March 11

WAF in Barcelona – Call for Speakers

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It’s still early to book a flight to Barcelona (you have time until next November), but in case you have what it takes you can already apply as a speaker for the next World Architecture Festival, in the most architecturally vibrant city in Spain. WAF is a festival where architects from all over the world meet, lots of awards are given and companies can also promote their products. Interactivity is one of the key factors the organizers highlight on their website. Read more

February 17

Studenten Kamer Festival

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Today we’ve got good news for all the ones following us from the Netherlands. Next week (precisely on Wednesday 24) the Studenten Kamer Festival will take place in a bunch of Dutch cities, opening student rooms to small audiences to promote young and talented performers who want to show off their skills in music, dance, performance, stand-up comedy and so on. In case you live in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Eindhoven or another of the many locations involved (or you’re just passing by), Stukafest can be a good chance for you to enjoy an unusual and cozy experience while at the same time touring the city and supporting young artists. It definitely looks like a win-win situation.
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December 8

Electrosmog Festival – International Festival for Sustainable Immobility

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(Text by Nicola Bozzi)


While browsing Facebook on an iPhone or working via wireless on a train, we tend to forget all those electromagnetic fields and aerial data we exchange compulsively each and every day are a physical matter and not just a platonic projection of our cognitive babble.* Given that we’re all more or less dependent on this stuff, some don’t think it’s necessarily making our life the best possible, and definitely not healthier. This is the premise to the Electrosmog Festival, to take place in Amsterdam (and in many other places) on next March. Read more

October 23

Snapshots from Creativity Festival

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(Photos © Ludovica Brigalli – Foto © Ludovica Brigalli)

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Urban Metamorphoses: from Montreal to Brasilia, passing by Dubai. Exhibition in the City Talk department – Metamorfosi Urbane: da Montreal a Brasilia passando per Dubai. Mostra all’interno del dipartimento City Talk

Montréal, Medellin, Buenos Aires, Milano, Parigi, Dubai, Il Cairo, Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo, Belem, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Sao Paulo, Brasilia. E’ andato lontano lo sguardo del Festival della Creatività, quest’anno! Il progetto Metamorfosi Urbane ha voluto indagare le trasformazioni in atto in alcune città del mondo: Seoul, capitale mondiale del design nel 2010 e Shanghai sede dell’expo 2010 che ospiterà l’ambizioso progetto del padiglione Italia, “Better city. Better life”. E ancora, Il Cairo e gli interessanti casi della città dei morti e del garbage village attraverso i contributi del Cospe e di alcuni antropologi. Non ultimo, gli ambiziosi interventi urbanistici che trasformeranno alcune zone di Milano in previsione di Expo 2015 e di Parigi (progetto del Grand Paris). Read more

October 22

Architecture Film Festival in Rotterdam

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While visiting the much longer Internation Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam, between October 29 and November 1 the city is also offering a very promising film festival also dealing with cities, architecture and urban planning (plus a whole lot of imagery).

Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam features “over 100 movies in just 4 days”, which is enough for the curious architecture fan to have a heart attack. That’s why, if you plan to go, we suggest you check out the program here or here first. Read more

October 14

Creativity Festival – Future Cities in Florence

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festival della creatività

15+16+17+18 October 2009
Florence
Fortezza da Basso
Padiglione delle Nazioni

The 2009 programme will offer four days of meetings, talkshows, workshops and live performances with artists, scholars and scientists coming from all over the world. The programme was inspired by the scientist’s forecasts of a 80% of the world population living in “urban contexts” by 2050, and is meant as a laboratory for the future focusing on the city as its most immediate locus for confontation and experimentation. Among the cities, going through an important public and private transformation, under the festival’s magnifying glass are: Medellin, Seoul (2010 design capital), Shanghai (Expo 210), Dubai, Cairo, Milan (Expo 2015), San Paolo, Brasilia, Paris and Tokyo. Read more

September 9

DAV INTERNATIONAL VIDEO SELECTION
A private archive

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CACT Chiasso_Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino_Switzerland
11-12-13 September 2009

Vernissage_Friday 11 September 2009 at 6.00 p.m.
Sat-Sun_3.00-7.00 p.m. (or by appointment +41(0)76 446 52 63, cacc.chiasso@ymail.com)

A selection of thirty video works from DAV International’s archive will be on show at CACT Chiasso from Friday, September 11 to Sunday, September 13.
DAV is a private video art archive that has been growing since 1992. The exhibition is a small selection out of the 350 video works already presented in the several editions of  the IFDUIF VIDEO FESTIVAL.
The Festival was held in different venues such as IFDUIF Video Festival Lugano, Video Art Festival Locarno, Festival Mundial do Minuto do Brasil Sao Paulo, Fotogrammi di Pietra Palermo, Autunno Fotografico Chiasso, European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, Kornhaus Bern, Biennale dell’immagine Chiasso.
During the three-day exhibition it will be possible to see ten different artists each day.

More info on http://www.ifduif.ch/

August 31

In Whose Name? and The Unguarded Moment. ABBAS and Steve McCurry. MAGNUM veterans’ works @ 21st Visa pour l’Image

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mostraInternational Festival of Photojournalism

From 29 August to 13 September 2009

Association Visa pour l’Image – Perpignan

Hôtel Pams, 18 rue Emile Zola, 66000 Perpignan
Tel: +33 4 68 62 38 00 – Fax: +33 4 68 62 38 01
e-mail: contact@visapourlimage.com
www.visapourlimage.com

July 22

Beyond Media report
A guest post by Ethel Baraona Pohl

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(This is the first of a series of guest posts by architect and DPR-Barcelona co-founder Ethel Baraona Pohl, who is reporting us on the Beyond Media Festival that has just taken place in Florence. We here welcome Ethel on yskira.com, and you guys stay tuned for more of her posts soon.)

Visions-photo Benedetta Mori

Visions. Photo © Benedetta Mori

SPOT on Schools-photo Benedetta Mori

SPOT on Schools. Photo © Benedetta Mori

Beyond Media Festival: Visions
Florence, Stazione Leopolda, July 9 to 17, 2009.

As part of this series of Yskira contributions it was our intention to start with a post dealing with vanguard an innovative ways that architecture practice has adopted in this days. The current edition of the Beyond Media Festival held in Florence represents the perfect start due to its forward-thinking vocation.

SCI-ARC Spot on Schools-photo dpr barcelona

SCI-ARC Spot on Schools. Photo © dpr barcelona

The program was really long and complete, sometimes maybe too long for each day, but with a great effort from the curators in trying to include all these material between only eight days. That’s why we will focus on the main talks and exhibitions to review here, so you can have an overview about the event. The main topic this year is VISIONS and its objective is to question popular convictions about the use of assorted media in architectural practice. One of the things we found really interesting is that the talks included groups of speakers involved in many disciplines, not only architects but also journalist, writers, philosophers, artists and designers and these make possible to have a holistic approach about each topic. Read more

June 9

VISIONS – (architecture) BEYOND MEDIA

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WebBeyond Media has been investigating architecture and its relationship with different communicational formats – especially video – for more than a decade now. Taking place from July 6 to July 17, at Florence’s Stazione Leopolda, this year’s edition is titled “Visions” (we already told you about it) as to suggest architecture as a key tool for innovation in future scenarios. Here’s some information from the website:

“BEYOND MEDIA is one of the main events worldwide dedicated to the most current visions on contemporary architecture and on the outcomes of the intense relations which exist between architecture and the media.

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MDU architetti, La città celeste, IT 2009, 2′33”

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