Natan Karczmar
Born in Paris in 1933Some activities-
1953-1954, writes as a musical critic in the french israeli newspaper
l'Echo d'Israel and collaborates to the french section of Kol Israel.
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1954, organized a Festival of film on art at the Artist House
Association, Bet a Omanim, in Tel Aviv, and at the Bet a Omanim in
Jerusalem.
- 1956 - 1965, founding and managing of the Canadian
Museum of Film on Art in Montreal, with some forty branches in as many
cities. In 1960 the Mexican Museum of Film on Art was created, followed
by the American Institute of Film on Art in 1962. All three were
members of the International Museum of Film on Art.
- 1957 - 1965, organized and directed in Montréal the Centre Canadien d'Essai, a theater which produced one hundred shows.
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1958- 1965, organized the Salon de la Jeune Peinture de Montréal.
Publishes les Editions d'Essai et les Editions Graph in Montréal. The
publishing included albums on Quebec artists, poetic publications, the
Cahiers d'Essai magazine, and the first book on canadian sculpture
published for the Montreal World exhibition "Terre des Hommes" in 1967.
- 1970 - 1983, shows his non-objective paintings in Europe, Canada, United States, and in Israel.
- 1972, Becomes a member of the artist colony in Safed and in Old Jaffa.
- 1980 - 1985, is the artistic reporter at the israely weekly french paper Réalités d'Israel.
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1983, organized MIVNE MAGA, or Installation Contact, at the Kikar
Malhei Israel (now Kikar Rabin) in Tel Aviv, at Bet Rotschild in Haifa,
and at the Theater Festival in Acco.The public was invited to
participate to many games of communication.
- 1984, the first
Collective and Simultaneous Video Event was organized for the Israel 84
Artcom Symposium, held at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and the Haifa
Museum and Tzavta Center in Tel Aviv. Other video events were produced
the following years in Salerno, Metz, Paris, Cergy Saint-Christophe, as
well as for the centenial of the Tour Eiffel.
- 1986, two other
Artcom Symposium on the Esthetics of Communication were organized. One
was co-produced with Fred Forest in Paris at l'Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and one with Wolfgang Ziemer in Cologne.
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1987, a Collective and Simultaneous Video Twinning Event between
Cologne, Liège, Lille, Esch-sur-Alzette and Grenoble was realized under
the auspices of the EEC on the topic of the European Year for the
Environment. The video-cameramen filmed the first sequence in public
places following a cue from a radio station. The second sequence showed
a park, woods, river, etc. Sixty video-cameramen from all five cities
took part in the event.
- 1989, Art Planète was created. It was a
bi-monthly video magazine presenting the temporary exhibitions of some
eighty museums, as well as "distance visits" called The Interactive
Museum. The exhibitions were presented on video and slides with
real-time telephone dialogues with curators and artists. The
conversations were amplified for the public as they followed the
video-projection.The first Interactive Museum event took place during
the "Europe des Créateurs" exhibition held at the Grand Palais in Paris.
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1992, more Interactive events took place at the ICOM 1992
(International Council of Museums) meeting in Quebec and at the "Europe
de la Deuxième Renaissance" symposium organized that same year by the
Université Européenne de la Recherche within the French Ministry of
Research.
- 1992, the seminar "Art/Communication/Nouvelles
Technologies" was created at the Université Européenne de la Recherche.
Many artists and theoreticians have been invited as guest speakers.
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1996, the Internet magazine ArtMag (www.artmag.com) was created. It now
presents hundreds of museum and gallery exhibitions and cultural events
to a world-wide public.
- 1998, participate to the symposium "Une
écologie des médias" organized by Maria Klonaris and Katherina
Thomadakis. Conduct a conference "Art galleries on Internet à the Paris
Vidéothèque.
- 2002, Organize a Videocollective environment in the
framework of the Festival Vidéoformes in Clermont-Ferrand. Organizs
with Transcultures, Brussels, a Videocollective in Brussels, Ixelles
and Mons. Participate to the 8th ARTMEDIA symposium in Paris.
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2003, second videocollective with Vidéoformes in Clermont-Ferrand.
Another Videocollective is organized in Nimes with Roger Bouvet,
Director at the gallery ESCA. Organize Videocollective Beijing with the
collaboration of the Beijing Municipality and the Beijing Gehua Culture
Research and Development Center.
- 2004, Founder of the
Videocollectif France Association. Presents in July Beijing
Videocollective at the Carrousel du Louvre, at the CNIT la Défense and
the Forum des Halles. A commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of
the first Festival of Film on Art in produced in 1954 is organized at
the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Cinematheques with the collaboration of
André Parinaud, Founder of the UNESCO International Festival of Film on
Art.
- 2005, Organize Vidéocollective France, Videocollective Israel and Videocollective Budapest.
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2006, Organize Videocollective Athens and present videocollectives at
the French Cultural Center in Athens. Presents videocollectives at the
Cité Européenne des Récollects in Paris.
- 2007, Organize the
commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the
Centre Canadien d'Essai in collaboration with six Maisons de la culture
in Montréal. In this framework, two visioconferences are produced
between the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris and the Maison de la
culture in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in Montréal.
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