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2.8.14

River of Fundament (trailer), Matthew Barney

22.4.13

Light Shots, concurso de películas de arquitectura, extendió su fecha límite hasta el 3 de mayo.

Vía Architects Journal.

La fecha límite se ha extendido, haz una película de 60 segundos, súbela a Youtube y gana £500.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Make 60 second movie, upload to YouTube, win £500

Entrants to Light Shots, the AJ’s film contest in partnership with Philips have a few more days to finish their films

The AJ and Philips have teamed up to launch Light Shots, a short film competition with a first prize of £500. Architects and architecture students are invited to submit a short video film (60 seconds or under) on the theme of light, exploring the impact of artificial light on the places in which we live.

Film has a long history of exploring cities and the impact of light on the built environment. In the compressed timespan the short film offers, entrants are challenged to investigate an aspect of how we live and how light shapes us and our environments.

How to apply

Shorts should be uploaded, and forms completed by midnight MAY 3, 2013

The competition entries can be created in any format (Super-8, 16/35mm, video, animation) but must be uploaded as a digital file in any of the following file formats: .MOV, .MPEG4, .MVI, . WMV, .MPEGPS, .FLV, 3GPP and WebM

Submissions must not exceed 60 seconds in length. There is no minimum length requirement

Entries can be silent or with sound

The filmmakers name and title of the work must be clearly displayed at the beginning of each submission

The film can be set in a city, town or village, either outside or in an interior space. It should stimulate, entertain and delight and can be shot at night or during the day. It can be in digital format, or on Super 8, a stop-frame animation, a time-lapse or any other means of capturing a moment in time, but no longer than 60 seconds.

Prizes include £500 cash, a trip to Philips’ Outdoor Lighting Application Center near Lyon, a Philips Hue lighting system and subscriptions to The Architects’ Journal and Architectural Review. Shortlisted films will be available to view on the AJ website and shown at a screening in Central London.

The deadline for entries is Midnight 3 MAY.

5.3.13

Doug Aitken - Altered Earth Install Documentation

Vía Wallpaper / Doug Aitken Workshop.

Doug Aitken - Altered Earth Install Documentation from Doug Aitken Workshop on Vimeo.

To create his latest series of video projections, Californian multimedia artist Doug Aitken visited the Camargue region of southern France, where he spent months capturing the reedy lagoons, splendid fauna and empty panoramas of a geography that's been settled since Roman times yet scarcely developed since. The snippets of life are being shown in an exhibition titled 'Altered Earth: Arles, city of moving images' at the Parc des Ateliers in historic Arles. In the park's hangar-like Grande Halle, Aitken's enormous cinematic screens create what he calls 'an almost holographic view of the physical landscape'. Watch the exhibition in action.

16.6.11

VideoBrasil reúne Karim Aïnouz e Olafur Eliasson

Vía VideoBrasil

08.06.11

Concebido como um exercício em torno da obra do artista dinamarco-islandês Olafur Eliasson, o sétimo filme da série Videobrasil Coleção de Autores terá a assinatura do cineasta brasileiro Karim Aïnouz.

A mostra de Eliasson no 17º Festival Internacional de Arte Contemporânea SESC_Videobrasil, Seu corpo da obra, serve de matéria-prima às proposições iniciais de Aïnouz, que quer explorar a presença humana, central nas obras, e aproximá-las de referências pessoais, como o universo dos parques de diversão nordestinos.

"A obra de Olafur tem um caráter de ilusionismo", justifica o cineasta, conhecido por obras como Madame Satã (2002) e O abismo prateado, que participou da Quinzena dos Realizadores em Cannes em 2011. "O que ele cria é uma espécie de sensorama."

O projeto do filme, que tem lançamento previsto para o começo de 2012, será precedido por outra colaboração entre Eliasson e Aïnouz. Os dois desenvolvem em colaboração uma obra que integra a exposição de Olafur no Festival.

No começo de maio, Aïnouz esteve em São Paulo para captar imagens para o projeto no Minhocão. "A ideia é levantar um acervo de planos fixos, e que contenham movimento, modulação, cinese – imagens que possam se tornar cinema", diz Karim. Dentro de uma linguagem próxima à do cinema expandido, a obra busca revelar dimensões sensoriais da cidade de São Paulo que o olhar acostumado pelo cotidiano já não percebe.

4.1.11

Flavin and Viola light works ruled “not art” “Absurd” decision by European Commission means VAT of 20%, rather than 5%

© Photo: REUTERS/Paul Hackett)
Vía Arquitectura Viva y The Art Newspaper

By Georgina Adam | From issue 219, December 2010
Published online 16 Dec 10 (market)

Dan Flavin at the Hayward Gallery in London: to European officials this has no more merit than your kitchen ceiling (Photo: REUTERS/Paul Hackett)

Dan Flavin at the Hayward Gallery in London: to European officials this has no more merit than your kitchen ceiling (Photo: REUTERS/Paul Hackett)

LONDON. In an astonishing move, the European Commission (EC) has reversed a decision made in a UK tax tribunal, and refused to classify works by Dan Flavin and Bill Viola as “art”. This means that UK galleries and auction houses will have to pay full VAT (value added tax, which goes up to 20% next year) and customs dues on video and light works, when they are imported from outside the EU. The decision is binding on all member states.

The new classification goes against a victory won in a UK tribunal in 2008 (The Art Newspaper, February 2009, p47). A legal battle began after the Haunch of Venison gallery imported six disassembled video installations by Viola into the UK from the US in 2006, and sought to import a light sculpture by Flavin. Declared as “sculpture”, they would only have been liable for 5% VAT.

But customs rejected this, and charged Haunch of Venison £36,000 duty. In 2008 Haunch appealed, and won: the VAT and Duties Tribunal ruled that such works were indeed “art” and only liable to 5% VAT.

Now the EC has overturned this decision. In its ruling a Flavin work is described as having “the characteristics of lighting fittings…and is therefore to be classified…as wall lighting fittings”. As for Viola, the video-sound installation, says the document, cannot be classified as a sculpture “as it is not the installation that constitutes a ‘work of art’ but the result of the operations (the light effect) carried out by it”.

Art lawyer Pierre Valentin, who at the time represented Haunch of Venison (he no longer does so) commented: “The reasons given by the European Commission for classifying works by Bill Viola and Dan Flavin as, eg ‘projectors’ and ‘wall light fittings’, are extraordinary. To suggest, for example, that a work by Dan Flavin is a work of art only when it is switched on, is comical. The national courts of two member states (the UK and the Netherlands) have considered the classification of video and light installations and both have concurred that they should be classified as art under Chapter 97 of the Common Customs Tariff. One is entitled to ask if the Commission has made a judicious use of its powers when overruling these judicial decisions. The reasons given in the regulation in support of the classification are absurd, and the regulation conflicts with the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice.”