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Globalscreen is a flexible media-art platform for artists and arts institutions. It stands for collaboration worldwide amongst video and media artists engaged in finding new, contemporary avenues in art and communication. These are experiments by artists from different countries turning to contemporary subjects, to political, aesthetic and philosophical contemplations and which, expressed in diverse projects, make a mark both in museum contexts and in public spaces.

The intention is to promote dialogue and culture in Europe and beyond. The programme s base is NRW, Northrhine Westfalia; it is an emanative project through time and space in the sense of forming identity and networks.

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Globalscreen Network pieces are flexible by design and each inspires the other. Invitations to apply are public or drafted as collaborative projects at the outset. Cooperators with Globalscreen (formerly Euroscreen 21) are international artists, curators and arts establishments as well as cooperating partners in politics and trade.

Globalscreen as a media art platform is constituted mainly in virtual space. The aim is to present with each contribution a distinct current political and artistic stance and perspective. What applies to all is that we want to stimulate artistic investigative processes. These can include interdisciplinary approaches. Drawing respectively on differing principles, projects remain flexible for future developments.

Exhibitions and projects in museums, galleries, at festivals or in public spaces are elaborated in collaboration with the pertinent institutions and artists. The genres range from experimental to interactive, animation or documentary pieces. The participating artists include the younger and the professionally established.

This makes for many and varied contacts. By including different sections of the population in its ambit, Globalscreen is ultimately also engaged in a Beuysian social sculpture that opens up new contemporary impulses and potential for further development.

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Globalscreen operates flexibly and draws on cooperation with interested artists and freelance curators according to the emphasis of the project at hand. Artists today take their work beyond the classical institutional framework in creative ways and at manyfold levels. They are artists and/or curators or designers, programmers, teachers, art historians and theoreticians, etc.; they operate independent web forums, arts institutes and much more.

Thus we create our own networks on a local and global footing, which generate, in parallel to the art industry, spaces and scope for action and communication, be it critical or participatory.

copyright: bano, Germany, 2008