LOOP Barcelona, video art Information

LOOP VIDEO ART festival & fair, Barcelona The 2011 dates: FESTIVAL: 11 - 21 may FAIR: 19 - 21 may LOOP is the annual meeting point for video art professionals. LOOP Festival presents the work of over 800 artists at many different venues in Barcelona’s city centre. LOOP Fair is the first fair specialising in video art, and features more than 40 participating galleries and distributors showing the latest works by international artists. LOOP was first held in 2003 in response to the need to define the current status of videoart, but also in order to explore possible future steps that would help establish this new discipline. LOOP intends to become an international benchmark event, an active platform for the diffusion, creation and management of video art for fans and professionals.