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Utopian Nights: Displacement

The Utopian Nights series provides a platform to re-imagine collectively four contemporary themes: displacement, borders, encampment and the rise of global commons. The catalyst of the series is the notion of Utopia. Here Utopia is essentially a democratic space – it is a platform for discussion and a participatory project in which everyone can debate, challenge and be challenged equally.

Utopian Nights includes a series of public events which bring artists and thinkers together to discuss important social issues related to exile and conflict.

The Utopian Nights will take place over the course of four themed events, where experts will engage the public with artistic interpretations of pressing political themes. All sessions will include an open debate with experts and an invitation for public feedback, followed by the opportunity to continue discussion during a social mixer event.

Utopian Nights: Inside the Border will be taking place from the 1st August to the 5th August 2018 at Howard Gardens, Mdina. Through an array of activities, including debates, storytelling, an open-air cinema, photo studios, street performances and a Spoken Word concert, the public is invited to explore the tangible and intangible borders that cut through and fragment our world today.

Each night the public is invited to engage with a specific artistic work, and discuss it with local and international thinkers. Each Night will culminate in a joyful social gathering, providing the artists, thinkers and public with an opportunity to take part in a common experience.

This first night from the series, “Displacement”, will be held on Saturday the 29th of July 2017 at 6pm in two different venues: Castille Place in Valletta and Herbert Ganado Gardens in Floriana. The night will start off with Nigerian artist Jelili Atiku, who will present a performance on displacement in front of the migration monument situated in Castille Place. This unique performance will be the outcome of Jelili’s artist residency in Malta.

The audience will then proceed to Herbert Ganado Gardens where a debate will take place. At the entrance, a soundscape of the city of Lagos, Nigeria, recorded and produced by Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh, will be playing, in which the audience will experience audio-displacement having to pass through a foreign soundscape.

The debate will commence at 8pm in the gardens and will be the occasion to discuss the present works of artists Jelili Atiku and Emeka Ogboh with Italian actor and art director Domenico Castaldo and anthropologist Prof. Paul Clough from the University of Malta. Both speakers will confront their aesthetic experiences and  their thoughts on migration and displacement with the public.

The final part of the night will include a free party in the garden, with the participation of a Malta-based Kenyan rapper Abbas Kubaff, followed by two DJ sets by Emeka Ogboh and Julien Vinet.

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14th & 15th Kinemastik Festival & Summer Cinema 18/19

Kinemastik is an NGO responsible for the Kinemastik International Short Film Festival and a year-round cultural programme. Kinemastik links young filmmakers in Malta to the world of cinema and provides them with a platform for their work, through local screenings as well as through worldwide distribution of locally produced work. This February Kinemastik will be attending Berlinale, which is one of the biggest film festivals in the world. This is possible through the Cultural Export Funds managed by Arts Council Malta. For more information visit: http://www.kinemastik.org/ & Slavko Vukanovic

Kinemastik is once again premiering a programme of exciting, relevant and groundbreaking short films at the International Short Film Festival, taking place on the 27th and 28th July at the Garden of Rest in Floriana.

Short films are becoming an increasingly popular vehicle for artistic producers seeking to tackle topical and provocative issues. For the last fourteen years, the Maltese cultural NGO, Kinemastik, has been organising an annual short film festival as part of its year-round programme of film-related events and activities.

The Kinemastik International Short Film Festival provides an ideal platform through which resident filmmakers can forge meaningful creative and professional connections with leaders in the world of cinema, as well as share their work with local audiences and guest speakers. Over the years, the festival has also earned itself a place in the hearts of local filmgoers thanks to an intimate ambience that allows viewers to experience the full appeal of the short films selected.

Kinemastik is a cultural NGO based in Malta, responsible for a year-round programme of film screenings, concerts, exhibitions, workshops, talks and short film production. The Kinemastik International Short Film Festival takes place in July and is held over three days at The Garden of Rest, a deconsecrated cemetery overlooking the Marsamxett Harbour.  Kinemastik collaborates with international filmmakers and festivals to bring independent film to a local audience. The festival is now in its 15th year. Kinemastik links local filmmakers to the world of cinema, providing them with a platform for their work, through local screenings as well as through worldwide distribution of locally produced works.Kinemastik is supported by Arts Council Malta through a Cultural Partnership Agreement. Kinemastik Slavko Vukanovic

The Poetry on Film project is an initiative that beautifully merges the visual art of film with Malta’s rich literature. Each year, a Maltese poem is selected to be adapted into a short film which then premieres at the Malta Mediterranean Literature Film Festival. This project is a collaboration with Inizjamed. Inizjamed M.A. in Film Studies – University of Malta

Film Grain Foundation is pleased to announce the first edition of Summer Cinema, a touring cinema concept around Malta and Gozo. Starting on Friday 2 August 2019, the foundation will be screening five classic gems at various open-air venues around the islands. The first film, the award-winning film Il Postino will the shown at Wied iż-Żurrieq in the area close to Torri Xutu that was recently restored by Malta Airport Foundation.  Following a short break during the Santa Maria weekend, Summer Cinema will return on 23rd August 2019 with a tribute to the late Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli who died on 15 June 2019. His 1968 adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet will screen at the northern village of Mellieħa. A week later on 30th August 2019, the Czech production Kolya, the Oscar winning Best Foreign Language Film of 1997 will screen at Saint Paul’s Bay. The final screening for Summer Cinema 2019 will be the french animation Ernest and Celestine. The film will be shown at Malta’s old Capital City, Mdina. Valletta Film Festival Summer Cinema 2019

Following the success of the first two years, the ‘Gozo Film Festival‘ is proud to announce its third edition! This festival aims to promote local (Gozitan and Maltese) and foreign filmmakers, with a whole new section dedicated to children and teenagers. The festival is set to take place on the picturesque bastions of the Citadel, in the heart of Victoria. Gozo Film Festival 2019 Federico Chini

One of the most anticipated movies of the year is finally here. Limestone Cowboy, a film produced by Take 2 Entertainment, will premiere at the Eden Cinemas on Saturday 13 April. Limestone Cowboy revolves around Karist Camilleri, a man who decides to run for office with his own political party after being turned down as a candidate for the political party he grew up supporting.  The Limestone Cowboy premiers at the Eden Cinemas on Saturday 13 April. You can buy your tickets for this highly anticipated movie from edencinemas.com.mt, or from the mobile app. Take 2 Entertainment Limestone Cowboy Abigail Mallia Carlos Debattista Eden Cinemas

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World Refugee Day

20 June 2018 was World Refugee Day and to commemorate this day several events have been organized. Over the course of history, people have moved to other countries for many reasons: survival, hunger, persecution, climate change, and a new future. Sometimes they even move for love. Without migration and travel, the Mediterranean wouldn’t be what it is today: a region with a rich array of cultural backgrounds and heritage.

The Maltese poet Antoine Cassar wrote a poem about this theme, called Map of the Mediterranean. This poem moved Malta-based composer Luc Houtkamp (compositions, electronics and woodwinds; project leader) along with Guy Harries (compositions, vocals, flute, electronics) and Tom Armitage (keyboards) so deeply that they’ve created a show around the theme of migration in time for World Refugee Day. As Antoine Cassar recites his own poem, the experimental ensemble perform newly composed songs about migration, the Mediterranean Sea and the current refugee crises.

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DSI FAIR 2018 // Digital transformation for a better society

The ambition of the DSI Fair 2018 is to create a space for all these players to gather and align on priorities and key directions shaping the European research and innovation agenda.

The DSI Fair 2018 will offer a rich program featuring an international conference, focused workshops, networking and hands-on sessions. The line-up of speakers includes experts and practitioners, as well as policy makers and civil society players.

This event will specifically provide opportunities to discuss how initiatives tackling social and environmental challenges in Europe and beyond are at the core of realising a more secure, trusted, inclusive and participatory Next Generation Internet. It will also provide the opportunity to promote how a number of advanced technologies (blockchains, decentralised data protection, artificial intelligence, etc.) and EC-driven initiatives, like the 5MEuro blockhain Prize, can help realising a more secure and trusted Digital Single Market.

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Altofest

Altofest is a project that explores experimental sociality through contemporary live art. Citizens host international artists in their houses, which then become venues that welcome audiences for diverse performances. Altofest will take place across four different regions in Malta, over four consecutive weekends. “Legendary People” is the theme behind Altofest Malta 2018.

ON THE DUST ISLAND from teatringestazione on Vimeo.

How can art emerge from the community as its distinctive expression, becoming in the meantime an instrument of social growth, fostering the formation of a future cultural legacy? The narration of a place, of its inhabitants and of its possible future lives, needs to be inspired by the evocative power of myth and legends. The bright image of the democratic Athens is a mix of mythology and reality of historical documents. A new mythology to be founded needs heroes and legends. A cultural project inserting itself in the life of the city, directly involving its community, creates a new mythology where heroes are among its citizens, deeply immersed in the landscape.

The hero we are referring to is the so-called “cultural hero”, according to anthropologists. He is the one who influences customs and traditions of his people inaugurating new rituals, bringing innovation and establishing a new collective identity.  In this sense, Altofest Malta is a unique opportunity, the act of foundation of a new way of perceiving and living in the relationship between citizens and arts, especially live arts contemporary language. As it will originate a new condition, Altofest Malta 2018 will be the beginning of a new epic of the “cultural hero” citizen. He will accept the challenge of blending his/her everyday life with the revelation of artistic creation. 20 citizens in 4 different areas of the island will be the pioneers of an experience that will leave a cultural heritage.

The schedule for Altofest Malta is as follows:
13th April 2018 – Opening in Strait Street, Valletta
20 – 22 April 2018 – Performances in Rabat, Manikata & Majjistral Park
27 – 29 April – Performances in Qormi, Ħamrun & Santa Venera
4 – 6 May 2018 – Performances in Żejtun
11 – 13 May 2018 – Performances in Bormla, Birgu, Valletta, Gżira & Sliema

To discover what’s in store for Altofest Malta, follow this link for more detailed information. To book, kindly follow this link.

Created and organised by TeatrInGestAzione with Artistic Direction by Anna Gesualdi and Giovanni Trono and with the participation of diverse space doors in Malta. 

If you would like to find out more about Altofest, check out their website for information about past editions in Naples, Italy. Visit www.altofest.net.

AltoFest

A documentary film crossing by Altofest Malta 2018

Documenting the Altofest 2018 for Valletta 2018, the director Giuseppe Valentino tried to experience the festival from the Maltese point of view. The impact of Altofest that mixes with the Maltese culture. It is a clash? An invasion? What do these people want on our island? The documentary tries avoid answers.

Altofest Malta 2018, is a project that explored experimental sociality through contemporary live art. During Altofest, Maltese citizens hosted international artists in their houses, which then became venues that welcomed audiences to see diverse performances. The theme behind Altofest Malta 2018 was ‘Legendary People’. Altofest creates a unique opportunity for perceiving and living the relationship between citizens and the arts. The project deals with how art emerges from the community as a distinctive expression and becomes an instrument of social growth. A cultural project which inserts itself in the life of the city, directly involving its community, creates a new mythology where heroes are among its citizens. These heroes become ‘cultural heroes’, according to anthropologists, who influence the customs and traditions of the other citizens, and who bring innovation to the community while establishing a cultural identity.

Teatru Triptiku, b’direzzjoni u produzzjoni ta’ Jacob Piccinino, kien serje ta’ interventi artistiċi qosra madwar it-toroq tal-Belt Valletta. Dawn kienu marbuta mill-qrib man-narrattiva ta’ Valletta 2018 – European Capital of Culture għas-sena, u b’hekk iservu ta’ introduzzjoni għall-Programm Kulturali fejn il-ftuħ tiegħu sar fl-20 ta’ Jannar li għadda.

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Dal-Ba’ar Madwarha: Valletta 2018’s major visual arts exhibition

Valletta 2018’s major multi-site exhibition, “Dal-Baħar Madwarha”, opens its doors to curious visitors across the Islands starting from the 10th of March. Curated by Maren Richter, large installations, performances and public interventions are taking place in both traditional and unexpected locations across Malta, exploring the idea of “islandness” in playful and critical ways.

Ibrahim Mahama’s work for the Pixkerija, Valletta’s Old Fish Market, will be directly connected to the fabric of the building of the Pixkerija. Mahama’s large scale intervention – a physical line made of meshes – intends to highlight the working history of the old fish market, its uncertain future and the Mediterranean Sea as a symbol of trading between Africa an Europe.

Only a week from now – 10th of March – the first projects of Dal Bahar Madwarha will start to appear. Kultura paid a visit to Manaf Halbouni: “Uprooted“: What if you are forced to live in a space of 1qm? The Syrian-German artist invites us to imagine ourselves without a home – What if ‚our car‘, a symbol of freedom of mobility, became home due to misfortune or war?

Valletta 2018 – European Capital of Culture’s major multi-site exhibition, “Dal-Baħar Madwarha”, opened its doors to curious visitors across the Islands from 10th of March. Curated by Maren Richter, large installations, performances and public interventions are taking place in both traditional and unexpected locations across Malta, exploring the idea of “islandness” in playful and critical ways. The projects range from design objects to architecture and complex issues of urban development and society with a focus on “research through practice”.

Heba Y Amin – OPERATION SUNKEN SEA
A fictive office that explores colonial omnipotentia by initiating a large-scale infrastructural intervention through the draining and rerouting of the Mediterranean Sea to converge Africa and Europe into one supercontinent. Heba Y Amin is an Egyptian visual artist, researcher and lecturer based in Berlin, whose work engages with narratives of national sovereignty, often in contested territories and questions methodological assumptions embedded within Western historiography.

Dal-Baħar Madwarha – Giraffa: James Micallef Grimaud’s intervention refers to the fact that the Maltese Archipelago are close to both Africa and Europe. Today Africa and Europe seem to further away from each other than ever. New borders and new forms of migration have been established. A transformed crane painted as a giraffe welcomes the travellers when entering the harbour, or those in search for the iconic view over the Grand Harbour and remind us of tolerance and diversity of cultures.

James Micallef Grimaud has directed several artistic projects including the first large scale mural in Malta. He is the founder of the Troglodyte crew, a street art collective working on several projects around Malta. He defines himself as an artist, who maintains critical but positive and witty approach to life on the Island.

This event is on till 1st July at the Marsa/Grand Harbour Docks.

Between spring and summer 2018, curator Maren Richter brings Valletta 2018’s major visual arts exhibition to our European Capital of Culture, with large installations, performances and public interventions taking place in both traditional and unexpected locales across the country. Among the exhibition’s star sites is the Pixkerija at Barriera Wharf, a Grade 2 scheduled building that was built in the 1930’s.

Richter is working with more than twenty-five established and emerging artists from fifteen countries –including Malta, France, Austria, Egypt, Germany, Syria, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Ghana, Spain, and Palestine – who are collaborating with local partners around the Islands.

The title Dal-Baħar Madwarha is inspired by a quote from the work of philosopher Gilles Deleuze, ‘The island is what the sea surrounds’. This sets the tone for newly commissioned and existing pieces that explore the idea of “islandness” in playful and critical ways. It’s an artistic journey through the contemporary realities of the Maltese Islands, placing at their helm the Islands’ relationship with their closest neighbour – the Mediterranean Sea.

The exhibition re-traces borders, imagining new geographies that view the sea as fluid and transformable rather than another physical barrier between people, places and culture.

In Richter’s words: “The multi-site programme invites international and Maltese artists to recast and respond to current and past urgencies and challenges, in which the Mediterranean Sea plays a significant role […] The island is a mode of pausing, familiarised by a certain romanticism. Whereas the sea looms large in the language of our imaginations; it is a site of reflection, voyage, and volatile freedom.”

In the light of such thought-provoking inquiries, the exhibition explores the identity of our Islands within a wider global context, bringing creative, social and political visions of the Mediterranean to light through the region’s most iconic and enduring image: the deep blue sea.

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Counter Investigations

Counter Investigations is the first UK survey exhibition of the work of Forensic Architecture, an independent research agency.
Recent Investigations
Key Concepts
Short Course in Forensic Architecture

Forensic Architecture is both the name of the agency established in 2010, and a form of investigative practice into state violence and human rights violations that traverses architectural, journalistic and legal fields, and shifts between critical reflections and tactical interventions.

Counter Investigations presents a selection of recent investigations undertaken by the agency into incidents occurring in different contexts worldwide. In parallel, the exhibition outlines five key concepts that raise related historical, theoretical and technological questions. Continuing to be explored in an accompanying series of public seminars, these investigations and propositions add up to a  Short Course in Forensic Architecture.

Grounded in the use of architecture as an analytic device, Forensic Architecture has in recent years developed a host of new evidentiary methods that respond to our changing media landscape – exemplified in the widespread availability of digital recording equipment, satellite imaging and platforms for data sharing – and propose new modes of open-source, citizen-led evidence gathering and activism.

Forensic Architecture has worked closely with communities affected by acts of social and political violence, alongside NGOs, human rights groups, activists, and media organisations. Their investigations have provided decisive evidence in a number of legal cases, and contested accounts given by state authorities, leading to military, parliamentary and UN inquiries.

Counter Investigations marks the beginning of a long term collaboration between the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Forensic Architecture. The exhibition and this ongoing partnership exemplifies the Institute of Contemporary Arts’ intent to foster and explore new modes of civil practice operating across the fields of art, architecture and activism.
Image: Forensic Architecture, ‘77sqm_926min’, 2017. Simulation of the fluid dynamics of smell particles (ammonia) within the front room of the internet cafe where Halit Yozgat was murdered on the 6th April 2006 by a member of the neo-Nazi group known as the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Image courtesy of Dr. Salvador Navarro-Martinez and Forensic Architecture, 2017.
Forensic Architecture exhibition team: Eyal Weizman (Director), Christina Varvia (Researcher in Charge), Ariel Caine, Franc Camps Ferber, Stefan Laxness, Stefanos Levidis, Nicholas Masterton, Samaneh Moafi, Sarah Nankivell, Elena Paca, Robert Preuss, Grace Quah, Theo Resnikoff, Simone Rowat, Nathan Su, Bob Trafford, William Winfield, Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani (Forensic Oceanography)
Graphics: Wayne Daly & Claire Lyon, Matthew Chrislip
Short Course in Forensic Architecture is organized in partnership with MA in Forensic Architecture, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London led by Susan Schuppli and Lorenzo Pezzani
Exhibition Supporters: The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and The Forensic Architecture Exhibition Supporters Circle: Shane Akeroyd, Charles Asprey, Sir Richard Rogers
Forensic Architecture Supporters: European Research Council (ERC); Sigrid Rausing Trust; Potter Foundation; OAK foundation; Goldsmiths, University of London

Installation shots:

All photographs © Mark Blower
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displaying video as theory and reference system

What’s Visible – the mechanics of i-docs

The interactive timeline

This presentation explores the structural tensions between narrative and navigability
in interactive documentary by focusing on the role of the on-screen timeline.
The challenges of mapping \ onto space extend at least as far back as the Middle
Ages, when historical genealogies appeared in visual forms including branches of a
tree and rivers. However, the timeline as we know it – a straight horizontal line
whose length precisely measures a given duration – only dates as far back as charts
designed by Thomas Jefferys and Joseph Priestley in the mid-17th century
(Rosenberg & Grafton 2010). Over recent decades, the horizontal timeline has
further evolved into a pervasive technological and conceptual framework for the
making and viewing of moving images. From the sequence window of ‘non-linear’
editing software to the play bar of online videos, the horizontal timeline shapes how
we engage with video. It also encapsulates the paradox of interactive documentary:
always just a swipe away, it is metonymic of the hegemony of linear narrative in
contemporary media, yet it also makes possible non-linear navigation through
moving images.

Using examples including the interactive documentary Filming Revolution (Alisa
Lebow, 2015) and the VR artwork Timescrubbing (Rachel Rossin, 2016), this paper
explores different ways in which timelines have informed the structure of interactive
nonfiction, and how they can also be used by film-makers and artists to disrupt linear
narrative. The paper concludes by exploring how the concept of the timeline applies
to virtual reality, and how the gesture-based interactive toolset of VR may make
possible works that follow a predetermined narrative trajectory but still allow real-time
interaction. It does so with reference to research currently being carried out by the
author and VR studio Vrtov on the interactive documentary Cinema Unframed, which
aims to use gesture as a tool for temporal navigation through moving images.

References
Rosenberg, Daniel, and Anthony Grafton. 2010. Cartographies of Time: A History of
the Timeline. Princeton N.J.: Princeton Architectural Press.

after.video: displaying video as theory and reference system

After video culture rose during the 1960s and 70s with portable devices like the Sony Portapak and other consumer grade video recorders it has subsequently undergone the digital shift. With this evolution the moving image inserted itself into broader, everyday use, but also extended it s patterns of effect and its aesthetical language. Movie and television alike have transformed into what is now understood as media culture. Video has become pervasive, importing the principles of “tele-” and “cine-” into the human and social realm, thereby also propelling “image culture” to new heights and intensities.1 YouTube, emblematic of network-and online-video, marks a second transformational step in this medium’s short evolutionary history. The question remains: what comes after YouTube? How might we understand a time when global bandwidth and multiplication of – often mobile – devices as well as moving image formats “re-assemble” both “the social”2, as well as the medium formerly-known-as video itself? What is one supposed to call these continuously re-forming assemblages? Or: how should one name the ubiquitous moving images in times when they are not identifiable any more as discrete video “clips”? Are we witnessing the rise of Post-Video? Extended video? To what extent has the old video frame been broken?

This paper discusses the use of video as theory in the after.video project6, reflecting the structural and qualitative re-evaluation it aims at discussing design and organisational level. In accordance with the qualitatively new situation video is set in, the paper discusses a multi-dimensional matrix which constitutes the virtual logical grid of the after.video project: a matrix of nine conceptual atoms is rendered into a multi-referential video-book that breaks with the idea of linear text. read from left to right, top to bottom, diagonal and in ‘steps’.

Unlike previous experiments with hypertext and interactive databases, after.video attempts to translate online modes into physical matter (micro computer), thereby reflecting logics of new formats otherwise unnoticed. These nine conceptual atoms are then re-combined differently throughout the video-book – by rendering a dynamic, open structure, allowing for access to the after.video book over an ‘after_video’ WiFi SSID.

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Icon Island

Icon Island: The project features a live collage of visuals that draws inspiration from films dealing with the mystic and romantic journey to islands, representing alternative societies or different states of mind and pieced together by iconic scenes from films that have a connection to Malta. The thought-provoking visuals are aimed at engaging audiences to reflect on island customs and the way islands are commonly viewed – as places of paradise but also of fear, while the improvised electronic soundscapes, inspired by the visuals themselves enhance the overall experience.

ICON Island is a collaboration between Virgil Widrich, an Austrian filmmaker and director known for his experimental films and multimedia works, and leading Maltese electronic music producer Sonitus Eco.

Icon Island is a project by Virgil Widrich, an Austrian filmmaker and director known for his experimental films and multimedia works.

The collage of visuals is inspired by films dealing with the mystic and romantic journey to islands representing alternative societies or different states of mind. Questioning local customs and the identity of their visitors, these places can be both a paradise and a threat.

Carefully selected visuals – many of which include a connection to Malta and its cinematic history – will be projected as a ‘live’ mix, accompanied by an improvised electronic music performance by Maltese artist Sonitus Eco. The sounds of the films are re-imagined on the fly, with sound reacting to – or even opposing – the images.

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Art+Feminism

Art+Feminism
Date and Time: Friday, 9th February 2018, 7:00pm– 9:00pm
Venue: Blitz, Santa Lucia Street, Valletta

Art+Feminism is an international project aimed at improving Wikipedia content on women and the arts and to encourage women’s participation in the online encyclopaedia. Flora Katz – a curator, art critic and organiser of three wiki edit-a-thons in Paris – will present a talk on the 2017 Paris edition and discuss some of the issues at the core of the project, such as how art and Wikipedia can be a driving force to gather a community and act upon feminist issues, and what is at stake in the elaboration of an activist and co-creative project within artistic institutions.
More information can be found here.

Wikipedia Editing Workshop
Date and Time: Thursday, 15th February 2018, 3:30pm – 6:30pm
Venue: Space A, (St James Cavalier)

During the opening day of the “Art from the Fondazzjoni Kreattività Collection: Documenting 2007-2012” exhibition, Spazju Kreattiv will host a workshop on editing Wikipedia. The workshop will also include an information session on how Wikipedia and wiki technology are being used to document the art scene in Malta. In collaboration with Wikimedia Community Malta and the M3P Foundation, Dr Toni Sant will explain how wikis are being used to catalogue art works and exhibitions, and how Wikipedia can act as a collaborative encyclopaedia of artist biographies and works that will preserve their legacies in the long term.
More information can be found here.

 

Edit-a-thon: Wiki Loves Art
Dates and Times:
Friday 2nd March 2018, 15:30 – 18:30
Saturday 3rd March 2018, 10:00 – 16:00

Venue: Space A (St James Cavalier)

This hands-on wiki edit-a-thon, led by Toni Sant and other collaborators from Wikimedia Community Malta and the M3P Foundation, guides attendees about how to edit wiki pages about the visual arts scene in Malta. We are particularly eager for artists to attend, edit pages about themselves, their work and their exhibitions over the years. We also encourage you to bring along any printed or digital media files that would help document art works, such as copies of exhibition flyers, photographs of events, etc. Please also bring a laptop computer or tablet device.

Archives and Libraries Brought into the 21st Century Through the Use of Technology
Date and Time: Wednesday, 7th March 2018, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Venue: Space A (St James Cavalier)

Alexandra Angeletaki of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology discusses the challenges of integrating VR and mobile technology tools in disseminating archival material, and whether its introduction has led to a change in the experience of the contemporary museum-archive. Using the case of the University Library’s Mubil and ARK4 projects, she explores how 3D technology workshops, gaming and mobile technology were used in the Mubil lab in order to develop open access educational workshops for university students and schools with source material drawn from archives and museum objects; and how the ARK4 project focuses on archaeological context, experimenting with user interactivity, digital technologies and gaming.

Edit-a-thon: Art+Feminism, Art in the Arena of Activism
Dates and Times:
Friday 9th March 2018, 15:30 – 18:30
Saturday 10th March 2018, 10:00 – 16:00

Venue: Blitz, Santa Lucia Street, Valletta

As part of the Art+Feminism project, Blitz is hosting a wiki edit-a-thon across two days to bring together people who are interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia to create new articles and improve existing content about women and the arts. This hands-on event will be facilitated by Wikimedia Community Malta and the M3P Foundation, in collaboration with Spazju Kreattiv. Please bring a laptop computer or tablet device.

More information can be found here.

lafayette anticipations
jose esteban muloi
the notion of shyness
kvardek Du
the future is queerness’s domain
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