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− | [[DIVA Station]] is a research and study archive of video and new media art developed and maintained by the [[SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts]]. It presents artworks by more than hundred artists based in Slovenia who | + | [[DIVA Station]] is a research and study archive of video and new media art developed and maintained by the [[SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts]]. It presents artworks by more than hundred artists based in Slovenia who have contributed their works to the care of the archive while maintaining the licence for these works. Apart from analogue and digital archive accessible for viewing at the [[SCCA Project Room]], DIVA (Digital Video Archive) it is now also available online. |
+ | DIVA Station constantly adds newly acquired works to the archive and promotes an overall understanding of artistic oeuvre by organising discussions, screenings and presentations. | ||
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+ | The DIVA Station is also a partner archive of GAMA (Gateway to Archives of Media Art), an international Internet platform, which brings together eight European video and media archives to make them more visible and easily accessible in order to increase awareness and mediation of media art. | ||
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− | The DIVA | + | == The DIVA platform == |
− | DIVA Station | + | DIVA Station serves as an umbrella project and presentation platform for programmes focusing on video art, and is based on the documentation project ''[[Videodokument]]''. It includes also the artists' [[Internet Portfolio]], [[Artservis]]' Collection, and [[Videospotting]] as well as seminars, exhibitions and discussions with the aim to inform professionals and wider public about the theoretical, practical and artistic aspects of the audiovisual archives of contemporary art. |
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+ | The DIVA Station premièred at Škuc Gallery in June 2009 and was officially launched in October 2011 at Kapelica Gallery. | ||
==Videospotting programme== | ==Videospotting programme== | ||
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''Videospotting'' offers a series of surveys or thematic programmes of Slovene video art curated by SCCA-Ljubljana's curators ([[Barbara Borčić]], [[Ida Hiršenfelder]], etc.) and invited experts ([[Nerina Kocjančič]], [[Igor Španjol]] to name just two). Since 1994 ''Videospotting'' is annually presented up to 6 times. Presentations are featured at various international and national showcases mostly in a form of screenings and exhibitions accompanied by lectures. | ''Videospotting'' offers a series of surveys or thematic programmes of Slovene video art curated by SCCA-Ljubljana's curators ([[Barbara Borčić]], [[Ida Hiršenfelder]], etc.) and invited experts ([[Nerina Kocjančič]], [[Igor Španjol]] to name just two). Since 1994 ''Videospotting'' is annually presented up to 6 times. Presentations are featured at various international and national showcases mostly in a form of screenings and exhibitions accompanied by lectures. | ||
Revision as of 19:10, 27 February 2013
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27 Sep 2023
1 Oct 2023
Short films by Urška Djukić, Špela Čadež and Kukla, a Karpo Godina retrospective, a DIVA Station programme, two School Visit programmes (Nova Gorica School of Arts and the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television), a Queer Focus feature film. Supported and promoted by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Lisbon
at the BEAST Festival of Central & Eastern European Film
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6 Apr 2019
12 Apr 2019
Serbia Belgrade Cultural Center of Belgrade (cinema and foyer)
Artists’ Films – artRESOLUTION, conversations, video and film projections and Video Discipline & Dreams, selection from DIVA Station video archive by Barbara Borčić (SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts),
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7 Jun 2018
8 Jun 2018
Barbara Borčić (SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts) presents the project DIVA Station and two cases of Slovenian media/video practices (Miha Vipotnik and Laibach-Kunst) at the Revisiting Heritage conference
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11 May 2018
The screening of the video program The World Is Obliged to Live You II, curated by Anita Budimir; the presentation of the DIVA Station video archive and discussion with the archive's co-workers Barbara Borčić, Vesna Bukovec, and Dušan Dovč (SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts)
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26 Jan 2018
25 Feb 2018
An exhibition of video works Projected Visions. From art in the urban context to fiction and dystopia, a part of the e.city-Ljubljana project, curated by Barbara Borčić, DIVA Station, SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts, Miha Štrukelj's installation, Neja Tomšič's performance and and GardenWALK by Irena Pivka/Brane Zorman (Cona Institute), co-organised by Apollonia, European Art Exchanges,
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12 Dec 2017
The presentation of the DIVA Station video archive by Barbara Borčić at the seminar The Emergence of Video Art in Europe: history, theory, sources and archives,
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7 Jun 2017
DIVA Station video archive on tour, a presentation of the archive, Videospotting video program and discussion, coorganised by the Ursula Blickle Video Archiv and SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts in cooperation with the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA) and the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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4 Dec 2016
A presentation of DIVA Station by curator Barbara Borčić, artist Emil Memon (SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts) and film maker Powel Wojtasik and a screening of the curated programme DIVA Station Presents No 3
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2 Dec 2016
A presentation of DIVA Station by Luka Polutnik (SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts) at a round table discussion in the framework of the international project Archive as Practice
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30 Nov 2016
A presentation of DIVA Station by Luka Polutnik (SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts) at a round table discussion in the framework of the international project Archive as Practice
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16 Nov 2016
Curator Barbara Borčić (SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts) and video artist and director Nataša Prosenc Stearns present DIVA Station
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25 May 2016
26 May 2016
Barbara Borčić (SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts) presents the project DIVA Station at the international symposium The Emergence of Video Art in Europe: history, theory, sources and archives
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5 Nov 2015
6 Nov 2015
Metka Dariš (Slovenian Cinematheque), Barbara Borčić (SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts) present the Slovenian Cinematheque and the DIVA Station, respectively, at the international symposium Museums of Film / Film in the Museum
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25 Sep 2015
DIVA Station (SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts) at the 4th edition of Archiving Media Art: Politics and Strategies within the conference Video Matters
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15 Jun 2015
7 Jul 2015
Race with Time 2. Performance in a Rear-view Mirror, an exhibition of works by a number of Slovene authors curated by Barbara Borčić and produced by SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts, and a presentation and screening of DIVA Station
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8 Jun 2015
10 Jun 2015
A presentation of DIVA Station and World of Art: School for Contemporary Arts by Barbara Borčić (SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts) and an exhibition featuring the works of artist Petra Varl at the 2nd CEE Countries Contemporary Art Works Exhibition and CEE Countries Art Museums Curator Forum
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30 Oct 2014
10 Nov 2014
A presentation of DIVA Station (SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts) as well as a workshop by Barbara Borčić, Dušan Dovč, Nika Grabar, and Ida Hiršenfelder, a screening of the video essay DIVA at ŠKUC Gallery by Nika Grabar and a première of two video programmes Industrial Landscape, curated by Miha Colner, and Feedback Loop, curated by Ida Hiršenfelder,
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28 Oct 2013
29 Oct 2013
Launch of Intimising Dance, a performance programme Videospotting curated by SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts, at the TransDance Festival 2013
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18 May 2012
20 May 2012
GAMA archives presentation with Maja Smrekar's six video works Repeating Coincidence
at the International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media
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23 Apr 2012
DIVA Station digital video archive project by SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts presentation
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28 Apr 2011
The DIVA platform
DIVA Station serves as an umbrella project and presentation platform for programmes focusing on video art, and is based on the documentation project Videodokument. It includes also the artists' Internet Portfolio, Artservis' Collection, and Videospotting as well as seminars, exhibitions and discussions with the aim to inform professionals and wider public about the theoretical, practical and artistic aspects of the audiovisual archives of contemporary art.
The DIVA Station premièred at Škuc Gallery in June 2009 and was officially launched in October 2011 at Kapelica Gallery.
Videospotting programme
Videospotting offers a series of surveys or thematic programmes of Slovene video art curated by SCCA-Ljubljana's curators (Barbara Borčić, Ida Hiršenfelder, etc.) and invited experts (Nerina Kocjančič, Igor Španjol to name just two). Since 1994 Videospotting is annually presented up to 6 times. Presentations are featured at various international and national showcases mostly in a form of screenings and exhibitions accompanied by lectures.
Recent screenings of Videospotting took place abroad at the festival Ars Electronica in Linz (Austria, 2009), the Lux Centre in London (UK, 2011), the Arsenal Gallery in Poznan (Poland, 2010), the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo (Egypt, 2008 and 2010) and at the Transmediale festival in Berlin (Germany, 2008).
See also
- SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts
- SCCA-Ljubljana Centre for Contemporary Arts Library
- Videodokument
External links
- DIVA Station online archive
- Diva Station in the Škuc Gallery, 2009
- Gama Archives Website
- About the Diva Station on Turbulence Website