200 projects applied for the program
"Between eternity and cloudiness" wins commission for "Beautiful Art"
Shoofi's winning project is to provide digital manipulation of space colony environments on Earth.
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Lebanese artist Nadim Choufi.
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"Art Jameel", the foundation that deals with heritage, education and the arts, revealed yesterday that the Lebanese artist, Nadim Choufi, won the digital assignment of "Art Jameel" for a proposal centered on smart cities and the time cycles that govern its foundations.
Art Jameel assignments were launched early this year in its digital version. Artists concerned with digital art were invited to present their performances through an open online invitation, and it attracted about 200 projects. The winning work will be launched and displayed online for a period of at least six months. Early next year.
In response to this year's assignment theme, "time," and by thinking about how to challenge the concept of time with technology and circumstances, the assignment provided artists with the opportunity to rethink "digital art" and the ways in which questions could be asked, investigated, and the formation of meaningful connections and experiences.
Shoufi presents his winning project under the title "Between Eternity and the Clouding of Clouds", and it is concerned with providing a digital treatment of space colony environments on the planet, as two narrators try to decipher the always promised possibilities in imagining the future and create an area of multiple copies of the present to question the time according to which the planet moves, from During their live experiences, the work will be shown for the first time online, and it will be available for viewing on Art Jameel websites.
The Choufi project was chosen by an experienced jury, which includes: Nadim Samman, curator of the "Digital Saphir" at the Kunst Fürke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, and Gina Sottela, a Finnish artist living in Berlin and her tools for words, sounds and live media, and Ben Vickers, publisher and CEO. Of technology in Serpentine Galleries in London, as well as curators from Art Jameel.
In appreciation of the diversity of ideas and the exceptional quality of some of the project proposals it received, the jury chose to honor two applicants: the German-Iraqi Noura Al-Badri, a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist, as well as the Lebanese duo Edwin Nasr and Bassem Saad.
Through the Neural Ancestor Series, Noura Al-Badri expands on museum practices and displays the contradictions of artistic histories, by presenting a liberating artistic legacy, by generating new Babylonian artificial formations for the purpose of restoring and repossessing cultural data sets from Western museum collections.
As for the Nasr and Saad project, "An Empire Against Wounds", it is an ongoing research project that studies the geopolitics of the digital image industry, through the dynamics of American military entertainment, the cosmic technologies of the so-called "axis of resistance", and the repeated reproduction of trauma rituals.
Exceptional circumstances
The Art Jameel Commissions program plays a pivotal role annually in the programs of the Jameel Arts Center, as it aims to embody the goals of the Foundation and the Center, which is to be a multidisciplinary exploration space dedicated to contemporary artists, writers and researchers from all over the Middle East and the world, and to welcome the arts audience in the UAE. And the region and the world, and the decision was that this year's copy of the assignments would be digital for the exceptional circumstances that the world is witnessing, and the next version for 2021/2022 will be a copy of the assignments of drawing and photography, and an open invitation to participate in it will be sent in 2021.
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