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The DIVA News page refers to public presentations, exhibitions, screenings, publications in Slovenia and on the international scene, connected to participations of DIVA Station Video Archive and the video artists who had contributed their video artworks to the archive. We also introduce events organised by DIVA Station (SCCA-Ljubljana) in order to promote its content and usage.

Postaja DIVA, spletna stranSo Young (Neven Korda, Zemira Alajbegović)Neven Korda, Bodočniki

June 8, 2013, at 5pm, Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Pariska ul. 12, Belgrade. The exhibition presents as well the video So Young included into the DIVA Station archive. A compilation of the Borghesia video clips (So Young, The Wild Bunch, He, Too Much Tension, Cindy, A.R., ZMR) was issued in 1985 as the first video cassette by the FV Label. These are short, almost "film-like" stories focused primarily on the iconography of the body in urban surroundings. One of the clips presents a pioneer use of computer graphics.” (Videodokument)At the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade the exhibition entitled Video, Televison, Anticipation will be on view from June 7 until July 14. The exhibition is curated by Branka Benčić and Aleksandra Sekulić.


V knjižnici SCCA med drugim zbiramo študijski material, ki je osredotočen na teoretsko in praktično obravnavo video medija, pa tudi novih medijev in filma. Knjižnica je od maja letos bogatejša za izbor desetih publikacij, ki nam jih je podarila Slovenska kinoteka.


 

Premiera 20. marca 2013 Društvo prijateljev zmernega napredka & MKSMC (Mladinski, kulturni, socialni, multimedijski in medgeneracijski center), Gregorčičeva 4, Koper. S programom želimo pokazati kar se da heterokliten izbor videov, ki prikazujejo, da so se osemdeseta leta ukvarjala s problemi, ki so podobni današnjim. Ljudje so se borili z ekološkimi izzivi, soočali so se s stanovanjskimi zagatami, pri tem pa so našli čas tudi za razmišljanje o modi in produkciji lepih video del.

Predstavitev in video projekcije, sreda, 20. 3. 2013, ob 18. uri v prostorih Društva prijateljev zmernega napredka & MKSMC (Mladinski, kulturni, socialni, multimedijski in medgeneracijski center), Gregorčičeva 4, Koper. Sodelavci SCCA, Barbara Borčić, Dušan Dovč, Ida Hiršenfelder in Saša Nabergoj, smo za dogodek pripravili program predstavitev in projekcij. Najprej bomo predstavili tri programske sklope: šolo za kustose in kritike Svet umetnosti, podporni spletni portal Artservis in Postajo DIVA, pionirski model ohranjanje slovenske sodobne umetniške video in novomedijske produkcije.


In her presentation, Nataša Skušek is going to focus on artistic works (videos, photography) touching upon feminist topics. We also cannot bypass her exhibition, entitled Mamica, dojilja, žena, negovalka (Mother, breastfeeder, wife, carer) at the Centre and Gallery P74 in 2006, in which she thematizes women’s incapability of fulfilling numerous social roles ascribed to them. Videoinstallation and artist talk March 7th, 2012 at 8 pm at SCCA Project Room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana The videoinstallation will be on view also on March 8th between 10am and 5pm.


Video Turn: Opening on Tuesday, 13th of November 2012 at 8 pm (13.–29. 11. 2012) Vžigalica Gallery, Trg franc. revolucije 7, Ljubljana. With the research and exhibition project Video Turn we wish to investigate and present the experimental (video, multi-disciplinary, new media) art practice and thereby also actualize the DIVA Station video archive, on the basis of which our research has initially begun. What is then the experimental and structural practice within a certain medium or within particular means of expression? What demonstrates creative and experimental use of technology?


DIVA Station gradually updates the archival materials and gathers new attributions. Recently we've also started making an inventory of our own video production. Among other materials, this also encludes Video Essays edited and directed by our collaborator Nika Grabar who regularly documents DIVA's "off-line" projects, educational programmes and international seminars. In the essays she had presented the making of an archive from an entirely different point of view in the form of video essay with en exquisit sense for moving pictures and video narration.

For 19th Anniversary of AKC Metelkova City a hosting curator at SCCA-Ljubljana Sixtine Rose Boyer prepared a video program about the alternative art scene, Metelkova and its forerunners. Sixtine Rose Boyer is currently working as a volunteer at the DIVA Station material and on-line archive of video art. Simultaneously, she is a postgraduate student of Triple Master Degree (Medias, Culture and Communication) at University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Europa-Universität Vidarina of Frankfurt an der Oder and University St Kliment Ohridski of Sofia.The starting point of her thesis is the exploration of so-called Dark Culture (i.e. Gothic, New Dark and Cold Wave, Punk, Hard Core) in Slovenia and more specifically in Ljubljana from the beginning of the 80s till today. Predominantly, she is researching the role of groups and movements like FV Group, Borghesia, Laibach and AKC Metelkova City.


DIVA Station is a physical and web archive of video art, developed at SCCA since 2005 with the intent to research, document, present and archive video/media art. By now, it contains more then 1.000 items of different materials. The notable 1.000 entry in the archive is a video performance Wear VIII produced in 2010 by Tomaž Furlan. The artist has been working on his sculptural and video project in progress Wear, since 2006. He says that Wear is "some sort of a critical reflection on the use of interactive works or, as it were, sculpture, which have emerged as extended body applications in a constrained process".

 


Mednarodni festival digitalne umetnosti in novih medijev, Atene. 18.-20. 5. 2012 V okviru osme edicije mednarodnega festival digitalne umetnosti in novih medijev v Atenah se bo kot del programa predstavljanja zgodovine medijske umetnosti predstavil tudi portal GAMA – Gateway to Archives of Media Art, ki združuje osem evropskih video arhivov in predstavlja več kot 10.000 video del. Platformo bo predstavila kustosinja Eva Kozma iz madžarskega centra za kulturo in komunikacijo – C3 iz Budimpešte. Po predavanju bo publiki prikazala izbor osmih del iz arhivov. Postajo DIVA bo predstavil video Repeating Coincidence (Ponavljajoče naključje) umetnice Maje Smrekar iz leta 2009.

Glavno vlogo v videu igra plesalka, ki je umeščena v medijsko okolje z razlitimi nasičenimi barvami, kakor da je zaprta v medijski zid. Hitrost in lomljenje podobe predstavlja plesalkino živčno gibanje po prostoru, ki ustvarja čustveno napetost. Zvok Boruta Savskega še dodatno okrepi razdrobljeno in živčno gibanje ter določa vizualne koordinate. Celotna zvočna in vizualna podoba je nasičena, repetitivna in razdrobljena, sestavljena iz nešteto zrezanih sličic oz. frejmov. Glavni namen videa je, da bi z uporabo formalnega video jezika in tehničnih intervencij proizvedel močan čustven impulz in hkrati napravil kritiko medijske realnosti.

Video je rezultat improvizacij Maje Smrekar in Boruta Savskega v Cirkulaciji 2. Portretira notranje stanje duha med klavstrofobičnim napadom. Govori o čustvenem potovanju v stanje stiske, prikazuje akutno ankcioznost in panični napad. Podobe so vzete iz filma Flash Dance, ki je do skrajnosti manipuliran, razrezan na nešteto delov, programiran v programu za VJje Resolume, obdelan s filtri, montiran, ponovno filtriran in montiran. Umetnica se večinoma ukvarja z medijskimi umetniškimi deli in kompleksnimi kulturno-antropološkimi situacijami, v video delih pa se večinoma nanaša na podobe iz pop kulture, ki jih reinterpretira in razkriva njihov izpraznjen konstrukt.

Maja Smrekar (1978, Slovenija) je diplomirala iz kiparstva na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Ljubljani leta 2005. Trenutno končuje magisterij na Oddelku za nove medije. Njen osrednji interes je fenomenologija percepcije, ki jo je sprva začela raziskovati kot prostorski fenomen z obdelavo video projekcije v živo. Pri tem je sodelovala s številnimi drugimi umetniki, da bi zasnovala interaktivne zvočno-vizualne projekte. Njeno osrednje umetniško področje je intermedijska umetnost. Med drugim zadnjih pet let sodeluje z Galerijo Kapelica in tudi zadnji dve leti z Zavodom Aksioma. V produkciji teh dveh institucij je realizirala projekte, v katerih je raziskovala fenomen frekvence z biološko povratno zanko in telmatično prezenco v odnosu do telesa, zasebnosti in (inter)subjektivne percepcije prostora. V zadnjih dveh letih je razvijala projekte v polju bioumetnosti, pri katerih se je osredotočila na žive organizme. Leta 2010 je organizirala Mednarodni festival HAIP10 / Next Nature, ki je povezoval interdisciplinarni dialog in sodelovalne etike med znanstveniki in umetniki. Festival se je odvijal v multimedijskem centru Kiberpipa v Ljubljani, kjer je dve leti tudi oblikovala umetniški program. Maja Smrekar živi in dela v Ljubljani.

 

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