Video art

Blue Area

Countries included in this area are: Albania, Austria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Ireland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom

Blue Semifinal Show takes place in Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Winners of the Semifinal shows will perform in the European Final in Rome (Italy).

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Jurors

Boris Stapic

Boris Stapic was born in 1977 in Sarajevo. He obtained his art education at art schools and academies in Sarajevo and Zagreb. He works in the field of illustration, graphic and production design, as well as animation and storyboard. He has worked for many regional and global advertising and film companies, on numerous advertising campaigns in print media and animation and film productions. He is the co-founder of TripleClaim Game Collective, a production team for creating animations and games for multiple platforms. He lives and works in Sarajevo.

Marko Gačnik

Marko Gačnik is a graphic designer who mainly works with illustrations, storyboards and comics. He graduated from the High School of Applied Arts, followed by the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo. In addition to the visual arts, he enjoys and inspires music in his free time.

Irfan Brković

Irfan Brkovic is an interdisciplinary artist who works with virtual experiences and immersive environments. Head video artist at The Wooster Group in New York, where he develops real-time interactive video systems for live performances. The founding member of Phase Space NYC dedicated to the exploration of media, performance, creative coding and interdisciplinary art practices.
Part of audio-visual group Fa11out, exploring glitch as a reflection of human condition in deteriorated post-communism Yugoslavia.
His work has been exhibited in art exhibitions and events, among others: The Mother, Wiener Festwochen Festival, June 2021 Vienna; The Wooster Group, Carriage Trade, 2019-2020, New York; The Pink Chair, Festival d’Automne à Paris / Les spectacles vivant du Centre Pompidou, Paris Oct 2019; Sightlines, Group Exhibition, Oct 2019, Tunis; One Public Gallery exhibition, Group Exhibition, April 2019, Poland; Veselka, Video Performance, December 2018, New York; “Art & Activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” Workshop, October 2018, Zurich; LPM Festival, Video Performance, June 2018, Rome; Rebecas, Performance, February 2018, New York.

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Prizes

SEMIFINAL - WINNER

Cash Prize
Cash Prize of € 300
Brought to you by MarteLive Europe

Travel Grant 
All travel costs to Rome covered to reach the MArteLive Europe Final Show and the MArteLive Biennial, both taking place on December 7-8-9, 2021.
Brought to you by MarteLive Europe

SEMIFINAL -  SPECIAL PRIZES

Artists selected by the Jury among the Semifinalists

MArteLive Art in Progress
1 Week Stay at Art Residencies in Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania and Poland in the Summer of 2021, for artists selected by the Jury.
Brought to you by:
* ProCult in Italy and Poland
* Tuzla Live in Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Kintai Arts in Lithuania

MASAPORTAMEDIA Prize
Showreel/portfolio of the artist, 30 seconds or a short teaser of one of the artist's works on Masaportamedia (POLAND)

Biennale MArteLive Prize
Participation in the 2023 MArteLive Biennial in Rome (ITALY)

Yellow Area

Countries included in this area are: Armenia, Belarus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Sweden and Ukraine.
The Yellow Semi-Final show takes place in Vilnius (Lithuania).
Winners of the Semi-Final shows will perform in the European Final in Rome (Italy).

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Jurors

Emilija Škarnulytė                       Vilnius, Lituania - Tromso, Norway

Emilija Škarnulytė is a nomadic visual artist and filmmaker. Between the fictive and documentary, she works primarily with deep time, from the cosmic and geologic to the ecological and political. Recent group exhibitions include Hyperobjects at Ballroom Marfa, Texas; Moving Stones at the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; and the first Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art; as well as a new commission for Bold Tendencies in London and a solo show at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Škarnulytė is the winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2019 and represented Lithuania at the XXII Triennale di Milano. Her upcoming shows include the Toronto Biennial of Art, Canada and 95% of the Universe is Missing, Science Gallery, London, UK. She currently co-directs Polar Film Lab, a collective for 16mm analogue film practice located in Tromsø, Norway.

Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen                       Helsinki, Finland

Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen are an artist duo based in Helsinki, Finland. Their art merges languages and approaches of a number of disciplines, such as cinema, performance, game design, experimental education, hosting, facilitation and alternative economies. Their collaboration started in 2003 when the artists organised The First Summit of Micronations (Amorph! 03-festival of Artist´s association MUU in Helsinki). Tellervo and Oliver are known as the founders of the International Complaints Choir project (2005-). The artists' work is based on creative collaboration and they are the founding members of YKON and The Speech Karaoke Action Group. Tellervo and Oliver were awarded with AVEK media art award (2012) and Ars Fennica (2014).

Justė Jonutytė                       Vilnius, Lithuania

Justė Jonutytė is a Vilnius-based independent curator and producer. She holds an M.A. in History of Art from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Throughout her career, Jonutytė has worked in curatorial departments of Rupert (Vilnius), Tate Modern (London) and Jonas Mekas Foundation (New York), amongst others. She was a director of Rupert, a centre for art and education in Vilnius, Lithuania between 2013—2019. Recently curated exhibitions by Jonutytė include Jonas Mekas: Let me dream utopias (2019), Entangled Tales (group show, 2018), Lina Lapelyte: Pirouette (2017), Laure Prouvost: Burrow Me (2015), Double Bind (group show, 2015-2016), Dan Perjovschi: Time Specific & Lia Perjovschi: Knowledge Museum Kit (2014) and Dora Garcia: The Jerusalem of Europe (2013). Together with Paulius Petraitis, she is the co-editor of “Like There’s No Tomorrow: Young Lithuanian Photography” (2013, distributed by Motto Books).

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Prizes

SEMIFINAL - WINNER

Cash Prize
Cash Prize of € 300
Brought to you by MarteLive Europe

Travel Grant 
All travel costs to Rome covered to reach the MArteLive Europe Final Show and the MArteLive Biennial, both taking place on December 7-8-9, 2021.
Brought to you by MarteLive Europe

Atomic Garden Prize
Possibility to participate in a weekend-long creativity training workshop (July 2021)

SEMIFINAL -  SPECIAL PRIZES

Artists selected by the Jury among the Semifinalists

MArteLive Art in Progress
1 Week Stay at Art Residencies in Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania and Poland in the Summer of 2021, for artists selected by the Jury.
Brought to you by:
* ProCult in Italy and Poland
* Tuzla Live in Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Kintai Arts in Lithuania

MASAPORTAMEDIA Prize
Showreel/portfolio of the artist, 30 seconds or a short teaser of one of the artist's works on Masaportamedia (POLAND)

Biennale MArteLive Prize
Participation in the 2023 MArteLive Biennial in Rome (ITALY)

Green Area

Countries included in this area are: Andorra, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and Tunisia.
The Green Semi-Final show takes place in Kracòw (Poland).
Winners of the Semi-Final shows will perform in the European Final in Rome (Italy).

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Jurors

Jerzy Gnatowski                       Warsaw, Poland

Jerzy Gnatowski is a visual artist, filmmaker, cinematographer and photographer.
He started his professional career in photography. Gnatowski works were presented at 3 personal exhibitions and displayed at auctions of Polish photography. His first experience in film directing was as an assistant for Lech Majewski, preparing opera Carmen for National Theater in Warsaw. Gnatowski’s main interest focuses on the human being in a multicultural world which is best reflected in his series of short movies from the Cross Culture Festival in Warsaw, where he has also worked as video and photography director (2007-2017).
As a founder of Masaporta, he produced and directed promotional films for cultural institutions and business companies. Among others, the company made a promo movie for the CineEast Film Festival, Luxembourg, 2018. One of his films is Love by Chance, a short Testimonial movie (2017) - a part of a campaign of the city of Warsaw that won a Special Award in the International Tourism Film Festival, Art & Tour, in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal (2017).

Sabrina Vedovotto                       Rome, Italy

Graduated in History and art critic , she is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Frosinone. She deals with communication and as independent curator, she has created a documentary and a podcast on the artists of Rome. From long time her interest has been centered on the artistic production of artists who work with video. She is curating some exhibitions about artists that working with video art.

Nicola Pavone                       Rome, Italy

Nicola Pavone is a Performer, Media Designer, and a Videomapper.
Since 2010, he has worked in the field of Architectural Mapping and Interactive Media.
His installations and live performances have been presented in many festivals and exhibitions, such as Signal, Lunchmeat, Prototyp, DEPO2015, B_Seite, Vj Festival, SVM and many more.
Nicola Pavone brought his art to every corner of the world, mounting his installation on the UNESCO World Heritage Centre of Erbil (Iraq). Former member of the Jury for the Kyiv Lights Festival in Ukraine, he’s continuously exploring all the possible relations between the devil and the details.

Gianluca Del Gobbo                       Rome, Italy

Considered a guru of the new media and the digital arts world as well as a pioneer in the Audio Visual Performing Arts, Gianluca Del Gobbo was born in Rome in 1970.
Very interested in any kind of avant-garde, costume, music, art and experimentation, it is updated on all sorts of innovation in art, technology and communication.

Enrico Tomaselli                       Naples, Italy

Founder and Art Director of Magmart | video under volcano, international videoart festival that takes place every year in Naples since 2005 with the main partnership of Casoria Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) and the collaboration of GenomART, Stella Film, Computer Arts magazine, Sociology DPM of Naples University, PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Foundation Universal Forum of Cultures and many others. He developed many international videoart projects, focusing on different themes. He is curator of several exhibitions and selections of video art.

Edo Tavaglini                       Ferrara, Italy

Edo Tagliavini (Ferrara, 1971). Director, screenwriter Edo is a multifaceted filmmaker. Graduated at DAMS in Bologna and than graduated as film director at the Experimental Center of Cinematography in Rome, he has made as director almost 30 films and numerous commercials, music videos, short films and collaborated as editor or actor or DP or assistant director in numerous films, short films and video artworks. He teaches at the Experimental Center of Cinematography and also at the National School of Cinema, at Barreira-CSC in Valencia, at the CNA in Ravenna and at the Cesena Film Academy and at the Start Cinema Ravenna.

Patrizia Giambi                       Bologna, Italy

She is an international contemporary artist that uses various mediums to express his art, including video, photography, installations, sculpture, drawings and many others. in the 1985 she founded with the artist Maurizio Cattelan “PALAZZO DEL DIAVOLO PRODUZIONI” and they carried out numerous editorial and exhibition projects until 1991. From 1991 she has exhibited at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery; with Carl Berg in the spaces he manages W139; in numerous other shows at the Sue Spaid Fine Arts, Turner / Krull Gallery, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), at the Lasca Gallery, Remba Gallery, at the Roberta Lieberman Gallery, at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Art Basel Miami. in the 2015 at Spazi Indecisi (Forlì) she was the artistic director the project and developed "DO.VE. dotted venue". In 2017 he exhibited with Gal Weinstein in the exhibition “I Disabitanti” at the Riccardo Crespi Gallery in Milan; then “Door” open air sculptures at the Thetis Gardens - Venice Arsenal; and again Sue Spaid for "De Wind Deed Het" in Mechelen in Belgium, for the D'Ars Festival and many others. She is one the artist of Neon Gallery inn Bologna

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Prizes

SEMIFINAL - WINNER

Cash Prize
Cash Prize of € 300
Brought to you by MarteLive Europe

Travel Grant 
All travel costs to Rome covered to reach the MArteLive Europe Final Show and the MArteLive Biennial, both taking place on December 7-8-9, 2021.
Brought to you by MarteLive Europe

SEMIFINAL -  SPECIAL PRIZES

Artists selected by the Jury among the Semifinalists

MArteLive Art in Progress
1 Week Stay at Art Residencies in Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania and Poland in the Summer of 2021, for artists selected by the Jury.
Brought to you by:
* ProCult in Italy and Poland
* Tuzla Live in Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Kintai Arts in Lithuania

MASAPORTAMEDIA Prize
Showreel/portfolio of the artist, 30 seconds or a short teaser of one of the artist's works on Masaportamedia (POLAND)

Biennale MArteLive Prize
Participation in the 2023 MArteLive Biennial in Rome (ITALY)