Miden screenings at [.BOX] Milan (ENG)

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Video Art Miden travels to [.BOX] Milan!

Video Art Miden travels to Milan, Italy, to present a selection of international video art works at [.BOX] Video Project Space, from 16 to 25 of February, 2017. The program, initially presented in Miden main events last July in Kalamata, is curated by Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos and brings together videos from USA, UK, Mexico, Poland, Turkey, Israel, Brazil, Germany, Japan and Iran, in which music, sound and optical rhythm play a dominant role. [.BOX] gallery in Milan is an art space that specializes in video art & multimedia exhibitions, inviting renowned festivals, curators, groups and organizations from all around the globe to present their selections. It is run by Visualcontainer team, which also organizes tributes to international video art organizations on the online platform VisualcontainerTV. (www.visualcontainer.net) Address: Via Federico Confalonieri 11, Milan.

More info & updates: www.dotbox.it E wide shut [52 min] Curated by Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos

Wandering in the search of reality, fantasy, thinking and living, using the synthesis of music, sound, image and feelings as a vehicle.

1. Joanna Sitko, The Birth of Venus, Poland 2015, 3.37 2. Alper T. Ince, New Babylon, Turkey 2015, 1.00 3. Adrián Regnier, L., Mexico 2016, 6.54 4. Katerina Athanasopoulou, Branches of Life, UK 2016, 4.14 5. Eden Mitsenmacher, Loading, UK/Israel 2015, 0.56 6. Heidi Horsturz, T-Rex in Love, Galaxy Yoyo 2015, 0.48 7. Jody Zellen, Trials and Tribulations/Fragments, USA 2016, 5.00 8. Emilia Izquierdo, Roadrunner, UK 2015, 1.30 9. Sávio Leite & Clécius Rodrigues, Saturno, Brazil 2014, 8.33 10. Max Hattler, Unclear Proof, UK/Italy/Germany 2013, 0.45

11. Dean Winkler, Race Up Race Down, USA 2015, 4.08 12. Katsuki Nogami & Baku Hashimoto, EYE, Japan 2015, 3.32 13. Matthias Gerding & Dennis Colquhoun, Sizarr – Baggage Man, Germany 2015, 4.28 14. Stefan Langfeld, Cerval – Judy over the rainbow, Germany 2010, 3.14 15. Masoud MoeinEslam, Tehran, Iran 2015, 2.55 _______________________

Video Art Miden 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 has built 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. (*Miden means “zero” in Greek) Art direction: Gioula Papadopoulou & Margarita Stavraki Info: www.festivalmiden.gr www.facebook.com/festivalmiden e-mail: festivalmiden[at]gmail.com