The first ‘crowd sourced’, ‘user generated’ biennale

Opening Amsterdam Biënnale 2009 + Mediamatic Travel
Friday 16 october 2009, 20 hrs.
Exhibition open until 13 december 2009

The Amsterdam Biennale 2009 is the first ‘crowd sourced’, ‘user generated’ biennale in the world. More than 30 curators from the Mediamatic Travel network present contemporary art from their city.

The exhibition opens on Friday with the pavilions of Kabul, Napels, Amsterdam, Melbourne, Belgrade, Boston, Talinn and Brooklyn. We will have weekly openings of new pavillions untill the end of the exhbition.

The Biennale is a part of Mediamatic Travel, our new travel-office to the contemporary art worldwide. Friday travel.mediamatic.net will go on-line and with Partizan Publik we will present, the Travel Catalogue Destinations 2010.

Opening hours

The Amsterdam Biennale 2009 is opened from 17 October till 13 December 2009. Open from Monday – Friday from 1 pm – 7 pm and Saturday + Sunday from 1 pm – 6 pm.
Location :Mediamatic BANK, Vijzelstraat 68, Amsterdam

There are many interesting ideas in the proposals to the biennial. And the material for the
city pavilions are listed as:
Bamboo Pavilion
Price: €65
Styrofoam Pavilion
Price: €85
Honeycomb Cardboard Pavilion
Price: €185
Inflatable Pavilion
Price: €170

Liverpool Biennial TV

TVC advertisement of an art festival can be done without cutting and mixing excerpts of artists' video and images, not new but would required a much higher skill from the production. I am wondering what is the standard and how is it related to the branding of the festival.

The festival site
2008 Theme : Make up, an exploration of artistic imagination

If you could be a ___ what would you be ?


The Joyful Tree
Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Arbores Laetae (Joyful Trees) launched on 20/08/08 before a delighted crowd. The fantastic work is a trailblazer for MADE UP - this year's International 08 exhibition which opens on 20 September. Rick Scofidio, visiting from New York, officially opened the work, describing it as "beautiful, wonderful and a little bit frightening."

The 7th Gwangju Biennale

Would you go this time ?

A Year in Exhibitions

Duration: September 5 – November 9, 2008
Professional Preview: September 4 and 5, 2008
Artistic Director: Okwui Enwezor
Co-Curators: Hyunjin Kim, Ranjit Hoskote
Position Papers Curators: Patrick D. Flores, Jang Un Kim,
Abdellah Karroum, Sung-Hyen Park, Claire Tancons
Venues: Biennale Hall, Gwangju Museum of Art,
Uijae Museum of Korean Art, Cinema Gwangju, Daein Traditional Market

Annual Report is developed around three principal components. The first part, On the Road, through a series of travelling exhibitions will serve as a report on cultural manifestations occuring between 2007 and 2008. The second component, Position Papers, is a platform dedicated to a series of five focused, small scale curatorial proposals and experiments in exhibition practice by a diverse group of curators. The third element, Insertions, will take the format of a series of new projects commissioned or invited specifically for the biennale.

Participating Artists

On the Road / Insertions / Position Papers
Adel Abdessemed (Algeria, lives in Paris)
Bani Abidi (Pakistan, lives in Delhi, Karachi, London)
David Adjaye (Ghana/UK, lives in London)
Raymundo Albano (Philippines, 1947-1985)
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla (USA, live in Puerto Rico)
Lara Almarcegui (Spain, lives in Rotterdam)
Francis Alÿs (Belgium, lives in Mexico City)
Area Park (South Korea, lives in Seoul/Tokyo)
Stefano Arienti (Italy, lives in Milan)
Kaoru Arima (Japan, lives in Nagoya)
Mario Benjamin (Haiti, lives in Port-au-Prince)
Sadie Benning (USA, lives in Chicago)
Huma Bhabha (Pakistan/USA, lives in New York)
Ursula Biemann (Switzerland, lives in Zürich)
Bingyi Huang (China/USA, lives in Buffalo and Beijing)
Tania Bruguera & Arte Conducta (Cuba, live in Chicago and Havana)
Mariana Bunimov (Venezuela, lives in Caracas)
Gerard Byrne (Ireland, lives in Dublin)
Byron Kim (USA, lives in New York)
Chen Shaoxiong (China, lives in Guangzhou)
Chen Qiulin (China, lives in Beijing)
Chung seoyoung (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Bruce Conner (USA, lives in San Francisco)
Thomas Demand (Germany, lives in Berlin)
Atul Dodiya (India, lives in Bombay)
Donghee Koo (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Lili Dujourie (Belgium, lives in Brussels)
Felipe Dulzaides & Roberto Gottardi (Cuba and Italy, live in Havana)
Eunji cho (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Seamus Farrell (Ireland, lives in Paris and Cadiz, Spain)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1945-1982)
Daniel Faust (USA, lives in New York)
Vincent Feria: Françoise Vincent & Eloy Feria (France & Venezuela, live in Caracas)
Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani (Germany, lives in Sapporo, Japan)
Peter Friedl (Austria, lives in Berlin)
Gao Shiqiang (China, Llves in Hangzhou)
Marlon Griffith (Trinidad and Tobago, lives in Port of Spain)
Hu-ju Gu (Korea, lives in Busan)
Tamar Guimaraes (Brazil, lives in Copenhagen and Mälmo)
Shilpa Gupta (India, lives in Bombay)
Hans Haacke (Germany, lives in New York)
Lothar Hempel (Germany, lives in Berlin)
Jan Henle (USA, lives in New York and Puerto Rico)
Chi Young Hwang (South Korea, lives in Gwangju)
Iman Issa (Egypt, lives in Cairo)
Haejun Jo and Donghwan Jo (South Korea, live in Seoul)
Isaac Julien (U.K., lives in London)
Taehun Kang (South Korea, lives in Busan)
Hassan Khan (Egypt, lives in Cairo)
Sonia Khurana (India, lives in New Delhi)
Kim, Sung Hwan (South Korea, lives in New York)
Seung wook Koh (Korea, lives in Seoul)
Abdoulaye Konaté (Mali, lives in Bamako)
David Lamelas (Argentina, lives in Los Angeles)
Larnet: In Ae Lim & Eun Young Hong (Korea, live in Busan)
Jin Won Lee (aka GAZAEBAL), Musician (Korea, lives in Seoul)
Seulgi Lee (Korea, lives in Paris)
Sherrie Levine (USA, lives in New York)
Christelle Lheureux (France, lives in Paris)
Glenn Ligon (USA, lives in New York)
Jarbas Lopes (Brazil, lives in Rio de Janeiro)
Reagan Louie (USA, lives in San Francisco)
Ken Lum (Canada, lives in Vancouver)
Mun-ho Ma (Korea, lives in Naju)
MAP Office: Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix (France, live in Hong Kong)
Kerry James Marshall (USA, lives in Chicago)
Mona Marzouk (Egypt, lives in Cairo)
Gordon Matta Clark (USA, 1943-1978)
Steve McQueen (UK, lives in Amsterdam)
Daniel Medina (Venezuela, lives in Caracas)
Luis Molina Pantin (Venezuela, lives in Caracas)
Matthew Monahan (USA, lives in Los Angeles)
Movement, Contingency and Community (Group Exhibition)
MY-DA-DA (based in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego)
HwaYeon Nam (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Oil 21 (Germany, based in Berlin)
Karyn Olivier (Trinidad and Tobago/USA, lives in New York)
Els Opsomer (Belgium, lives in Brussels)
Jina Park (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Jooyeon Park (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Munjong Park (Korea, lives in Damyang)
Kiyoung Peik (Korea, lives in Ansan)
Redza Piyadasa (Malaysia, 1939-2007)
Apinan Poshyananda (Thailand, lives in Bangkok)
Jo Ractliffe (South Africa, lives in Johannesburg)
Mandla Reuter (Germany, lives in Berlin)
Jewyo Rhii (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Walid Sadek (Lebanon, lives in Beirut)
Joachim Schoenfeldt (South Africa, lives in Johannesburg)
Fatou Kande Senghor (Senegal, lives in Dakar)
Ho-yoon Shin (Korea, lives in Gwangju)
Taryn Simon (USA, lives in New York)
Dayanita Singh (India, lives in New Delhi)
Praneet Soi (India, lives in Amsterdam)
Hiroshi Sugito (Japan, lives in Nagoya)
Catherine Sullivan (USA, lives in Los Angeles)
Sungyoon Yang (South Korea, lives in Seoul)
Jim Supangkat (Indonesia, lives in Bandung)
Koki Tanaka (Japan, lives in Tokyo)
José Toirac (Cuba, lives in Havana)
Caecilia Tripp, Filmmaker (Germany, lives in Paris)
Uijae Huh, Baikryun (South Korea, 1891-1977)
Jacques Villeglé (France, lives in Paris)
Alfred Wenemoser (Austria, lives in Caracas)
Sislej Xhafa (Kosovo, lives in New York)
Lynette Yiadom Boakye (U.K., lives in London)
Bruce Yonemoto (USA, lives in Los Angeles)
Kohei Yoshiyuki (Japan, lives in Tokyo)
Zarina (India/USA, lives in New York)
Dolores Zinny & Juan Maidagan (Argentina, live in Berlin)
John Zurier (USA, lives in Berkeley)

For detailed information on the biennale and participating artists please visit the website: http://www.gb.or.kr

For press information please contact:

The Gwangju Biennale Foundation
Jin-Kyung Jeong
Biennale 2-gil Buk-gu Gwangju, South Korea
Tel +82 62 608 4264 / Fax +82 62 608 4269
1212jjk@gb.or.kr

Expenditure" - the 2008 Busan Biennale will take place this September bringing approximately 200 artworks from 30 countries

The 2008 Busan Biennale unfolds at the Busan Museum of Modern Art, Gwangalli Beach, and APEC Naru Park between September 6th to November 15th under the theme of "Expenditure." Made up of the Contemporary Art Exhibition, the Sea Art Festival, and the Busan Sculpture Project, the 2008 Busan Biennale will exhibit a distinctive philosophy of "expenditure" and a vivid scene of contemporary art through a variety of artworks including paintings, photographs, videos, installations, outdoor sculptures, etc.

The theme of the 2008 Busan Biennale, "Expenditure," was borrowed from Georges Bataille's discussion. Since it means consumption, release, and exhaustion, and extends into extravagance and reckless expenditure, "expenditure" is a concept contrary to goal-oriented, power-oriented, and phallic economic concepts, such as production, moderation, accumulation, acquisition, regime, control, etc. Though it has political and economic implications, it also has a great deal of implications for the perspectives of aesthetics and cultural criticism. Bataille pointed out that all studies had pursued to understand a society or a culture through the lens of production and accumulation and this had been an attempt to look at the whole from a part of a society or a culture, leading to a half-baked interpretation. According to Bataille, a complete discussion could be produced when we look at a society or a culture through the lenses of spending, consumption, exhaustion, etc., or concepts that are the antipodes of production, accumulation, acquisition, control, etc., that is, concepts employed in existing discussion methods. He asserted that, after all, culture had been maintained through activities deemed meaningless, such as releasing and consuming what was produced and accumulated.

The 2008 Busan Biennale attempts to reinterpret the trends of contemporary art as the aesthetics of "expenditure" through a microscopic lens, as well as to interpret "expenditure" through a macroscopic lens from the perspectives of cultural theories. Differentiating itself from existing biennales, which focus on exhibiting latest art trends "with speed" and "in abundance," the 2008 Busan Biennale seeks to illuminate and predict the latest directions of contemporary art, from paintings to sculptures to videos, under the theme of "expenditure," employing thorough analyses and maintaining critical views.

First, the Contemporary Art Exhibition will unfold at the Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan Yachting Center, and other places, under the direction of Kim Won-bang, a professor at Hongik University and art critic, exhibiting some 120 works of 100 artists from 20 countries. The Contemporary Art Exhibition, whose theme is "Expenditure, Art, Culture," presents the driver of today's cultural activities through the concept of expenditure, shifting directions from existing production-oriented and appearance-centered values to the disintegration of supernatural values and power of culture.

The Sea Art Festival will be hosted in the Gwangalli Beach, nearby shopping centers, Samik Leports Town, Geumnyeonsan Subway Station, etc. under the direction of Jeon Seung-bo, an independent curator. Some 60 artists from 20 countries will participate in the Festival with 70 artworks. The Sea Art Festival, whose theme is "Voyage Without Boundaries," seems to be in line with the theme of the biennale, "Expenditure," in that the Festival embraces contradiction and paradox as the essence of life, addressing formation and creation.

The Busan Sculpture Project, which is headed by a sculptor Yi Jeong-hyeong, is hosted in APEC Naru Park, inviting 20 works of 20 artists from 15 countries. The theme of the Busan Sculpture Project, "Avant Garden," combined "Avant" from avant-garde with "Garden," which indicates a more private space than a park. Thus, "Avant Garden" implies the intention of transforming everyday spaces into creative ones by combining epistemological and aesthetic notions with ordinary parks.

Busan Biennale Organizing Committee
23rd Floor, Busan City Hall
Yeonsan 5-dong
Yeonje-gu
Busan Metropolitan City
Tel. 82-51-888-6691~9 / Fax 82-51-888-6693
bbiennale@paran.com

CREATIVE DIRECTOR, ANNOUNCES THEME: "OPEN CULTURE"

Claude Gosselin, Executive and Artistic Director of the Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal (CIAC), is delighted to announce the appointment of Scott Burnham (Montréal/London) as Creative Director of La Biennale de Montréal 2009. The Biennale will take place throughout Montréal during May 2009 as a collaborative redefinition of a biennial, working within Burnham's theme for 2009: "Open Culture". As Scott Burnham explains:

"We are in the midst of a paradigm shift in our relationship to art and culture. In the same way that the Open Source software movement has driven technological innovation, the tools and philosophies at the heart of remix and mashup culture, Creative Commons licensing, the Free Culture movement, and the drive for open access and contribution to creative, scientific and educational intellectual property is transforming culture itself. The line between audience and artist is blurring to the point of invisibility – in its place is a democratisation of the creative process and the demystification of the artist as shaman. The 2009 Biennale de Montréal: Open Culture will be the international focal point for the exploration of this shift in culture."

Venice Cyber Biennale

This exhibition is co-organized with nonprofit art institutes, academic community and various intellectual observers from all over the world with subtile observation and independent opinions. Exhibition works are transparently collected all by means of internet. The First VENICE Cyber Biennale is divided into 5 regions: Europe, America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The purpose of the division is to facilitate audience to get a better understanding of different regional visual art and cultural identity. This exhibition will be held simultaneously with VENICE Biennale in 2007.
Rules
1. There is no restriction to applicants’ nationality, age, gender or occupation, either in person or in group is welcomed.
2. There is no exhibiting works quantity limit for participant(s), each exhibiting works is regarded as a unit.
3. All exhibiting works of personal or group participants’ must be original creation
4. Either individual applicant or allied authors applicants can enter for the exhibition.

>>Works Requirements
There is no restriction to work formats: drawing, sculpture, installation, project, photography, article,audio,video, performance etc.

>>Submission Requirements
1. Any format that can be transmitted by internet
2. Should you have further question, please feel free to contact organizing committee of VENICE Cyber Biennale.

>>Time Arrangement:
1. Apply and submit works date: From January 1, 2007 ~ April 30, 2007 (Date is subject to the local mail stamp chop in terms of airmail)
2. Shortlist announcement date: May 30, 2007
3. Opening Date: June 2007

>>Awards
1. Award crowned by organizer committee (is judgd by the host organizetion)
2. Observor Prize (based on the votes of organization and observers)
3. Award crowned by netizen (based on votes from internet)

>> Application Process
1.Filling the application forms.
Applicant is required to visit VENICE Cyber Biennale website www.vchiennale.org and download application forms. Fill out the forms with information as fact (Each work is required to have its author’s name(s) and description)
2、Exhibiting Works
(1) a. exhibiting works in form of computer files should be submitted by E-mail, please send it with the downloaded application form.
b. Should exhibiting works in electronic file be submitted by airmail, it can be attached with electronic application form.
(2).Please submit the original exhibiting works by either E-mail or airmail to “The First VENICE Cyber Biennale committee”
a. E-mail to：enter@vcbiennale.org (files no bigger than 10 MB)
b. Mail to: Room 301, No.27th Building, No 58 Macau Road, Putuo District, Shanghai, 200060, China (files bigger than 10 MB)
Contact Person: He Dan
(3). Anyone who is interested in exhibiting in The First VENICE Cyber Biennale is required to submit works to Organizing Committee on or before April 30, 2007 (date is subject to the local mail stamp chop). If the deadline is missed by applicant, it is regarded as self abjuration without further notice.
(4). Applicants will receive reply by email in 15 working days after submission by email.
Applicant will receive reply by email in 30 working days after submission by airmail. Please contact Organizing Committee if there is no reply.
(5). All submitted works will not be returned, applicants are suggested to keep copy themselves.