FONLAD #07_2011

Contrary to those who, sitting in front of the TV, drink all that information that is bombarded with useless - and, in a futile attempt to defend them selvs, jump from channel to channel, from futility to futility,- the user of the Internet, jump from page to page, building an image of the world. One thought the world. For this, the world seems suddenly reduced to a few thousand pages that was stacked in his memory.

Unlike television, which is a passive spectator of the action, the user of the Internet, acts at will, jumping from page to page looking for something. Even if he doesn’t find anything, he built a mental journey, a journey through the virtual world. This trip, that has been sheded in the corners of your memory, loosing images, sounds, words, short phrases, like small cards forgotten in a drawer are waiting to be re-discovered.

These are the forgotten memories of those virtual trips that FONLAD Festival seeks to recover from the memory of artists, challenging them to produce art projects based on these experiences.

Virtual Cataloge (ISSUU)

HIGHLIGHTS

HAND MADE VIDEOS
NONBIENNALE - Web Art Center
October 15 2011 – January 8 20112

Fonlad Festival presents at the Non Biennale twelve videos hand made by phones. Artists: Alvaro Ardevol (Spain), Ben Dunkle (USA), Clinton Sleeper (USA), Enrico Tomaselli (Italy), Jason Nelson (USA), Katie Bush (USA), Kim Hegelen (Netherlands), Logu (Italy), Nomeno (Spain), Optika (Colombia), Osvaldo Cibils (Uruguay / Italy), Robert Lisek (Poland).

Chief Director: José Vieira
Prodution: WEB ART CENTER

FONLAD at TAKE C
Bernardo's House, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
October 15 2011

By  invitation of Bernardo's Museum, Fonlad Festival will promote 9 video installations at TAKE C event, in Bernardo's House.
Artists: Agricola de Cologne (Germany), António Cabrita (Portugal), Corrine Bot (Netherlands), Dietmar Krumrey (USA), Jacob Tonski (Turkey), Jan Hakon Erichsen (Norway), Margarida Paiva (Portugal), Mie Olise (Denmark), Surabhi Saraf (India).

FONLAD at IMAN FESTIVAL
Vila Flor Culture Center, Guimarães
October 15 2011

Video Performance Show Room in partnership with Line Up Action Performance Festival, been part of the IMAN Festival. Curators: António Azenha and José Vieira. Artists: João Garcia Miguel (PT), Left Hand Rotation (ES), Gruppo Sinestético (IT), Osvaldo Cibils (UR), Francesca Fini (IT).

FONLAD in Porto Santo’s Biennial, Madeira – Portugal
August 1 - 30 2011

Presentation at the Biennial part of the festival’s collection. Participating artists: Photography / Digital painting: Alfonso Caputo (Italy), Antonio Azenha (Portugal), Andrea Vaninni (Italy), Benvinda Araujo (Portugal), Boskizzi (Italy), Chiara Schiaratura (Italy), Jeroen Holthius (Netherlands), José Higino (Portugal), Jorge Simões (Portugal), Laura Castanedo (Mexico), Marco Bonvini (Italy), NUno Almeida (Portugal), Oscar Poliotto (Argentina), Patrick Millard (USA), Paulo Corte Real (Portugal), Tatiana Santos (Portugal), Tahir Hun (Turkey).
International Video Screenings: Anders Weberg (Sweden), Alysse Stepanion (USA), Arthur Tuoto (Brazil), Caterina Davinio (Italy), David Burns (USA), Francesca Fini (Italy), Gruppo Sinestético (Italy), Hans Gindlesberger (USA), Jacques Perconte (France), Jacob Tonski (USA), Osvaldo Cibils (Uruguay), Steven Hoskins (USA), Vanja Fonseca (Brazil).
Portughese video art screenings: António Olaio, Fernando José Pereira, Francisco Queirós, João Pombeiro, José Maçâs de Carvalho, Margarida Paiva, Maria Lusitano, Paulo Mendes, Susana Mendes Silva, Vasco Araújo.

5 Video Instalations
Block of the Arts, Montemor-o-velho
June 4 2011

Implementation of five video installations at the Block of the Arts and St. Antony's Chapel. Participanting artists: António Azenha (PT), Eunice Artur (PT), Gruppo Sinestético (IT), Sérgio Nogueira (PT), Videolab Project (PT).

Shipping Minds
Icon Gallery, Coimbra
May 14 to June 28 2011

International exhibition of photography and digital painting.
Artists: Adrian Lis (RM), Alfonso Caputo (IT), Ana Picasso (GER), Andrea Vannini (IT), Arthur Tuoto (BR), Benvinda Araújo (PT), Chiara Schiaratura (IT), Elizabeth Machado (FR), Jorge Simões (PT), José Higino (PT), Nicola Vernizzi (IT), Nuno Almeida (PT), Patrick Millard (USA), Rodrigo Miragaia (PT), Tahir Un (TUR), Tom Campenhout (NL).

CYBERIDEOLOGIES
UAVM Virtual Museum
May 14 to August 28 2011

The cyber space has become a new platform where contemporary art still has some room to evolve. The current system resulted in a huge artistic dead end, strangled by the market and the star system.
This new space has opened up a new range of possibilities for contemporary art expansion, not only in terms of information / disclosure, but also in creative terms: while art process, creatively adapted to the new platform developing new forms of expression.
The intervention of art in this new technological medium, launches new ideological basis to a system dominated by technical communication. This is the purpose of this exhibition: propose to artists a challenge to develop beyond the frontiers of the new media's own technology, taking art to a new dimension.
Participating artists: 48073 (Netherlands), Aaron Nemec (USA), Alan Bigelow (USA), Annie Abrahams (Netherlands), Barry Smylie (Canada), Charles Veasey + Craig Tompkins (USA), Gabriela Herman (USA), Jakson Marinho (Brazil) Jody Zellen (USA), Linda Kronman (Fin/Aus), Mathieu Cherubini (Switzerland), P J Moskal (Poland), Tony Wiliam (Brazil).
Curator: José Vieira. Production: Fonlad / UAVM