SoMe Festival
Augmented reality video art festival
2023 September / October, Bucharest, Romania
'ARDEIDAE' wins the SoMe Award for Human Relationships at SoMe Festival in Bucharest.
SoMe is an alternative video festival experience that encourages the public to explore the city through a treasure hunt in order to view the videos selected under the Inhabitat curatorial theme. SoMe Festival is a project that generates transparent and exploratory dialogue, between the inhabitants of Bucharest and the national and international artistic community, with a focus on art & science / technology.
33 films, residing online (social media), gathered under the curatorial theme Inhabitat, will champion known and lesser known, even unknown, places within the city, where they will be physically displayed and played through augmented reality (AR).
We therefore invite you not to a cinema hall to question what would or would not be valid cinematically, but to a treasure hunt, through which we rediscover our city, gently testing the limits of the video medium and the possible impact of the online on relevant societal issues.
SoMe Official Selection:
Salome Vepkhadze, Ulizi, 2020, Georgia
Gioula Papadopoulou, AI made me do it, 2023, Greece
Josh Harle, No exceptions, 2022, Australia
Robert B. Lisek, FIELDS, 2022, Poland
Dasha Ilina, Let me fix you, 2022, France
Josh Harle, Embedded AR Critical theory, 2016, Australia
Mara Oglakci, Trance Lucid, 2021, Romania
Eluned Zoe Aiano, Beautiful and Strange and New, 2017, Germany
Alessia Borangic, De câteva săptămâni mă tot trezesc uitându-mă la pătura de la bunica, 2022, Romania
Cristian Eduard Dragan, Ghosts, 2022, Romania
MYK, STROMA, 2020, Russia
Misael Samano Vargas, Desnudo como los animales que me persiguen, 2022, Mexico
Stathis Roukas, Selective Mutism, 2022, Germany
Alex Pasca, Expand Your Database, 2022, Romania
Chiara Faggionato, Ardeidae, 2015, Germany
Brigitte Valobra & Wald, Urban Mantra 8, 2019, Spain
Aleksei Martyniuk, STAREWELL, 2022, Russia
Cesar Ulloa Cuellar, Monologos sobres mis padres, 2022, Peru
Yav, Bridge, 2022, Georgia
collettivo GMRGP, POLE A, 2022, Italy
Daria Pugachova, Microcosmos, 2021, Ukraine
Łukasz Horbów, Europe, 2018, Poland
Kintija Avena, Butter, 2022, Latvia
Joseph Franciosa, FoxKeeper, 2020, Germany
Lena Ciobanu, Malaise, 2020, Romania
Sandrine Daumier, From the place where light goes out, 2023, France
Ilya Martynov, SOS, 2021, Germany
Anna Alexanina, Cave under water, 2022, France
Jean-Michel Rolland, Affordance, 2020, France
Vitaly Yankovy, How to pet a contaminated water snail, 2022, Romania
Marta Ciolkowska, Bottlefield, 2019, Italy
Gray Cake, Night in gale, 2020, Armenia
Maria Borisenkova, Water, 2022, Russia
Team:
Andrei Tudose > artistic director
Augmented Space Agency > AR infrastructure
Tudor C. Popa, Sabina Suru and Mara Oglakci > visual artists
Alexandra Costea > visual identity
PR & Communication > Simona Radoi & Anca Maco
Partners: Goethe Institute, French Institute of Romania in Bucharest, Austrian Cultural Forum, C22 Cafeteria, VAGon – in(ter)disciplined spaceMedia parteners: Radio România Cultural, Radio România București, Zile și nopți, Happ.ro, IQAds, Revista Atelierul, Curatorial, Munteanu
Project co-financed by Bucharest City Hall through ARCUB within the Bucharest acasă 2023 Program
