[spectre] Fw: Open call "ILLUMINATORS" exhibition / Public art and design program «Art Koltsovo». Yekaterinburg airport, Russia

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From: "illuminators project [curator]" <illuminators at artpolitika.ru>
To: "Dragana Zarevac" <zarevac at eunet.yu>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 3:52 PM
Subject: Open call "ILLUMINATORS" exhibition / Public art and design program 
«Art Koltsovo». Yekaterinburg airport, Russia


> Dear Dragana please help us spread info about our open call of
> "ILLUMINATORS" exhibition  between your subscribers, colleagues & friends.
> All needed materials (terms & conditions, guidelines & entryforms) are
> available to download on http://www.artpolitika.ru/ill_entry_en
>
> Please see full announcement below
>
> Best regards
> Arseny Sergeyev
> curator
> www.artpolitika.ru/illuminators
>
> E-mail: illuminators at artpolitika.ru
>
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>
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> ArtPolitika agency
> Kominterna 20 app. 43
> Yekaterinburg
> 620078 Russia
>
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>
> Public art and design program «Art Koltsovo». Yekaterinburg airport, 
> Russia.
>
> Art-Koltsovo / «ILLUMINATORS»  Open call
> An International open competition to take part in the exhibition
> «ILLUMINATORS»
>
> Deadline ­ March 11, 2008
> Exhibition opening ­ April 11, 2008
>
> www.artpolitika.ru/ill_en - about project
> www.artpolitika.ru/ill_entry_en - entry form download
>
> Yekaterinburg «Koltsovo» airport announces the beginning of the
> international exhibition project «ILLUMINATORS» which will be shown in 
> April
> ­ June 2008 in the open spaces of the International terminal of the 
> airport.
> The works for the exhibitions will be selected on a competitive basis by 
> an
> international award panel.
> The organizers invite the artists to submit digital prints and digital 
> video
> in the form of «tondo» to the competition.
> The exhibition «ILLUMINATORS» opens the «Art-Koltsovo» program.
>
> The exhibition
> The exhibition will show modern versions of «tondo» ­ the form of pictures
> with ancient traditions.
> We accept electronic files of works which can be reproduced by the
> organizers like as digital prints, light boxes, video 
> objects/installations
> and video projections,. The organizers are going to challenge the interior
> environment of the international terminal of «Koltsovo» airport. Visually
> the exposition will be represented by numerous round spots of lights
> «floating/hovering» free in the airport cubage.
>
> Participants
> Any artists working in the field of new media are invited.
>
> Works of art
> Digital graphics, digital photos, digital animation, video objects, video
> installation, single-channel video.
>
> Concept.
> In Russian an «illuminator» (port hole, bull¹s eye) is a round window
> onboard a ship, airplane, space station.
> The concept of the project is based on the round shape of the exhibited
> works of art. This formal principle
> is closely connected with on the one hand the image of aircrafts and air
> travels (till recently planes have had round bull¹s eyes); on the other 
> hand
> it plastically continues and supports the idea of the round plafonds in 
> the
> foyer of the terminal where the exposition will be installed. Here the
> formal aspects of concept close down the meaning of the word ILLUMINATORS 
> in
> the majority of European languages, where the Latin word means a lighting
> unit, a source of light, a screen, somebody or something shedding light,
> lighting and also an artist illustrating/decorating manuscripts. That¹s 
> why
> ILLUMINATORS are not only works of art but also those creating them ­
> artists.
> A round is the most harmonious shape, a fundamental archetypical sign
> offering a vast variety of associations. One of its most obvious meanings 
> is
> the world. In this case ILLUMINATOR is an artist¹s worldview projection or
> worldview magnifying glass or «window» into artist¹s world.
> The exposition of «ILLUMINATORS» exhibition visually and conceptually
> coincide with the name of the airport «Koltsovo» («koltso» is Russian for 
> a
> «ring»; ring ­ round). The exhibition will be opened on the eve of the Day
> of Cosmonautics. Russian cosmonautics started in «Koltsovo» as the first 
> jet
> engines were tested here.
> The project is aimed to create a positive, emotionally rich environment in
> the waiting rooms of the international terminal. Besides the exhibition
> provides the passengers and guests of the airport with the recent
> achievements of international contemporary art.
>
>
> Curator: Arseny Sergeev
> A media artist, curator and organizer of noumerous public art festivals 
> and
> projects. His main curatorial projects are series of leaflet action
> «Agitation for art» (2000-2001), the festival of video art on the city
> screens «OUTVIDEO» (2003-2007), the festival of monumental painting of
> concrete fences «Long Stories of Yekaterinburg» (2002-2007), the festival 
> of
> modern Dutch art on Yekaterinburg (2003), exhibition tour through Russia 
> «30
> years of Dutch video art» (2004-2005), the monument to a computer keypad
> «Klava»  in Yekaterinburg (2005).
>
> «Art Koltsovo» program
> «Art-Koltsovo» is the first strategic long-term program in Russian air
> industry aimed at introduction of works of art and designs inside the
> international «Koltsovo» airport and in its adjacent territory.
>
> The organizers of the program
> International «Koltsovo» airport (Yekaterinburg, Russia) www.koltsovo.ru
> International «Koltsovo» airport is one of the leading airports in Russia.
> It cooperates with 65 Russian and foreign air companies which directly 
> link
> Yekaterinburg with many cities of Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. 
> Having
> implemented a large-scale reconstruction with the help of its strategic
> investor Group of companies «RENOVA», «Koltsovo» will be able to become
> highly competitive with metropolitan airports and will become an 
> ultimately
> convenient hub for the main air passenger flow and freight traffic in the
> country.
>
> Program support
> Ministry of International and External Economic Relations of Sverdlovsk
> Oblast
> Ministry of Cultural Affairs of Sverdlovsk Oblast
> ANPMO  «Institution of Corporate Development» of the RENOVA Group of
> Companies
>
> Program operator
> Artpolitika agency www.artpolitika.ru
> The agency specializes in development and organization of contemporary art
> (public art) programs and projects in public spaces.
>
> More information, the conditions of participation in the «Illuminators»
> project and applications are available on project website:
> www.artpolitika.ru/ill_en
>
> Contact
> Arseny Sergeev ­ curator
> E-mail: illuminators at artpolitika.ru
>
> skype:  artpolitik
>
> T/f     +7 (343) 374 73 18
> mob     +7 (904) 985 90 40
>