Continente
Gabriela Golder
CONTINENTE Video, Buenos Aires, Argentina CONTINENTE is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of Argentine and Latin American independent audiovisual production. The organization supports experimental works that encourage different ways of looking and work that challenges traditional audiovisual stereotypes. CONTINENTE focuses not only on the dissemination of Argentine video works worldwide, but also focuses on bringing international video into Argentina, and supports works produced in the rest of Latin America. CONTINENTE is also in the process of creating an extensive archive/video library, which will act as a historic reference center.
www.continentevideo.com.ar/

Mónica Restrepo
Lugar a Dudas (‘Place of Doubt’), Cali, Colombia
Lugar a Dudas is an independent non-profit space
that exists to promote contemporary artistic creation through a process of investigation, production and open confrontation. The center’s main objective is to become a catalytic driving force behind artistic projects as well as generate points of contact, reflection, exploration and experiences that nourish and enrich contemporary artistic practices. Lugar a Dudas is a collective initiative. It works with an advisory group comprised of local, national and international artist and curators.
http://www.lugaradudas.org

Videobrasil
Ana Pato
Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil Associação Cultural Videobrasil (locally ACV) is a public interest organization dedicated to fostering, disseminating, and mapping out electronic art from the southern circuit. Established in 1991, it is an international reference and exchange center for artists, curators, and thinkers alike. In partnership with SESC São Paulo, ACV produces the International Electronic Art Festival SESC Videobrasil, held every two years in São Paulo; the SESC Videobrasil Meetings, monthly electronic art events held at SESC Avenida Paulista; Videobrasil on Tour, which takes a synthesis of the Festival on trips to Brazilian and foreign cities; the Videobrasil Authors Collection, an annual series of documentaries about artists; the Caderno Videobrasil, an annual publication dedicated to contemporary art; and the FF>>Dossier, which features prominent electronic artists in monthly on-line editions. ACV also continually feeds Videobra sil On-line, an extensive database on southern electronic art; maintains a collection of more than 4,000 titles; commissions artwork; and promotes electronic art exhibitions and curatorships all over the world.
http://www.videobrasil.org.br

November 24th Monday - 5 PM
NFB (National Film Board of Canada)
150 John Street

Experimenta Colombia Festival of
Electronic Arts

Video Screening and Talk
by Andrea Velásquez
Experimenta Colombia is an independent collective of artists who gather around the production and investigation of video art in Colombia and Latin America. This year we have focused on the operations of transfer, not only as a technical problem but as a problem of content, reflected in actions of piracy and appropriation or by the self-reflection and re-organization implicit in this behavior. The videos chosen for this selection are in many cases conscious distortions of an established format, driven to an extreme in which the aesthetics of these “easily digestible” languages are forced to reveal their true nature. It is in these behaviors of translation, transgression and dislocation of the media that the artist is not passive towards the context, nor fully destructive, but acts upon it renewing and asking questions directly to the spectator.

www.experimentacolombia.net

November 27th Thursday - 5PM
NFB (National Film Board of Canada)
150 John Street

Nomadic Aesthetics
Screenings and Artist Talks

Kika Nicolela
Brazilian new media artist grad ated in Cinema and Video from the University of Sao Paulo (2000); further film study at UCLA, Los Angeles (2002).

Kika’s videos have been exhibited and awarded prizes in more than 80 festivals in 30 countries. Among the awards received: Best Video at Videoformes New Media & Video Art Festival (France), Best Experimental Documentary at Sopot Independent Film Festival (Polland), Best Experimental Video at Cineamazonia Festival (Brazil), Honorary Award at Alucine Toronto Latino Media Festival (Canada) and Honorary Award at International Experimental Film Festival Carbunari (Italy).

Kika will be screening works from The Exquisite Corpse Video Project. Managed by her, and created by the members of artreview. com. While Surrealists are said to have devised this method of art making almost a century ago, only recently could such a fast-paced, pan-global, audiovisual variation of this exercise be produced.

Julia Barco
Who received her B.A. in communications from Cornell University and M.A. in visual studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, moves between Mexico City and Oaxaca, creating documentaries, fictional films, and experimental media. Barco's films have been exhibited internationally, and she is the recipient of scholarships in film, video, and multimedia projects from the MacArthur and Rockefeller foundations.

Hosted by
Professor Alberto Guevara
Fine Arts Cultural Studies Program, York University National Theatre School - Managua, BA (Sociology and Anthropology) - Concordia, MA (Social Anthropology) - York, Ph.D. (Interdisciplinary) - Concordia. Assistant Professor: Performance Studies.