In August 2010, French filmmaker Vincent Moon and Efterklang’s 8 piece-live band met up on an island off the Danish coast.The objective was to shoot a film; a film with the same length as an album, and a film full of performances, experiments and colla…

Badischer Kunstverein is pleased to present the first comprehensive exhibition of Nancy Holt in Europe! Since the late 1960s, Holt has created a far-reaching body of work, including Land art, films, photography, sculpture, site-specific installations, artist’s books, and concrete poetry. Curated by Alena J. Williams, this thematic exhibition offers an in-depth look at the early projects of this important American artist whose pioneering work falls at the intersection of art, architecture, and time-based media.

6X6 Time: Call for Entries Video/Performance6X6 is a series of media arts events in Athens, Georgia, open for submission to anyone from anywhere in the world.  Video, film, sound, performance, or combination.  Six minutes or less.  Shorter can be be…

Taught by artist Karen Finley and drawing from works on view in The Great Upheaval: Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection, 1910–1918 and Found in Translation, part of the Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim, this five-session workshop engages adults in writing exercises, studio work, museum visits, and collaborative discussion to explore language as metaphor, text as visual media, and their own inner voice. A final reflection concludes the process. No art-making experience is required.

e-flux

Between January and May, we will continue to host regular screenings in our storefront on Essex Street. Considering the various modes of circulation and reception of the moving image, we have invited several exhibitors, distributors, independent collectives, and publications to program an evening of film and video in conjunction with their ongoing activities.

Animate Projects

A new film in four parts, Slow Action exists somewhere between documentary, ethnographic study and fiction. The work has its online premiere at animateprojects.org, coinciding with its exhibition at Matt’s Gallery, London from 26 January. Commissioned by Picture This and Animate Projects, in association with Matt’s Gallery, London.

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
October 12, 2010 – March 13, 2011

The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris presents MŒBIUS-TRANSE-FORME, the first major exhibition devoted to the work of Jean Giraud, known by his pseudonyms Gir and Mœbius. An icon of incomparable stature in the world of comics, an inventor of extraordinary forms and a brilliant cartoonist, Mœbius is an artist who goes beyond the traditional boundaries of the discipline. Following the artist’s wishes, this exhibition explores the theme of metamorphosis, a leitmotif that runs throughout his comics, drawings, and film projects.

Swiss Institute
November 24 – January 22, 2011

Renowned for seminal works in the respective mediums of film and painting, Harmony Korine and Rita Ackermann meet and overlap with their shared interest in unorthodox and mischievous beauty. Central to the praxis of both is the creation of psychologically jarring figures, whose presence is further enhanced by fragmented narratives.

This comprehensive 20-film survey, presented in collaboration with Cinecittà Luce, Rome, celebrates the work of Bernardo Bertolucci, one of the great living practitioners of the art of cinema. All of the prints in this series are newly remastered by Cinecittà Luce, with sound and color correction overseen by several of the cinematographers who have worked with the director, including Vittorio Storaro, Darius Khondji, and Fabio Cianchetti.

Call for Work: Studio 27 presents “Reinterpreting Gothic”

For the upcoming Big Muddy Film Festival at Southern Illinois University, we are curating a special out-of-competition screening on “The Gothic.” For this program, we are looking for ex…

Henie Onstad Art Centre
Through February 27, 2011

The exhibition Fluxus East represents a first stocktaking of the diverse Fluxus activities in the former Eastern Bloc; the exhibition shows parallel developments and artistic practices inspired by Fluxus. Besides “classic” Fluxus objects and scores, the display includes film interviews with Fluxus artists, photographs, films, correspondence, and recordings of music that document the presence of Fluxus in the former Eastern Bloc.

Project Arts Centre, Dublin
25 November 2010 – 19 February 2011

Four of Clemens von Wedemeyer’s expanded film installations are brought together for the first time in a single gallery room and across an expanded period of time—a film festival and gallery installation in one.

Geoffrey Pugen Work from his oeuvre. “With theatrical absurdity, Pugen explores relationships between real and staged performance, the natural and the artificial, and tensions of virtual identity, through altering and manipulating images. Working with video, film, and photography in the digital realm Pugen renders situations that examine our perceptions of how history, documentation, and simulation [...]

Alexander Kluge, Maria Lind, Themroc, Paul Glover, Curating and the Educational Turn at e-flux.

Call for New Media Art: Digital Checkpoints

Subject: Call for New Media Art: Digital Checkpoints exhibition for FLEFF 2011
(deadline: 31.01.2011)

Types: Call for new media art, locative media, tactical media, electronic civil disobedience, experime…

The Kitchen
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

The Kitchen is one of New York City’s oldest multidisciplinary, nonprofit performance and exhibition spaces, showing experimental work by innovative artists, both emerging and established. Programs range from dance, music, and theatrical performances to video and film screenings and installations to literary events, artists’ talks, and lecture series.

Chisenhale Gallery
4 November – 19 December 2010

Chisenhale Gallery presents Hito Steyerl’s first major solo exhibition in London. In Free Fall (2010), a new film co-commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, Picture This, Bristol and Collective, Edinburgh, incorporates a series of works—After the Crash, Before the Crash and Crash—which employs the setting and characters of an aeroplane junkyard in the Californian desert to tell the story of the current economic climate.

The CFC Media Lab TELUS Interactive Art & Entertainment Program (IAEP) is Canada’s first post-graduate training and production program based on a philosophy that compelling content is created though a collaborative process harnessing a wide range of cr…

For the whole month of November, Dalibor Baric (1974) shows five of his films on the Streaming Festival.

Dalibor Baric lives and work in Zagreb, Croatia. He makes short films out of ectoplasmic sensations enfolded in discarded, feeble snake skin of f…

Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive:

Vuk Ćosić: ASCII History of Moving Images
Exhibition opens
Online only

Vuk Ćosić: ASCII History of Moving Images
December 1, 2010-February 28, 2011
Vuk Ćosić created the ASCII History of Moving Images …