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FIMG- GIRONA, II INTERNATIONAL LIGHT AND MAPPING CONGRESS, 21ST- 23TH July
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From 22 to 24 of July GIRONA (SPAIN) celebrates the FIMG 2016, a free festival that weaves the cultural value of Girona with the contemporary cretion through the innovation and audiovisual arts.

 The FIMG includes the III International Mapping Competition – with a new category, eleven prizes valued in more than 28.000 € and three popular votation prizes-, and the II International Light and Mapping Congress, a space for debate and reflection for professionals, artists and students of the sector.

 The themE of the FIMG 2016 is abour the landscapes.

 The FIMG 2016 keeps the same structure than the last edition: the III International Competition of Mapping, with projections of the selected artistic proposals in some of the most representative facades of the city, and the II International Mapping Competition, a space for dialogue and reflection dedicated to professionals of the sector.

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CaixaForum Girona welcomes the II International Light and Mapping Congress organised by the International Mapping Festival of Girona is a place for discussion and reflection — an event to witness the talent of artists in the sector, discover the latest innovations and learn various techniques. It aims to foster the exchange of knowledge and expertise in an environment for developing professional ties.

The Congress targets sector professionals and students (artistic and technical) as well as anyone interested in the subject — advertising agencies, designers, set designers, museum and videoart professionals, tourist boards and economic promotion departments, private companies, etc.

Projection mapping is a widely established technique. It is applicable in many fields for artistic expression as well as for commercial and tourism purposes. It is used on buildings and clocks, on opera set designs and dance shows, in indoor installations or on outdoor vegetation, in music clubs and art galleries.  It offers increasingly greater possibilities, and the technological advances open horizons unimaginable until now.

 DATESWorkshops: 19 and 20 July from 10am to 19pm, July 21 from 10am to 14pm.
Congress: July 21, 15: 30h to 19h, 22 and 23 July morning and afternoon (check schedules).

 CONTENTS

The contents, focusing on mapping applications, are structured as follows:

. Workshops: theoretical and hands-on sessions.
. Talk: presentations on various subjects related to projection mapping.
. Meet the artist: informal talks where artists explain their work and experience.
. Technical: sessions for discovering the latest technical innovations in the sector.
. Discussion panel: round table featuring various experts.
. Showroom: venue for showcasing the work of companies and artists.
. Screening: continuous projection of the best international mapping projections.

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LLISTAT DE CONFERENCIANTS
LISTA DE CONFERENCIANTES/ LECTURERS LIST
JOANIE LEMERCIER (FR),
Founder of the prestigious collective AntiVJ. The work of Lemercier is about the lighting projection and how it transforms the space and changes the perception of reality. Lemercier has worked with artists like Flying Lotus an Adrian Utley of Portishead, between others, and has shown his work in the Digital Art Museum of Pekín, Art Basel  and the Sundance Film Festival.

PABLO VALBUENA (ES),
Spanish visual artist living in the south of France, developes artistic projects with the light as a raw material, where he dialogues with the space, the time and the perception. His work is an overlap of that physical and virtual, a solution of the boundary between reality and perception and a creation of mental spaces for the observer where the most important is the subjective experience. He has done exhibitions in galleries and biennial shows, and has done public conferences in Europe, Asia and America. 

AMAR MULABEGOVIC (CZ),
Cofounder of The Macula audiovisual brand and of the Signal, the festival of videomapping, light projections and installations that takes place in Praga in October.

ELOI MADUELL I SANTI VILANOVA (CAT/ES),
They are members of the Playmodes audiovisual research studio. They were rewarded in 2014 with the Laus de Oro award in the audiovisual category for their work Taull1123, a project that recovers with virtual technology the romanic paints of the Sant Climent de Taüll church. The studio works in the creation of interactive immersive installations, mapping and graphics with movement.

ALI M. DEMIREL (GER)
He has designed scenography for such renowned artists like Richie Hawtin, between them the Enter project, or The Objekt, with the alias of Plastikman Live, the monumental obelisk premiered in the Guggenheim of New York and presented, among other places, in the Sónar festival.

SHANE WALTER (UK)
He has worked for more than 20 years in the digital sector, is creative director, curator, comissioner and writer. He is also cofounder and director of Onedotzero, a cultural digital production company that works to create experiences that merge art, entertainment and technology.
Ha trabajado durante más de 20 años en el mundo digital, es director creativo, curador, comisario y escritor. Es cofundador y director de Onedotzero, productora cultural digital que trabaja para crear experiencias que fusionan el arte, el entretenimiento y la tecnología. 
FILIP STERCKX (BE) és membre d’Skullmapping, estudi d’animació belga especialitzat en projectes de mapping, experiències de realitat virtual i hologrames.
He’s member of Skullmapping, a Belgian animation studio specialized in mapping projects, virtual reality experiences and holograms.
Es miembro de Skullmapping, estudio de animación belga especializado en proyectos de mapping, experiencias de realidad virtual y hologramas. 

VISUAL BRASIL (BR)
Is a festival of artistic performances focused on video and sound in real time. Its aim is show and debate about new techniques and concepts of the contemporary audiovisual scene. 

THOMAS VAQUIÉ (FR)
He is a musician and takes part of the renowned visual label AntiVJ, to whom he creates the soundtracks of the audiovisual installations.
TELENOIKA (ES),
Visual creators group born in the 2000 in Barcelona that works to spread the innovations in artistic languages thanks to new audiovisual technologies. Telenoika supports emergent artists through the formation, aids for research and activities that create new creative dynamics through the audiovisual experimentation.
ARCADI POCH (ES)
He is urban art curator and culture responsible of Montana Colors, leader brand in the production of spray paint for graffiti’s and fine arts. Founder of Kognitif, international network of creators and professionals that develope projects in public spaces, Poch will explore through different urban artists that work and understand the plastic concept of light. 
ALEX POSADAS (ES)
He is digital creator, investigator in the interactivity field and musical producer. Works as a coordinator and project director in the interaction lab of Hangar in Barcelona, and developes projects as an independent multimedia producer. He also collaborates in collectives like Dorkbot Barcelona or Neuronoise group.
JULIETTE BIBASSE (FR)
She is an independent digital art producer, creative director and curator. From 2009 she is working connecting artists, festivals and cultural actors. As a producer, she has collaborated in a wide range of projects with international artists in the cultural and business field. She is agent of artists like Joanie Lemercier, Guillaume Marmin, Equipo de vacío and Herman Kolgen, among others. 
LÁSZLÓ ZSOLT BORDOS (HU)
He is 3D artist specialized in video mapping projection. After collaborating with the main international artists of mapping under the name of Bordos.ArtWorks and Invited Artists, Bordos works with installations and projections for theatres and operas. 

NÚRIA FONT (ES)
She is artistic director of the NU2’S association, audiovisual producer and curator. She focuses her work on dance and scenic arts, she has directed documentaries of dance and events like the VAD festival in Girona or IDN in Mercat de les Flors. She is a teacher in Institut del Teatre and in the Conservatori de Dansa María de Ávila of Madrid. Awarded in 2009 with the National Dance Prize of Generalitat de Catalunya. 

MARIONA OMEDES (ES) 
She’s director of the audiovisual studio Nuevojos. Art director, multimedia artist and illustrator, in 2011 she won the National Prize of Culture of Catalunya grant by CoNCA in the audiovisual category. Nueveojos has created mapping for FC Barcelona, Casa Batlló of Antoni Gaudí, among others. 
MAYA BENAINOUS I CYRIL LAURIER (ES)
They are cofounders of Hand Coded, a visual arts studio, interactive installations and live shows. Cyril is doctor in musical technology and investigates the music emotions. Maya studies how technology can generate emotions and creates algorythms to generate designs, interactions or animations. 
BECA BÒLIT. CENTRE D’ART CONTEMPORANI GIRONA.
The congress will also offer a conference dedicated to Beca Bòlit granted by the Centre d’Art Contemporani de Girona. The conference will be attended by Carme Sais, director of Bòlit, and the artists Rafael Triana, winner of the 2015 Bòlit scholarship, and Alex Popa, winner of the 2016. Their pieces will be exhibited in FIMG 2016 and 2017.

 

FOCUS, videomapping

Interview to Xavi Bové, artistic director of FIMG, International Mapping Festival in Girona
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My interview in Girona to the musician, engeneer and artistic director Xavi Bové. Xavi Bové’s career has been focused on the relationship between visual and musical disciplines, specialized in live events.

Born in Lleida (Spain) in 1978, he is an image and sound engineer, and widened his studies with a video direction postgraduate and a master on digital audiovisual creation. Along his seven years as an OPERA VIDEO DIRECTOR of more than 30 titles in Gran Teatre del Liceu Opera House in Barcelona, he has been exploring different ways to show the opera drama in audiovisual language, giving the audience the chance to enjoy opera in a cinematographic way, and acquiring big international opera panorama knowledge. He has directed live broadcastings for TV, Internet and Cinemas worldwide in High Definition, and also the first 3D opera live broadcasting in Spain. Several titles are available on DVD worldwide under high quality labels such as Virgin Classics, DECCA, Arthaus-Musik, C-Major, Opus Arte, Unitel, TDK and Euroarts.

Xavi has directed VIDEO MAPPING projects, applied over different kind of surfaces, such as buildings, trees, planes, balloons or bodies, and is the ARTISTIC DIRECTOR of FIMG, International Mapping Festival in Girona (www.fimg.cat).

He has been commissioned for creating ARTISTIC CORPORATE and ADVERTISING CLIPS combining the needs of companies with a sensitive approach.

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He has been art director for live concerts creating LIVE VISUALS and combining stage design, video-creation and mapping techniques, for bands such as Fon Roman, Guillamino and dÉbruit, and for festivals such as Connexions and DeProp.

Xavi Bové is responsible of the visual area on ENVOLVENT, an events promoter and communication/booking agency specialized in electronic music and visual arts, with a weekly radio program (www.envolvent.com). And is also co-founder of FAVOLA IN MVSICA, which aims to give high-quality solutions both for live broadcasting and creative video recording and post-production, mainly focused on classical music.

For MUSIC FESTIVALS he has been the director of live broadcasting and live internet streaming for SONAR Festival and Summercase Music Festival. He has directed MUSIC VIDEOS for electronic and pop bands, (Undo, Maurice Aymard, Gui Boratto, The Moustaches,…) and was the cinematographer for a music video for the Berlin Fashion Week. He has also directed live music concerts recordings for DVDs, such as for the rock musicians Bunbury & Vegas. He also plays tunes as aMUSIC SELECTOR for special events under the name of HERR BOVE offering Vintage and Electronic Sets.

“Cycle of Life”,  Prize for innovation, International Videomapping Festival in Girona (FIMG). Selected at V International Congress Synesthesia, Science & Art 2015. Interactive Videmapping from live performed classical music.

In CINEMA, Xavi Bové has directed documentaries about music such as “Music of Shapes” about new musical theories by Raúl Quílez; he has been the second unit director of the documentary film “Llach, la revolta permanent” by Lluis Danés about the life of a Catalan singer; he directed the recording of “Tranuites”, a visual theatre and circus project; and he also directed more than 10 shortfilms, including the film festivals selected “Eine Neue Nachricht” (fiction), “Requiem für eine Tanne” (video creation),  “Mala Sombra” (fiction) and “Viure al mar” (documentary). He worked as art director on “Final”.

He TEACHES seminaries and master’s classes about relations between music and image, for institutions such as La Salle University and EMAV audiovisual school in Barcelona. He also worked for three years as a workshops and films curator for the REC Film Festival (Tarragona). Xavi has lived and worked in Barcelona, London and Berlin and nowadays is based in Girona (Spain).

Currently he is working on different projects that bridge these art disciplines, combining his experience and knowledge and playing with the experimentation of languages, formats and interactivity.

In the interview he speaks about CYCLE of LIFE, his interactive videomapping Prize for innovation, Girona Festival. Selected at V International Congress Synesthesia, Science & Art 2015. Interactive Videmapping from live performed classical music.

Festival, FOCUS

Girona mapping Festival-FIMG 2015
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From the site http://projection-mapping.org/fimg-2nd-international-mapping-festival-in-girona/

The second International Mapping Festival will take place in Girona, Spain from July 30th to August 2nd, including the first ever International Mapping Congress and a mapping competition

 

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Girona will host the 2nd edition of the International Mapping Festival (FIMG) from 30 July to 2 August. The city of Girona will become the international centre of mapping for four days. The Festival aims to reveal the high artistic level of the discipline by bringing together artists and professionals from across the sector.The festival is open to all and links the cultural legacy of Girona with contemporary creativity through innovation and the audiovisual arts.

The 2015 edition maintains the same structure as the previous year: between Friday 31 July and Sunday 2 August, the International Mapping Competition will see the shortlisted artistic works projected onto some of the well-known façades of the city, while the 1st International Mapping Congress will be held from Thursday 30 July to Saturday 1 August, when professionals from the sector will gather to discuss and talk about their work.

The theme of FIMG 2015: contradictions

From this year on, the Festival will focus on a particular theme. The theme of the 2015 edition is contradictions. The objective is to encourage projects that explore many possible aspects of the theme, and to suggest a frame for artistic and cultural activity.

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New category: micro-mapping

This edition of the festival will also increase the number of spaces and works, setting up a trail across the city between buildings of historical and contemporary significance. The festival App will serve as a guide to this trail.

The Porta dels Apòstols entrance to the Cathedral and the Pont de Pedra [the stone bridge], will be the setting for projects specially commissioned by the Festival that will be shown every day of the Festival and which will also showcase a large amount of Catalan talent.

The International Mapping Competition will include a new category, micro-mapping, which is intended for smaller indoor spaces (such as hotel or museum foyers, stores and shops), and there will be two awards voted by the general audience.

International Mapping Competition (31 July to 2 August)

The inscription period for the International Mapping Competition closes on 20 April. There are four categories: Professional, which is aimed at artists and professionals of the visual arts, music and fine arts, who do not work exclusively with mapping; Amateur, aimed at anyone who wants to take their first steps in the field of mapping; Micro-mapping, a new competitive category intended for smaller interior spaces; and educational, which is aimed at schools and high schools in Girona.

The spaces for the professional competition will be the façade of the Town Hall, the façade of Casa Pastors and the Law Courts; the amateur works will be displayed on the façade of the Pont d’en Gómez building; while the educational works will be projected onto the Les Àligues building (Sant Domènec) and the micro-mapping will be shown in various spaces. There are two prizes for each category, which range from 12,000 euros for the 1st prize in the Professional category, to 500 euros for 2nd prize in Educational. The prizes shall be awarded by a jury. This year for the first time, the Festival will have two more prizes awarded by the public: The Audience Façade Prize (1,000 euros) and the Audience Micro-mapping Prize (500 euros).

The jury will judge the entries on originality, innovation, musical and visual style, the financial and logistical viability of the proposal and its relevance to the building.

Anyone wishing to take part must register at www.fimg.cat.

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International Mapping Congress (30 July to 1 August)

Girona will host the 1st International Mapping Congress between 30 July and 1 August. This is a forum bringing together the foremost European professionals in order to convert Girona into a global hub and benchmark for this discipline. A space where artists, programmers, professionals and tech companies can meet and discuss the mapping industry. The programme for the Congress will be announced soon.

Xavi Bové, the artistic director, has joined the team at FIMG 2015 to supervise the quality of the contents and to programme the 1st International Mapping Congress. FIMG 2015 has also added a communications director who will manage the promotion and impact of the festival.

The Girona Mapping Festival is a Girona City Council initiative with the collaboration of BLOOM.