Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2021 call

The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (ETAT) will launch an open call for proposals for its eighth edition to be held in summer 2021.

Inaugurated in 2000, ETAT takes place every three years in the Echigo-Tsumari region (Tokamachi City and Tsunan Town) of Niigata Prefecture, which is known for its heavy snowfall and distinctive satoyama agricultural landscape. Covering 760 square kilometers, the Triennale is the world’s largest international art festival. It is not organized in urban settings but in rural areas, and is recognized as pioneer in regional revitalization with art.

Mirror Palace of Democracy

A peer reviewed article analysing the Mirror Palace of Democracy installation first presented in the Participation Matters exhibition at the NeMe Arts Centre has been published in Vol 14 (2020) of the International Journal of Communication. The article first discusses five approaches that aim to transcend, complement, or overturn the hegemony of the written academic text.

Site update

Yesterday, the latest version of Textpattern CMS was released. In the past few weeks we have been working behind the scenes for this important upgrade. This work was carried out to make sure this site remains online without any issues, but also to restructure our content, in order to take advantage of some of the new features our favourite CMS now offers.

The Event of a Thread. Global Narratives in Textiles

On Friday, September 4 and 7pm, NeMe and ifa would like invite you to the NeMe Arts Centre, Limassol, for the opening of the exhibition The Event of a Thread. Global Narratives in Textiles and on Saturday, March 21 at 6pm, to the seminar, performance, and discussion which will concentrate on the exhibition’s themes.-

The Idea of the Avant Garde-And What it Means Today 2

We are happy to announce that the book accompanying our 2018 programme, The Idea of the Avant Garde is now available at Intellect books.

Respublika! publication review

Many thanks to Ana Cristina Suzina, for her review in the Journal of Alternative and Community Media, of the publication we produced after the Respublika! project.

Jonas Lund and Elisa Lasowski

On Saturday, 9 November at 7:30pm, NeMe would like to invite you to two talks by Jonas Lund and Elisa Lasowski, followed by a discussion at the NeMe Arts Centre, Limassol.

Children of Prometheus

NeMe and curator Marc Garrett, cofounder and co-Director of Furtherfield have the pleasure to invite you to Children of Prometheus. The exhibition, opening on Friday, 11 October at 7:30pm at the NeMe Arts Centre investigates the landscape of a rapidly transforming world and how some of these shifts inform and affect our immediate environment.

1s and 0s, haves and have-nots

On Saturday, 21 September, 2019, 7:30pm, as part of her residency at NeMe for Through Other Eyes, Sanela Jahić will be presenting her current research at the NeMe Arts Centre.
The relations between machines and humans is one of the constants in Sanela’s work. Her artistic production places the research of complex relations between technology and the social, individuals and their identity directly into the context of the critique of capitalist relations of production. The current wave of pervasive automation and technologies of prediction is radically transforming and reorganising all forms of labour.

Through Other Eyes

On Friday September 6, at 7:30pm, NeMe has the great pleasure of inviting you to the exhibition opening of Through Other Eyes, curated by James Bridle.

Workshop: Through Other Eyes

Through Other Eyes examines the nature of both power and agency within human-technology relations so that issues of control become increasingly complex. The role of non-human actors in the creative process establishes how objects exert agency in a similar manner to humans and in many cases introduce spontaneous and unexpected results which may be viewed as a legitimate form of aesthetic expression.

(UN)REAL

What is real, and how are you sure it is so? How often can your experiences be real if so many are digital and virtual or influenced by the chemistry and architecture of your brain? Scientific research uncovers ways that our minds and senses conspire to produce gaps between the actual and the perceived. How do we navigate these blind spots, which can be exploited by trickery like fake news, but then embraced willingly to escape reality, for pleasure in fantasy? And is our concept of the real transformed by biomedical science, which brings us new understanding of mental conditions like synesthesia, dementia, or phenomena like the placebo effect?

Terms of Refusal

When ideals of capitalist progress become the driver of societal value, a position of refusal can be a political and necessary act. Eyebeam’s 2020 Residency Open Call asks applicants to consider refusal as it relates to technology and its impact on society. How do acts of refusal manifest in one’s life and work poetically or directly?

First international Cyprus Poster Triennial

On Friday 28 June at 8:30pm, we would like to invite you at the NeMe Arts Centre for the opening of the first international Cyprus Poster Triennial (CPT). As part of its support for the Triennial, on Saturday 6 July, 2019 at 6:30pm, the Department of Arts and Communications of Frederick University presents The Designer’s Backpack a series of talks and presentations that aim to underline and explain a recent shift towards freelancing and self-initiated / collective business models in the Cypriot visual communication scene.

Women in Conflict Zones-book presentation

On Saturday April 13th 2019, at 6:00pm, NeMe invites you to the launch of Anna Prodromou’s book Women in Conflict Zones-A collection of Interviews of Cypriot Women which showcases a collection of interviews featuring Cypriot women from different backgrounds and cultures.

State Machines: book launch

Join editors Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett, Inte Gloerich, contributors Max Dovey and Helen Kaplinsky, and respondent Ruth Catlow for short presentations with plenty for time for discussion.

EXIT STRATEGY

On Saturday April 6 2019 at 7:30pm, NeMe invites you to the opening of the exhibition EXIT STRATEGY conceived by Daisy Charles, Jesse Meredith, and William Wiebe.

State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art

Order or download your own free copy of State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art.

Garrett Lynch

On February 15th at 12:30 artist Garrett Lynch will have a presentation on Networked Art at the Fine Arts Department of Cyprus University of Technology. This presentation is happening within the course of the subject FAR 131 Studio Practice and Theory 6: Applications in New Media and in collaboration with NeMe.

Respublika publication

Our latest publication, Respublika! – Experiments in the Performance of Participation and Democracy took about a year to edit, design and print but we hope that you’ll be satisfied with the result.