VIDEOAKT is a festival that take place every two years, between Berlin (Germany) and Barcelone (Spain).

VIDEOAKT is a connectivity platform, it creates Networks among intitutions and organizations that second the development of the videoart. A jury formed by experts in contemporani art and audiovisuals will select the submitted Works, for the final selection and the winner of the competition. The winner work will be worthy of the prize: Videoakt – Home of Velazquez of the “Académie du France” in Madrid (Madrid – Spain).

VIDEOAKT has, as goal, to propitiate and to create cultural exchanges in the audiovisual art World, offering the oportunity to contact among concerns, artists and cultural agents from everywhere in the World. Emphasizing in cultural diversity. Its aim is to proportion an historical and actual panorama with local projects and the contextualization of them in a global sphere.

ANGIE BONINO

Is the first woman to dedicate in new medias in Peru. For several years she dedicated to investigate y al comisariado específico de los artistas peruanos dentro del Festival Internacional de Artes Electrónicas en Lima.Graphic designer and plastic artista of fine arts in Perú, Máster in interactive Systems for audiovisuals in “Mecad” from the Ramon Llull University in Barcelone, Spain; Master in “LAMP” Systems for free software with subvention from European Community. She writes in magazines. She works as an artist and art researcher with new Technologies. Director of VIDEOAKT International videoart biennial.

General direction: Angie Bonino. director@videoaktbiennal.com

EDITIONS

First edition

11-13/ 07/ 2008 Berlín, GlogauAIR centre.
25-31/ 05/ 2009 Barcelona, at the Loop Fairl 2009

Winners:

Mona Ruijs (Holand), Funda Özgünaydin (Ireland ), Jun’ichiro Ishii, (Japan)

Finalists:

Javier Maculet (Spain), Basicproduction / VJ Liam Carlin (UK), Juan Carlos de la Parra (Mexico), Shakinda (Ireland), Dfuse (UK), Ray-V (Israel), INTRANSITos (Germany / Colombia), Djane ZistaS (Germany), Guido Bärbig / Peter Senkel (Germany)

Second edition

16-22/ 05/ 2011 Barcelona, Hotel AMISTER
4-5/ 12/ 2012 Berlín, Instituto Cervantes

Winners:

First award: Maya Watanabe – “A-pha-nousia” – Peru
Second award: Juan Carlos de la Parra – “ Whatever karma – whatever chaos”- Mexico

Finalists:

Konstantin Adjer(Russia), Cristian Alarcón Ismodez (Peru), Wei Ming Ho (Taiwan), UrosDjurovic (Germany), Eszter Szabó (Hungary), Ramón Guimaraes (Spain), Birds Productions (USA), Avi Krispín (Netherlands), Grimanesa Amorós (Perú), Juan Diego Tobalina (Perú), Patricia Bueno (Perú), Malena Santillana (Perú), Jose Antonio Torres (Perú), Maria Cañas (Spain), Eva Gull Valls (Spain), Alberte Pagán (Spain), Fina Olivart (Spain), Begoña Egurbide (Spain), Miquel García (Spain), Esther Achaerandio (Spain).

Third edition

25-28/ 06/ 2013 Barcelona, Auditorium of the French Institute
29/ 06/ 2013 Barcelona, – Closing Ceremony of Videoakt – H2O Gallery

Winner:

Albert Merino – “La ciudad y el otro” – España

Honourable mention:

Cristian Alarcón Ismodes – “VII pulgadas” – Perú

Finalists:

Aditi Avinash Kulkarni (India), Adrián Regnier Chávez (México), Agustín Puente (Argentina), Alejandra Bueno (España), “2+2” Romina Chaile y Alejandro Garat (Argentina), Alice Dalgalarrondo (Brasil), Sándor M. Salas (España), Arantxa Boyero (España), Claudio Molina Moral (España), Félix Fernández (España), Gabriel Andreu (Reino Unido), Iván Cortázar (USA), Julio Martinez Malqui (Perú), Karin Dolk (Suecia / España), Katherinne Fiedler (Perú), Gilivanka KEDZIOR & Barbara FRIEDMAN (France), Lois Patiño (España), Maia Navas (Argentina), Mana Salehi (Irán), Mariokissme (España), Miguel Soler (España) Mikel Zatarain (España), Paulo Carneiro (Portugal), Paul Barrios (Colombia), Ñ+Ñ Raquel Muñoz – Montse Carreño (España), Raul Gomez Valverde (USA), Uwe Heine Debrodt (México), Wei-Ming Ho (Taiwan)

HOMAGES

The homage section in Videoakt is an area very important, With that area it is done a relevante to the artists that their works and trajectory have been consolidating the history of the videoart for the new generations. Videoakt places special emphasis on build and rebuild, with the alive memory of the pioneers artists, the conscious development of an arte that have offered and it will offer fruits in the field of creation.

International homage Videoart. Biennal 2011. Robert Cahen.

VIDEOAKT Biennial 2011 dedicates the section of pioneers to Robert Cahen (1945), aconcerning videoart. He has produced, since 1972, a distinguished body of work for cinema and television.

Robert Cahen
Valence, 1945
France

Robert Cahen is a pioneer using electronic technologies in image processing. Video artist, filmmaker, photographer and composer. He is one of the main artists in the videoart world and international video installation, with more than fifty films and videos shown around the wold in museums as George Pompidou, Le musée Gustave Moureu, National Museum Reina Sofía, ZKM, among others.

His work goes about the dinamism and static of the movement, for his studies of concret music with Pierre Schaeffer, his base in the creation of the sound is so important as the visual part reaching a balance between the fiction and reality, poetics and narratives that go from the lineal to the no lineal, inviting us to an univers of perceptual experiences and communicative situations.

International homage Videoart. Biennal 2013. Wolf Kahlen.

VIDEOAKT Biennial 2013 dedicates the pioneers sections to Wolf Kahlen (1940), a reference of the videoart that it selfdefines as “sculptor of the communication media”. Since 70’s he has a wide production, even as a teacher in different countries.

Wolf Kahlen
Aix-la-Chapelle/Aachen, 1940
Germany

Wolf Kahlen in one of the pioneer artists on the videoart stage and the Fluxus movement in Germany. Kahlen in an multidisciplinary artist and he has worked till now in video, photograph, sculpture, performance, netart, etc. He has produced the art and investigation project “Leonardo for Tibet”, who travels, since 1985, along Tibet, Mongolia, Japan, Taiwan and all the Himalaya countries. In 1996 in China he carried out a huge individual exhibition in the Museum of Art in Beijing.

Far from the stablished formulas and repetition, He carries out pieces to show himselves in a uniquely in the specific place where the piece has been recorded. The Wolf Kahlen Museum – Intermedia Arts Museum at Bernau near Berlin is dedicated to his work since 2005.

Among his last retrospectives expositions we have: Museum Folkwang Essen, ZKM Karlsruhe, WRO Wroclaw and Ruine der Künste in Berlin.