Fondé par le galeriste Rinaldo Bianda, le VideoArt Festival Locarno constitue un événement pionnier en Europe dans la présentation et la théorisation de l’art vidéo.
Founded by the art dealer Rinaldo Bianda, the VideoArt Festival Locarno (1980-2001) was a pioneer platform for the presentation of the video art in Europe. Its series of colloquium and round tables organised by theorist and museum director René Berger made it a central platform for the theoretical exploration of the impact of video and, more broadly, of technology, on perception, as well as of the emergence of ‘technoculture’ and the reorganisation of knowledge. Concluding the research project supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and based at ECAL, this colloquium seeks to revisit the VideoArt Festival and critically address its history and its role in championing and shaping video and new media art in Europe, through discussions and presentations with its protagonists as well as by experts in the field.
Programme
Mardi 30 mars
10h-10h15
Introduction
François Bovier, Adeena Mey
10h15-11h15
Le laboratoire du VideoArt Festival:
20 ans d’anticipation du vingt-et-unième siècle
Marco Maria Gazzano
11h30-12h15
Video / Art / Festival:
Quel(s) objet(s)? Quel(s) modèle(s)?
Maud Pollien
14h-16h
Table ronde
Lorenzo Bianda, Robert Cahen, Marco Maria Gazzano, Barbara London, Biljana Tomic
Mercredi 31 mars
10h-10h45
The Contingencies of Care:
On the Conservation of Video and Media Installations
Hanna Hölling
10h45-11h30
What's Technology Got to Do with It?
Barbara London
11h45-12h30
Vilém Flusser and René Berger:
Cybernetics and Video Art in the 1970s
Martha Schwendener
14h-15h30
Discussion
15h30-15h45
Conclusion
François Bovier, Adeena Mey
Traduction simultanée anglais et français disponible / Live translation in English and French available
Symposium organisé par / organised by ECAL/François Bovier, Adeena Mey & Maud Pollien, dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche soutenu par le Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique / as part of a research project supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation
30–31.03.2021
