MAFA
Media Art Festival Arad este un proiect kinema ikon, axat pe experimentul vizual, sonor, performativ în varianta sa ludică, tehnologică, hibridă, digitală, analogă, voit redundantă. MAFA caută modalități de joacă, folosind spațiile disponibile pe post de pretext. Preocupările din domeniul artei și tehnologiei reunesc un grup eterogen de artiști/artiste multimedia, cu precădere din generația tânără. Festivalul caută să motiveze producătorii locali și să faciliteze crearea unor rețele de colaborare internaționale în domeniul cultural.
curators: Calin Man / Ileana Selejan
Media Art Festival Arad is a project organized by kinema ikon, with a focus on visual, sound, performative experimentation, considered from a ludic, technological, hybrid, digital, analogue, purposefully redundant perspective. MAFA searches for modalities of play, using available spaces as a pretext. A shared interest in art and technology brings together a heterogenous group of, mostly young, multimedia artists. The festival seeks to motivate local producers and to facilitate the emergence of international collaborative networks within the cultural sector.
MAFA is a kinema ikon project
organizers: Primaria Municipiului Arad / Centrul Municipal de Cultura Arad
Festival Archive
2025 / M.A.F.A.12: ParallaxErrors
spaces: Cinema Arta Arad
media: ephemeral installations, one infinite loop projection / jazz electro crossover impro
motto: here today gone tomorrow
2024 / M.A.F.A.11: Chronicles of Stillness
spaces: Filarmonica Arad
media: on stage_multimedia installation, video projections, off stage_kinet_ekho
motto: A Journey Through Time
2023 / M.A.F.A.X: Ready Media
spaces: Arad Art Museum, kinema ikon
media: media installations, video, sound works, VR, AR
motto: Your source of digital inspiration! ChatGPT
2022 / M.A.F.A.9: Wunderkammer
spaces: Arad Museum Complex, kinema ikon
media: media installations, video, sound works, VR
motto: "It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)" R.E.M
2021 / M.A.F.A.8: in:between
spaces: Arad Art Museum, kinema ikon
media: media installations, video, sound works, app.
motto: green horses on the walls
2020 / M.A.F.A.7: SyZyGy
spaces: Faber Timișoara, Cinema Arta Arad, kinema ikon, Rezidența Scena 9 Bucharest
media: media installations, video streaming
motto: WTF
2019 / M.A.F.A.6: dig:it
spaces: Arad Art Museum, ikon cinema
media: media installations, video, AV performance, concerts
motto: <img src="../dig:it.gif"> Have A Nice Click
2018 / M.A.F.A.5: De Rerum Natura
spaces: CMA, Natural Sciences, Arad Art Museum
media: media installations, video, AV performance, concerts
motto: "Cedit enim, rerum novitate extrusa, vetustas semper". Lucretius
2017 / M.A.F.A.4: CINEMA
spaces: Cinema Arta Arad, Arad Art Museum
media: media installations, video projections, AV performance, concerts
motto: "If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong." Groucho Marx
2016 / M.A.F.A.3: DADADA
spaces: Arad Art Museum, kf Arad
media: interactive media installations, video, performance
motto: {if a picture is worth a thousand words, then a picture with explanatory text is worth a thousand words minus the words of the explanatory text}
2015 / M.A.F.A.2: R.E.M.X / Rapid Eye Movement
spaces: Atrium Mall Arad, Arad Art Museum, MNAC Bucharest
media: media installations, video, sound works
motto: No matter how fast you are, there's always someone faster.
2014 / M.A.F.A.1: R.A.M / Random Access Memory
spaces: Arad Art Museum
media: photography, video installations, audio, net.art
motto: any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes
CURATORS:
Calin Man
Ileana Selejan
mediaartarad@gmail.com
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MAFA is a kinema ikon project