Previous Events
Video on Screen. The Early Years in Europe
Tate Film, Tate Modern, London

Part one: 27 Nov. 2024
(with a conversation between Brian Hoey, Stéphanie Serra and Valentina Ravaglia)

Part two: 29 Nov. 2024
(with a l
ecture by Laura Leuzzi, followed by a conversation with Rúrí)

Focusing on pioneering works produced in Europe (1960-1980), this two-day programme presents a selection of works made with synthesizers or intended for television, often first filmed on 16mm and subsequently transferred to video. With pruductions by artists such as Helena Almeida, Wendy Brown and Brian Hoey, Livinus and Jeep van de Bundt, Robert Cahen, Geneviève Calame, Sanja Iveković, Charlotte Johannesson, Pawel Kwiek, Ketty La Rocca, Dieter Meier, E. M. de Melo e Castro, Martial Raysse, Rúrí, Nicolas Schöffer and Jean Kerchbron, Aldo Tambellini and Otto Piene, VALIE EXPORT or Miha Vipotnik, the programme is co-curated with Valentine Umansky, Beatrice Garcia-Velasco and Valentina Ravaglia as an echo and extension to the exhibition Electric Dreams. Art and Technology before the Internet (28.11.24 – 01.06.25, Tate Modern, London).


Previous Seminars
INHA, Paris
27-28 Oct. 2021, 13-14 June 2023

ECAL, Lausanne
14-15 June 2022, 7-8 Nov. 2022, 13-14 Nov. 2023, 12 June 2024, 12 Dec. 2024


Previous Colloquiums

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
25-26 May 2016 (and INHA, Paris), 13-14 Nov.
2017, 22 May and 11-12 Dec. 2018, 4-5 Dec. 2019

ECAL, Lausanne
11-12 Déc. 2017, 19 June 2019


ECAL Grand Tour
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
19-21 Nov. 2021