About NeMe

https://www.neme.org/about

NeMe (/ˈniːm/) is a non profit, Cyprus registered cultural NGO founded in November 2004. NeMe focuses on contemporary theories and their intersection with the arts. Our programme, champions art and tech intersections, hosting bold exhibitions and talks, and fosters critically engaged art explorations in Cyprus.

With one of its major interests on new media technologies, NeMe introduced a number of new media art genres to the Cypriot audience including:

• The first funding for the production of video art in 2006
• The first VJ event performed in 2008
• The second video exhibition and the first in Limassol in 2008
• The first totally interactive exhibition in 2015
• The first live coding performance in 2015
• The first locative media exhibition in 2017

www.neme.org documents NeMe’s on and off line activities NeMe has produced, participated in or hosted; publications; as well all the people who participated in at least one of them and provides a service by publishing critical texts.

The founders of NeMe are Helene Black, Yiannis Colakides and Konstantinos Sophocleous. NeMe has 21 members.

NeMe has been active for 21 years and to date we have initiated, participated in, or hosted 298 activities featuring 1127 theorists, scientists, curators, artist groups, and artists from 86 countries; produced 44 artworks; published 17 catalogues & books; and organised numerous educational workshops for children, adults, amateur, and professional artists.

Some of our charts analysing our activities can be found on our statistics page.

Collaborations

Our collaborations include projects developed with Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium; Aksioma, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Antre Peaux, Bourges, France; Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; CIKE, Košice, Slovakia; Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol; Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia; Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Russia; FACT, Liverpool, UK; Furtherfield, London, UK; gnration, Braga, Portugal; Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany; IFA, Berlin, Germany; iMAL, Brussels, Belgium; Impakt, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Insitute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Kersnikova Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Kontejner, Zagreb, Croatia; LABoral, Gijón (Asturias), Spain; Lanitis Foundation, Limassol, Cyprus; m-cult, Helsinki, Finland; MoMUS, Thessaloniki, Greece ; NCCA Moscow, Russia; Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Cyprus; Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece; Quo Artis, Barcelona, Spain; RIXC Centre for New Media Culture, Riga, Latvia; The Thursday Club, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK; University of Nicosia, Cyprus; Ural State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia; Werkleitz, Halle (Saale), Germany; WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland.

From 2013 to 2016, cohering to one of our aims to support young cultural workers, NeMe was the hub organisation for the Cyprus representation of the now defunct European Cultural Parliament Youth Network.

NeMe Arts Centre (NAC)

NAC is a permanent physical space which aims to promote a critical and interdisciplinary approach to the arts focused on research and cultural production. We support and encourage initiatives and dialogue that involve institutions, collectives, artists, scholars from the local and international communities. NeMe Arts Centre is a non-commercial exhibiting space. NeMe’s non-profit financial strategy relies exclusively on fund raising. The NeMe Arts Centre is administered by the NeMe Directors and Board Members.

Participation in our events

NAC’s permanent space gives it a flexibility in both the type of events we organise and the way they are presented. Our exhibitions are always curated and the participants are selected by invitation and/or call for entries. If you wish to be informed about our activities do subscribe to our newsletter if you wish to be considered as an invited participant in one of our future events, send your catalogues (printed or in a usb disk) or something about your work to:

Remember that we receive a great number of website links some of which are indeed great but there is no substitution to hard copies as those archives of artists’ catalogues and submissions are made available to curators and academics who live in, or visit Cyprus.

Greek translation of our content

Those who are regular visitors of our website may have noticed that some of our content is now translated to Greek. This was done to cater for our local community. Please note that these translations are by no means professional, although care has been taken to correspond in meaning and tone to the original English texts. If you happen to spot any inaccuracies which we are unable to identify and want to help us correct it, please let us know using our contact form. This is an ongoing project which we plan to complete by the end of 2026 by when we hope to have all our texts and projects translated.

Currently, the only way to view our translated is by a cookie with a lifespan of 30 minutes, but we are also working to evolve our CMS into an out-of-the-box multilingual software. We know that this will be a big change in the source code and the database structure and we expect that this will take longer time to be implemented.

Funding

All NeMe organised activities listed on this website are provided free to the public, so funding is an important source of funding. As a non-profit registered organisation in Cyprus, NeMe receives grants and donations from a number of different sources, including government, corporates, small businesses and individuals.

Please contact us if you would be interested in funding any of our future projects. You will receive a credit on our printing material and press releases as well as having your website listed in our links page.

Legacy

For a list of defunct NeMe projects please visit our dedicated post.

Thanks

• For all their help for our projects
  • To the 1127 people and groups as well as the venue directors and our sponsors, all listed in our links page.