31 October 2008 – 14 December 2008

Beta Version

Biennal exhibition ART AND NEW MEDIA

From the start the Version Biennial has focused on discovering and showcasing visual artworks that employ the new digital technologies. Following Version 1.0, the first installment of the biennial in 1994, the event’s title has developed to include various themes such as anticipation (1998), play (2000), constructed space (2002-2004) and animation (2006).

While from the outset Version made clear its aim of being “a research lab that is constantly seeking out what it demonstrates,” the biennial has confronted the problem of works in contemporary art that are constantly called into question through the pressure of the new media and the desire of researchers, artists and inventors to accept the critical future of these discoveries. Although the digital has become the context and the circumstances surrounding this activity, simply adding these new media to art or even making art from these new media is not the fundamental concern here. The important idea is to make new media as an artist, to act as an artist in these new media. Consequently, it’s not only a matter of renewing art by injecting new means, new tools and new subjects into it; it is also about shifting frontiers to the point where we can consider experiments, companies and events as akin to art, as falling within the province of the artistic project.

Address

Centre pour l'image contemporaine
Saint-Gervais Genève 5, rue du Temple
1201 Genève
phone +41 22 908 20 00
http://www.centreimage.ch

Opening Hours

Daily 12 a.m. - 6 p.m., closed on Monday.

Description of the Museum

The Centre for contemporary images organizes events and exhibitions in the field of the new technologies of images: video, multimedia, internet and also photography and film.

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