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“404 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY”
12th EDITION
“WE ARE SPAM”
From SEPTEMBER 9th to 12th, 2015
E.C.U (Espacio Cultural Universitario) Rosario, Argentina
The 12th “404 International Festival of Art & Technology”, will take place at the E.C.U. (Espacio Cultural Universitario) on days 9, 10, 11 and 12 of September, 2015, in Rosario, Argentina.
“404 International Festival of Art & Technology”, was born in the city of Rosario, Argentina, in December 2004, is an independent non-profit project which main objective is to promote artistic productions that bring together Arts and Technology, generating an environment where the artists can interact with the community.
Over a decade, it has been presented in different countries, such as Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Taiwan, Russia and Argentina.
“404 Festival” has received support of high level organizations over its editions. These include the National University of Rosario, Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Ministry of Innovation and Culture of the Province of Santa Fe, Ministry of Culture of the Municipality of Rosario, Rosario Canadian Studies Center, Mondrian Foundation, Council of Quebec and UNESCO.
It has been awarded by the National Fund of the Arts and declared of National Cultural Interest by the Presidency of Argentina.
“404 Festival” is the oldest festival of New Media in Argentina and last year Gina Valenti, Creator and Director of “404” received the AVE Docente grant awarded by the Faculty of Humanities and Arts of the National University of Rosario in order to sponsor her visit to Russia, making possible the 11th edition of “404 Festival” in Moscow, under the motto “HUMAN VS USER”.
Under the motto “We are spam” this exhibition will consist of an innovative unprecedented display with interactive installations, augmented reality, videos, conferences and digital images. This festival is free entrance, open to the public.
The artists that will be present in Rosario, Argentina during the 12th edition of “404 Festival” are:
Lee, Chia-Hsiang (Taiwan), Chen, Chen-Chun (Taiwan), Jeffu Warmouth (USA), Hsiao, Ssu-Ying (Taiwan), Chao, Yen-Hsiang (Taiwan), Sadam Fujioka (Japan), Chen, Cha-Yi (Taiwan), Christopher Coleman (USA), Wu, Ting-Chen (Taiwan), Syu Jia Lun (Taiwan), Hu, Chin-Hsiang (Taiwan), Damián Linossi (Córdoba) y Juan Rey (Buenos Aires).
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MANIFESTO “WE ARE SPAM”
In the way we combine our words there was always a reason to resort to them: an objective planned by people whose fear had led them to conquer all.
That’s why, sometimes, is necessary for some event to occurs that changes the difficulties of the scene and transgress it to locate them in a place that achieves to reunite us.
We have learned from the systems we create and for a while we started to operate like them.
This time, we react like the system acts, answering with its own tools and dedicating to it the mechanisms used to convince us.
But, how to stop a system that makes us walk?
Time and history does not belong to us because they are the major terms that never complete us.
We have built a world that does not believe in us, but we create fictions to imagine the reality.
Can global systems change when they are overcome by individual ideas?
What would happen if those ideas simulate being part of that system?
When our ideas are not convenient, they can also replicate massively. And these are dangerous when they can only survive without a practical reason.
If we think, we are smart.
If we insist, we do spam.
We have not got here by a template. We can’t allow them to prefer us presetted. There is a way to reflect ourselves, and it is not on others (our image returns to Him by BCC). There is a way to last, and is not in the pictures. We are the message that the system refuses to receive, but let’s continue trying because we could make it collapse.
We are the last of the first. We are those who believe in what does not easily convinces to those who abound. However, we were always more.
There were people in this world who are in other social networks: he, who died saying that the earth revolves, she, who slept in a laboratory to cure us, those, who lost their lives to defend a truth that never agreed with the power. All of them left, but they also left something to us.
The battles that Art has portrayed are those that it didn’t want to impede.
The plagues that religions have predicted are those that science seeks to remedy.
The slogans that the media has carved on the bark of other eras are the messages that we will know how to intercept in our time, before that world stop believing in someone else.
Then, we will have left the drafts area.
We will not be untitled.
The message is being sent this time.
12th Manifesto “404 International Festival of Art and Technology” by Lic. Gina Valenti
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GINA VALENTI was born in Buenos Aires in 1981 and lives in Rosario, Argentina.
She has a degree in Fine Arts and works as 1st Category Assistant Professor at the class of “Painting II” in the Faculty of Humanities and Arts, National University of Rosario.
She’s been working for over a decade as a composer for piano, electronic and contemporary music. She is an Artist, Teacher, Writer, Composer, Curator and Artistic Director.
Since 2004, she is the Creator and Director of the “404 International Festival of Art and Technology”. Artists from over 46 countries have chosen 404 to present their works, being the oldest New Media festival of Argentina.
In November 2010 she was invited to be a jury in the Category of Interactive Art in the Digital Art Awards of the 5th Digital Art Festival of Taipei (Taiwan).
In December 2011 she was awarded by the National Fund of Arts to perform the 9th edition of “404 International Festival of Art and Technology” in Argentina.
Gina Valenti began studying piano at an early age and from the age of 14 started to create her own music.
She has performed live concerts at: Rosario and Buenos Aires (Argentina), London (England), Vienna (Austria), Hasselt (Belgium), Taipei (Taiwan), Trieste and Rome (Italy) and Moscow (Russia) in the following places: House of Culture of the National Fund of Arts (Buenos Aires), Museum of Fine Arts Juan B. Castagnino (Rosario), Park Spain Cultural Center (Rosario), University Cultural Space (Rosario), Parco di San Giovanni (Trieste), Risto Centrale Theatre (Roma), The Foundry (London), Belgie Kunstencentrum (Hasselt), Fluc (Vienna), Platform (Moscow), among others.
Part of her music has been published in the following albums: “After all Christs” – contemporary piano compositions – “20 of December” – piano and electronic music, “High Couture” – experimental electronic music, and “The Daily Renti EP”, besides being part of various compilations.
Her visual works have also been presented at Castagnino Museum of Rosario, Argentina, in the Center of Modern Art in Madrid (Spain), at the Goethe Institut (Trieste, Italy) and some of her artworks are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Caraffa, in Córdoba, Argentina.
Her articles and essays integrates national anthologies and her research work have been published by the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations of the National University of Rosario, Argentina, the Ministry of Technic Science and Graduate of UNCuyo and “Rosario 12” Journal of Rosario, Argentina, among others.
She has offered Artist talks and Seminars about Art and Technology in the mentioned countries and in 2013 at the Faculty of Humanities and Arts and the Library Argentina in Rosario, Argentina.
In June 2014, she won the scholarship AVE DOCENTE, obtained through competition in the Faculty of Humanities and Arts at UNR.
Gina Valenti has been interviewed by various media such as TV Channel 5 (Rosario, Argentina), TV Channel 3 (Rosario, Argentina), CN23 (Buenos Aires, Argentina), La Capital journal, El Ciudadano journal, Cruz del Sur journal, Rosario 12 journal, Atypica magazine (Rosario, Argentina), Perfil journal (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Clarín journal (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Las Rosas magazine (Córdoba, Argentina), Rock & Pop radio (Rosario, Argentina), Vorterix radio (Rosario, Argentina), FM Cristal (Rosario, Argentina), M90 Radio (Rosario, Argentina) and her artistic work has been documented by the Slovenian television and reviewed by various international media, such as the “Taipei Times” (Taipei, Taiwan), “Szene” (Basel, Switzerland), “In & Uit” (Hasselt, Belgium), “Il Piccolo “(Trieste, Italy) and” Art Fairs International “(New York, United States), among others.
She has been invited to be International Curator in the “Digital Attraction International Contemporary Art Exhibition” at Fuzhong 15 New Taipei City Animation & Story Gallery that will be held in Taiwan next November 2015.