Switch 2023 Video
7 Evenings of cinema in the town, where stories on screen blend with those who encounter them.
Responding to the theme of PLAY this years participating artists are: Cecilia Stenbom [UK], Bob Bicknell-Knight [UK], Dave Kemp [Canada], Marta Ciolkowska [Italy & Poland], Patricia Azevedo & Clare Charnley [Brazil & UK], Geska & Robert Brecevic [Sweden & Croatia], Melanie Manos [USA], Timo Kahlen [Germany] and Kuesti Fraun [Germany]. The participating writer this year is Nigel Quinlan [Ireland].
Contemporary video/film works from national & international artists are back-projected from twilight – midnight onto coated windows, transforming spaces & shopwindow into screens in the townscape.
Futuristic nostalgia – results
Dear Artists,
Thank you very much for your submissions! We’re amazed with the work you took to apply and we loved the art you shared! Below we proudly announce “Futuristic nostalgia” open call results.
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Exhibition opening: 18.10.2023. at Momentum Gallery, Krakow, 6pm.
THE ONE
We invite you to the next edition of the post-competition exhibition THE ONE, which this time will be presented in the Migawka Gallery in the Browar B Cultural Center in Włocławek. The opening will take place on Friday, September 22, 2023, at 18:00.
INTERNATONAL DIGITAL ART CONTEST
The title of the project refers to the Planet Earth, which is the only place we know in the universe where life has developed. We want to pay attention to the uniqueness of our planet and arouse in the recipients a sense of obligation to take care of its future. The goal of the „The One” project is to evoke a discussion on the current destruction of our planet caused by human activity. We want every artist and recipient to consider why in everyday life we often skip thinking about the future of the world, we forget about what is the most important. Shouldn’t caring for the planet be our common goal?
The international nature of the competition and accompanying exhibitions aim to gather various artistic attitudes and confront artists from various countries. The next goal is to promote contemporary art and popularize methods of digital creation. We want to emphasize that progress does not have to be associated with destruction, and the use of digital media can lead to artistic exchange on an international scale.
SoMe Festival
SoMe Festival este un proiect de generare a unui dialog transparent și exploratoriu, între locuitorii Bucureștiului și comunitatea artistică națională și internațională, cu focus art & science / technology.
33 de filme, provenite din mediul internaut (social media), adunate sub tema curatorială Inhabitvor pătrunde în locuri știute și neștiute ale orașului, unde vor fi atașate fizic și redate prin realitate augmentată (AR).
Vă invităm, deci, nu într-o sală de cinema pentru a chestiona apoi ce ar fi sau n-ar fi valid cinematic, ci la un treasure hunt, prin care ne redescoperim orașul, testăm cu blândețe limitele mediului video și impactul online-ului asupra unor problematici societale relevante.
SoMe Festival Awards & Honorary Mentions:
As selected by the jury: Andrei Popov, Marc Solomon & Andrei Tudose
Let me fix you – Dasha Ilina
SoMe Award for Technology
French Institute Romania Honorary Mention for French Video
Ardeidae – Chiara Faggionato, Daniele Tucci, Corrado Chiatti
SoMe Award for Human Relationships
Night in gale – Gray Cake
SoMe Award for Environment
Ghosts – Cristian Eduard Drăgan
SoMe Award for videos dedicated to Bucharest
Selective Mutism – Stathis Roukas
Goethe-Institut Honorary Mention for German Video
POLE A – Collettivo GMRGP
Marginal Honorary Mention
SoMe Official Selection
Salome Vepkhadze, Ulizi, 2020, Georgia
Gioula Papadopoulou, AI made me do it, 2023, Greece
Josh Harle, No exceptions, 2022, Australia
Robert B. Lisek, FIELDS, 2022, Poland
Dasha Ilina, Let me fix you, 2022, France
Josh Harle, Embedded AR Critical theory, 2016, Australia
Mara Oglakci, Trance Lucid, 2021, Romania
Eluned Zoe Aiano, Beautiful and Strange and New, 2017, Germany
Alessia Borangic, De câteva săptămâni mă tot trezesc uitându-mă la pătura de la bunica, 2022, Romania
Cristian Eduard Dragan, Ghosts, 2022, Romania
MYK, STROMA, 2020, Russia
Misael Samano Vargas, Desnudo como los animales que me persiguen, 2022, Mexico
Stathis Roukas, Selective Mutism, 2022, Germany
Alex Pasca, Expand Your Database, 2022, Romania
Chiara Faggionato, Ardeidae, 2015, Germany
Brigitte Valobra & Wald, Urban Mantra 8, 2019, Spain
Aleksei Martyniuk, STAREWELL, 2022, Russia
Cesar Ulloa Cuellar, Monologos sobres mis padres, 2022, Peru
Yav, Bridge, 2022, Georgia
collettivo GMRGP, POLE A, 2022, Italy
Daria Pugachova, Microcosmos, 2021, Ukraine
Łukasz Horbów, Europe, 2018, Poland
Kintija Avena, Butter, 2022, Latvia
Joseph Franciosa, FoxKeeper, 2020, Germany
Lena Ciobanu, Malaise, 2020, Romania
Sandrine Daumier, From the place where light goes out, 2023, France
Ilya Martynov, SOS, 2021, Germany
Anna Alexanina, Cave under water, 2022, France
Jean-Michel Rolland, Affordance, 2020, France
Vitaly Yankovy, How to pet a contaminated water snail, 2022, Romania
Marta Ciolkowska, Bottlefield, 2019, Italy
Gray Cake, Night in gale, 2020, Armenia
Maria Borisenkova, Water, 2022, Russia
Lovingly selected by
Suzana Dan
Paul Dogioiu
Sabina Suru
RE-CONNECT ART 2023
Re-connect Art International Performance and Multimedia Art Festival: Virtual Body of Society will take place from 13 to 30 July 2023 in public spaces mainly in the centre of Prague (capital of the Czech Republic). In three consecutively launched programme blocks, it will present approximately ten live performances, a section of video installations, and an international showcase of video art works that will be presented on screens and LED panels placed in frequent public places: squares and relaxation zones, libraries, cafés, arcades, shopping, cultural and community centres, railway stations, hospital waiting rooms, etc. The hybrid form of the festival combines the presentation of artworks in public spaces with the possibility of remote participation through live stream. This format was created in response to the conditions brought by the global pandemic crisis, and our vision for the future is to continue developing and adapting contemporary technologies for the arts.
switch 2022 / PLAY
7 Evenings of cinema in the town, where stories on screen blend with those who encounter them.
Responding to the theme of PLAY this years participating artists are: Andrew McSweeney [Ireland], Benna Gaean Maris [stateless], Federica Sala [Spain], Marta Ciolkowska [Italy], Rachel Peachy & Paul Mosig [Australia], Roi Carmeli [Israel], Salla Myllylä [Finland], Stacey Mulligan [Ireland].
This years participating writer and poet is Ojo Taiye [Nigeria].
Contemporary video/film works from national & international artists are back-projected from twilight – midnight onto coated windows, transforming spaces & shopwindow into screens in the townscape.
A project by Triona Ryan, Carol Kennedy & Harald Turek
Animations by artists from all around the globe on Wrocław’s tenement walls. We know the program of the 4th edition of Kinomural
Once again and as early as 24th of September, Wrocław will be transformed into a city of moving murals. During the 4th edition of Kinomural, a unique event combining cinema with the urban tissue, over 70 artists from all around the world will present their animations on the tenements of the historic district by the name of Przedmieście Odrzańskie. 6 themed walls will feature several dozen audiovisual works. This year their creators will compete to win prizes including the Prize of the Mayor of Wrocław. Kinomural will be preceded by a historic walk in the district, as well as a meeting dedicated to art in the public space.
For four years already, a single evening hosts a dozen or so thousand spectators who gather to view a gigantic outdoor gallery. Tenement side walls are transformed into enormous canvases for moving murals, ephemeral projections in various forms – from video art through sound performance and experimental films, to audiovisual installations.
Themed walls, Nick Cave and special eventsDuring this year’s Kinomural we will see works by artists from all around the globe whom the curator’s committee has selected to the main section, works awarded in an open call for audio-visual interpretations of a quote from Nick Cave’s song “Fireflies”, as well as animations by students of the Department of Media Art at the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław.
The fourth edition of the event has some novelties in the program template – For the first time each of the six projection walls has its leading theme– says Bartek Bartos, the director of Kinomural – The wall on Jagiellończyka street are pulsating fantasies about the body and the mind, both fascinating and disturbing. Ołbińska are cosmic puzzles that coalesce into astounding structures. Then there is also the wall on Wincentego street which will prove that the various can become harmonious– he adds. The wall at Niemcewicza 27 hosts not only our traditional Bed-time cartoon on the largest screen in the world, but also the Poetry Wall, curated by Adriana Prodeus, which will tackle the question of what motion visual poetry is. The wall at Niemcewicza 30b will be used exclusively by Peter Burr, a New York master of computer animation. Together with the artist’s digital works, we will dive into the world of video games and try to find the exit out of a maze of endless landscapes, dystopias, and flickering pixels.Living and working in Brooklyn, Burr will come to Wrocław in person. Trzebnicka street will display the results of the workshops carried out within the LAACT project Light as a Creative Tool) by Robert Sochacki from the NOKS collective. Visual and sound artists will create an animation whose starting point is the light – its presence in everyday life and its significance in modern art.
The organizers are preparing two special screenings – a new glimpse into Tomek Tryzna and Agata Bartos’s project „Threshold” that is, stories that take place in the world that suddenly and dramatically lacks color and a special project by Piotr Bartos, Filip Zawada, and Konrad Imiela with music by Tom Waits.
For the first time in Kinomural’s history, the jury will award prize money. Thanks to the patronage of OKRE Development three equivalent prizes in the amount of 2000 PLN each, will be awarded among the artists from the open call.Three further awards in the same amount – the Prize of the Mayor of Wrocław – will go to artists in the main section. The jury’s verdict will be announced on September 25.
Przedmieście Oławskie to discover
This year Kinomural moves to a new place. This time we will watch moving murals in the historic district of Przedmieście Odrzańskie. On the 17th of September at 4 p.m., you can take part in a walk around the district. –Together we will search for the genius loci of Nadodrze in its places, art, and lives of the inhabitants of this part of the city – says Ewa Pluta, art historian and guide.The tour will start right under the mural at Łokietka 1, titled “The Gate to Nadodrze”. Participation in the event is free of charge, but it is necessary to book your place in advance:
https://app.evenea.pl/event/spacerprzedmiescieodrzanskie/
Kinomural 2022 will take place on September 24 at 7:30-10:00 p.m. at six locations: Trzebnicka 19-21, Jagiellończyka 40, św. Wincentego 39a-41a, Niemcewicza 27 and Niemcewicza 30b, and Ołbińska 16.
The event will be preceded by a discussion panel dedicated to art in the public space organized by Kinomural and OKRE Development. It is scheduled for September 23 at 6 p.m. in Pod Ciśnieniem (Sudecka 96). This will be a meeting of an artist, a designer and an architect, with Peter Burr, Paweł Grobelny, and Zbigniew Maćków.The discussion will be hosted by art critic and curator of Kinomural, Adriana Prodeus. All events at Kinomural are free of charge.
The highest quality of projections on tenement walls is ensured by EPSON – the event’s technological partner. Kinomural takes place thanks to the support of the Municipality of Wrocław.
OPEN CALL 2022 – RESULTS
ARTISTS
| PL | Kamil Wójcik |
| CN | Tsz-wing HO |
| BA | Miodrag Manojlović |
| US | Alexander Fingrutd |
| IR | Arash Akbari |
| RU | Aleksei Martyniuk |
| PL/IT | Marta Ciołkowska |
| PL | Marek Hajduk |
| BY/PL | Katsiaryna Kardash |
| BE/RO | Fierbinteanu |
| ES | Pepon Meneses & Laura Ginès Bataller |
| IT | mammasONica / Luca Pulvirenti |
| PL | Zuzanna Michalska |
| PL | Wojciech Puławski |
| PL | Wojciech Siejak |
| AR | Muriel Sago |
| PL | Anita Szprych – Omurike Wolterr |
„THE ONE” – PARTICIPANTS, FUNDACJA PINATA 2022
PL / ENG
Do Międzynarodowego Konkursu Sztuki Cyfrowej THE ONE zgłosiło się 118 artystów z różnych krajów świata. Łącznie nadesłano 259 prac konkursowych.
W konkursie wzięli udział artyści z 11 krajów: Wielkiej Brytanii, Argentyny, Chin, Francji, Włoch, Korei Południowej, Stanów Zjednoczonych, Ukrainy, Bułgarii, Izraela i Polski.
118 artists from different countries entered the International Digital Art Competition THE ONE. In total, 259 competition works were submitted.
Artists from 11 countries took part in the competition: United Kingdom, Argentina, China, France, Italy, South Korea, USA, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Israel and Poland.
Jury pierwszego etapu w składzie:
● art. mal. Katarzyna Wendland- prezes zarządu Fundacji Pinata
● dr Alicja Wieczorek- wiceprezes zarządu Fundacji Pinata, adiunkt w Instytucie Sztuk Wizualnych na Wydziale Sztuki Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach
● dr Tomasz Wlaźlak – kierownik Galerii Forum UMK, adiunkt w Katedrze Intermediów na Wydziale Sztuk Pięknych UMK w Toruniu
Zakwalifikowało do wystaw pokonkursowych 47 prac 38 artystów.
First stage jury consisting of:
● art. mal. Katarzyna Wendland – president of the board of the Pinata Foundation
● dr Alicja Wieczorek – vice-president of the Pinata Foundation, assistant professor at the Institute of Visual Arts at the Faculty of Art of Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce
● dr Tomasz Wlaźlak – head of the Forum Gallery of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, assistant professor at the Department of Intermedia at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
selected 47 works by 38 artists for post-competition exhibitions.
Przedstawiamy listę uczestników i ich prac zakwalifikowanych do wystaw pokonkursowych THE ONE.
We present a list of participants and their works qualified for THE ONE post-competition exhibitions.
● GRAFIKI ● GRAPHICS
Alex Russell UK / MANCHESTER
Future rope core memory 220915 – 50 x 50 cm
Anna Wacławek POLSKA / WROCŁAW
Fragment (Wiadukt) – 40 x 22 cm
Arkadiusz Polewka POLSKA / SZCZECIN
Naos (cz.1) – 20 x 42 cm
Naos (cz.2) – 20 x 42 cm
Dariusz Zatoka POLSKA / POZNAŃ
Zanikanie – 100 x 70 cm
Edward Saliński POLSKA / ZŁOTORIA
Inwazja – 70 x 70 cm
Pięć Wież – 70 x 70 cm
Izabela Kabza POLSKA / WROCŁAW
Ograniczenie III – 100 x 70 cm
Jael Díaz Vila ARGENTYNA / CABA
Adoraciun I
Jakub Wawrzak POLSKA / TORUŃ
Frozen in time – bunger oasis polar station – 90 x 60 cm
Joon-young Lee 이준영 KOREA POŁUDNIOWA / PYEONGTAEK
Invisible – 70 x 84 cm
Julian Kołyszko POLSKA / GDAŃSK
Widmo – 100 x 70 cm
Justyna Grodecka POLSKA / WARSZAWA
Niekomfortowo, bardziej niekomfortowo, jeszcze bardziej niekomfortowo – 100 x 47 cm
Karolina Borowska POLSKA / WROCŁAW
I – 50 x 70 cm
II – 50 x 70 cm
Konrad Kucz POLSKA / WARSZAWA
Pokuta – 70 x 100 cm
Soldier – 70 x 100 cm
Lech Polcyn POLSKA / KRAKÓW
Filii Terrae 1 – 50 x 70 cm
Filii Terrae 2 – 50 x 70 cm
Maciej Fronczak POLSKA / WARSZAWA
Planet 02 – 63 x 63 cm
Mariusz Dański POLSKA / RADOM 70 x 70 cm
Trzy kroki do czasu z cyklu Zasiałem białe ziarno – 70 x 70 cm
Zakrzywienie z cyklu Zasiałem białe ziarno – 70 x 70 cm
Marta Stasiukiewicz POLSKA / GDYNIA
Ziemski pchli targ – 50 x 56 cm
Mateusz Pecyna POLSKA / ŁÓDŹ
77°45’0.32”S,159°56’42.23”E – 70 x 70 cm
Patrizia Ende POLSKA / RADZIONKÓW
Patyna I – 70 x 70 cm
Patyna III – 70 x 70 cm
Paulina Bobak POLSKA / BIERUŃ
Formy antropologiczne 1 / Alienacje – 56,7 x 100 cm
Paweł Pacholec POLSKA / GDYNIA
Eternity III – 40 x 40 cm
Paweł Kiełpiński POLSKA / POZNAŃ
NIe zapomnij o Ziemi – 70 x 50 cm
Weronika Wrzosek POLSKA / CERANÓW
Terra: Strefa zagrożenia (III) – 30 x 40 cm
Xiaodong Yu 于晓冬 CHINY / QINGDAO CITY
Archaeology of the Planet 2 – 50 x 100 cm
● FILMY ● VIDEOS
Agnieszka Żerdzińska POLSKA / ŚWIĘTOCHŁOWICE
Happy birthday, found footage – 3 m 57 s
Benna Gaen Maris WŁOCHY / WENECJA
Stories end – 4 m 10 s
Panspermia coopstipation – 2 m 20 s
Jael Díaz Vila ARGENTYNA / CABA
Adoraciun II – 31 s
Katarzyna Mular POLSKA / OPOLE
8.2.003 – 60 s
Katarzyna Łyszkowska POLSKA / TORUŃ
Don’t look back – 1 m 17 s
Kinga Su FRANCJA / STRASBOURG
Round – 3 m 33 s
Krzysztof Kiełt POLSKA / GDAŃSK
Utopia – 60 s
Ksenia Makała POLSKA / KATOWICE
Miejskie mikrohistorie – 3 m 49 s
Maciej Jarczyński POLSKA / GDAŃSK
Human – 4 m 31 s
Maja Maksimović POLSKA / KIELCE
Phoenix – 2 m
Małgorzata Łuczyna POLSKA / KRAKÓW
EOL#01/#02/#03 – 3 m 25 s
Kamila Walendykiewicz POLSKA / WARSZAWA
A quake in being – 3 m 05 s
Marta Ciołkowska WŁOCHY / GIARRE
We shall overcome – 5 min
Mateusz Kijak POLSKA / TARNÓW
Interimpres – 4 m 51 s
Yu Yan USA / BOSTON
A speaking dendorbium – 3 m 30 s
PROTEST FOR PROGRESS 2020
Protest for Progress was ZEST Hall’s very first exhibition – In partnership with Leeds City Museum, the exhibition featured work from 33 artists across the globe, as well as showcasing two collections from Leeds City Museum.
Launched on the 28th June 2020, the exhibition marks 51 years since the Stonewall riots in New York City – a monumental protest which saw the uprising of the LGBT+ community against their long battle with police brutality. With the protests and the uprising of the #blacklivesmatter movement, we felt that the exhibition could not be more timely, as we continue to fight against police brutality in a system which is oppressive to minority groups.
The exhibition aims to represent minority voices, focusing on protests, rebellion and change. With works ranging from photojournalism, paintings, spoken word, installation, film and performance, we hope to use our platform to educate and visualise a better future.