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EUROPEAN DIGITAL ART FAIR by V.ART

🔵European Digital Art Fair is a pan-European digital art fair, bridging the physical and digital art worlds. 🔹Artists 🔹Galleries, museums, art centers, institutions 🔹Art dealers, are welcome to apply for a hybrid digital & physical fair! ——🔹—— The artworks/projects in the the following techniques are eligible for the fair: – Static digital images – Time-based media – Interactive digital installations – XR / VR / AR /MR Art – Game Art – Generative Art – Web Art or Net Art – Crypto Art – Digitalized Art – or other, in case you have not found the term you would like to identify your artwork with Selected digital artworks by artists and institutions from 43 European countries will be exhibited and available for purchasing as NFTs in both spaces: virtual pavilion, created by the V-Art platform, and physically in M17 Contemporary Art Center in Kyiv, Ukraine. 🎙European Digital Art Fair will be supplemented with a public program, including panel discussions for institutions / museums / galleries / collectors; artist and collector talks; master classes. This public program will be dedicated to digital art in the structure of contemporary art and market. All the details about the open call – https://edaf.art/

The curators of the fair have chosen my video work LEAVING A MESSAGE THE INEFFICIENT WAY (1). The work will presented and for sale via NFT during the fair.

About the art work:

The video works of this series are a further research on how human communication works and which implications may guide to serious consequences like war, murder, torture all the evil things that make life a hell. Ok, even a slight misunderstanding might have less serious consequences as described. Your girl friend might leave you by misunderstanding a kiss you exchange with your collaborator, your wife may kick you out of your apartment, because you hugged your neighbor etc. etc. pp..

The first film, which is actually an video installation, focusses on how uniforms, even costumes at Mardi Gras - which are eventually a kind of uniform, too, because the individual is hidden behind the mask and the cloths, which a larger group of people wear. All in the same dress, all with the same mask, all part of a greater being. In earlier times (some Mardi Gras groups in the German Southwest are looking back to a history which is more then 500 years), the silent majority used to be repressed and Mardi Gras used to be the only opportunity to mirror the cruelty to the depressing one percent by the 99 percent. Monsters are everywhere, monsters are us without soul.

Today even smoking is forbidden in this Mardi Gras groups, because it would betray the individual between the alike looking, uniformed people forming a group rather than a assembly of human beings by denying the characteristics of an individual person. Monsters are economical progress.

Using in the first video work of this series Mardi Gras footage is the one element of this video work. By letting a set of balloons crossing the screen is another, citing the morse alphabet of the early days of communication technology, the shorter or longer appearance of balloons in this work form the title of the work, Leaving a message the inefficient way. Without monsters and demons we should stop trying anything.

Film sample.

http://jsnebe.de/film30.html

About this event Announcing EDAF Opening Ceremony! On May 5th we will open European Digital Art Fair to visitors from all over the world. Everyone is invited to see the winning digital artworks showcased in special digital pavilions, as well as to meet and talk to the selected artists! Save the date — May 5th, 19:00 (GT+2). The opening ceremony will be live-streamed on YouTube. Join us via ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6579910464?pwd=VE1CWUQyMWNHc2lLdmRWSE9qT3BDdz09 Ukrainian pavilion is the first to be opened. Curated by Yevheniia Havrylenko, it combines artworks of Ukrainian artists into a "lieu de mémoire" — a place of memory of the previous life before the war. Other digital pavilions will be opened gradually one by one during the month of May, revealing more and more interesting digital artworks. Stay tuned with EDAF by following @edaf.art v.art.digital on Instagram! See u there.