MI's Curator, Alysse Stepanian
Stepanian is a multimedia, cross-disciplinary, and video artist. She is the creator, Program Director, and Curator of Manipulated Image video screenings. For April 2010, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne invited her to curate a video show of US artists titled "memory" and "identity" for VideoChannel online screenings based in Cologne. Stepanian is also the founding co-director of M.A.N.Y. (Musicians & Artists in New York). In 1998-99 she curated and presented multimedia performances by nearly 50 international artists in 5 festivals in New York City. The 2010 screenings of her own videos include Orebro International Videoart Festival in Sweden (October); Fonlad 2010 Festival in Portugal; Teatro Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Arte Cubano in Havana, Cuba; "SHE_STORY" in Zadar, Croatia; OUTcasting Season 12 based in Cardiff, UK; CeC 2010 from the selections of CologneOFF V based in Germany. In 2009 her videos were screened at the Abington Art Center near Philadelphia (video from the 1990’s); Harold Golen Gallery in Miami, USA; Kunstfilmtag 09 in Düsseldorf; YOVEO International Video Festival in New York City. Her webart was recently presented on HZ Online Journal and Digital Fringe Online Festival based in Australia.
Stepanian has collaborated with Philip Mantione on multimedia installations with video, under the name BOX 1035. Their 2006 installation, "Don’t be afraid, be ready" at Imagine Gallery in Beijing was listed in Beijing’s City Weekend magazine as number one of the top 5 exhibits. Other collaborative installations were featured at the Kunsthaus Tacheles in Berlin, and The Islip Museum of Art in New York. L.P. Streitfeld has described their work as "a wry and profound commentary on the conflicted state of America’s emotions."
http://alyssestepanian.com
http://www.box1035.com
Above: still from video by Alysse Stepanian: "What is My Name, Sister?" currently in post-production.
MI's Guest Co-curators
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
http://www.agricola-de-cologne.de
Also listed under "PARTNERS"
For the March 12, 2010, first year anniversary event of Manipulated Image, Stepanian invited Agricola de Cologne to co-curate the video portion of the event, under the title "For Action's Sake."
More details here...
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Kika Nicolela
http://www.dilemastudio.comFor May 2010, Stepanian has invited Kika Nicolela to co-curate a show, to include videos by Braziian artists, under the title "Absence||Presence""Ausência || Presença"
Kika Nicolela is a Brazilian artist and experimental filmmaker. Her works include single-channel videos, installations, performances, experimental documentaries and photography. Graduated in Film and Video from the University of Sao Paulo, Kika Nicolela also completed film courses at UCLA. Her works have been screened and awarded in festivals of more than 30 countries, such as: Kunst Film Biennale, ACA Media Arts Festival, Videoformes New Media & Video Art Festival, International Electronic Art Festival Videobrasil and Exis Experimental Film & Video Festival. She was the recipient of several grants and has participated in about 60 solo and collective exhibitions in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, UK and the US. Since 2008 Kika Nicolela has been curating and coordinating the Exquisite Corpse Video Project, a collaborative series of videos that involves more than 60 artists from 25 countries. In 2010, she was selected to the artist-in-residence programs in Rondo Studio (Austria), Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation (Germany), and Gyeonggi Creation Center (South Korea). Kika Nicolela is represented by Vtape, a video art distribution company based in Toronto, and Dconcept, an art gallery based in São Paulo.
Above: still from video by Kika Nicolela