®Nova Contemporary Culture

07.04.2012 – 31.05.2012
®Nova is a multi-dimensional, contemporary culture festival, happening twice a year in different cities of the world. An interactive, full-environmental experience utilizing color, light, textures, music and design, in the form of collaborative and integrated art compositions by a wide range of artists from around the world. From hand-made illustrations to large scale murals to modern digital art; moving image to multimedia & sound convergence, art will be made without the limitations or restrictions of traditional format and will rely heavily on the magic of live improvisation. During this constantly evolving and mutating exhibition, the creative process will be witnessed as an ongoing work in progress rife with experimentation, challenging traditional and contemporary techniques and the bending of modern technology.

This new edition of ®Nova is the largest event ever taking on three brazilian cities, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, and multiple venues simultaneously; MIS São Paulo, SESCSP Pompeia, CentroeQuatro Centro Cultural, Teatro Oi Casa Grande e Escola Guignard. ®Nova features more than 100 artists participating, more than 50 music and audiovisual live shows, installations, workshops, talks and more.

artists: Bill Viola, Mouse on Mars, Jay Jay Johanson, Xiu Xiu, Gonjasufi, Levi Van Veluw, Soley, Marius Watz, Yolanda Dominguez, Eluvium, Norman Palm, Rafael Rozendaal, Sabrina Ratté, Karl Kliem, Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands, The Gaslamp Killer, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Zimoun, Olaf Breuning, Mulheres Barbadas, Nils Frahm, Computer Jay, Frederik Heyman, Yoshi Sodeoka, Optical Machines, Atsuhiro Ito, Shima, Jimmy Joe Roche, Magda Sayeg, Hess is more, Ljudbilden & Piloten, Lise, Afasia, Boris Hoppek, Yang02, Tofer Chin, Good wives & warriors, Rosa Menkman, Christopher Scullion, Tango & Hawaii, Thiago Pethit, Clemens Behr, School Tour, Beast, Koen Delaere, Ros Dolan & The Gang, Quayola, Jason Forrest, Akin, E*Rock vs E*Vax, Sophie Gateau, Jan Werner, Yochai Matos, Bosques de mi mente, Secret Mommy, Graham Caldwell, Kit Webster, Mark Jenkins, Anna Taratiel, Catscars, Emilio Gomariz, Bodes e Elefantes, Sebastien Preschoux, Juliana D Chohfi, Giselle Galvão, Protey Temen, Sabrina Ratté, Astrid Rieger, 310k, Yoshi Sodeoka, Jimmy Joe Roche, Tango & Hawaii, Juan Rayos, Thorsten Fleisch, This is a Robot, Isaac & Joy Niemand…

Please visit ®Nova website for a soon to be announced full artist line-up, detailed program and all infos. You can also follow all updates via facebook and twitter.

®Metanol live radio broadcasting

06.12.2011 – present time
®ROJO teams up with Akin to generate a new live radio broadcasting experience, ®Metanol. Every tuesday at 8pm (São Paulo time) Akin rocks the airwaves with the most personal and investigative radio experience ever. ROJO® is proud to partner with Akin and ®Metanol in the quest of new experiences in radio.

®Metanol radio by: Akin

®Nova Audiovisual Sessions

30.11.2011
ROJO® makes its first appearance at Festival Multiplicidade, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Presenting a video program at Oi Futuro Flamengo, curated by David Quiles Guilló, from music video and graphic design to abstract film and video art. This selection of videos were first screened at BYOB São Paulo, as part ROJO®Nova in Cinemateca Brasileria, in September 2011.

Artists: Cristopher Cichocki, Alex McLeod, Sara Ludy, Yoshi Sodeoka, Robert Seidel, Sophie Gateau, 310k / Sergei Sviatchenko, Carolina Melis, Jan Goldfuss, Emilio Gomariz, A. Bill Miller, Boris Hoppek, Jimmy Joe Roche, Beth Wexler, E*ROCK, Abstract Birds & Quayola, David O’Reilly.

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®Nova Contemporary Culture

24.09.2011 – 29.10.2011
®Nova is a multi-dimensional, contemporary culture exhibition. An interactive, full-environmental experience utilizing color, light, textures, music and design, in the form of collaborative and integrated art compositions by a wide range of artists from around the world. From hand-made illustrations to large scale murals to modern digital art; moving image to multimedia & sound convergence, art will be made without the limitations or restrictions of traditional format and will rely heavily on the magic of live improvisation. During this constantly evolving and mutating exhibition, the creative process will be witnessed as an ongoing work in progress rife with experimentation, challenging traditional and contemporary techniques and the bending of modern technology.

This new edition/evolution of ®Nova is a multi-dimensional event focusing on story telling, taking on Cinemateca Brasileira for 6 weeks. An interactive, full-environmental experience in the form of cinematic installations. Renowed artists from around the world create a 30 to 45 minute movie in order to be shown as an installation. This installation will experiment with its surrounding space, featuring several screens and the many combinations between them to tell a story, and to push the perception of the audience. While the ready made film is showing, the artists must film a second part of the story live, while the film is being shown. The audience is part of this second part, being part (or not) of the final movie. The objective is to descontextualize the cinema experience, and generate a full entertaiment experience where public comes to enjoy a movie, but also to be part of it in all its possible different levels.

Please visit ®Nova website for the full artist line-up, detailed program and all infos. You can also follow all updates via facebook and twitter.

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SHIMA

In post production right now!
An ordinary office employee, confortable in his daily routines, following a given script, working nonstop, and never moving away from what he knows, encounters a strange glitch which provoques a short circuit and everything start to go wrong. Shima, our hero, is so introspective that he gets lost inside himself, and he realizes it when it’s too late, when his brain becomes a labyrinth he doesn’t know how to escape from. When fantasy starts mixing with reality, and Shima loses control, he feels an urge to find any possible way out. This is the second feature film of a trilogy, produced by ROJO®, willing to explore the femenine and masculine inner universes and the improbable mix of crossings between these two.

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ASTRO

In post production stage right now!
A heavenly soul lands in Rio de Janeiro. A star, coming from the cold, that begins an internal journey to awaken and find her place in a completely unknown sky. A vibrant and positive story of self-rapture built on the frontier between reality and unconsciousness. The first feature film of a trilogy, produced by ROJO®, willing to explore the femenine and masculine inner universes and the improbable mix of crossings between these two.

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®Nova 500 Campos De Jordão

01.07.2011 – 31.07.2011
A one-of-a-kind series of FIAT 500 art cars made by 5 of ROJO®’s favorite artists run around free in Campos de Jordão for 5 weekends of July 2011.

Artists: Matt W. Moore aka MWM, Tofer Chin, Mulheres Barbadas, Momo, Boris Hoppek.

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®Out Brookfield Urban Gallery

02.05.2011 – present time
Brookfield Urban Gallery is a new step towards making the city more colorful. An on-going project where international selected artists create site specific architecture-color projects on extremely long tapumes, in different locations of Sao Paulo, Campinas, Rio de Janeiro, Niteroi, Goias and Brasilia, were traffic is very dense, with the objective to make life more colorful in urban areas. These pieces will remain upgrading the urban landscape for a limited time only, all thanks to Brookfield.

Artists: Sosaku Miyazaki & Lolo, Mulheres Barbadas, Ros Dolan vs. Shima.

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®Nova Contemporary Culture

21.03.2011 – 30.04.2011
The new “extra large” edition of ®Nova travels to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to take over two breath-taking venues simultaneously; Fundação Casa França-Brasil and Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. Six weeks nonstop on March and April 2011 presenting live collaborated “work-in-progress” processes by more than 130 selected artists from around the world, featuring live music & audiovisuals; live performances, video screenings, outdoor art installations, round tables, experimental gastronomy, artist presentations, and many unpredictable social consequences. Serious art fun. Only for the happy, the gifted, the curious and the open minded.

Artists present: Quayola, Hildur Gudnadottir, Basavizi, Abstract Birds, Yochai Matos, Tofer Chin, Miltos Manetas, Novi_sad, Optical Machines, Momo, Isaac Niemand, Sophie Gateau, Isan, Karl Kliem, B.Fleischmann, Cristopher Cichocki, Rosa Menkman, Rafael Rozendaal, Sebastien Preschoux, Evan Voytas, Krink, Jeffers Egan, Mulheres Barbadas, Eltono, Raphael Grisey, Anna Taratiel aka Ovni, Rebecca Ward, Checho Gonzales, Lucy McRae, Mark Jenkins, This Time, Henrique Fogaça, Hapax, Michael Vorfeld, Gabriela Maciel, Objeto Amarelo, Max Hattler, Clemens Behr, Albinoi, Midaircondo, Shima, Guto Nobrega, Sosaku Miyazaki & Lolo, Erik Bünger, Ohayo, Hans Appelqvist, Rafael Pereira, The Magic State, Beast, Andreas Söderström, Elen Nas, Gugga, Julio Lucio, Paula Trabulsi, Daniela Aun, Carla Meireles, Juliana Maschietto, Tatiana Stepanenko, Suely Cárceles, Batman Zavareze, Mathias Holmberg, Walter Carvalho, Adrian Cooper, Marcelo Rocha, Frank Kalero, Oskar Metsavaht, Marjorie Gueller, Malu Tavares, Alexandra Dahlstrom, Veronica Debom, Odilon Wagner, Gabriela Brites, Ney Barros, Paco Calavera, Fiorella Mattheis, Regina Duarte, Cláudio Cavalcanti, Leopoldo Pacheco, Josimar Barbosa, Rafael Monteyro, Miguel Nader, Val Perré, Ana Carolina Lima, Angélica Liesze, Ernesto Solis, Alcemar Vieira, André Jotha, Rosa Douat, Rafael Pinto, Helérida Calazães, Maria Luiza Calazães, Carlos Theodoro, Pritty Borges, Gabriel Sabino, Eduardo Lassah, Rosina Lobosco.

Artists contributing with video or printed work: Kouichi Okamoto, OCA, Sergei Sviatchenko, Alex Prager, Marina Bychkova, Felice Varini, Gabriel Dawe, Yago Hortal, Russ Mills, eBoy, Lucas Simões, Nienke Klunder, Mark Schoening, Andy Denzler, Denis Darzacq, Protey Temen, Joan Saló, Ripo, Jason Redwood, Alex Fischer, Kevin Francis Grey, Jennifer Sanchez, Rob Fracisco aka Biosfear, Alex McLeod, Midori Hirose, Filippo Minelli, Good Wives & Warriors, Kate MccGwire, Gam Bodenhausen, Isolde Woudstra, Lena Szczesna, Marco Grassi aka PHO, Philippe Jusforgues, Sandra Koodi, Zimoun, Robert Seidel, Christiane Wöhler, Volker Schreiner, Julian Rosefeldt, Thorsten Fleisch, Barbara Hlali, Philipp Hirsch, Yves Netzhammer, Daniel Burkhardt, Astrid Rieger, Carsten Nicolai, Zeitguised, Julia Oschatz, David OReilly, Bjørn Melhus, Timo Katz, Jan Verbeek, Minivegas, Carl Burgess, Jelle Feringa, Marc Kremers, Universal Everything, Karsten Schmidt, Mate Steinforth, Robert Hodgin, Pandapanther, Thomas Traum, Paul Simpson, Maxim Zhestkov, Tomas Garcia, Fernando Sarmiento, Alex Peverett, Paul Seen, Anna Linder, Tove Kjellmark, Nadine Byrne, Tom Scholefield, Bodil Gustafsson Furs, Frida Franker, Nanna Hellberg.

Please visit ®Nova website for the full artist line-up, detailed program and all infos. You can also follow all updates via facebook and twitter.

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®Nova 500 Rio de Janeiro

21.03.2011 – 30.04.2011
A one-of-a-kind series of FIAT 500 art cars made by 7 of ROJO®’s favorite artists run around free in Rio de Janeiro for 6 weeks while ®NOVA Cultura Contemporânea is happening inside Casa França-Brasil and the woods at EAV Parque Lage.

Artists: Matt W. Moore aka MWM, Tofer Chin, Mulheres Barbadas, Momo, Anna Taratiel aka Ovni, Fupete, Boris Hoppek.

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