archive DIVA Station will be presented by SCCA’s director Barbara Borčić who will speak about the context and historical necessity to form archives of temporary arts. Technical details of preserving video materials and the structure of video signal will be presented in an animated lecture by critic Ida Hiršenfelder based on lectures by artist Neven Korda. Screening program as a case study of specific historical landmarks in the development of video art in Slovenia will be presented by curator and critic Miha Colner.

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August 16-20, 2010
Ohrid, Macedonia

Conference/workshop to exchange experiences, opinions, attitudes, knowledge and skills that will lead to development of enhanced models and forms of storage of cultural heritage, cultural events coverage in audiovisual format in various countries. It will also reveal models and ways to exchange information in regard to it.

The event will gather media professionals and cultural experts aiming to join their experiences, opinions, attitudes, knowledge and skills that will result in development of enhanced models and forms of storage of cultural heritage and cultural events in audiovisual format in various countries. It will also reveal models and ways to exchange information in that regard, contributing in more qualitative presentation of culture and arts in media.

Barbara Borčič, Miha Colner and Dušan Dovč (SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana) will attend the conference. Barbara Borčić will present DIVA Station, a physical and web archive of video art which has been developing since 2005, and is one of SCCA projects, which is focused in the research, documentation and archiving of video art. Miha Colner, free-lance curator and collaborator of SCCA-Ljubljana, will join the presentation of DIVA Station and prepare the report from the conference. Dušan Dovč will present Artservis, a web-based information resource for artists, theorists and cultural managers. Artservis is run by SCCA-Ljubljana since 2001.

More, the conference aims to develop standards to follow, with the final aim to produce or to support production of a regional TV show that will cover arts and culture (as a follow up activity of the conference). The mix of the professional profiles and the experiences of the participants in the conference will hopefully help define optimal ways of including such a media product in a regular weekly program schedule.

The conference takes place in the period reach with artistic and cultural content (Ohrid Cultural Summer, 2010) and significant part of the conference will be dedicated to the events themselves in terms of practicing standards developed in the previous sessions of the conference as well as on the cultural and tourist site visits.

The conference is organized by Centre for Media Activities from Skopje and will join journalists, cultural workers and artists from the Region.

The conference is supported by Central European Initiative Fund (CEI) and contributed by Ministry of Culture of Republic of Macedonia.

More information and agenda
Centar za mediumski aktivnosti
Nebojša Ilijevski (nilijevski@gmail.com)
Program (pdf)