Art/Cinema is the title this year’s annual screen exhibition program in which we look at the intersections of art and cinema in the context of both the Sydney’s Film Festival and Biennale. This new national program provides an outstanding opportunity for you engage with and experience emerging trends in digital screen culture.

With an eye on some of the best video and screen work being produced internationally we are presenting an exhibition and cinema program from the internationally acclaimed VideoBrasil Festival together with a new multi platform work by Robert Iolini which will be presented as a special night screen project in Sydney’s Chinatown at Gallery 4A.

This year’s international guest, Solange Oliviera Farkas Director of Video Brasil and the Modern Art Museum in Salvador [Br.] will be touring nationally in to speak and introduce cinema program of award winning works from last years VideoBrasil Festival of electronic arts as well as participate in a forum in presented in Sydney by d/Lux/MediaArts on June 21.

Our second exhibition program from Video Brasil features award winners from their Loop programs and a selection of videos from new international residency program from 3 to 14 June at Mori Gallery, Sydney.

Art/Cinema is proudly presented by d/Lux/MediaArts with the support of the Australian Film Commission and our partners VideoBrasil, the Sydney Film Festival, Gallery 4A, Mori Gallery the Brasilain Consulate and our technology partner Aura Interactive.

The national tour is hosted and supported in Melbourne by ACMI the Dendy Cinema in Brisbane, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art in Western Australia and the Moving Image Centre and Mercury Cinema in Adelaide.

Our understanding of the locus and actuality of our experience of contemporary screen culture is ever shifting. Ideas of boundaries between established forms, modes of production and distribution collapse and are being constantly reformed, challenged and re-imagined.

Clearly it is the language of the screen, which provides the touchstone for a global culture, which is as varied and diverse as the number of participants who create, disseminate and consume. But wherein lie new territories for exploration?

We propose that the very idea of boundaries that delineate contemporary cinema and art have all but evaporated. Indeed a new archipelago of territories and domains has emerged which are largely undefined and open wide to the possibilities of the imagination.

To promote this exploration and excursions into new territories of screen culture our program of international video works presented both in the cinema and gallery spaces trafficked across multiple sites and delivery platforms highlights the ever shifting nature and form of contemporary screen culture and necessity for ongoing dialogue and discovery.

d/Lux/MediaArts acknowledges the financial assistance of the Australian Film Commission