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Magmart
VIDEO UNDER VOLCANO
International videoart festival
Fourth edition
Curated by
ANTONIO MANFREDI
ENRICO TOMASELLI
Opening | March the 14th 2009,
Saturday at 7.00pm
14 March | 14 April 2009
On Saturday Marcht he 14th at 7.00 pm,
at CAM_Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, the fourth edition
of “Magmart_Video under Volcano”, International Festival of
videoart curated by Antonio Manfredi and Enrico Tomaselli
will take place. On the opening night the selected videos –
among more than 200 participating – will be projected at Casoria museum. Every year this festival confirms as necessary for
worldwide videoartists sending sketched, shot and edited
material with the many executive techniques. The jury of
experts – made up of Antonio Manfredi, CAM director, Enrico
Tommaselli, founder and
artistic director of the Festival,
Giuseppe
De Marco, videoartist and founder of
Mediavox,
Luca
Magnoni, journalist, founder of
Hydrogen and creative director of NinjaLAB – evaluates
through the web according to technical-artistic criteria.
In order to guarantee the vote fairness the commission
judges on-line: watching the videos and using the secret
vote system, infact. The sum of the votes leads to the
selection of thirty winners which works become part of the
CAM museum permanent collection. The videos of this Festival
edition face issues and subjects someway new and a
considerable decrease of graphic animation and increase of
shot products, evidencing a diffusion of cameras. Themes
range from concrete observation to oneiric irreality. Videos
keep on being the visual expression of immaginary worlds, of
parallel situations using common languages, close to
reportage or just denial of reality and stressing of digital
effects. The weak border separating these traces of
objectivity in coloured and unshapen immateriality is tyhe
power of this artistic expression. The several
interpretation levels allow reflections on the contemporary
and lead the viewer before the aesthetic artificial as
fluent thought. The game of images looks beaten by frantic
times and superimposition of icons and flashing lights,
while otherwise the mediated and lazy flow of events,
figures and narrative progress causes bewilderment and
perturbation. Still fascinating the medium, the power of
technological self-referral immerging in the virtual by
relating the maschine to the human. On the opening night the
event will be live broadcasted on the Festival website (www.magmart.it).
INFO: CAM | CASORIA CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM
www.casoriacontemporaryartmuseum.com
info@casoriacontemporaryartmuseum.com
casoriacontemporaryartmuseum@hotmail.com
Via Duca D’Aosta 63/A - Casoria/Napoli/Italy Tel/Fax: +39
0817576167
Press office CAM_Graziella Melania Geraci +393349399870
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