Argos
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ARGOS - Centre for Art and Media (www.argosarts.org )
Argos explores the relationship between art and media and how these influence our perception of the world. In a time when digital information overload, industrial populism and corporate branding set the tone, the arts centre devotes itself to new forms of visibility and publicity. Argos' territory is comprised of the audiovisual and plastic arts, whereby much attention is given to the interface with other disciplines and to the conscious and alert association with evolutions within the information society.
The centre was founded in Brussels in 1989. Over the years the organization has developed from a distributor of artists' video and film into a broader art centre. Its functions include production, conservation and archiving, as well as presentation – exhibitions, film and video showings, lectures and performances; additionally, Argos houses a public media library and provides a service for the international distribution of artists' films, videos and multimedia installations.
An important aspect of Argos' multiple functions is the constantly expanding media library. Over the years, Argos has created a unique media library, which contains 2.500 film and video titles turning it into the largest collection of its kind in Belgium. The Media Library also contains 3.500 books, catalogues, specialist art magazines and critical compilations on audio-visual art and visual culture.
The Argos preservation program is a leading initiative to take stock of and preserve the Belgian audio-visual art patrimony. Argos is a partner of GAMA (Gateway to Archives of Media Art), a central portal in Europe that is supported by the European Community's eContentplus programme. The partnership with GAMA is part of the ongoing efforts to open up the Argos collection to a larger audience.
In its 800 sq metres exhibition space Argos presents solo exhibitions and group shows. Recently curated group exhibitions include No Place - Like Home. Perspectives on migration in Europe and Interstitial Zones: Historical Facts, Archaeologies of the Present and Dialectics of Seeing, and Actors & Extras in 2008 and 2009. Recent individual exhibitions include Rinko Kawauchi, Ralo Mayer, Andrea Geyer, Angel Vergara, Vito Acconci, Karl Holmqvist and Dias & Riedweg.
Argos' international activities include both thematic programmes and monographic retrospectives on individual artists. Recently realised monographic retrospectives include Nicolas Provost (WRO Center for Media Art, Wroclaw) and Peter Downsbrough (Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid).
Argos explores the relationship between art and media and how these influence our perception of the world. In a time when digital information overload, industrial populism and corporate branding set the tone, the arts centre devotes itself to new forms of visibility and publicity. Argos' territory is comprised of the audiovisual and plastic arts, whereby much attention is given to the interface with other disciplines and to the conscious and alert association with evolutions within the information society.
The centre was founded in Brussels in 1989. Over the years the organization has developed from a distributor of artists' video and film into a broader art centre. Its functions include production, conservation and archiving, as well as presentation – exhibitions, film and video showings, lectures and performances; additionally, Argos houses a public media library and provides a service for the international distribution of artists' films, videos and multimedia installations.
An important aspect of Argos' multiple functions is the constantly expanding media library. Over the years, Argos has created a unique media library, which contains 2.500 film and video titles turning it into the largest collection of its kind in Belgium. The Media Library also contains 3.500 books, catalogues, specialist art magazines and critical compilations on audio-visual art and visual culture.
The Argos preservation program is a leading initiative to take stock of and preserve the Belgian audio-visual art patrimony. Argos is a partner of GAMA (Gateway to Archives of Media Art), a central portal in Europe that is supported by the European Community's eContentplus programme. The partnership with GAMA is part of the ongoing efforts to open up the Argos collection to a larger audience.
In its 800 sq metres exhibition space Argos presents solo exhibitions and group shows. Recently curated group exhibitions include No Place - Like Home. Perspectives on migration in Europe and Interstitial Zones: Historical Facts, Archaeologies of the Present and Dialectics of Seeing, and Actors & Extras in 2008 and 2009. Recent individual exhibitions include Rinko Kawauchi, Ralo Mayer, Andrea Geyer, Angel Vergara, Vito Acconci, Karl Holmqvist and Dias & Riedweg.
Argos' international activities include both thematic programmes and monographic retrospectives on individual artists. Recently realised monographic retrospectives include Nicolas Provost (WRO Center for Media Art, Wroclaw) and Peter Downsbrough (Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid).
documentation
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Contemporary Visual Arts in Flanders
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Marc Ruyters, Eva Wittocx, 2008Among the modern-art crowd, Belgium is known as the country with that 'surrealist' lineage: James Ensor - René Magritte - Marcel Broodthaers. While this is certainly a fine compliment for three artists of far-reaching significance, a great deal has changed in this country, which has been a crossroads of the Roman and Germanic cultures, a key logistic point between Great Britain, Germany and France, and home to the European Community.
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about argos
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Argos
centrum voor kunst en media
º1989, Brussel (B)
T: +32 (0)2 229 00 03
F: +32 (0)2 223 73 31
E: info@argosarts.org
W: www.argosarts.org
T: +32 (0)2 229 00 03
F: +32 (0)2 223 73 31
E: info@argosarts.org
W: www.argosarts.org
Werfstraat 13
1000 Brussel, België
1000 Brussel, België
