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The second edition of NOMAD (Load/Flow/Mix) urban video festival will take place from the 3rd until the 7th of October 2007 in Tineretului Park and Herăstrău Park, Bucharest.
The event has three sections: NOMAD FLOW - local and international video artists' presentations; NOMAD MIX - audio-visual section (musicians and VJs); NOMAD LOAD - a series of site-specific video interventions in changing locations.
The first edition took place in June 2006 and it was an "art in movement" mixed media project that involved young artists from Romania and abroad.
The events took place in several locations in town, all without a specific cultural purpose.
The aim of NOMAD is to present video art creations in situ in non-cultural environments.
The festival is trying to reach a more diverse and wider audience, to bring the latest trends in contemporary video art to a park, a public leisure area.
Thus, the encounter with contemporary art becomes more interactive and open for discussion.
NOMAD is waiting for submissions from young artists for NOMAD Flow and /or NOMAD Load on video CD or video DVD.
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Nomad 2007: Call for Applications
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United Creators is proud to announce its second annual online art competition to discover, recognize and honor excellence in the global visual arts.
The competition is open to all global artists working in applied media such as: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking and digital art.
Finalists will benefit from worldwide exposure and will have the opportunity to win awards and notable recognition for their exemplary work.
Global press releases for winning entrants, featured interviews in Uconmag; A contemporary arts communique, $2500 total in cash, and more.
This is an excellent opportunity for artists to showcase their artwork in a global arts platform, and have it be reviewed by a panel of globally renowned professionals from the Arts and Business fields.
Deadline: Oct 31st, 2007.
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The constructivist movement looked upon industry and design as instruments for social change and believed in their socio-cultural capacity to mobilize and influence.
Two basic characteristics of the constructivist style are apparent in Tomer Sapir's work: one is the use of geometric language and exposed geometrical structures, characterized by the aesthetics of the machine and industry; the other is the formation of sculptural objects through an assemblage of materials.
However, the context that characterized the beginning of the 20th century is no longer applicable, and what started in the constructivist movement as high expectations of a detaching from the past is no longer relevant when such detachment is today inherently associated with loneliness, alienation and frustration.
In Tomer's work, paradoxically, the constructivist style both contains and renounces an enthusiasm for the idea of progress: the aesthetics of the machine, which has become so embedded in western culture, is rendered in rusty, crumbling and rickety structures.
Nevertheless, the works portray an enthusiasm for the exposed geometrical structures and for that which is embodied in progress.
The displayed objects create a grey area in which cultural life is created and destroyed at one and the same time.
This involvement in grey areas has been present in much of Tomer's work.
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Prostheses: Tomer Sapir
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project: gallery LA and Rising Artists Series is pleased to present The Spectacle, the first Los Angeles solo exhibition by Micke Tong.
His virtual art techniques reveal a new breakthrough for this generation's contemporary digital art movement.
Spectacle, says Debord, "is an opium, that allows us to sleep walk, as if drugged, stumbling blindfolded through a devolving landscape... while cocooned in artificiality and illusion; mind-numbed by cyber media into passive stupefied spectators."
Artist Micke Tong resides in San Francisco, California.
He is a graduate of the Academy of Art University San Francisco with a Bachelor Degree in Computer Arts.
A member of the former purist art group, Multi Media Art Collective (MMAC) and founder of The National Alliance of Art Scenarios, Tong's work is a visual metaphor of cultural knowledge.
In The Spectacle, Micke Tong shares his skewed visions and tactfully touches on a variety subjects from interpretations of human landscapes to politics and religion.
His art is a dreamscape of exotic cultures, personal truths and elevated realities with an equal measure of sophistication.
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Micke Tong's The Spectacle
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Forty-four works selected from Global Feminisms are once again on view at the Brooklyn Museum in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
Like its widely praised predecessor, Remix seeks to challenge the dominance of European and American contemporary art and explore such issues as racial and gender identity, politics, and oppression.
Remix assembles works by 40 women artists, who represent countries that are seldom involved in the contemporary art discourse such as Guatemala, Kenya, Pakistan, Thailand, Korea, India.
The wide range of media employed in the exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, photography, works on paper, and video.
In this exhibition, many of the artworks are infused with political activism.
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