Netmage is an international festival dedicated to electronic art curated by Xing and produced annually—in the city of Bologna —as a multidisciplinary program of works, investigating and promoting contemporary audiovisual research. The festival was born in 2000 with funds provided by the European Union , when Bologna represented one of the nine major European capital of culture . The festival concentrates on an amalgam of Happenings, environments, and audio/visual installations, it does through a concentration on creative scenes and subcultural communities.
14-426: The experience of Netmage (eleven editions from 2001 to 2011) was merged into the annual Live Arts Week . The mission of Netmage is to investigate the relationship between the "liveness" and the "ambient space". At the crossroads of these two terms is situated the notion of "post-cinema": defined as an environmental construction capable of gathering widely diverse attitudes in a public space. Post Cinema/Postmemory It
28-423: A blend of artworks and productions that revolve around the presence, performance and perceptual experience of sounds and visions, with a program of live works (performances, environments, concerts, live media, expanded cinema) presented by important personalities in the international and contemporary research scene. The set-up suggests a citywide event, involving several spaces, organizations and institutions active in
42-410: A gathering, a togetherness of the community of producers, protagonists in the field of contemporary media, who both find themselves isolated; creating then a direct, interdisciplinary confrontation, thus filling a growing gap between hyper-connectivity on one hand, physical and social experience on the other. The first edition of the festival was born in an historic watershed with a view on one side from
56-433: A number of other festivals dedicated to electronics born in the world of clubbing , has concentrated on the production of images, imagination and universal vision. In eleven editions Netmage has produced and hosted over two hundred projects from over thirty countries (including Europe, Asia, The Americas, Oceania) offering a smattering of the most recent evolutions in the technological imagination and multiple currents. Follows
70-410: A range of creative people issued by creative scenes and subcultural communities. Netmage and its curators have been instrumental in coining and promoting this term. Playing with stimuli, what is created in the live-media experience is a "privilege of variation" that in the first case goes from designer to public, in the second from public to executor. The confrontation is direct, dictated by the logic of
84-406: Is a cinema made of multi-projections on a number of screens with no seating, a multiplication of narrative traces, possible points of view, physical positions of the spectators; achieving a removal of the forced estrangement of the 20th Century spectator (the darkness of the room, physical and perceptive isolation, a monodirectional viewing perspective) that evoke the world of the first Happenings of
98-454: Is a cultural organization based in Bologna, Italy, dedicated to the production and support of experimental practices within the arts. Xing was founded in 2000 by Daniele Gasparinetti, Silvia Fanti, Andrea Lissoni, Giovanna Amadasi and Federica Rossi. Their research focuses in particular on the field of live arts, performing arts and electronic arts. From 2000 to 2011, Xing organized in Bologna
112-473: Is a project by Xing , born in 2012 out the fusion of the experiences of the two Bologna festivals (2000>2011): Netmage - International Live Media Festival and F.I.S.Co. - Festival Internazionale sullo Spettacolo Contemporaneo. Live Arts Week takes place in Bologna , Italy, once a year, and it is developed throughout one week in different locations and settings in town. Event dedicated to live arts, it hosts
126-430: The 1960s, the philosophy of expanded cinema , and successive multimedia installation experiments of the 1980s. " Live Media is an open-ended term which has come into currency amongst artists and theoreticians. Live-media relates to the gathering of relatively diverse practices capable of calling to mind the wide range of research by video producers, visual artists, musicians, sound artists, VJ's, filmmakers, designers and
140-534: The event. "Dispositif" (post-cinema) and practice (Live Media) thus represent two types of continuous variation through which Netmage questions possible currents in new media aesthetics, summoning artists and visual operators from diverse disciplines, in a context reminiscent of the Happening . Despite the complexity born from the exploration of this kind of space, ideal internal space, the two axes—post-cinema and live media—intertwine and simply state what may be called
154-554: The experiences of one of the last bastions of the Twentieth Century avantgarde , video art , and on the other toward a new front that was as yet undefined while the entire world of research visual production was poised to turn fully digital. In the field of music, the 1990s had already anticipated a great deal of what was later to come in the visual world, pointing the way to a radical transformation in techniques, languages and methods of cultural consumption. Netmage, different from
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#1733132840005168-418: The festivals Netmage - International Live Media Festival, dedicated to electronic art and live media, and F.I.S.Co Festival Internazionale sullo Spettacolo Contemporaneo, dedicated to performing arts. Since 2012, the two festivals merged in the project Live Arts Week , an annual event dedicated to live arts, taking place in different locations in the city for ten editions (2012-2021). In 2021 Xing launched
182-1596: The field of contemporary arts in Bologna . Venues: Palazzo Re Enzo • Teatro Duse • Spazio Carbonesi • Hotel Palace • Nowhere • Palazzo Pepoli - Museo della Storia di Bologna Artists: Venues: MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna • Cinema Lumière • Garage Pincio • Cassero Artists: Venues: MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna • Cinema Lumière • Biblioteca Salaborsa Artists: Venues: Ex Ospedale dei Bastardini • MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna Artists: Venue: MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna Artists: Venues: Ex GAM • Teatro Comunale di Bologna • Galleria P420 • LOCALEDUE • CAR DRDE • Tripla Artists: Venues: Ex GAM • Padiglione Esprit Nouveau • MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna • Galleria P420 • LOCALEDUE • CAR DRDE • GALLERIAPIÙ • Tripla • Galleria De' Foscherari Artists: Venues: Galleria P420 • Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio • Fontana Parco della Montagnola • Chiesa Evangelica Metodista • Palazzo Volpe • Pinacoteca di Bologna • Palazzo Pezzoli • Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna • Cinema Modernissimo • Ex negozio materiale electrico Priori Artists: Venues: Bologna outdoors • LOCALEDUE • P420 • Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna • Spazio Hera • FMAV Fondazione Modena Arti Visive • Palazzo Vizzani • Teatro Auditorium Manzoni • Ex Chiesa di San Mattia Artists: Other invited artists (events cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic): Venues: Lungo Reno Quartiere Barca • Orti Comunali Boschetto Artists: Xing (cultural organization) Xing
196-977: The list of the guests of the festival (Nationality follows standard notation ) Venues: Link • Hangar del mercato Ortofrutticolo • Teatro Testoni • Rifugio Antiaereo Giardini del Guasto • Salara • Ex Scuderie di Palazzo Paleotti Artists: Venue: Scuderie Bentivoglio Artists: Venues: Hangar dlF • Raum • Teatro San Leonardo Artists: Venues: Sala Borsa • Raum • Cassero Artists: Venues: Auditorium Teatro Manzoni • Galleria Accursio • Cassero Artists: Venue: Palazzo Re Enzo Artists: Venues: Palazzo Re Enzo • Cinema Arcobaleno • ArteFiera - Art Cafè (Hall 19) • Teatro Anatomico – Biblioteca Ariostea - Ferrara Artists: Venues: Palazzo Re Enzo • Appartamento privato - Bologna • Piazza del Municipio - Ferrara Artists: Venue: Palazzo Re Enzo Artists: Venue: Palazzo Re Enzo Artists: Venue: Palazzo Re Enzo Artists: Live Arts Week Live Arts Week
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