No Nails, No Pedestals & Animateka 2013
Koni Steinbacher –
Artist and Mentor
Presentation and screening

Wednesday, December 4, 2013, at 6 pm
SCCA Project Room, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
Exhibition, until Friday, December 20, from 10 am to 3 pm

For the past several years, SCCA-Ljubljana has been organising animation-related events in the festive season as part of DIVA Station, a physical and web archive of video and new-media art. Animated video and film heritage is one of the fields DIVA Station is documenting, to see how it relates to the present. By inviting guest animators for a Q&A focusing on their animation methods and techniques, we spark off a debate on the past and present animation production.

This year we host Koni Steinbacher, a pioneer of animation filmmaking in Slovenia. The presentation and screening will be accompanied by an exhibition in the SCCA Project Room, to take the audience behind the scenes of animation making.

The event is a part of 10th edition of the festival Animateka 2013, taking place in Ljubljana Cinemateque and Kinodvor (December 2-8, 2013).

EXHIBITION

ARTIST

Koni Steinbacher is an arts teacher, mentor, animation filmmaker, and film writer. After graduating from the Faculty of Education in Ljubljana, he started teaching arts at the Izola primary school in 1964. Steinbacher had a major influence on the development of Slovenian amateur media and film culture, mentoring generations of young filmmakers. But above all, he is notable for his role as an organiser, motivator, writer, and expert.

MORE: http://www.kamra.si/Default.aspx?module=5&id=2029

DIVA STATION is a physical and web archive of video art which is being developed since 2005 at SCCA-Ljubljana with the intent to research, document, present and archive video/media art. By now, it contains more than 1.000 items of different materials. Apart from artistic works it also contains documentations, television shows about video and new media, documentation of events and individual artists. Various sources are of utter importance for research and understanding of video/media art. It contributes greatly to the possibility of interpretation of art works as well as the context in which they were produced. DIVA Station constantly adds newly acquired works to the archive and promotes an overall understanding of artistic oeuvre by organising discussions and presentations.

MORE: http://www.e-arhiv.org/diva

Production: SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana
In cooperation with: Animateka 2013

Thanks: Slovenian Film Center, Municipality of Ljubljana

Contact: SCCA-Ljubljana, Metelkova 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija, tel.: 01 431 83 85, 051 361 681, info@scca-ljubljana.si, www.scca-ljubljana.si

[Published December 3, 2013]