The Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine or CIC was a
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, Switzerland.
CIC was established in 1985 to organize events and exhibitions of images using new technologies such as video, multimedia, and the Internet, as well as more traditional photography and film. It was also named ''Saint-Gervais Genève'' (or SGG) between 1985 and 2008 when including several departments: Electronic media, Exhibitions, Theatre. Its existence goes from 1985 to 2008.
The CIC was established in 1985 to organize events in the field of electronic media. Director Andre Iten immediately included video, film, TV programmes and created the festival "The International video week" the same year (which was renamed "Biennial of Moving Images" in 1997). The Biennial gained international attention with major film and video retrospectives of
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Michel Auder
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Harun Farocki
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Robert Filliou
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Jochen Gerz
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Gary Hill
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Thomas Hirschhorn
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William Kentridge
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Nam June Paik
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, Pierrick Sorin, Steina et Woody Vasulka,
Bill Viola
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Joan Jonas
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Philippe Garrel
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Rebecca Horn
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Andre Iten carried out numerous collaborations with institutions, festivals and personalities around the globe. His strong vision and attention towards media by initiating festivals, Internet sites, artistic multimedia productions, a public video collection and collaborating on European projects. The CIC co-produced with Centre Georges Pompidou from Paris and
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Simon Lamunière
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to do exhibitions with video and photography as well as to challenge digital media, websites and cd roms. The long term collaboration with the curator between 1989 and 2004, led to major changes in perception of what was called video art or digital media, and led to renaming the "International Video week" as "Biennial of Moving Images" and the creation of a second biennial devoted to digital culture.
In 1994, the biennial "Version" focussed on the evolution of society and digital media. CD-roms were edited and first websites produced. In 1997, as curator of th documenta X website
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commissioned several internet projects with artists
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Martin Kippenberger
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, Antoni Muntadas, jodi, Heath Bunting, Herve Graumann in coproduction with the CIC.
The Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine also gained attention by constituting the most important Swiss media library with more than 1000 titles, including complete video works by
Vito Acconci
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, Hanspeter Ammann,
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, Emmanuelle Antille,
Marina Abramović
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and
Ulay
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, Michel Auder,
John Baldessari
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Robert Breer
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Claude Closky
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Reception
Closky won the "Grand prix des Arts plastiques" (1999) and the Marcel Duchamp Prize (2005) awarded by the ADIAF.
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, Douglas Davis, Sylvie et Chérif Defraoui, Jan Duyvendak,
Harun Farocki
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Early life and education
Farocki was born as Harun El Usman FaroqhiMargalit Fox (3 August 2014)''New York Times''. in Neutitschein, which is n ...
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Robert Filliou
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Life
In 1943, Filliou became a member of the French Communi ...
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Oskar Fischinger
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Sylvie Fleury
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Jochen Gerz
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Gary Hill
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Thomas Hirschhorn
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William Kentridge
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,
Simon Lamunière
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Avi Mograbi
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, Gianni Motti, Jean Otth,
Nam June Paik
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, Jean Painlevé, Artavazd Pelechian,
Pipilotti Rist
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, Carole Roussopoulos, Daniel Schibli,
Richard Serra
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Nelson Sullivan
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Steina Vasulka
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Bill Viola
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