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Metabolisms of Moving Image

Talk

Matter in Flux

26.3.2024

My Want of You Partakes of Me wins

Jury Special Mention

NEW:VISION Award, CPH:DOX

CPH:DOX

Symposium

Kunsthal Charlottenborg

20.3.2024

CPH:DOX

Film Festival

NEW:VISION Competition

13.3 - 24.3.2024

Two Hundred Years of Total Conversion

Essay

ECOES, Sonic Acts Publishing

2.2024

Sonic Acts 

Symposium

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL

25.2.2024

The Spell of the Sensuous

Biennale

Sonics Acts at W139, Amsterdam, NL

2.2 - 24.3.2024


 

Science, Body, Anatomy

Screening 

Tate Modern, London, UK

25.11.2023
 

Art Lovers Movie Club

Online screening

Artreview

6.11 - 27.11.2023

Living Togetherness

Biennale 

Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition,

Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei

4.11.2023 - 28.1.2024

Technical Lands

Screening

Cube Cinema, Bristol

22.10.2023

40 Years of the Frac!

Exhibition

Frac Île-de-france

15.10.2023 - 24.02.2024 

This Too, Is A Map

Biennale 

12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, South Korea

23.9 - 19.11.2023

Systems

Exhibition

Vantaa Arts Museum, Helsinki, Finland

29.9 - 10.12.2023

More-than-human Gaze

Screening 

Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland

23.9.2023

Ars Electronica

Exhibition

Post-City, Linz, Austria

6 - 10.9.2023

Chromatic Wednesdays

Screening

Apartment Project, Berlin, Germany

26.7.2023

A Demonstration / Constant

Solo Screening

Cinema Aventure, Brussels, Belgium

19.6.2023

The Walking Trail

Masterclass

Sound Image Culture, Brussels, Belgium

19 - 22.6.2023

Constant 

Screening

Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

5.5.2023

 

InScience

Film Festival

Nijmegen, Netherlands

16-19.3.2023

Ginzaza Edition 2: Control

Screening 

Sony Park Mini, Tokyo, Japan

1 - 13.3.2023

 

 

The Measure of the World

Exhibition

Radius CCA, Delft, Netherlands

25.2 - 14.5.2023

Artists' Film Series 01/Calibration

Screening

Chemist Gallery, London

26.2.2023

Hybrid Forms and Frameworks

Artist Talk

Department of Art, University of Virginia, USA

15.2.2023

Eat the Camera, Feed the Screen

Essay

Published in e-flux Journal #133

2.2023

CML Lab Days

Screening and talk

Critical Media Lab 

Academy of Art and Design,

Basel, Switzerland

12-13.12.2022

Bangkok World Film Festival

Film Festival

Bangkok, Thailand

8.12.2022

Set Phosphenes

Screening

Studio for Artistic Research

Düsseldorf, Germany

25.11.2022

My Want of You Partakes of Me

Artist talk

ReCNTR research Center

Leiden University, The Netherlands

24.11.2022


 

LIMA Presents: Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner

Screening Programme

LAB 111, Amsterdam, Netherlands

23.11.2022

Kurzfilmfestival Köln

Film Festival

Köln, Germany

19.11.2022
 

The Curse of Smooth Operations

IMPAKT Festival

Utrecht, Netherlands

Exhibition: 9.11.2022 - 8.1.2023

Talk: 5.11.2022

FRONTDOC

Film Festival

Aosta, Italy

18 - 23.10.2022

Imagine Science

Film Festival

New York, USA

14 - 21.10.2022

Two Films by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner

Screening

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

18.10.2022

Invisible Measures

Screening Program

Cineseries, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, USA

12.10.2022

Plasmaticness and the Boundaries of Human Perception

Book Chapter

Published in: Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization, DIAPHANES Press

October 2022

Curtocircuito Festival

Film Festival

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

1.9 - 9.9.2022

Monsters and Measures: Selected Films by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner

Screening Program

e-flux Screening Room, New York

27.9.2022

EXiS Screening Programme

Asia Culture Center, Seoul South Korea

22-23.9.2022

Interplay

Exhibition

Environmental Film Festival Australia

Gabriel Gallery, Melbourne Australia

13.9 - 29.10.2022

Open City Documentary Festival

Film Festival

London, UK

7 - 13.9.2022


Constant wins

Best Short Documentary

Guanajuato International Film Festival 2022

Constant wins

Jury Special Mention

EXiS Seoul 2022

Chicago Underground Film Festival

Film Festival

Chicago, USA 

27 - 31.7.2022
 

Guanjauto International Film Festival

International Competition

Guanajuato, Mexico

21 - 28.7.2022

EXiS Seoul

International Competition

Film Festival

Seoul, Korea

14 - 21.7.2022
 

New film in development selected for European Media Art Platform (EMAP)

Hosted by IMPAKT Utrecht

November - December 2022

Olhar de Cinema

Curtiba International Film Festival, Brazil

International Shorts Competition

1.6 - 9.6.2022
 

Interview with Madeleine Collier

Senses of Cinema

May 2022

 

 

Constant wins

Silvestre Award for Best Short Film

IndieLisboa 2022

Prismatic Ground

Film Festival

Maysles Documentary Center, NYC

4.5 - 8.5.2022

Indie Lisboa

Silvestre Competition

Film Festival

28.4 - 8.5.2022

A Demonstration

joins the Criterion Collection

1.4.2022

Interview with Jussi Parikka

BOMB Magazine

31.3.2022
 

Courtisane

Film Festival

Ghent

30.3 - 3.4.2022

CPH:DOX

New Visions Competition

Film Festival

26.3 - 3.4.2022

Interview with Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

17.3.2022

Interview with Jonathan Marlow

Hammer to Nail 

16.3.2022

First Look 

Film Festival

Museum of Moving Image, New York

16.3 - 20.3.2022

Post-Industrial Metabolism and the Discorrelated Moving Image

SIAH PGR Research Seminar

Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities

23.2.2022

Constant in Edge Media Network

14.2.2022

Constant in FRIEZE 

4.2.2022

Schlaffende Infrastrukturen

Artist talk

Urbane Künste Ruhr, Bochum

2.2.2022
 

Constant in The Film Verdict

1.2.2022

International Film Festival Rotterdam

Tiger Shorts Competition

Rotterdam, Netherlands

26.1 - 6.2.2022

Transmediale 

Festival Symposium

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

28-29.1.2022

35th Stuttgarter Filmwinter

Film and Media Festival

Stuttgart, Germany

9-18.1.2022

Dis/Entangling Perspectives in Material Research

Lecture

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

3.1.2022

 

 

Visible Evidence

Lecture and Screening

Mousonturm, Frankfurt

14-18.12.2021

[e]Motion: Graduate Conference on Science 

and Technology of the Arts

Keynote Presentation

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto

9-10.12.2021

Repeated Apparitions

Screening

The Horse Hospital, London

26.11.2021

Adrift: Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner

Online residency program

Los Angeles Film Forum, USA

Screening:

15.10 - 19.10.2021

Live Q&A:

17.10.2021

New Waves Competition

Film Festival

La Roche-Sur-Yon, France

11.10 - 17.10.2021

International 2 Sides Short Film Festival

Film Festival

Izmir, Turkey

24.9 - 30.9.2021

18th Dokfilmwoche Hamburg

Film Festival

Hamburg, Germany

15.9 - 19.9.2021

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin

Film Festival

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

25.8.2021

Rhythmic Exertions

Essay

Solitude Journal 3: Mutations

19th Media Art Biennale WRO Reverso

Biennale

Wroclaw

12.5 - 15.5.2021

 

56th International Festival of Science

Documentary Films

Film Festival

Olomouc, Czech Republic

26.4 - 1.5.2021 

Liquidity, Flows, Circulation:

The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization

Conference

Leuphana University Lüneburg

22.4 - 23.4.2021

Prismatic Ground

Film Festival

8.4 - 18.4.2021

All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film

Online book launch

in conversation with Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk

CIAP Kunstverein, Sonic Acts

31.3.2021

Monster as Medium:

Experiments in Perception in Early Modern Science and Film

Essay

E-flux Journal #116, March 2021

Hybrid 

Festival

Hellerau Europäisches Zentrum der Künste

11.3 - 14.3.2021

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin

Film Festival

The Louvre Auditorium, Paris

World Premiere: Coal Mine in the Canary

23.2 - 28.2.2021

Environmental Film Festival Australia

Film Festival

21.1 - 4.2.2021

A Demonstration

Solo Exhibition

CIAP Kunstverein, Genk, Belgium

17.1 - 14.3.2021

London Short Film Festival

Film Festival

15 - 24.1.2021

2020: A Year in Review

Online screening

AEMI, Ireland

16.12.2020 - 30.1.2021

lengua(S) 

Group Exhibition

Fluent, Santander, Spain

11.12.2020 - 19.2.2021

New Nature Shorts

Online Screening

Goethe-Institut Montreal

and Museum of Moving Image New York

3 - 11.12.2020

A Demonstration wins Best Visual Concept 

at Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival

Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival

Film Festival

24 - 29.11.2020

New Nature Vitrines

Exhibition

Goethe-Institut Montreal, Feldfünf Berlin

16 - 30.11.2020

A Demonstration is nominated for the

Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis (German Short Film Prize)

Ceremony online on 25.11.2020

Kasseler Dokfest

Film Festival

Kassel, Germany

17 - 22.11.2020

Chicago Underground Film Festival

Shorts program 9

Film Festival

Chicago

17.11.2020

More Light

Fundraiser

Purchase a limited edition print from the film Bilateria

Berlin Atonal

Projections | Les parallèles du SUD : Eaux d’artifice

Screening

Videodrome2, Marseilles, France

17.10.2020

Imagine Science XIII Edition

Shorts Competition Program Morphogenesis

Film Festival

New York

16.10 - 23.10.2020

Work In Progress

Online group exhibition

Queer Art Projects, London

15.10.2020 - 15.1.2021

Curtocircuito International Film Festival

Film Festival

Santiago De Compostela, Spain

3.10 - 11.10.2020

6x6

Online distribution platform 

Interview

Vancouver International Film Festival

Film Festival

VIFF connect, Virtual Cinema

24.9 - 7.10.2020

Guanajuato International Film Festival

Film Festival

GIFF Online / Irapuato

19.9 - 22.9.2020

Touch Me

Group exhibition

Kontejner, Zagreb

17.9 - 3.10.2020

New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival

Film Festival

St. Petersburg, Russia

14.8 - 28.8.2020

Film Festival della Lessinia

Film Festival

Bosco Chiesanuova, Italy

21.8 - 30.8.2020

Moscow International Experimental Film Festival

Film Festival

Garage Museum, Moscow

19.8 - 25.8.2020

Deep Rivers Run Silent

Screening

Meno Avilys in collaboration with

Vilnius International Film Festival

18.8 - 25.8.2020

Still Voices Film Festival

Film Festival

Ballymahon, Ireland

13.8 - 16.8.2020

Baltic Triennial 14:

Intro, The Maze and The Lighthouse

Sculpture yard, CAC Vilnius

23.7.2020

East London Cable TV Dinner Series E04

Online program

8.4.2020

Super Dakota Video Series

Online screening

6.4 - 13.4.2020

Noise Bombing

Online exhibition 

30.3.2020

Vilnius International Film Festival (postponed)

Film festival

19.3 - 2.4.2020

Shelf Life / Canary in the Coal Mine

Public installation

commissioned by Kunsthalle Amsterdam

Buikslotermeerplein 

28.2 - 31.7.2020

Berlinale Shorts Official Competition

Film festival

20.2 - 1.3.2020

70th Berlinale Internationale Festspiele

High-cycle Fatigue

Group exhibition

22.2 - 19.4.2020

Künstlerhaus Bremen

Centropia

Group exhibition

CTM Vorspiel 2020

17.1 - 26.1.2020

Centrum, Berlin

Fragmented Landscape Film Series

Screening

Curated by Maaike Gouwenberg

14.12.2019

New Orleans Museum of Art

Blue Screen: Toon Fibbe

Screening

11.12.2019

Level Five, Brussels

Disagreeable Body

Screening

Performative screening 

29.11.2019

School, Vienna

The Metabolism of Moving Image

Essay

Kunstfort Vijfhuizen Online Journal

Berlin Atonal 2019

Exhibition

28.8. - 1.9.2019

Kraftwerk, Berlin

State of Transparency 

Group exhibition

25.5.2019

Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam

Rencontres Internationales

Catalogue

Universal Syntax 

Lecture with Sasha Litvintseva

22.2.2019

Sonic Acts, Amsterdam

Audiovisual performance

with Sasha Litvintseva and Claude Speeed

23.2.2019

Sonic Acts, Paradiso, Amsterdam

Interstice Without Words

Group exhibition

9.12.2018

Paaygah, Tehran

Recover in the Ether

Screening

30.11.2018

Curated by Microlights, The Open, Milwaukee

Eindhoven Film Festival

28.11 - 2.12.2018

November Film Festival

22 - 25.11.2018

Close-Up Cinema, London

Gijon International Film Festival

16 - 24.11.2018

Film screening

High Desert Test Sites > Ski Club Milwaukee

28.10.2018

Wonder Valley, California

Honorary Award at 

Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris

14.10.2018

Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris

10.10.2018

Le Grand Action, Paris

The New Local (with Sasha Litvintseva)

9 - 13.10.2018

Muntplein, Brussels

Moscow International Experimental Film Festival

29.9.2018

Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, Moscow

Digesture

26.9 - 20.10.2018

Very Project Space, Berlin

Berlin Atonal 2018 

22 - 26.8.2018

Kraftwerk, Berlin

Front Triennial: An American City

14.7 - 30.9.2018

Cleveland, Ohio

Watch Out Tetevo Film Festival

6.6.2018

Tetevo, Macedonia

Invisible Invaders

14.6.2018

Environmental Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

 

Evening of Video Screenings

7.6.2018

Decad, Berlin

Extracted and Circulated: Empathy

Screening with Sasha Litvintseva

10.6.2018

Moscow Biennale for Young Art

 

6th Moscow Biennale for Young Art

7.6 - 30.7.2018

Moscow

 

State of Statelessness

12.5 - 7.7.2018

ISELP, Brussels

 

Immanent Cloud

16.5.2018

Nocturnal Reflections, Milan

 

Interventions

8.4 - 1.7.2018

Kunstfort at Vijfhuizen, Amsterdam

 

Artistic Research Will Eat Itself

11.4.2018

9th SAR International

Conference on Artistic Research, Plymouth, UK

 

Eye Experimentals

14.3.2018

Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam

 

Extracted and Circulated: Material Exchange

Solo screening with Graeme Arnfield

11.3.2018

Close-Up Cinema, London

 

The Hero’s Tail (with Sasha Litvintseva)

28.11.2017

Plato, Ostrava, Czech Republic

 

Outside + Asbestos

27.11.2017

Galerie AM 180, Prague, Czech Republic

 

Heroic vs. Holistic - Erotic Eco Drama

16.11.2017 - 28.1.2018

Plato, Ostrava, Czech Republic

 

Movimenta - Prix Jeune Création

27.10 - 26.11.2017

Movimenta, Nice, France

 

Autheticity? Book Launch, Valiz

2.11.2017

San Serriffe, Amsterdam, NL

 

Fireflies Issue #5 Launch

21.10.2017

Kino Wolf, Berlin, Germany

 

Mind Body Dialogue, Nocturnal Reflections

15.7.2017

Santarcangelo Festival, Rimini, Italy

 

Citizenfive

26 - 28.5.2017

Art Athina, Athens

 

Public Program - Sasha Litvintseva & Wietske Maas

27.5.2017

Rongwrong, Amsterdam, NL

 

Draft Systems, 17th Media Art Biennale WRO

15.5 - 31.7.2017

Wroclaw, Poland

 

Public Program - Graham Kelly & Beny Wagner

6.5.2017

Rongwrong, Amsterdam, NL

 

Like the deserts miss the rain (part 2)

28.4 - 28.5.2017

Rongwrong, Amsterdam, NL

 

2017 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival

21.4 - 25.4.2017

 

Forecast Platform

20.3 - 28.3.2017

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

 

Lecture

23.2.2017

Krieg, Hasselt, Belgium

 

Like the deserts miss the rain (part 1)

9.2 - 31.3.2017

Krieg, Hasselt, Belgium

 

Lecture

20.2.2017

Punt WG, Amsterdam, NL

 

46th International Film Festival Rotterdam

24.1 - 4.2.2017

Rotterdam, NL

 

Festival Opening - Artist Talk

24.10.2016

Impakt Festival, Utrecht, NL

 

Authenticity Is Dead: Long Live Authenticity

27.10 - 6.11.2016

Casco, Utrecht, NL

 

Living Like A Local

23.10.2016

Stadsschouwburg Utrecht

 

Impakt

In residence 1.9 - 30.10

 

Labor Zero Labor

20.8 - 30.9.2016

Triangle France,

La Friche de la belle de Mai, Marseille, France

 

Kristalle im Beton

10.7 - 18.9.2016

Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Marl, Germany

 

Role Play

Essay published in 60pages

 

5 Moscow International Biennale for Young Art

1.7 - 10.8.2016 

 

Triangle France

In residence 4.2016 - 8.2016

 

Bots, Bodies, Beasts

16.3.2016

Studium General, Amsterdam, NL

 

Open Studios 

10.3.2016 - 12.3.2016

Jan van Eyck, Maastricht, NL

 

Digesting Light

5.2.2016

Audiovisual lecture performed at

Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam NL

Screen Matter 

4.11.2015 - 2.2.2016

Film program, talks, lectures 

Jan van Eyck, Maastricht, NL

With: Anna Zett, Julian Ross Imri Kahn,

Beny Wagner, Ben Rivers, Aily Nash, Sven Lütticken

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