EXPANDED VIDEO. NEW FRONTIERS FOR THE AUDIOVISUAL IN ARGENTINA. PART II

4 November 2008 - Córdoba and Rosario
Centro Cultural España-Córdoba

Coordinated by Gisela di Marco. Participants:

Table 1 Video: crossing territory
Gustavo Galuppo, Jorge Castro and Federico Falcó.
Video art related to other disciplines (music, literature, film) and attached to other genealogies. Video as a tool within other forms and expressive technologies
Table 2 Video projection, video formation and video circulation: personal experiences
Maximiliano Rossini, Armando Frezze and Federico Caram (Colectivo Arteproteico).
Experience and personal history: how do we become involved with audiovisual media. Video projection, formation and circulation today. Personal projects we are working in.
Table 3 Some questions around the art scene.
Soledad Dahbar and Carlos Herrera.
To what extent production and circulation of video are tainted by technologic fate? What if video was, due to the possibility to multiply and distribute itself, a succession of intangible codes and its autonomy lies there? Its immaterial and highly portable quality, does it make communications more rhizomatic? How is the history of Argentinean video art written in a context of centralized histories? Checking the scene means checking the ways of reception, and that influences how video is perceived as a genre.
Table 4 Checking the exhibition displays and the spaces for exhibition
Dolores Cáceres, Gonzalo Biffarella and Ana Claudia García
Different conceptualizations of time and place nowadays. Real spaces and virtual spaces: circulation, roaming and random paths. The screen as a place for statements. Real time and virtual space.

Biographies

Armando Frezze Durand

He is an audiovisual producer and one of the members of the audiovisual experimental collective Arteproteico since 2001. (www.arteproteico.com.ar). As a director he always works his intimist side, searching for each character’s story and trying to catch it. He works in sound and image post-production in a design studio. He always tries to develop the connection between his personal projects and the commercial pieces. He currently lives in Buenos Aires. http://www.armandofrezze.com.ar

Federico Caram

He is an audiovisual technical producer and he graduated at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. He is one of the founding members of the audiovisual experimental collective Arteproteico since 2001. The group has participated with its works in several festivals in over 13 countries and has appeared in publications such as: Videoperfiles, Video Argentino - Ensayos sobre 4 Autores Arte y Nuevas Tecnologías ‘05 - Espacio Fundación Telefónica, to mention a few. http://www.arteproteico.com.ar

Gonzalo Biffarella

He was born in 1961. He studied to become a composer in the Art School of Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. He has won several international and national awards. He specializes in multimedia works. He has commissions for several important contemporary arts centers, both in Europe and America. His works are regularly presented in over 20 countries. He teaches at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.

Dolores Cáceres

She was born in Córdoba, Argentina. Since 1987 she has had solo exhibitions. She combines her work as a visual artist with activities as a curator and cultural manager. She has won several awards for her urban interventions and sculptures installed in public spaces. Her works are present in the collections of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio Caraffa, and several important private collections. She lives and works in Villa Allende, Córdoba.

Jorge Castro

He was born in Córdoba en 1967 and is a digital artist, Master in Digital Art. He is one of the pioneers of electronic art in Argentina. He is a real time audio-media programmer. Since 1990, he has made audio and video projects for important international festivals, audiovisual shows and installations in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, US, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Australia and the Netherlands. He is one of the founders of Sudamérica Electrónica http://manipulatto.com

Soledad Dahbar

She was born in Salta in 1976 and studied Social Communication and Audiovisual at UNC. For three years she lived in New York, working in independent film productions. She has been a fellow at Fundación Antorchas, in 2004 and 2008. She won the award Región of the NOA in photography (Fundación OSDE, 2005). She coordinates, with Ana María Benedetti and Roxana Ramos, the space of visual arts La Guarda, presented at Barrio Joven arteBA’07. She mostly works with video and photography and lives and works in Salta

Federico Falco

He is a writer and video artist, and he was born in General Cabrera, Córdoba. He graduated in Communication, major in Television studies. His video Estudio para horizonte en Plano General [Study for horizon in long shot] was selected for the 2 Bienal de Video Arte Interamericano organized by the Inter-American Development Bank. He got a grant awarded by the Fondo Nacional de las Artes to study the relations between poetry and video art

Gustavo Galuppo

He was born in Rosario in 1971. He was one of the founding members and the first director of the film and video magazine El Eclipse. He works as a director of experimental video since 1998. He has won several international prizes and grants, awarded by Fundación Antorchas and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario (MACRO). He was one of the coordinators of the project “Videoperfiles” www.videoperfiles.com.ar on experimental Argentinean video art. He is also a university teacher.

Ana Claudia García

She is an artist, teacher and researcher. Master in Art History, Faculty of Arts (UNT), major in Art and New Technologies (2006). She graduated in Arts at the Faculty of Arts of UNT (1987). She is a lecturer in the Art History Department at the Film, Video and TV College, UNT. She has won different awards, fellowships and grants for the development of her artistic work and her research on video art.

Carlos Herrera

He was born in Rosario in 1976. Artist and current executive director of Museo Castagnino+macro and Marasca Trip Gallery Rosario. He is involved in different projects with homely and intimist features, installations and documentaries, photography and audio. His works are present in some international and national museums and private collections. He lives and works in the countryside.

Maximiliano Rossini

He was born in Leones, Córdoba, in 1978. He studied Graphic Design and Fine Arts in Rosario. In 2002 he attended Andrea Ostera’s photography workshop and had his first solo exhibition. Between 2003 and 2004 he participated in the workshop El Levante (Pichincha, Rosario). In 2007 he was chosen to participate in Curriculum 0 (Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires). In 2008 he was granted the fellowship for the promotion of young visual artist (Fundación Nuevo Banco de Santa Fe). He lives and works in Rosario.