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The meeting will be hosted by Carlo Massarini, Italian journalist and TV anchor. "In the course of the centuries, men have designed the spaces we live in -from megalopoles to dwellings- and this culture expressed itself at its best in architecture. Also the Web has its own architecture and it designs the spaces where people move, interact, retrieve and share information and fragments of memory," writes Massarini, who invited five speakers who operate in the field of architecture and in the Web: Carlo Infante, Marco Brizzi, Antonino Saggio, Mario Gerosa, Gianluca Nicoletti.
In this context, Image ARCHIVE www.image-web.org/archive -the multimedia archive devoted to collecting, preserving and advancing architecture videos- interpretes the framework of Carlo Massarini's program by offering a selection of the best architecture videos that were presented during VISIONS, the last edition of the BEYOND MEDIA festival www.beyondmedia.it.
The conference INHABITING THE WEB is open to the public and will be held on Saturday October 3 at 11 am in the Sala Sinfonia, Hall 36 as part of the events of CERSAIE 2009 in the Bologna Fair.
The video program for the INHABITING THE WEB conference is curated by Image ARCHIVE.
[July 5, 2009]. The calendar of all events which are part of BEYOND MEDIA. VISIONS is finally complete!
The program for the ninth edition of the BEYOND MEDIA festival www.beyondmedia.it - that will take place in Florence, Italy, July 9-17, 2009 with the theme VISIONS - is full of guests and meetings, outlooks and reflections on contemporary architecture. It is a new occasion to meet again in Florence to take part in this event which, since 1997, is dedicated to the most current visions on contemporary architecture and on the outcomes of the intense relations which exist between architecture and the media.
The festival, curated by Marco Brizzi, promoted by PARC (General Directorate for Landscape quality and protection, Contemporary Architecture and Art) of the Italian Ministry of Culture, by the Municipality of Florence, by the University of Florence, in cooperation with Stazione Leopolda, and organized da Image www.image-web.org proves itself again to be a place of encounter and discussion. And this spirit of collegiality is embodied by the large table designed by zpstudio www.zpstudio.it where the public will gather (under the light installation conceived by Antonio Piccirilli and NABA, thanks to Lumen) to share food, ideas and visions with the over 70 guests who have been invited to interpret the theme VISIONS in its complexity and in its urgency: from Peter Wilson to Beatriz Colomina, Ruggero Pierantoni, Paul Polak, Marco D'Eramo, James Wines, John Frazer, Mario Carpo. The symposium, curated by Pietro Valle; the 80 videos, selected from over 600 international submissions that testify contemporary architectural production; the reinterpretation of the famous exhibition Italy: The New Domestic Landscape (MoMA, 1972); the remarkable case of the Koolhaas Houselife film; the MY VISION installation conceived by Squint/Opera www.squintopera.com together with Image www.image-web.org to host a reflection of the over 300 visions offered by architects from all over the world. These are just some of the events included in the program (click here to download the PDF).
And then there is URBAN VISIONS, the exhibition curated by Michele Bonino that testifies the ability some cities had in seeing their transformations in perspective, in looking "beyond". The observed cities are Helsinki, Milan, Medellín, Zaragoza, Belgrade, Turin, New Orleans, Paris, Bologna e Mumbai, as part of a wider survey which considered, for example, the problematic case of Beijing. And the SPOT ON SCHOOLS exhibition, curated by Paola Giaconia, which observes the most recent developments of the application of digital technologies to design research and sees the participation of 19 distinguished universities from all over the world (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Asia University, Ball State University, California Polytechnic State University, Clemson University, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ESARQ (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya) Barcelona, Facoltà di Architettura di Pescara, NABA, Politecnico di Torino, Rhode Island School Design, RMIT Architecture, SCI-Arc, Southern Illinois University, Universidade Técnica de Lisbona, University of Calgary, University of Florida, University of Hong Kong e University of Thessaly). Both exhibitions are complemented by discussion forums with representatives from the involved institutions.
And that's not all! A must-see is THE VIEW MASTERS, the special recognition offered to three noted practitioners of contemporary architecture who in different ways demonstrated peculiar and fertile employment of video: UNStudio, Zaha Hadid Architects, MVRDV. THE VIEW MASTERS, which collects works selected by Image ARCHIVE www.image-web.org/archive in the large production of the three offices, will offer to the BEYOND MEDIA audience a unique opportunity for seeing and comparing these videos. Also, you should not miss the forum dedicated to visions for the city of Florence, the Moonlight performance by Daniele Lombardi (piano, with Art Media Studio, video), the Visionary Sound Soirée, the multisensory event organized by Architettura Sonora www.architetturasonora.com (special guest iO Agency www.ioagency.com) in the new Sonic Garden, for a highly emotional night at the closing of the festival.
The best way to orient yourself among the many possibilities offered by the program is come to Florence, July 9 to 17, and take part in this event which since 1997 provides a lateral and independent look on some important paths of contemporary architecture.
Image organizes, produces and curates the event.
[May 21, 2009]. Un laboratorio video della durata di tre giorni, promosso dal Comune di San Giovanni Valdarno (Arezzo), si attiverà dal 3 al 5 giugno 2009 per leggere, documentare e raccontare la città diffusa del Valdarno attraverso un'azione creativa condotta su un sistema comunitario esteso e in costante trasformazione: La città (in)visibile.
Il gruppo di lavoro, attrezzato con videocamere e guidato da Simone Muscolino (Id-lab www.interactiondesign-lab.com), farà base a Casa Masaccio www.casamasaccio.it e si immergerà nel territorio per costruire un percorso attraverso inediti microracconti di cultura urbana. I risultati del laboratorio saranno oggetto di una presentazione a San Giovanni Valdarno nella sera del 5 giugno e successivamente mostrati a Firenze, in occasione della nona edizione del festival BEYOND MEDIA www.beyondmedia.it.
L'iscrizione al laboratorio, organizzato da Image www.image-web.org, è gratuita e aperta a giovani studenti e neolaureati. Sono ancora disponibili dei posti. Invitiamo, quindi, tutti gli interessati a leggere il bando e esprimere la loro candidatura all'indirizzo lacittainvisibile@image-web.org entro il 30 maggio prossimo.
Il laboratorio è organizzato da Image.
[May 16, 2009]. The symposium "PIÙ DESIGN PUÒ. (lit. More Design Can) The design of democracy, of society and of the city" www.piudesignpuo.it will take place in Florence, Italy, on May 22 and 23, 2009. The symposium is dedicated to the most interesting experiences in the field of political, social and urban communication as they were carried out by institutions around the world.
Curated by Andrea Rauch and Gianni Sinni, the symposium points out the importance of visual communication as a formidable instrument in the determination of society’s participative processes.
Among the guest speakers at the symposium which will explore themes ranging from political graphics to electoral design, from governmental coordinated Images to militant counterinformation, from urban graphic projects to accessible publishing- stands out Steven Heller, long-time art director at the New York Times, who will talk about the graphic strategy in Barack Obama’s election campaign.
The appointments are at 9:30 on Friday May 22 and at 10:30 am on the following day, when Typotour www.typotour.it will take the public on a typographical bike tour around the historical center of Florence.
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[May 4, 2009]. The linear park between Caltagirone and Piazza Armerina is coming back to life, as it has happened every Spring for the past five years. Between May 5 and 10, 2009, The park is to host the PICNIC AT THE TEMPIO RIVER www.picniclab.net, as a workshop for the development of project designs and instantaneous constructions conceived and produced by NOWAlab.
The workshop, curated by Mario Lupano, Marco Navarra and Alessandro Rocca, is working this year on the theme BUILDING TEXTURE. It explores a field where various design approaches and techniques, ranging from fashion design and architecture to contemporary art and literature, intertwine.
The foundational element of the workshop is the Linear Park. And all of the activities are to take place in the area surrounding its core. The project for the Linear Park has a long and significant history which started off when its founder, Marco Navarra started to sense that a series of old abandoned train-tracks, located at the heart of Sicily, could come back to life with an alternative function of their own. The Linear Park become the site where every spring architects and designers coming from all over the world meet to talk about the landscape and work on the interactions it has with arts and architecture.
Image contributes to the communication of the event.
[March 8, 2009]. The seventh edition of ROTTE METROPOLITANE, a project promoted by the Cultural Department of the City of Florence, will present its "humid" results through a series of initiatives and events that will begin with a conference-debate, which is to take place at 6 pm on Thursday March 12th, 2009 at the SESV gallery www.sesv.it, located at the Architecture Department of the University of Florence, in piazza Ghiberti 27.
The Firenze è sommersa (Florence is submerged) theme, proposed by the curator Marco Brizzi, opens up observations on an urban environment that is often considered inhospitable towards the "creative organisms" that inhabit the greater metropolitan area of Florence. "Florence is submerged -writes Marco Brizzi in the introduction to the catalogue-, just as it was experienced by the architects at Superstudio after the tragic flooding of 1966. This event generated one of the most effective visions that radical architecture has to date offered the city, making Florence an important cradle of one of the last great avant-garde movements. Presently, the city often seems incapable of freeing itself from an oppressive barrier that tends to obstruct every creative intent from the start, thus limiting every act of vital expression. Still and all, things are happening in this city..." Starting from this point, a group of observers (Giacomo Bazzani, Elisa Biagini, Nicola Santini, Pierpaolo Taddei, Carlo Scoccianti, and Gianni Sinni) coordinated by Marco Brizzi, began to investigate the artistic reality of Florence in search of its creative elements and the project-oriented talents existing in and around the city.
Two months of work were needed to stir things up and to observe what was happening in the more visible parts of the city, as well as to explore the more hidden ones. What emerged was a multifaceted and heterogeneous panorama made up of many isolated figures, each organised autonomously, resisting the hostility of the environment where they work. The observed figures demonstrated "a strongly animated microcosm that bubbled with energy". And although they live in the city, some of these individuals are unfortunately often compelled to leave it in search of new sustenance and to share their talents elsewhere.
Following the presentation on March 12th, a series of initiatives (download the program), promoted by the observers that contributed to the project organized by Image www.image-web.org, are to directly involve the city of Florence. These events present an extraordinary map (download here) of Florence is submerged, realised by Lcd www.lcd.it, which is responsible for the graphic design of the entire initiative, accompanying the results of an in-depth investigation conducted in this year's edition by ROTTE METROPOLITANE, to be documented and illustrated in a catalogue published by Artout Maschietto Editore www.maschiettoeditore.com.
The event is organized by Image.
[December 3, 2008]. The call for video entries for the new edition of BEYOND MEDIA www.beyondmedia.it, international festival of architecture and media is now open. The event, devoted to the most advanced visualizations in architecture and to the debate on the relationships between the project and the means of its communication, will take place at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence, Italy, July 9-17, 2009. Organized by Image, and curated by Marco Brizzi, BEYOND MEDIA has been constantly observing, since 1997, the development of the systems of communication in the field of architecture by evaluating their impact on contemporary architectural production and by promoting their understanding and enhancing their quality. The festival offers its visitors an articulate and rich program of events. The screening of the videos which are selected internationally complement an intense calendar of conferences and workshops with the protagonists of the international debate and of architecture exhibitions which elaborate on the theme of the festival.
The theme for the forthcoming edition of BEYOND MEDIA is VISIONS. It will pursue broad visions, in order to collect with a wide outlook the complex transformations of the built environment and to lead the audience's thoughts and consciousness beyond that which is usual, empirical, and visible. We are looking for people with an architectural vision. A really new and effective one. As we check the architects' sight, the event will welcome crazy, mad, or mystic people, philosophers, politicians, opticians who will present their personal visions.
The event aims at demonstrating how much we are lacking visions, nowadays, despite the apparent proliferation of innovative concepts and Images. It seems that most of these Images are pure expressions our own times. Not enough about our future. Deadline for video submissions, through the official BEYOND MEDIA website www.beyondmedia.it, is January 31, 2009.
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[December 2, 2008]. A series of three architecture video programs will enliven the Cineteca in Rimini, Italy www.comune.rimini.it, starting today and until December 16. During the three scheduled appointments (Tuesday December 2, The eye of the video maker; Tuesday December 9, The eye of cinema; Tuesday December 16, The eye of the architect) the public will be able to read architecture from different points of view and by means of different observation tools. It is an occasion for extending the discourse on contemporary architecture and on the forms of its communication which the city of Rimini has been dealing with in these last years.
L'immaginario possibile (Possible fantasies) is an event produced by the Ordine degli architetti di Rimini www.rn.archiworld.it as part of its lively program of architectural events and it is realized in collaboration with Image ARCHIVE www.image-web.org. Our division selected, for this very occasion, some among the best videos presented during the last editions of the BEYOND MEDIA festival www.beyondmedia.it and collected in its archive, which is dedicated to preserving and advancing architecture videos.
The architectural video program is curated by Image ARCHIVE.
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[November 17, 2008]. The S(E)OUL SCAPE. Towards a New Urbanity in Korea exhibition, hosted at Bozar Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels www.bozar.be until January 4, 2009, offers cue for discussion in a forum on megalopolis and culture.
Bozar is committed to offering a lively program of cultural activities, which aims at comparing various expressions of contemporary artistic production. As part of its mission, Bozar is hosting today -November 17- at 7 pm a forum which centers on two themes: the role of architectural culture in attending the growth of a Country which just recently opened up its boundaries, and the ability for contemporary architecture in Korea to give a structure to the megalopolis. Participants in the forum are Marco Brizzi, Stefan Devoldere, Kersten Geers, Kim Young-joon, Pai Hyung-Min, Seung H-sang.
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The S(E)OUL SCAPE. Towards a New Urbanity in Korea exhibition, produced by Image www.image-web.org, curated by Francisco Sanin and dedicated to six protagonists of contemporary architectural production in Korea -Chung Guyon, Joh Sung-yong, Kim Young-joon, Min Hyun-sik, Seung H-sang, Yi Jong-ho- comes with a catalogue published by episode publishers www.episode-publishers.nl.
The event is part of the program of traveling exhibitions produced and organized by Image.
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