59 Seconds Festival
Date: May 22nd, 2006, 11.30 p.m.
Location: Top Kino
About 59 Seconds Festival
Launched by Project 59 last spring in Tribeca, the 59 Seconds Festival presents
a wide ranging collection of 59 videos and animations, 59 seconds each by artists from around the world that were selected through three international open calls.
59 Seconds Festival is a play off as well as a metaphor for the short video format. The restricted time frame gives an opportunity to introduce 59 international artists and a wide range of video works - mini documentary, political satire, metaphorical, narrative, experimental, edgy, controversial, including a unique collection of videos that integrate number 59. 59 Seconds Festival is a video storm of a variety of techniques, ideas and visions within relatively short period of time.
“Maximum entertainment in minimum time”
– San Francisco Bay Guardian 12/7/05.
59 Seconds Festival is developing a network and popularization of participating artists while introducing as broad an international audience as possible to unique collection of works, providing exchange of the ideas and information.
59 Seconds Festival is sampling an emerging contemporary international video art scene. Audience feedback is an important part of the process of developing of the final collection.
After completing first tour in December, 2005 at 911 Media Art Center in Seattle, ATA in San Francisco, EZTV in Los Angeles and Media Art Center San Diego, 59 Seconds Festival was screened at the Plugged In Fest III biennial at the Center for Contemporary Art in Rockport, Maine and at Duke University in Durham, NC. 59 Seconds Festival was presented at Videominuto (Italy) and Contemporary Art Exhibition Transformation in Bishkek, Kirgizstan.
A collection of selected 59 videos, 59 seconds each by 59 international artists, shown 59 times around the globe is an ultimate goal of 59 Seconds Festival.
Artists
Petri Ala-Maunus (Finland), Lora Alaniz (USA), Victor Barbieri (USA), Jeff Bauer & Melania Semerad-Radulescu (USA), Michelle Beck & Jorge Calvo (USA/Costa Rica), Raina Benoit (USA), Isidore Bethel (USA), Lloyd Blander & Aaron Krach (USA), BridA (Jurij Pavlica, Tomi Kersevan, Klemen Brun, Sendi Mango) (Slovenija), Sofia Bustorff (Portugal), Horia Cadariu (Romania), Mauro Ceolin (Italy), Yu-Chen Chiu (USA), Cinzia Cremona (UK), Irina Danilova & Hiram Levy (USA), Alexandra Dementieva (Belgium), Carine Doerflinger (Germany), Alistair Gentry (UK), André Gonçalves (Portugal), Are Hauffen (Norway), Yan Chung Hsien & Guo Shiau Pei (Taiwan), Ianthe Jackson (USA), Alain K (France), Dubi Kaufmann (USA), Diana Kingsley (USA), David Lachman (USA), Josephine Lipuma (USA), Katherine Liberovskaya (Canada), Catherine MacGregor (UK), John H. Malone (USA), Erik Moskowitz (USA), Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov (Russia), Szacsva y Pa’l (Hungary), Norm Scott (USA), GRUPPO SINESTETICO (Albertin M., Perseghin M., Sassu A., Shimizu T .) (Italy), Akiko & Masako Takada (Japan/UK), Mark Ther & Andy Brody (Czech Republic), Myriam Thyes (Germany), Fereshteh Toosi (USA), Jenny Vogel (USA), Randall Wakerlin (USA), Franz Wassermann (Austria), Lisa Wigren & Jacqueline Forzelius (Sweden/Norway), Brooks Williams (USA), Darya Zhuk (Belarus), Alessandra Zucchi & Antonio Della Marina (Italy)
About Project 59
59 Seconds Festival is part of the Project 59, a ten year effort led by Irina Danilova, where number 59 is both a guide and a tool that injects just enough randomization into the creative process, helping to break free of subjective and cultural constraints, providing an arbitrary reason for penetrating into any issue or activity for artistic research.
Since 2003 Irina Danilova works in collaboration with Hiram Levy, a NOAA research scientist. 59 Seconds Festival was founded and runs by Irina Danilova and Hiram Levy
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About Irina Danilova
Visual and performance artist (born and raised in Ukraine, lived and worked in Moscow, now lives in New York, NY). Her installations were shown in Islip Art Museum (Islip, NY), Weisman Museum (Minneapolis), Spaces (Cleveland, Ohio), The Telephone Factory, Atlanta, Georgia. She has also exhibited in Germany, Bulgaria, Iceland, Russia and Ukraine. As a performance artist she appeared in Cleveland and Santiago international Performance festivals, and took part in Franklin Furnace program The Future of the Present.
Irina Danilova won an international art competition in Halle, Germany and was recognized by Bronx Consul for the Arts as BRIO Awardees. She completed sponsored by Arts Link project in Ural Mountains, and a Longwood Cyber Studio Residency, her cyber works were presented at Thundergulch and Smack Melon Gallery in New York; and took part in Prix Ars Electronica in Austria.
Irina’s video works were presented at Vienna Independent Short Video Festival, RedShift and X-Fest festivals in New York. Irina Danilova is presently teaching at Kingsborough College.
www.irinadanilova.net