Zone Video - EN

Festival ZoneVideo

Since 2000 has been promoting young Tuscan authors that express themselves through videos, multimedia, installations, performances, displays and meetings. Zonevideo offers a moment for confrontation to aficionados, video-makers, experts and spectators.

Name/Acronym:

ZoneVideo

Founding Year:

2000

Period (season/annual/biennial):

Annual

Location:

Cinema La Perla - Via dei Neri, 5 - 50053 Empoli

Structure:

Videos, events, meetings, video-art, performances, installations

Promoting Institution/Producer:

Organized by Associazione VIDĒA with the patronage of Comune di Empoli - Assessorato alle Politiche Giovanili Artistic Direction: Federico Bucalossi

Administration:

Curated by:Associazione VIDĒA

Artistic Direction:

Federico Bucalossi

Coordination:

Valentina Orlando, Gianni Paci, Emilia Uccello. ==Press Office:== Comune di Empoli

Collaborations:

==Partners:== Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara ZoneLibere Urban Experience Neural Extreme Video Busta ==Collaborators:== the directors ofExtreme VideoLuca Boni andMarco Ristori

Venues:

Cinema La Perla, Via dei Neri, 5 - 50053 Empoli

Contacts:

Organization: Associazione Vidèa Via II Giugno, 59 - 50053 Empoli - Firenze Telephone: (0039) 338 2649685 Info: info@videa.info - mob. 338 2649685 - Facebook: Cinedrome Vidèa

Press Office:

Comune di Empoli periodico@comune.empoli.fi.it Gruppo Facebook

Website:

[1] Other information: Associazione VIDĒA website http://www.visualguerrilla.net il sito del Comune di Empoli il sito del Network Giovani di Empoli

Objectives:

• Encourage and promote the production of videos by young Tuscan artists • Promote the creation of a work team in the field of video and multimedia

Areas of Interest:

Art, Cinema, Video and Multimedia

Origin and History:

Festival ZoneVideoreached its tenth edition. The name highlights the distinctive network structure of the festival, created to offer to young people in Tuscany the possibility to show and promote their productions. One of the aims of the event is to put young artists in contact with professional in this field in order to create a creative network able to propose, produce and promote innovative video and multimedia works. Technologies and networks – is written in the program of the last edition[1]–allow the realization, postproduction, promotion and distribution of excellent works obtaining the best result with the least investment, valorising ideas and creativity.'Just an eye, a brain and a camera and the possibilities are unexpected'. For this reason the tenth edition’s slogan isDo It Yourself. The festival proposes also the ContestZONEVIDEO, for videos, short films, video-clips, animations, documentaries, fictions and art videos. Previous editions: • Zonevideo 9- 2011 - Game Over - L'arte è Finita. Smettiamo tutti insieme. Empoli 14/15/16 December 2011 Cinema La Perla The topic of this edition is a quotation from Fluxus’ visionary world. Like in the prevision editions, Zonevideo hosted and presented videos, events, meetings, workshops, video art, performances, installations and happenings. • Zonevideo 8- 2010 - Visual Guerrilla Empoli 15/16/17 December 2010 - Cinema La Perla Inspired to the manifesto of Jay Conrad Levinson, the creator of Guerrilla Marketing, this edition of Zonevideo, Visual Guerrilla, invites to focus on imagination more than money, onideas that can be realized with a low budget and that can be diffused through media in an unconventional way. The leading theme is unconventional creative practices. Therefore the event was about viral videos, cross cultures, new technologies, smart phones, web videos, social networks, cultural jamming, community, digital art and languages’ technological mutations. Guests: from Guerrillia Marketing to Urban Experience and Seppukoo, the virtual suicide enacted on Facebook… • ZoneVideo 7- 2009 - Language is a Virus Empoli 4/5 March 2009 - Cinema la Perla The theme of this edition encourages the analysis of the relationship between contemporary artistic production and new media, highlighting the complexity of new communications modes and the possibilities of sharing and movement offered to audio-visual works. The main sections of this festival are: ZoneMusic, ZoneLab, ZoneArts and ZoneActive with performances, video-theatre, live interactions between video and music, installations on the story of PC, analysis on audio-visual projects “from below” on internet. • ZoneVideo 6- 2007 - Dream Machines • ZoneVideo 5- 2006 - L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere - Dire Fare Digitale • ZoneVideo 4- 2004 - Est-Etica: oltre la visione • ZoneVideo 3- 2002 • ZoneVideo 2- 2001 • ZoneVideo 1- 2000 Jury 2012 Contest - Zone Video 10 - Do It Yourself: Claudio Cinelli (Vinci –Actor and Director for theatre and TV) Barbara Gualtieri (Prato – Director of Prato Film Commission) Carlo Infante (Roma - Urban Experience Media Guru) Sandro Querci (Firenze - Actor and Director for theatre and TV) Giacomo Verde(Multimedia Video Artist) Jury 2011 Contest - Zone Video 9 - Game Over: Michele Baldini [Voice Piet Mondrian editor 5avi.net] Carlo Infante (Roma - Urban Experience Media Guru) Federico Nobili [Performance and Communication at the Università di Pisa] Subvertising [Magazine online] Silvana Vassallo [Professor of Art and New Media] Giacomo Verde(Multimedia Video Artist) Jury 2010 Contesty - Zone Video 8 - Visual Guerrilla: Carlo Infante[2] Les Liens Invisibles[3] Vania Pucci[4] Alessandro Ludovico[5] Extreme Video Jury 2009 Contest - Zone Video 7 - Language Is a Virus: Antonio Caronia – Theorist and Professor at the Accademia di Brera [Milan] Tatiana Bazzichelli - Art Networker [Copenhagen] Moltheni –Singer and Song-writer [Ascoli Piceno] Chris Wahl - Cinema and Media Expert at the University of Bochum [Germany] Gaia Novati - Artivist [Berlino] Giuria concorso 2007 - Zone Video 6 - Dream Machines: Tatiana Bazzichelli [Art Networker] Mario Bufano [Director of Controradio and university professor] Francesco Galluzzi [Professor of aesthetic, critic and curator] Anna Lagorio [Journalist and art critic] Giacomo Verde(Multimedia Video Artist) Associazione Vidèa Jury 2006 Contest - Zone Video 5 - L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'etere: dire fare digitale: • Paolo Benvenuti (Director) • Steve Della Casa (Cinema critic) • Francesco Galluzzi (Professor of aesthetic, critic and curator) • Anna Maria Monteverdi (University professor, expert of theatre and video) • Barbara Pagni (Montecatini Film Festival staff) Jury 2004 Contest - Zone Video 4 - Est-Etica: oltre la visione: • Maurizio Ambrosini (Cinema Music Theatre at the University of Pisa) • Valeria Bruni (Critic and art historian) • Edoardo Gabbriellini (Actor and director) • Thomas Martinelli (Cinema critic) • Andrea Mi • Barbara Pagni (Montecatini Film Festival staff) Last editions info and videos

Artists:

Award winning artists of the editions from 2000 to 2011 Selected and award winning videos 2011 edition - ZoneVideo 9- Game 0ver • Cantarella by Diego Pecori [2 min extract] • Gagnè by Michela Carmazzi and Fabio Natali • Ceci n’est pas by Lithos 19 - Francesca Maccarone • R.I.P.OFF by Autori Vari Morti • Together, Alone by Giacomo Buonomo Selected and award winning videos 2010 edition - Zonevideo 8 - Visual Guerrilla • When I don't Know What to Draw ( 3.52 min) by Paolo Moretti • Street Lifer (1.24 min) by Antonino Cartisano • Makhno Beer (1.18 min) by Diego Pecori • Nascosti dalle apparenzeby Paolo Bandinu Selected and award winning videos 2009 edition - Zonevideo 7 - Language Is a Virus • Musica da cucinaby Giuseppe La Rosa and Sara Filippelli, Pisa, 2007, 9'11 • Personal Coffeeby Chiara Falcinelli and Alice Tambellini, Carrara, 2008, 1'33 • H.T.V., by Antonino Cartisano, Carrara, 2009, 8' • The History of Unhappy Smilesby Giulio Zannol, Livorno, 2009, 1'33 • Flash Black #2by Antonio Patrizio, Milano, 2008, 1' Selected and award winning videos 2007 edition - Zonevideo 6 - Dream Machines • Schiavo della mente (10', 2007) by Jacopo Mancini from San Miniato (PI) • Passarleacque (10', 2007) by Valentina Grigò from Empoli (FI) • Ceccomatto's Principles (4'44", 2006)by Cristiano Gazzarrini from Ponte a Egola, San Miniato (PI) • Ho sognato ieri notte (3'5", 2007) by Paolo Moretti from Campi Bisenzio (FI) • La Sveglia (1', 2007) by Luigi Fusaro from San Miniato (PI) • Good/Evil (30", 2006) by Antonello Novellino and Luca Granato from Salerno Selected and award winning videos 2006 edition - Zonevideo 5 - L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'etere: dire fare digitale • Cent'anni di nostalgia (2004 - 8 min.) by Jelena Pešić from Lucca 

 • Cosa vuoi? (MiniDV - 2005 - 9'50") by Paolo Ruffini, Francesco Pacini from Livorno [Associazione cinematografica Nido del Cuculo] 

 • Gola (DVD - 2005 - 7') by Marco Ristori from Empoli (FI) 

 • The Silent Strikes Back (MiniDV - 2006 - 6'57") by Nadia Baldi from Vinci (FI) 

 • The Rufus adventures (Shockwave Flash - 2006 - 50") by Elena Ulivi from Carrara (MS) 

 • Tryout Version (DivX 5.0 - 2006 - 32") by Fabio Giusti from Viareggio (LU) Selected and award winning videos 2004 edition - Zonevideo 4 - Est-Etica: oltre la visione • Italia vecchia (MiniDV - 2003 - 4:30 min.) by Michela Carmazzi from Torre del Lago (LU) • ...in via rindi... (MiniDV - 2004 - 3:53 min.) by Giulia Gerace from Pisa

Publications:

ZoneVideo 2000/2010 – 10 anni di esperienze multimediali, edited byAssociazione VIDĒA with the support of Comune di Empoli Interventions on the catalogue by: Tatiana Bazzichelli, Federico Bucalossi, Antonio Caronia, Extreme VideoFrancesco Galluzzi, Carlo Infante, Guerriglia Marketing, Les Liens Invisibles, Alessandro Ludovico, Mela Marcia, Gianni Paci, Marina Rossi, Giacomo Verde.

Multimedia Files:

Videos:ZoneVideo 9 - Game 0ver • Cantarella by Diego Pecori [2 min extract] • Gagnè by Michela Carmazzi and Fabio Natali • Ceci n’est pas by Lithos 19 - Francesca Maccarone • R.I.P.OFF by Autori Vari Morti • Together, Alone by Giacomo Buonomo Zonevideo 8 - Visual Guerrilla • When I don't Know What to Draw by Paolo Moretti Other award inning and selected videos Audio: Other:

Augmented reality:

Latitude: 43.719226 Longitude: 10.9471 Links to augmented reality portals

Webliography:

• http://www.visualguerrilla.net • http://www.zonelibere.net Il Network Giovani di Empoli • http://eventi.saimicadove.it/Toscana/firenze/eventi_empoli/manifestazioni_empoli/festival_zonevideo_2011.html • http://www.videa.info//bando_concorso_zone_video_2012_iscrizione.pdf Bando di concorso 2012 • http://blog.giovanisi.it/2011/12/07/festival-zonevideo-2011-game-over-empoli-cinema-la-perla-14-15-16-dicembre-2011/ • http://www.5avi.net/1354/2011/12/festival-zonevideo-2011/

Notes:

1. ↑comunicato dell'edizione del 2012 2. ↑http://www.performingmedia.org 3. ↑http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org 4. ↑http://www.giallomare.it 5. ↑http://www.Neural.it

Kind of File:

InteractiveResource

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EventiRassegneVideoarteFestivalConcorsi

Object (category, tags) free text:

videoarte, multimediale, nuovi media

Related Voices:

Videoarte Giacomo Verde Tatiana Bazzichelli, Antonio Caronia, Guerriglia Marketing, Les Liens Invisibles, Alessandro Ludovico, Federico Bucalossi