Iluminovision 2019 :: interstitia
October 18, 20-22
Urban Centre Šibenik
Film projections:
“Neon”, by Eric Bednarski, 2014
“More Light”, by Uroš Živanović, 2012.
October 19, 18-19
Urban Centre Šibenik
Lecture by Darko Fritz: “Media facades” (in Croatian)
20-22
IMPORTANNE Passage
illuminating installation “Lantern” by Toni Meštrović
Curator: Sonja Leboš
Coordinator: Luana Lojić
More about the programme:
The theme of the Illuminovision 2019 are "interstitial spaces", spaces which connect or detach, depending on how we shape them. On one hand we are interested in surfaces which are simultaneously an externality of the house and internal space of a street, which is a communal space. Facades of the houses are the membranes through which, at night, via the illuminated windows, the internal life of a house and its inhabitants seep to a street. Facades are also the spots where neon signes, the early herald of the total electric illumination, found their places. Film “Neon” by Eric Bednarski recalls the times when the cities bathed in neon: it is a beautiful story about Warsaw told through neon signs. The film “More Light” speaks about the neon installation of the artist Ana Elizabet titled “Dišeš??Do you breathe?”, which was installed in the vicinity of the tram station on Savska St in Zagreb. Besides documenting the action, the video alos brings the opinions of the experts and wider public.
Lecture by the well known artist Darko Fritz is titled “Media Facades and Urban Media Environments - development of artistic practices". Here is what Darko says: “Artistic practices with media facades, which are more and more to see in the cities around the world, have the historical tradition which will be mapped in this lecture. I will emphasise the pioneering examples which presented the possibilities of urban media environment and media architecture. I will describe the gradual shifts in concepts and technologies of media facades, starting from the beginnings of the usage of electric power till the resent days, while pinpointing technical and social chalenges of design and presentation of urban media environments".
Illuminovision 2019 :: interstitia will culminate in illuminating installation “Lantern” by Toni Meštrović that will, at least temporarily, bring life to the abandoned interstitia of the Importanne center hat never has got functional, questioning in that way the purpose of the dark passage, but also the hidden possibilities.
About authors
Eric Bednarski
A Warsaw based film director/writer/producer. Born in Halifax, Canada, Bednarski studied history and film making in North America and Europe. His documentary film work with the National Film Board of Canada has garnered him a Gemini Award and a Writers Guild of Canada Award nomination, and he was awarded the Decoration of Honour “Meritorious for Polish Culture” by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Bednarski was also twice selected as a Talent at the Berlinale Talent Campus. His films have been broadcast across the world and have also screened at international festivals, at the United Nations, the European Parliament and the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau.Darko Fritz is artist and independent curator and researcher. He studied architecture at the University of Zagreb [1986 -
Darko Fritz
An independent artist and curator. Studied architecture in Zagreb and media art at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam [1990 - 1992].
He has curated numerous exhibitions of contemporary and media art and edited companion exhibition catalogues for print and web publication. His research on histories of international computer-generated art resulted in several publications and exhibitons that have been published public since 2000, when he curated the worldʼs first historic retrospective exhibition of the field. As
editor for media art at net portal Culturenet (since 2002), he edited related database and published "A Brief Overview of Media Art in Croatia (Since the 1960s)". Fritz directed documentary film Hong Kong Contemporary and Media Art, 2001.
Since 2005 he has been the mentor at the Transart Institute MFA art program. Fritz is founder and has been a programmer of the grey) (area – space of contemporary and media art since 2006. He is member of AICA -International Association of Art Critics,
In 2010 he started the research on the beginning of computer-generated art in the Netherlands, awarded by the grant by the Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam.
Toni Meštrović
Born 1973 in Split, Croatia, is a video artist working predominantly in form of video and sound installations. He graduated with a Graphic Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1999, where he produced graphic arts, sculpture and installation. Due to his interest in electronic audio-visual media, he studied Video/Digital Imaging with prof. Valie Export at the International Summer Academy for Contemporary Art in Salzburg in 1997, and completed a two-year postgraduate diploma in Media Art with prof. David Larcher and prof. Anthony Moore at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne in 2004. Video, sound and audio-visual installations produced during Meštrović’s postgraduate studies explore his personal perception of the sea, and the island where he grew up. After his return to Croatia in 2004, his work deals with themes of cultural heritage, identity and the transformations that have occurred in Dalmatia due to the period of transition. Some of his continuous thematic preoccupations are the assimilation of the linear and cyclical time and the exhaustion of a type of narrative that we are used to and expect in our quotidian lives, as well as a wide range of the topic of change, either as a record of evaporation of water like in a closed circuit video installation, or as a commentary of social change.
Since 1992, he has taken part in group and solo shows, as well as video festivals, in Croatia and internationally. He lives in Rijeka and Kaštela, and is Associate Professor at the Arts Academy University of Split, Department of Film and Video.
Uroš Živanović
An anthropologist who has been active in film and TV production. In 2015. started a Script school, a first program of informal and life-long learning in the script writing in Croatia. Presently employed in the Croatian Audiovisual Centre.
