Re: [-empyre-] GIA Grupo de Interferência Ambiental from Salvador ?

[naxsmash]

Hi Andre, welcome to -empyre-... I am so glad to hear from you. I was  
very fond of your own,  the late, Ricardo Rosas, who was our guest in  
January 2007 for the discussion 'what is to be done? (education)... I  
didn't know that rizoma is still continuing, that's wonderful.
This meeting with collectives in Madrid, is this the same event Gisele  
has mentioned, which happened next to ARCO?

-cm
On May 7, 2008, at 12:57 PM, andre mesquita wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm Andre Mesquita, editor in chief of the brazilian electronic  
> magazine Rizoma (www.rizoma.net). I'm very closed with the members  
> from GIA and you can get more information about the group (just  
> inportuguese, sorry!) here: http://giabahia.blogspot.com . Recently,  
> GIA and other art collectives from Brazil (Bijari, EmpreZa, Arte e  
> Esfera Pública and Opavivará!) participated of a meeting in Madrid  
> with spanish collectives (Casita, Fiambrera Obrera, Ludotex and  
> others). I joined in some of these incounters in Madrid. See more  
> information here: http://intermedialogia.blogspot.com/
>
> best,
> Andre
>
>
>
>
> 2008/5/7 naxsmash <naxsmash at mac.com>:
> hola todos
>
> This just in from e-flux,
>
> "In February 2008, five artists and artist groups from all over the  
> world were nominated in Cologne by an international group of experts  
> for the fourth International Nam June Paik Award donated by the  
> Kunststiftung NRW (Arts Foundation North-Rhine Westphalia),  
> Düsseldorf. The works selected for the award will be exhibited in  
> the permanent collection of traditional European fine art in the  
> Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne from 26th of  
> September until 16th of November 2008. On October 16, 2008, the  
> prize will be awarded by the president of the Kunststiftung NRW, Dr.  
> Fritz Schaumann.
>
> In 2002, the late world artist Nam June Paik lent his name together  
> with a drawing to this most important award for media art in  
> Germany. The drawing, which reads: „Paik NRW okay", commemorates  
> Paik's 19-year activity in this German federal state – particularly  
> in the two cities of Cologne and Düsseldorf – of which he spent more  
> than 10 years as a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy of arts.  
> 1963, the year the „Exhibition of Music" was held in the Galerie  
> Parnass in Wuppertal, is considered the year of birth of media art.  
> With this award, the Kunststiftung NRW intends to revive the  
> enormous creative energies which are active until this day within  
> the works of this global artist, and to encourage a young generation  
> of artists to break new innovative ground. The award includes an  
> exhibition of the nominated, during which the first prize amounting  
> to 25,000 euros will be awarded as well as a junior prize for an  
> artist from North-Rhine Westphalia for finishing a pro ject  
> amounting to 15,000 euros.
>
> The nominating experts met on the spot in Cologne at the Wallraf- 
> Richartz Museum & Fondation Corbout, with its extraordinary  
> collection from medieval art to impressionism: Solange Farkas,  
> Videobrasil and MAM-Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (Sao Paulo/ 
> Salvador de Bahia), Yukiko Shikata, NTT InterCommunication Center  
> ICC (Tokio), Walid Raad, artist, (New York/Beirut), Miklos Peternak,  
> C3 Center for Culture & Communication (Budapest) and Udo Kittelmann,  
> Museum of Modern Art (Frankfurt/Main).
>
> They selected the following artists and artist groups for the award:
> The Speculative Archive / Julia Meltzer and David Thorne (Damaskus/ 
> Los Angeles); Biopresence / Shiho Fukuhara and Georg Tremmel (Tokyo/ 
> London); Attila Csörgo (Budapest); Tatiana Blass (São Paulo) and GIA  
> Grupo de Interferência Ambiental from Salvador de Bahía"
>
>
> Does anyone know about GIA, or is one of our guest this month  
> involved with/ friends with GIA?  Intrigued.
>
>
>
>
>
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