By Iben Bentzen/Iben Auer

Curator, Master of Visual Culture and Art History. Co-founder of the annual international art event, AGM. Since 2003 she has co-curated AGM every year with focus on video art, sound art and performance. Independent curator and moderator of artist talks at Netfilmmakers – a digital platform for netfilm, netvideoart and netart. Co-founder of Tagging Art and the curator of the exhibition Virtual Moves in the 3D virtual world Second Life and at Statens Museum for Kunst. Founder and creative director of The Bubble - Contemporary Art which is the first video- and animation screening concept for restaurants in Denmark. Project Manager in Crossroads Copenhagen where she among other projects organizes Mobile Monday Denmark. In 2006 she was the co-curator of the international experimental video art festival Made in Video, Copenhagen. Links www.annualgeneralmeeting.net www.netfilmmakers.dk www.thebubble.dk www.mobilemonday.dk

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What is Virtual Moves?

Virtual Moves is an international art exhibition in SL and at Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. The aim is to challenge SL as a platform for artistic practice and critically to discuss how SL our notions of reality. Virtual Moves seeks to use different digital platforms such as blog and SL. 8 artists are invited to create a moving art piece where they consider SL as a platform for art and artistic interaction. 4 openings will take place: 18th of January, 1st, 15th and 29th of February 2008 in SL and SMK at 16-18. A conference the 5th of March 2008 at 16-18. Many of the artists create artworks which has both a virtual and a physical dimension. Some of the themes discussed are SL Economics, Virtual Identity, Public Space in SL, SL Gender Studies, Collective Memory, Virtual Archive.Organized by Tagging Art:Anne Holmfred–Project Manager and FundraiserIben Bentzen–CuratorAnnette Finnsdottir–Participating Artist and Blogmaster Ida Grøn–Participating Artist and Supervisor

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  1. Sofie Zehetbauer added these pithy words on 5. March 2008 | Permalink

    Here it tells about the conference the 5th of march. It is not easy to see that it has been moved. When I google “Virtual moves conference” I find a note on the conference beeing moved to the 15th and 16th of april, but I cant seem to find that note on Taggingart.org?

    What a mess!

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