video feature
Girona
VAD – Festival of Video and Digital Art 2005
Chroma – Festival de Arte Audiovisual Guadalajara/Mexico – 11-17 Nov 2006
Girona
Centro Cultural La Merce
*VAD – Festival for Video and Digital Art – 9-12 November Girona/Spain –2005
includes Wilfried’s works
House of Tomorrow, video
Violence Onlione Festival, interactive
VAD – Festival for Video and Digital Art 2013
Farewell Message
CLOSING OF VAD (VIDEO AND DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL)
The Video and Digital Arts Festival (VAD) held in Girona will no longer be holding the festival again. The event has been running for ten years, and the continued issues surrounding funding have squeezed another organisation to leave yet more of a cultural gap in our societies.
Dear VAD friends,
For ten years we’ve organised the Girona Video and Digital Art Festival. Now we have to stop due to the economic situation of our cultural institutions and the payament delay.
Despite that, we want to express thanks for your confidence and support of our activity, a festival that has created a plataform to show some of the most interesting digital artistic works.
Artists, curators, technicians, and contributors, we all want to thank you for your help and your company throught all those years.
We will come back, maybe with another name or project but always with the same energy to promote artistic creation.
We keep in touch to inform you about our future plans, and you can follow our activity in NU2’S website www.nu2s.org or write me atinfo@nu2s.org
Núria Font and VAD’s team
Núria Font Solà
Barcelona-based video maker, specialized in the performing arts. Independent curator of video and electronic art. Director of the Mostra de VideoDansa and Nu2¹s an image, dance and new media project. Director of VAD, the Video and Digital Arts international festival of Girona.
She began working in various areas of video in the early 80s in Madrid and Barcelona, including the Spanish public television program Metropolis, commercial video and documentaries, but gradually focused on making independent videos and organising, promoting and distributing dance video works and events. In 1996 she began a 7-year collaboration with the Centre d¹Art Santa Mònica, as director of a regular program of video art screenings, the Mostra d¹Arts Electròniqes and the Mostra de VideoDansa.
She has been the director of the annual VAD festival (www.vadfestival.net) since 2003, and directed the Estavar-Lliva video festival in 2000. She is president of the association Nu2¹s, and directs the association¹s project, which revolves around distribution, production, education and documentation relating to image, dance and new media (www.nu2s.org). She has curated video programs for many Spanish and international festivals, exhibitions and biennales, and collaborates with the Caixaforum Mediateca in Barcelona, selecting audiovisual works for the media library collection, coordinating the DansaTec conferences and as a curator for special events. She participates in various research projects, including the DAMPF international lab and the Dansa Virtual group in Barcelona, which organised and created a Motion Capture Lab as one of various collaborations with the Universitat Pompeu Fabre¹s audiovisual institute, the IUA. She has designed and directed workshops such as the recent Animaciò Coreografica, and last year¹s professional lab Moviment i Digits.
Her pedagogic work includes dance video and new media workshops in many countries, and she is a lecturer and consultant in the Curating Art and New Media Masters program at MECAD-ESDI in Barcelona and ERAM in Girona. As a video maker, she has an ongoing professional relationship with three Catalan companies, Mudances (Àngels Margarit), Mal Pelo (Maria Muñoz and Pep Ramis) and Gelabert/Azzopardi, working with them to document projects, create audiovisual woks and participate with video elements for live performances.
The house of tomorrow is the house of one’s identity, it does not need to be a concrete house or building, but represents a secure and protected place where people can stand for what they are and represent, a human being. And this human may have many identities in different fields, the sexual identity represents only one among many others.
La Biennale // Blogwork – the network is the Art Work
presenting Wilfried’s Violence Online Ferstival
http://violence.newmediafest.org
Guadalajara
Chroma
Chroma is a non-profit independent festival of audiovisual arts, it is considered the most important independent festival of audiovisual arts in the Spanish-speaking world and of its kind on a continental level, [1] this festival is held in Guadalajara (Jalisco), Mexico is organized and sponsored by various cultural organizations and public and private institutions such as ITESO and the University of Guadalajara.
This festival is a space for the creators of alternative and independent audiovisual arts, born in the late 90s to provide a permanent space dedicated to the dissemination of the various manifestations of audiovisual art. In its 8 editions, the festival has established itself as one of the most important in the continent due to the coverage, guests and boom that it has received during each edition. [2] The festival is held in mid-November in various venues in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, such as cinemas, libraries and public spaces.
Chroma has been discontinued in 2008.
Ana de la Rosa Zamboni
Ana works in the following areas: direction, production, promotion and training. She created and co directed the Festival Internacional Independiente de Arte Audiovisual [International Independent
Audiovisual Art Festival] Chroma (Guadalajara) with support from the Universidad de Guadalajara for 10 years, which on four occasions has won the Programa de Fomentos y Co-inversiones Culturales
Conaculta Cultural Training and Co-Investment Program Between 1998 and 2007, she worked in the Audiovisual Production Management at the UdeG as a producer of short films, commercials,
video clips and television programs. She has given production and television production classes at the Centro de Medios Audiovisuales. She has twice obtained the Young Video Creators Scholarships –
CologneOFF I & II –
Chroma – Festival de Arte Audiovisual
Guadalajara/Mexico – 11-17 Nov 2006
Selected artists
1. Rahel Maher (Australia) – Misstar : 2:00
2. Unnur A. Einarsdottir (Iceland) – Toilet – 3:00
3. Ane Lan (Norway) – Ane Lan – 3:00
4. Alla Girik and Oksana Shatalova (Kazakhstan) – Warning! Women – 3:12
5. Sinasi Günes (Turkey) – Androgen – 2:50
6. Beatrice Allegranti (UK) – In My Body – 4:00
7. J.G. Periot (France) – Devil Inside – 2:40
8. Ina Loitzl (Austria) – Snow-white and red like a rose – 5:00
9. Lorenzo Nencini (Italy) – Traviata – 10:00
10. Elia Alba (Domincan Rep.) – If I were a… – 4:30
11. Risk Hazekamp (the Netherlands) – Gay King – 3:00
12. Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – House of tomorrow – 3:00
13. Yi Hyung Kim – Women-World – 3:30
Compilation – duration: 60 min
Selected artists
*Andreja Andric (Italy) – How the Music Surprises an Unprepared Listener – 0:24
*Bundaberg Media Research Group (Australia) –
Sweet Sounds of a Sugar Town: Raw to Refined – 5:58
*Daniel Blinkhorn (Australia) – Resource 14 – 5:40
*David Burns (USA) – Visual Orchestra – 2:00
*Dennis H. Miller (USA) – Circles and Rounds – 9:22
*Gabriel Shalom (USA) – Small Room Tango – 3:40
*Jason Paul Cardot (USA) – Speye – 2:54
*Lane Last (USA) – Ancient Rhythm – 2:34
*Laurent Pernot (France) – Still Alives – 2:34
*Erika Frenkel (Brazil) – Attention, Attention – 4:40
*Mauro Arrighi & Marco Buziol (Italy)- Softly Engaged– 6:00
*Pygar – Hugo Olim/Joao Ricardo (Portugal) – on/off – 3:18
*Shawn Towne (USA)- Linear Succession – 0:45
*Sinasi Günes (Turkey) – Gicir– 3:03
*Sonja VUK (Croatia) – My Way – 1:00
*Unnur Einarsdottir (Iceland) – Music in Cake – 2:23
*Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – The Reharsal – 4:30
Schedule for – 11 November
24 Hours of Nuremberg Filmfestival – 11/12 Nov 2008
*Asolo Art Film Festival – Asolo (Italy) – 5-12 November 2005
*SELECT Media 4 Festival Chicago/USA – 3-13 November 2005
