PUSH JA LEYSNER: EXPOSITIE ACTIE: 26 NOVEMBER – 19.30 OFFICIELE OPENING
CULTUUR ALARM – PROTEST EXPO EN ACTIES TEGEN, OVER, ONDANKS HET CULTUURBELEID VAN VVD/CDA (EN PVV)

GECENSUREERD WERK, PERFORMANCES, BEELDENDE KUNST
EEN AVOND ZOALS JE HAAR NOG NOOIT HEB MEEGEMAAKT!!
26 NOVEMBER – 19.30 OFFICIELE OPENING
RC de Ruimte
Frans de Wollantstraat 84
1018 SC Amsterdam

special guests:
Madame Nada
Frenkert
DJ Fake on Mercy
DJ Helbu and the Blackbeauties
DJ exm
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Livestream on the 26th of November from 11:00 till 27th of November 11:00
click here for the live stream

Trained nine teachers from CKC and participants in the Patching Zone in how to give a 5-day One Minutes Junior workshop.
Behind the scenes of the workshop. Video by Loes Bogers.

Presentation of results from the 2-day workshop at the official opening of the Art Lab on October 28, 2010.
Videos from the participants can be viewed here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/digitalartlabckc

18,000 Vietnam dong = 1 USD selected for
Eattopia
The 2^nd Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition 2010
Chew’s Culture Foundation Hong-Gah Museum
Curators- Chen Yung-Hsien & Sean C. S. Hu

2010/10/2 to 2011/1/2

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Invited Artists

Chen Chieh Jen (Taiwan) ︱ Tsai Char Wei (Taiwan) ︱ Su Hui Yu (Taiwan) ︱ Vyacheslav Akhunov (Kyrgyzstan) ︱ Bigert & Bergström (Sweden)

Mike Parr (Australia) ︱ Roggerbasco (Philippines) ︱ Manuel Saiz (Spain) ︱ Jeremy Seifert (USA)

Artists Selected by the Juries

Niu Chun Chiang (Taiwan) ︱ Wu Hsuan Husan (Taiwan) ︱ Ka Shin Yu (Taiwan) ︱ Chen Yan Chin‧Chu Lang Ting‧Hung Chen (Taiwan) ︱ Chen I Chun (Taiwan)

Liao Chi Yu (Taiwan) ︱ Larry A. Shaob (USA) ︱ Lara Acuin (Philippines) ︱ Giuseppe Di Bella (Italy) ︱ Rajorshi Ghosh (India) ︱ Patricija Gilyte (Lithuania)

Hamza Halloubi (Morocco) ︱ Hillerbrand+Magsamen (USA) ︱ Gayle Chong Kwan (UK) ︱ Vivian Wenli Lin (USA) ︱ Mores McWreath (USA)

Jonas Nilsson (Sweden) ︱ Alexis Raskin (USA)︱ Prilla Tania (Indonesia)

Extending exhibitions

Art Museum, National Taiwan University of Arts

Date: Oct. 11 ~ Nov. 7, 2010

Venue: No.59, Sec. 1, Ta-kuan Rd., Panchiao, Taipei, Taiwan

http://www.ntua.edu.tw/

Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2010  Program：Eattopia

Date: Nov. 26 ~ Dec.5, 2010

Venue: No. 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Rd. To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, HK

http://www.microwavefest.net/

For more information of lectures and live art shows please visit the official website and Hong-Gah Museum’s website

www.twvideoart.org

www.hong-gah.org.tw

De Hoeksteen Live! 2010.09.25/26

Live from The Netherlands Media Art Instititute (NIMk), Amsterdam.
Broadcast on Salto A1 and streamed for one month here:
http://hoeksteen.wordpress.com/video/

The show can also be streamed in VLC by opening this link:
mms://195.169.148.57/LogDepotStream/6/1009260000.asf

Voices of Women Media were interviewed by Maarten van der Meer about “A Day In Her Life” workshop.
Thanks to Raul Marroquin for including us in this evening’s show.

Congratulations to Jesse Russel’s “Pride” Pittsburgh TOMJr 2010, Nomi Leasure’s “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” Pittsburgh TOMJr 2007 and Adjaratou Coumba Deme Gueye’s “Ma Mère Mon Soufflè” Dakar TOMJr 2009.

THE SECRET LIFE OF GIRLS: CJFF Youth Media Program
Ragtag Cinema, Big Theatre
Oct. 17, 12:15PM

Filmmakers as young as 8 and from as far away as Sudan (and as close as our own backyard!), this collection showcases some of the best short films created by young women aged 18 & younger. Exploring everything from the hilarious to the heartbreaking to the sublime, all are a testament to the incredible talents of young women everywhere and several of these young filmmakers will be present to talk about their films, as will the coordinators of this program. Many of these shorts were made possible by youth programs dedicated to supporting young filmmakers and we are proud to showcase films from these fellow film lovers: Reel Girls, the European Cultural Foundation, Harvard-Westlake School, True/False Film Festival and UNICEF.

Controllar, art-pop duo of Thomas Myrmel & Anat Spiegel, spent two weeks in residency at STEIM, studio for electro-instrumental music in Amsterdam. The focus of this residency was to further develop the unique combination of vocals and electronics used in their live performance. Filmed and edited by Vivian Wenli Lin.

http://contemporaryperformance.com/2010/06/15/p4m-online-video-festival-day02-controllar-netherlands-john-jahnkehotel-savant-usa/

the media art project
BROADCAST MEDIA SCULPTURES

invites you to the final conference
THE FUTURE OF OLD MEDIA

02. – 03. September 2010
11:00 to 18:00
Kunsthalle Exnergasse

04. September 2010
20:00
WUK Foyer

“We work with women who have been trafficked and with current and
former sex workers. Some of the women have been trafficked into the
sex industry, and some of them were forced into other kinds of
labour, such as bonded domestic work. Most of the women have
migrated from other countries to the Netherlands.

On one level, we train women who are marginalised in the Netherlands
to tell their stories using powerful media tools such as radio, photo-
graphy, and video. We want to give them the skill and opportunity to
express the complexities of their lives.
But we don’t stop there. Our goal is to use media to create a more
humanised and multi-faceted picture of the sex industry. We want
to show this industry as a complex fabric, composed both of women
workers who are entitled to demand their rights as workers and women
who have been forced into the industry.
Many people looking in from the outside have quite a polarised view.
Women are either victims, or they are making choices. But as in any
other area of life, there are many grey zones. We will create a moving
exhibition that tells the stories of sex workers and trafficked women in
their own voices and images. In the long-term, we want to create an
independent media centre run by and for women from these communities.”

Home is a concept that is material, emotional and political. At the heart of the most recent economic collapse, the loss of homes became a major concern, not only from the perspective of people’s inabilityto secure shelter, but also in how within the context of the american dream losing a home became analogous to losing the promise of the capitalist might.

The lack of a home may be different than a lack of home; this series addresses the meaning of home and the definitions individuals, cities, nations and cultures work with when referring to such concept. Themes of displacement, (im)migration, uneven development, autonomous spaces, architecture and memory are recurring in the program.

Curated by denisse andrade

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Featuring a conversation with Rob Robinson, of Picture the Homeless, filmmakers and others TBA.

DOÑA ANA, Animation; 2min (2006)
Marlon Vásquez Silva, David Sanchez, Colombia
Ana is a woman who sells medicinal plants in the city of Medellín ,Colombia. While she eats strawberries and talks about their properties, we find out much more.

HERE TO STAY, Documentary; 7min (2008)
Mansee Kong, USA
Illustrates the effects of gentrification in Manhattan’s Chinatown as an elderly man and fellow tenants in an endangered single-room occupancy building await the results of an anti-eviction lawsuit

CUSPS, Documentary; 14min (2008)
Sara Zia Ebrahimi, USA
In this personal documentary Sara Zia Ebrahimi explores her experiences living as an urban nomad and immigrant in the post-industrial landscape of Philadelphia.

The documentary first began exploring the role artists play in gentrification.

FOUR PLACES CALLED HOME, Documentary; 4 min (2008)
Simone Viger, Canada
Do you know the history of your home? How much of the past can be read? This portrait of a neighborhood travels to four different reconverted buildings in the South West region of Montreal, presenting varied notions of home.

TACTICAL TOURIST, 14min (2007)
Dara Greenwald, USA
A DIY portrait of the squatting movement in Barcelona, Spain. A tourist walks through the city led by squatters – the tour points out buildings turned from abandoned or speculative properties into communal homes and radical cultural spaces.

DEAR NEIGHBOR, Video letter; 7min (2006)
Cristian Bermudez, Costa Rica/Norway
An ordinary house in an ordinary suburb was painted in white and fuchsia color stripes. A year later, a letter was sent to the neighbors explaining the reasons for this choice. The same letter was used as script for this film that deals with issues such as identity, immigration and the use of art out of the white cube.

2 HOME MOVIES, Experimental documentary; 9min (2009)
Masha Godovannaya, Russia
One can say with some certainty that all of us,with cameras–
have shot home movies in their lives.Now, imagine how a home movie would look like if it was shot inWarsaw Ghetto at the beginning of 1940s by a German worker during this vacation…

NO PLACE LIKE HOME, PSA. 1min (2009)
Supafriends, Global Action Project; USA
A public service announcement focusing on homelessness among LGBTQ youth.

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ICIT ET LA-BAS (HERE AND THERE), Documentary; 20min (2003)
Natalia Rodriguez, Colombia
A n immigrant couple in France see their daughters becoming French. In this home of double culture, hopes of going back still exist.

THE COST OF SEPARATION, Documentary, 9min (2009)
Liz Miller Canada

“The Cost of Separation” highlights the daily effects of prolonged separation from family members on three parents with refugee status in Canada.

STILL, Documentary; 18min (2009)
Alana Kakoyiannis, Cyprus
A poetic documentary reflecting on the notion of home through
the lens of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriotdisplacement on the divided island of Cyprus. The testimonies of twofemale voices living on opposing sides of the Green Line combined with the filmmaker’s own observations of the present day, capture the potency ofthe political conflict through personal perspectives.

DISILLUSIONMENT, Video portraits;12min (2007)
Voices of Women Media, The Netherlands
Migrant women flee their homelands in search of a new country offering security,freedom and peace. They leave families and their cultures behind for a chance to improve their political and personal situations.

In February 2007, undocumented migrant women residing illegally in a housing shelter in The Netherlands were given media tools to create six intimate videoportraits offering a brief glimpse into this transient period oftheir lives.

STEEL HOMES, Documentary; 10min (2008)
Eva Weber, UK
A poetic exploration of memory and loss, Steel Homes takes the viewer inside the world of a self-storage warehouse, uncovering the hiddent treasures and secrets behind closed doors.

WARM PLACE TONIGHT, Documentary, 7min (1996)
Nic Bettauer, USA
This film documents two homeless men’s Sisyphean struggle to safe the life of their friend on the streets of downtown Los Angeles. The film expresses the men’s feelings of helplessness, hopelessness and powerlessness tied to their grief, loss and homelessness.

LEAVING EL BARRIO, Documentary, 5min (1997)
Beni Matias, USA
A look at what happens when a family loses their home in Spanish Harlem.