Arte Laguna Prize [winner] 16th Edition | Venice, Italy | February 2022

Arte Laguna Prize, the world’s most influential competition for artists and designers, showcases and promotes creative talent. With 17 years of history, Arte Laguna Prize offers the opportunity to join the huge network of collaborations around the world. Exhibition of the finalist artists in the breathtaking location of the Arsenale of Venice and much more.

#Post RE:SET@New Future

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The Covid-19 crisis, and the political, economic and social disruptions it has caused, is fundamentally changing the traditional context for decision-making. The inconsistencies, inadequacies and contradictions of multiple systems –from health and financial to energy and education – are more exposed than ever amidst a global context of concern for lives, livelihoods and the planet. 
The measures against the spread of Covid-19 have also shown how to fight against climate change and how a new normality marked by the fourth revolution and the global reset will direct our new future.
the Great Reset initiative has a set of dimensions to build a new social contract that honours the dignity of every human being. These dimensions are called the fourth global revolution or a new global order.
Previous industrial revolutions liberated humankind from animal power, made mass production possible and brought digital capabilities to billions of people. This Fourth Industrial Revolution is, however, fundamentally different. It is characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, impacting all disciplines, economies and industries, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human, that is, we arrive at Transhumanism.

The evidence of dramatic change is all around us and it’s happening at exponential speed.

At the end, the 4th Industrial Revolution and Transhumanism will be  achieved through the merging of our physical, digital, and biological identities, along with a new social contract which includes social credit and ecological credit for each individual.

These fusions are advances in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, genetic engineering (gene editing with CRISPR technology), smart vaccines (mRNA), quantum computing, virtual reality, Blockchain, artificial intelligence and other technologies. It’s the collective force behind many products and services that are fast becoming indispensable to the new global life, what matters now is the common good and the green philosophy.
How do we find hope in this Great Reset era? 
The latest watershed advances occurring in the world around us directly affect the aesthetics of our visions. Our senses are alert, excited, moved, and impassioned by the pulsating rhythm of culture.
The proposl focuses on a positive, meta-creative and enlightened view of human potential, aesthetic design in technology, the prevalence of science, and aestheticism in the future architecture of life.
We are exploring how current and future technologies affect our senses, our cognition and our lives. Our attention to these relationships become fields of art as we participate in the most immediate and vital issues for the Post Reset and the Transhumanity.
The digital exhibition focuses on discussing these changes we are facing today and how art is responding to them. The creation by the artist is a hint for the products and their innovations that will create lifestyles and social consciousness in the future.
#Post RE:SET@ New Future features the works by numerous artists working on shaping the future. Works are selected and divided into the following four categories - “future envisioned by art”, “art possessing the future”, “creativity shaping the future”, “another future civilization” and “open futuristic themes”.
 

CURATOR: JESUS RIVERO

Art Nova 100 | Arte Laguna Prize Finalist | Beijing, China | February 2022

Art Nova 100 was first launched in September of 2011, and for its series of annual art exhibitions and promotion events, Art Nova 100 each year nominates about 100 artists from across China, as well as invites a small selection of international artists. All the artists were born in or after 1975 and work in a variety of media, including oil painting, sculpture, ink on paper, printmaking, photography and installation. The exhibition tour of these artists’ works takes place both in China and abroad. These exhibitions and their related events provide a large-scale promoting platform for the most promising young artists.

Art Nova 100 exhibition has toured Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Ordos, Hong Kong, Macao, and other cities. At the same time, Art Nova 100 has cooperated with various organizations to hold theme exhibitions, including "1 in 100 • Young Artists Solo Exhibition". While the 2013 Art Nova 100 continues to improve its domestic exhibition platform, it is also growing its presence overseas, bringing outstanding young artists to new international audiences. Art Nova 100 will continueto coordinate tour exhibitions, theme exhibitions, solo exhibitions, academic publications, artist promotion, cross-border cooperation, and international promotion into a fully integrated platform for young artists. All these activities offer young artists an access to powerful resources and communities through which they can demonstrate their talent and aiding their causes as an artist.

The Paus Premieres Festival, London, UK. July 29, 2022

The paus is a launch-pad for filmmakers, providing enhanced live and on-demand digital film screenings, powered by tipping. We are democratising the film industry by giving independent filmmakers the tools they need to earn money directly from their core fans. The paus premieres festival is celebrating the success of our platform and creating a virtual event on 9th July. Our previous screenings have featured stars such as Sir Ian McKellen, Russell Tovey, Conleth Hill, and included work from BAFTA award winners, Oscar-nominated directors, as well as receiving press coverage from Screen Daily, Business Insider, IBC daily, and many more.

Lift Off Film Festival, Pinewood Studios, UK & Raleigh Studios, Hollywood. August 5, 2022.

Chaniartoon International Comic & Animation Festival, 6th Ed., Mikis Theodorakis Theatre, Chania, Greece, September 9-10, 2022

#Post RE-SET@New Future

Apart from the fact that Animae Caribe International Animation & Digital Media Festival will be celebrating 20 Years as the premiere Animation festival in the Caribbean, Animae Caribe is a movement, a gathering, a way of working collaboratively between creative entities to use animation, game design, technology to empower entertain and educate a section of society that do not have access or means to the fruits of digital media and technological tools. Based in the southernmost island in the Caribbean, off the border of South America it is a festival destination, that bursts at the seams with diverse and unique content. From October 28 to 31, the festival will turn the islands into the premiere destination for the festival experience. The four-day event bringing together experts, students, creatives, and talent to create a premier event that will innovate and inspire everyone who attends. After a successful 2020 online edition, AC21 returns with blended options for 2021, all of its programs and conferences will be available on various platforms, from VR Experiences like Alt Space and High Fidelity to traditional Zoom platforms. It will continue to be a space for networking, screening and industry exposure, but also an amazing opportunity to experience the Caribbean #islandlifebliss through inter-island online events culminating into 3 Days of conferences, screenings, receptions and VR closing ceremony on the Island of Tobago.

The Venice Architecture Film Festival is ready for its second edition. Promoted and organized by the cultural association ArchiTuned, the Festival will run at the Giardini della Marinaressa, facing the Bacino di San Marco, in Venice from the 1st to the 5th of September 2021, in parallel with the Architecture Biennial and the Venice International Film Festival. At the second edition of the VAFF 2021, entitled Communities the program will include four main sections.

FICA was one of the first and is today one of the most important environmental film festivals in the world. On the 20th anniversary of the City of Goiás as a Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the 22nd edition of the festival will take place, in a hybrid format, with online activities and in-person activities in the City of Goiás. FICA is promoted by the Government of Goiás in partnership with the Service Social of Commerce, Sesc Goiás.

Official Opening, in collaboration with Video Fenster 2021

Kortrijkt, Belgium.

Founded in 1993, Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) is the only competitive film festival in China approved by FIAPF.

SIFF focuses on awards, markets, forums and film exhibitions so as to build an international platform, and promote the development of the Chinese film industry.

In recent years, with the increasing growth of China’s economic strength and the rise of its international status, Chinese films have attracted more and more attention from people around the world, and SIFF, held in June annually, has become a great event for filmmakers worldwide, whose universal industry appeal, international influence, and effect on the world’s multicultural film culture and development of the film industry have also been praised by people inside and outside the industry.

From 22.06-27.06.2021 the immersive, urban video art and film project »Videofenster 2021« took place in Cologne-Ehrenfeld – as a parcours through the district of audiovisual works by international artists and filmmakers

Lift-Off Sessions Film Festival 2020

Miden is an independent organization for the exploration and promotion of video art. Founded by an independent group of Greek artists in 2005, it has been one of the earliest specialized video-art festivals in Greece and builded an international festival identity, presenting an annual video art festival for a decade. Since 2015, Miden continues its work changing its form to a more flexible and broadened event programming, setting as basic aims to stimulate the creation of original video art, to help spread it and develop relevant research.

Through collaborations and exchanges with major international festivals and organizations, it has been recognized as one of the most successful and interesting video art platforms internationally and as an important cultural exchange point for Greek and international video art. It also provides an alternative meeting point for emerging and established artists and a communication hub between artists, organizations, festivals and art spaces around the world.

Miden screening programs have traveled in many cities of Greece and all over the world, and they are hosted by significant festivals, museums and institutions globally.

MOHA is a home of contemporary art in Budapest, Hungary. It organised several cultural events such as dance theater, fine art exhibitions, screenings, etc.

MOHA Short Film Night 2018 screens 2D and 3D animation films and experimental animations.

Our event brings together independent and experimental filmmakers and animation fans worldwide.

Our first event’s theme is THE PART AND THE WHOLE 
We accept narrative and none narrative animation films, traditional and experimental animations.

Miden is an independent organization for the exploration and promotion of video art. Founded by an independent group of Greek artists in 2005, it has been one of the earliest specialized video-art festivals in Greece and builded an international festival identity, presenting an annual video art festival for a decade. Since 2015, Miden continues its work changing its form to a more flexible and broadened event programming, setting as basic aims to stimulate the creation of original video art, to help spread it and develop relevant research.

Through collaborations and exchanges with major international festivals and organizations, it has been recognized as one of the most successful and interesting video art platforms internationally and as an important cultural exchange point for Greek and international video art. It also provides an alternative meeting point for emerging and established artists and a communication hub between artists, organizations, festivals and art spaces around the world.

Miden screening programs have traveled in many cities of Greece and all over the world, and they are hosted by significant festivals, museums and institutions globally.

La prima edizione del Cefalù film festival è stata inaugurata sabato 1 agosto alle ore 21 presso l’Arena Dafne di Cefalù. Per l’occasione sono 110 i cortometraggi in gara che arrivano da tutto il mondo. A presiedere la giuria, che decreta il vincitore, è stato il regista Pasquale Scimeca. A vincere la prima edizione del Cefalù film festival sono stati i cortometraggi “Due piedi sinistri” e “mio padre è mio amico”. La premiazione sul palcoscenico dell’Arena Dafne di Cefalù.

Cinema-Perpetuum-Mobile | Belarus. Minsk

TRASHXPLOITATION, festival of short film, was started in Paris in 2017 as a display of international network of artists whose work relates to trash in terms of production, inspiration or narrative approach. Whether you are schooled artists, in process of studying or you never went to any school, feel free to join us for a common look at the film forms emerging from positions that are emancipated from influence of theory, knowledge and big production teams. Name of the festival is a neologism coined in analogy with the term "exploitation film": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation_film

Artifact is one of only a handful of festivals worldwide that exhibit exclusively on small-format celluloid. We are proud to be among the select few that continue to keep this unique medium alive, and to draw celluloid lovers to Calgary each year. 

60 Seconds or Less...and now more!

In addition to showcasing great works that are 60 seconds or less we are also looking for great Short Films, for entries that are longer than 60 seconds, but no longer than 30 minutes. And of course we'll continue to showcase great works that are 60 seconds or less!!

The 60 Seconds or Less Video Festival embraces short-form videos in all genres. Sponsored by Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland the festival offers awards and screening opportunities for an international audience.

Miden is an independent organization for the exploration and promotion of video art. Founded by an independent group of Greek artists in 2005, it has been one of the earliest specialized video-art festivals in Greece and builded an international festival identity, presenting an annual video art festival for a decade. Since 2015, Miden continues its work changing its form to a more flexible and broadened event programming, setting as basic aims to stimulate the creation of original video art, to help spread it and develop relevant research.

Through collaborations and exchanges with major international festivals and organizations, it has been recognized as one of the most successful and interesting video art platforms internationally and as an important cultural exchange point for Greek and international video art. It also provides an alternative meeting point for emerging and established artists and a communication hub between artists, organizations, festivals and art spaces around the world.

Miden screening programs have traveled in many cities of Greece and all over the world, and they are hosted by significant festivals, museums and institutions globally.