Early Video Art and Experimental Films Networks – Book
Award Most Beautiful Swiss Book 2017
The book traces the diffuse international networks through which video art and experimental films circulated during the late sixties and early seventies. It explores forgotten exhibitions both in Switzerland and France, the activities of public television channels and alternative art spaces in the US, a production art center dedicated to video in Italy and an Argentinian collective of conceptual artists, aiming to shed new light on the production and diffusion of moving images.
This volume is divided into two parts: the first part, which is longer and more extensively documented, explores the emergence and consolidation of video art networks at international level; the second focuses more specifically on two exhibitions of artists' films (New Forms in Film and Une histoire du cinéma) and one of the main instances of the museification of experimental cinema, Anthology Film Archives. Indeed, this particular story has wider currency insofar as several important works in recent years have focused on artists' films and expanded cinema. We have adopted the principle, wherever possible, of providing rare and previously unpublished images and documents alongside the essays specifically commissioned for this volume, the choice of which has been left to the discretion of the author of each particular chapter.
231×308 mm, 268 pages, 700 ex
First edition English, 2017
Published by ECAL/François Bovier
ISBN 978-2-9701157-0-0
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Most Beautiful Swiss Book 2017
VideoArt Festival Locarno: a Prospective
VideoArt Festival Locarno: una Prospectiva
Exhibition catalog of “VideoArt Festival Locarno: a Prospective” organized by ECAL / François Bovier, Adeena Mey, Maud Pollien from August 8 to October 20, 2019, Centro culturale e museo Elisarion, Minusio.
The bilingual catalogue (EN+IT) documents the exhibition held at the Elisarion Museum offering a new approach to the history of the VideoArt Festival Locarno, selecting videotapes and installations from its first editions, updating the spirit of Monte Verità and its avant-garde and utopian experiments. The works of international artists are presented alongside the festival archives and a circular painting by Elisàr Von Kupffer, historically inscribed in the architecture of the venue. Divided into two parts, the first is an essay by Lorenzo Bianda retracing the history of the festival, while the curators of the exhibition present the issues at stake. In the second, the exhibits are described and analysed.
190×260 mm, 50 pages, 700 ex
First edition Italian/English, 2019
Published by
ECAL / Centro culturale e museo Elisarion
ISBN 978-2-9701209-7-1
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Les Urbaines 2018, Identity+Poster+Digital
Part of Weltformat exhibition Designing Tools
231×308 mm, 72 pages, 500 ex
First edition French, 2016
Published by
ECAL/François Bovier
VideoArt Festival Locarno: a Prospective
VideoArt Festival Locarno: una Prospectiva
Exhibition catalog of “VideoArt Festival Locarno: a Prospective” organized by ECAL / François Bovier, Adeena Mey, Maud Pollien from August 8 to October 20, 2019, Centro culturale e museo Elisarion, Minusio.
The bilingual catalogue (EN+IT) documents the exhibition held at the Elisarion Museum offering a new approach to the history of the VideoArt Festival Locarno, selecting videotapes and installations from its first editions, updating the spirit of Monte Verità and its avant-garde and utopian experiments. The works of international artists are presented alongside the festival archives and a circular painting by Elisàr Von Kupffer, historically inscribed in the architecture of the venue. Divided into two parts, the first is an essay by Lorenzo Bianda retracing the history of the festival, while the curators of the exhibition present the issues at stake. In the second, the exhibits are described and analysed.
Early Video Art and Experimental Films Networks – Book
Award Most Beautiful Swiss Book 2017
The book traces the diffuse international networks through which video art and experimental films circulated during the late sixties and early seventies. It explores forgotten exhibitions both in Switzerland and France, the activities of public television channels and alternative art spaces in the US, a production art center dedicated to video in Italy and an Argentinian collective of conceptual artists, aiming to shed new light on the production and diffusion of moving images.
This volume is divided into two parts: the first part, which is longer and more extensively documented, explores the emergence and consolidation of video art networks at international level; the second focuses more specifically on two exhibitions of artists' films (New Forms in Film and Une histoire du cinéma) and one of the main instances of the museification of experimental cinema, Anthology Film Archives. Indeed, this particular story has wider currency insofar as several important works in recent years have focused on artists' films and expanded cinema. We have adopted the principle, wherever possible, of providing rare and previously unpublished images and documents alongside the essays specifically commissioned for this volume, the choice of which has been left to the discretion of the author of each particular chapter.
231×308 mm, 268 pages, 700 ex
First edition English, 2017
Published by ECAL/François Bovier
ISBN 978-2-9701157-0-0
Read the book (CH)
Read the book (FR)
Read the book (NL)
Most Beautiful Swiss Book 2017
Les Urbaines 2018, Identity+Poster+Digital
Part of Weltformat exhibition Designing Tools
231×308 mm, 72 pages, 500 ex
First edition French, 2016
Published by
ECAL/François Bovier