UPGRADE INTERNATIONAL

Upgrade! are an international, emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. Appropriating the functional model of online videosharing sites such as Youtube, Upgrade! Is a series of exploratory events that translate social videosharing into the analogue environment of the urban street.

Upgrade! International functions as an online, global network that gathers annually in different cities to meet one another, showcase local art, and work on the agenda for the following year. As of 2008 Upgrade! International includes nodes in 27 cities.

Video programmes are curated by individual Upgrade nodes and screened outdoors in the built environment of cities including Vancouver, Paris, Montreal, Belgrade, Seattle, Boston, Scotland, Skopje, Chicago, Amsterdam, and Istanbul.

Upgrade! Federation Square is a screening of select Upgrade International programs of experimental video art from Boston, Paris, Scotland, and Vancouver.

Opening: 10.04.08 > 7:30 pm

Please check Fed Square Screen Guide for exact dates and times

http://www.theupgrade.net

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Image credts:Alex Hetherington, A Film Found in A Dump; Claude Le Berre, Anamnese, 2006; Julie Morel, POOL, 1999; Jimmy Owenns, The Fortune Cookie, 2006