VIDEO IN THE AGE OF MOBILE
Circuito Off presents the 13th edition with Sony Ericsson and Fabrica
Saturday 25th February at 7 p.m.
Lightbox Space, Venice

Circuito Off is pleased to present the “call for entries 2012” on Saturday 25th February 2012 at 7 p.m. at Lightbox Space in Venice. The event will be a chance to experience the performances provided by the new series of mobile phones Xperia by Sony and the talent of Fabrica’s new crew. Sony Ericsson  and Fabrica, Benetton’s communication research centre, represent the spirit of the festival which has always been willing to discover new creative people ready to face the challenge of new genres and new media.

The night will be an occasion to talk about “video in the age of mobile” with Maurizio de Palma Marketing Director of Sony Ericsson, Ries Straver Head of Fabrica’s Video Department, Mara Sartore Director of Circuito Off and Chelsea McMullan resident video maker at Fabrica.

For the occasion Lightbox Space will be transformed into a “movie theatre” in which two special shows will be shown on screen: the first video selection from Sony Ericsson Mobile Festival (www.mobilefestival.it), the contest for mobile phones shot short movies and video clips made in collaboration with Userfarm – the international network of video makers – and a retrospective of Fabrica’s videos (www.fabrica.it) including creative short movies, social campaigns, documentaries such as Alex Healey’s “Unique Trades” a collection of short documentaries about obsessions and disappearing crafts.

The partnership between Circuito Off, Sony Ericsson and Fabrica will be put into action in Chelsea McMullan’s video trailer of the next edition that the video maker will shoot with the new Sony Xperia S mobile.

Chelsea McMullan, resident video maker in Fabrica, was chosen by Circuito Off to boost the new edition of the festival taking place in Venice Lido from 29th August to 1st September 2012 with a renewed artistic soul devoted to cutting edge video production and new technologies.
Chelsea McMullan’s videography, produced by Fabric, a was mentioned and praised by Nowness, Digital Dazed and Vogue Italia. The resident video maker participated to most of the major international festivals such as Toronto International Film Festival, The New York Photography Festival. Her latest documentary “Deragliamenti”, produced by Fabrica,  has been recently nominee at the Genie Award, Canada’s highest acknowledgement for cinema and its trailer will be screened on Video In The Age of Mobile night.

By invitation only. Download here the invitation.

Spazio Lightbox
Strada Nuova (Ca’ d’Oro stop)
Cannaregio 3831
Venice

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A special night dedicated to Can Evgin
Circuito Off presents the winner of Hors Pistes – Centre Pompidou Award at 12th Circuito Off festival.

Can Evgin is a turkish filmmaker and photographer based in London. His photography is regularly featured in “Dazed and Confused”, “Another” and “Vogue”. He has directed films for publications and brands including Nowness, Post, Purple and Armani. Can Evgin will be in Paris to presents his works.

Film program:

Internet Is a Desert
with Olivier Zahm and Miltos Manetas
2010, 8 min

Rag & Bone
2011, 3 min

The Last Promise
2010, 8 min

Dolce & Gabbana
2010, 3 min

Olga
2011, 5 min

New Dawn Fades
2009, 2 min

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Sometimes meeting someone is the result of a concatenation of causes and effects which seem to suggest us that, after all, everything has already be written. When we first met Ken Matsubara in Volta, during Art Basel in June, his work seemed perfect to us to represent the journey that Lightbox decided to start in its own space in Venice. Ken was excited about our invitation and he immediately began to prepare the exhibition.

Ken Matsubara is well-known in Japan and the U.S. for his work fed by images related to the many faces of both personal and collective memories.The photographs and video clips used in his installations seem to resurface from a recent past or a familiar remembrance, emerging from an old garret full of memories. Ken revitalizes these images in his works, making them an active part in the building of a present time. His installations stand out and never leave us indifferent, because they touch the strings of our collective unconscious.

In this very special year for Japan, struck by the recent tsunami, the memory faces that emerge from water, specifically made for Lightbox in Vietnam, take on even more emotive and emotional sense and lyrically tie themselves with the inexorable fate of Venice. The sense of vertigo of a world on the brink of apocalypse creates a deep disorientation.

Therefore, memory plays a fundamental role. The story of our origins helps us to find our place in the world. The images of past concur to slowly focus a possible present identity; they guide us in this effort, after identifying and then connecting the dots of a dematerialized world. Ken Matsubara’s boxes carry both the loss and the rediscovery of a “Self” in constant search of its sense.

Many moving images, such as the smoke clouds in the series WinterDream – Cloud, appear as excerpts from a world of dreams. Dreams are also other traces of our history, echoes of other lives lived by fragments of ourselves. Therefore, in Ken Matsubara’s works we can find tracks to try to make sense of the fate of the world, of the History that unites all people on Earth who are united by a common fate, under the same sky, flooded by the same waves.
 
 
Download here the exhibition catalogue

1949 Born in Tokyo
1973 Graduated from Musashino Art University,Tokyo

Solo Exhibitions

2011 Winter Dreams, MA2Gallery,Tokyo
2009 The Portrait of Fruits, MA2Gallery,Tokyo
2008 A Knife In the Water, eN arts, Kyoto
2006 Sleep walker, MA2Gallery, Tokyo
2004 Sleep walker, Windows Bergdorf Goodman, N.Y.
1993 Center for Photography, Woodstock, N.Y.
Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo
Art Site, Fukui
1997 Transmission, Congulation, Reflection, Gallery
ÉøM, Tokyo
1992 Jayne H. Baum Gallery, N.Y., U.S.A
1990 Vertical and Horizontal, PS Gallery, Tokyo
1988 Picture Photo Space, Osaka
Twisted Perspective, PS Gallery, Tokyo
Jayne H. Baum Gallery, N.Y., U.S.A
1987 Light Gallery, N.Y., U.S.A
Studio 666, Paris, France
Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo
1982 Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo
Suikatou, Tokyo
1981 Axis Gallery, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
2011 “Noght Scented Stock”
Marianne Boesky Gallery, N.Y.
“The Tiger and Sunflower”
Schroder Romeo & Shredder Gallery, N.Y.
“Close Encounter” AKI Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 The State Theater in Kosice, Slovakia
International Theater Festival, Theater Polski in
Poznan, Poland
Archetype of Photography. Froese, Matsubara,
Przyborek, The “Laznia” Centre for Contemporary
Art, Gdansk, Poland
2009 VI BIENNALE FOTOGRAFI, Galeria Miejska Aersenal, Poznan, Poland
2008 “The Story Box” MA2Gallery,Tokyo
1999 Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid
Photography, Ansel Adams Center for
Photography, San Francisco, U.S.A.
1994 INSIDE OUT: Contemporary Japanese photography,
The Light Factory Photographic Arts Center, Charlotte. North Calorina, U.S.A.
1993 Breda Fotografica ‘93, De Beyerd Breda, the Netharlands
1992 Photography of Contemporary Art, Walker Hill Art Center, Seuol, Korea
1991 Compound of The “Maniéra,” Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Machida
The 20th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan,
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Kyoto
Municipal Museum of Art
1990 The Silent Dialogue, Still Life in the West and Japan, Shizuoka
Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka
The Imprinted Ideas, Tochigi Prefecturl Museum of
Fine Arts, Utsunomiya
Les Fleurs, Studio 666, Paris, and Galerie
Photographique, Toulouse
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Kyoto
Municipal Museum of Art
1989 Gruop Show, Maoson de La Culture, Annecy, France
Reospective des Artstes Expose entre 1986 et 1988, Studio 666, Paris, France
Expressions in Photography and Its Related Media II, Gallery Miyazaki, Osaka
1987 AIPAD Show, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
1981 The 12th Print Grand-Prix Exhibition, Nichido Salon, Tokyo
Four Stars, Kado Gallery, Tokyo

Selected Collections

International Polaroid Collection, Cambrige, Massachusetts

Nippon Polaroid (Polaroid Corpolation of Japan), Tokyo

Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, California. U.S.A.

Maison du Livre de L’ image et du Son, La Bibliotheque de Villeurbanne, Lyon, France

Bayly Art Museum, Virginia. U.S.A.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. U.S.A.

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo

Bell Atlantic Corpolation, N.Y. , U.S.A.

Goldman Sachs Corporation, N.Y. , U.S.A.

Readers Digest, N.Y. , U.S.A.

Marieke and Pieter Sanders Collection, Netherland

Awards

1991 The 20th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Award

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