Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival presents the eight edition of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images.

VISIO consists of an exhibition and a series of seminars and meetings dedicated to expanding the vision and themes of artists, who use moving images in their artistic practice. By promoting encounters and international mobility, VISIO has favoured the development of a wide network of institutions, artists and professionals working with moving images creating a significant archive by mapping a new generation of artists based in Europe. Over 700 visual artists have applied to participate in the first seven editions of the Programme.

The VISIO Programme, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, will be held in Florence, within the context of the 12th Edition of Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival (12th – 17th November 2019). The participants will be 12 young European artists who work with moving images; they will be selected through an open call, in collaboration with some of the most important European Art Academies, Schools and Artist Residencies. The deadline to apply is September 25th 2019.

Four years after its first exhibition, Lo schermo dell’arte returns to Palazzo Strozzi with VISIO. Moving Images After Post-Internet. The exhibition offers an insight into the practice of a generation of artists who, during the years of their education, witnessed the rise of the so-called “Post-Internet condition”. This definition has been adopted since the end of the first decade of 2000 in order to describe art that could no longer avoid to confront the growing hyper-connectivity of the internet, both in conceptual and in production and distribution terms. However, the meaning of the term “Post-Internet” has changed as quickly as the technology it was associated with, becoming obsolete and controversial and being mostly reduced to the often derogatory formal categorisation of a vast number of artworks. During the same years the digital revolution and the acceleration imposed by new media have deeply transformed the language of moving images and their exhibition models. The show therefore reflects on these transformations and on the influence they had on this generation of artists, on the legacy of the Post-Internet phenomenon and on the possible reasons of its definitive overcoming. VISIO. Moving Images After Post-Internet is in coherent continuity with the four previous exhibitions organized at Le Murate PAC (2018), Palazzo Medici Riccardi (2017), Cinema La Compagnia (2016) and Palazzo Strozzi (2015).

The VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize is confirmed for the fifth edition. It will be assigned to one of the participating artists and consists in the acquisition of one of his/her video works by the Seven Gravity Collection, a private Italian collection that focuses on video works by contemporary artists. Through this Prize Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival, thanks to the partnership with the Seven Gravity Collection, aims to support young artists by promoting the practice of collecting moving images works and video installations.