SPEEDSHOW x_ARTMATTERS
ART MATTERS 2012 x_SPEEDSHOW: CENSORSHIP
MIDWAY POINT
MORE FESTIVAL TO COME!
ASSEMBLAGE
VAV GALLERY // MARCH 13 // 6-9PM
WEIGHS
STUDIO BELUGA // MARCH 14 // 6-9PM
EASTERN BLOC FINISSAGE
EASTERN BLOC // MARCH 15 // 6-11PM
BLOCk PARTY FINISSAGE
PHONOPOLIS // MARCH 16 // 6-9PM
ART MATTERS 2012 OVER THE MIDWAY POINT FOR THIS YEARS INSTALLMENT. ONE WEEK TO GO! SEE YOU OUT THERE!
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SPEEDSHOW x_ARTMATTERS EXTENDED
ART MATTERS 2012 x_SPEEDSHOW OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSONS DEADLINE EXTENDED MARCH 1ST, 2012
Art Matters Festival & PVM are proud to present Montréal’s first SPEEDSHOW exhibition in the heart of St. Henri during our first annual Open House Weekend.
The thematic call for this SPEEDSHOW addresses that of Internet Censorship in light of recent political events highlighting the jurisdictional limitations of a world wide web platform.
Art Matters & PVM are currently accepting active proposals in the form of .html webpage text file, coded. Your .html file should have all linked files hosted on existing servers, and work on all web based browsers, IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc.
Accepted applicants will have their work exhibited in at Buanderie Gold Star internet Cafe and have their coded webpage undergo a censorship embargo, producing a dual censored web-space through the discretion of PVM and Art Matters 2012.
Email all applications to speedshow@artmattersfestival.org.
**Speed Show is an exhibition format conceptualized by Aram Bartholl
FASA Lecture Series 2012
Our Friends at FASA have put together an awesome lecture series that overlaps with our festival. Here’s to an artful 2 weeks!
About the FASA Lecture Series 2012
This series was developed out of a shared curiosity about the nature of tangible and intangible social junctions in artwork. We’re asking what it means to create artwork outside of typical market constraints. Working within a market paradigm may mean creating an art object that you can hold in your hands, a sellable product, or paying into a fine arts education. Alternatively, the artists featured here explore these ideological boundaries, employing alternate modes of distribution and interacting with their publics. This series considers social practice, ecological collaborations and their artistic implications, intangible digital landscapes, and on-point contemporary criticism.
This series exists to consider meaning-making from a diversity of perspectives and mediums. Moreover, we’re asking what does it mean, and what can you do about it? Take from this what you will.
-Paisley V. Sim, Allison E. Smith, 2012
26/01/12 – HENNESSY YOUNGMAN
Problematic Automatic: Screening and Q & A
Since 2010, Jayson Musson has been laying down insightful critiques of the art world via YouTube as Hennessy Youngmanm delivering a powerful summation of contemporary art history, and the realities of post-college art production. Hennessy considers everything from the sublime, to relational aesthetics, how to make an art, or win the esteem of curators.
09/02/2012 – JON RAFMAN
In Search of the Virtual Sublime
Join artist Jon Rafman on an existential journey through the virtual worlds of Second Life and Google Street View. Rafman will address how it is that we can both critique and celebrate contemporary technologies and virtual worlds.
01/03/2012 – OKNO
Gardening the Arts?
OKNO’s will be speaking on their most recent international project, Time Inventors’ Kabinet [TIK], which has been developed over the past two years. TIK brings together media artists and ecology-based practices, such as gardening and beekeeping, to create databases, sonifications and visualizations, to observe patterns in time and time control systems.
09/03/12 – JEN DELOS REYES
Art and Social Practice
This lecture will examine the primary tenants of social practices and art making, including the relationship between artist, audience, artwork and context, the artists’ role in society, artist in residence models, and alternate forms of sustainability outside of market constraints. Jen Delos Reyes will survey the educational turn towards social practice, and consider how we teach art and what art is for.