The 10th edition of the International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media of Greece, Athens Video Art Festival 2014, in association with the Athens International Airport, “El. Venizelos”, provides Greek and international artists with the opportunity of taking inspiration from various environmental matters and their wide social character and participate in the ‘Feel Free to Feel Green’ exhibition, which will be presented at the ‘Art & Environment’ exhibition space of the airport, from September 1 to December 31, 2014.
With the motive of the relationship between the modern people and the natural environment, the participants are offered the opportunity of further activating the meeting point of millions of people from all over the world, through their projects, as a constant reminder of the need for new environmental ethics.
The artists can submit their projects online, in the following categories:
*/ Video Art | */ Animation | */ Digital Image |
Submissions deadline: July 15, 2014.
There are no participation costs.
*/ The night in the gallery of merchants: video art screenings In the context of the “Traces of Commerce” event at the Gallery of Merchants, an initiative for the reconstruction of the urban network in the city of Athens, with the participation of 12 interventions from multidisciplinary teams of the city, the International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media of Greece, Athens Video Art Festival, unlocks, reveals and shares with the audience, the database of previous editions through a unique video art screening. Traces of Commerce / Program «Project Athens» of the City of Athens: Sunday, June 15, 2014, 21:00, Voulis 8-10 Gallery of Merchants, Syntagma |
*/ Gradient of AVAF Screening The ‘Gradient: From Gray to Color Scale’ project, which stood out in the ‘Launching People’ initiative of the Samsung Electronics Hellas in the category of ‘Arts and Creativity’, is a major artistic intervention of projects with temporary and permanent character Murals, Graffiti, Installations, Performances, DJ Sets and Screenings in public spaces of the city of Ioannina. The interventions on the cityscape will be enriched by AVAF with Greek and international level video art screenings. Gradient, From Gray to Color Scale: July 3-11, 2014 |
*/ Athens Video Art Festival tours in Saristra’s Festival Athens Video Art Festival supports for 3rd consecutive year, with installation projects of video art and animation artists, both Greek and international, the significant music and arts event of the Ionian Islans, which will take place in an abandoned village, completely destroyed due to the catastrophic earthquake of 1953, named Saristra Festival. Saristra Festival: August 8-10, 2014, Palia Vlaxata village, Kefalonia |
*/ AVAF 2014 voices into Implode Festival The second edition of Implode Festival, an event dedicated to the contemporary experimental music, sound and picture, in its first collaboration with the International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media of Greece, Athens Video Art Festival, animated the walls of the castle of Chalkida with video art and animation screenings. Implode Festival: August 8-9, 8-9 Αυγούστου, Chalkis history Castle |
Call for Volunteers | Athens Video Art Festival 2014, 2-5 October in “Technopolis’” of the City of Athens