Melitopoulos Angela

born in 1961

visual artist, media artist, videographer, teacher, theorist, composer

Biography
Angela Melitopoulos is born in Munich. (Greek and German nationality)
She studied fine arts at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf (Nam June Paik).

Angela Melitopoulos works with electronic media since 1986 realising experimental single-channel-tapes, video installations, video-essays and documentaries.

Between 1986 and 1995 she lived and worked in Paris and collaborated/founded with Maurizio Lazzarato the media collective „Canal Dèchainè“ and „Chaos Media“ (videos during the Gulf War with Felix Guattari, Serge Daney and others).
Publications about her work appeared in France, Germany and Italy.

Since 1986 her videos are regularly shown on many international video festivals:
for example World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam, Videofestival of Locarno, EMAF Festival in Osnabrück, Film and Videofestival in Montreal, Berlinbeta, etc. as well as in museums as Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Whitney Museum New York, Musée d’art Moderne Montreal, Centro del Arte Contemporaia Barcelona, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf and others.
Her videos were reported in the ZDF magazine „Aspekte“, in WDR magazine „Experimente“, in Canal Plus France, MTV NY, RTBF Brussel.

The video „Passing Drama“ was realised within a scholarship as artist in residence at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.

Awards
- Prize of the “Council of Europe”, VideoArtFestival Locarno 2000 for „Passing Drama“
- Prize of the German Filmcritics (for experimental film + video) for „Passing Drama“
- Marler Video-Kunst-Preis 2000, Special Mention for „Passing Drama“
- Medi@terra festival Athens 1999, 1. award for long feature videoart, „Passing Drama“
- Special Mention, int. Festivals "Nuits Savoureuses" 2000 for “Passing Drama”
- International Film and Videofestivals Antalya, 1996 for „Kriks Kriks“.
- International Film and Videofestival , Ankara, 1996 for „Kriks Kriks“.
- 5th Marler Videoart prize, 1992, 1. award for “Transfer”
- 3rd Marler Videoart prize, 1986 for Aqua Sua
- Cinema du Reel Paris, 1991, „Prix du Patrimoine“ for “Aux Pays de la Peuge“

Fellowships and scholarships
1997/8Fellowship at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne
1996/7 scholarship at “Fabrica” (Fondatione Benetton, Italy)
1996 DAAD scholarship in Greece and Toukai (METU - MedCampus)
1991 scolarship of the DFJW , Paris

Publications
“Deriva Approdi” (Rom 1997), “Chimères” (Paris,1997), ”Lab 3” (Cologne 1997), „Chimères“ (Paris 1996)

Festivals / Exhibitions 2001 and 2000
Musée d’Art Moderne Strasbourg,
Videofestival Clermont Ferrand
Kinemathek Karlsruhe
2. Berlin Biennale
Medienturm Graz
International Documentary Festival Marseille
Shadows, documentary film festival, Amsterdam
Instants Video, Festival, Manosque
5th International Festival of New Film, Split
Videofestival Locarno
Invideo, Milano
Stuttgarder Filmwinter
Immagine leggera, Palermo
Revelation Film Festival New Zealand
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
Marler Video-Kunst Preis 2000
Videolisboa, Festival, Lisbon
“Heimat Kunst”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Ausstellung, d.vision, Wien
Festival, Berlin_Beta 3.0 Film Festival
Medi@terra 2000, Festival, Athen
Nuits Savoureuses 2, Festival, Montbeliard


artist/researcher in the time based arts, realized experimental single-channel-tapes, video installations, videoessays, documentaries and sound pieces. Her work focuses on migration/mobilty, memory and narration. She conceives media art pieces in that video technology as a time based medium revealing mnemonic and micro-political processes in documentation. She studied fine arts at the Art Academy Düsseldorf with Nam June Paik. Angela Melitopoulos is collaborating in political networks in Paris, Italy, Turkey and Germany and teaches in academic institutions such as the Media Art Academy in Cologne, in the University of Potsdam or the Middle East Technology University in Ankara. She has published theoretical texts and articles in Europe, especially in collaboration with the sociologist and philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato. From 1985 her work has bee awarded and shown in international video and film festival (such as Berlinale, Film and Videofestival of Locarno, Filmfestival Rotterdam, EMAF Osnabrück, WWV Amsterdam) and in exhibitions and museums (Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Whitney Museum NY, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Musee d’art Moderne Montreal among others.) She cofounded the label APRIL, curating exhibitions and producing publications on CD and DVD.

Her last research project Timecapes /B-Zone was shown in winter 2005/2006 at the KW Institut for Contemporary Art in Berlin, accompagnied by the book publication “B-Zone” (Edition Actar)

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