art:screen is an artist-run, non-profit initiative organised by Jonas Nilsson and Eva Olsson who are both practising professional artists with an extensive experience of curating screening programmes.

art:screen is a screening event and platform that showcases new, compelling, innovative and contemporary video art and moving image from Swedish and international artists. art:screen is, for many artists, the window for showing their work in Sweden and Europe.

art:screen shows single-channel screening programmes which have tempo and flow. To create this, the duration of works are at maximum five minutes long. The programmes explore new ways of seeing reality from a cultural, social and individual perspective and often employ humour to give new insights.

Established, mid-career and emerging artists are eligible to submit work. The selected works will become part of art:screen's archive, which will then be used when art:screen is invited by art institutions, art galleries, art associations, video art events or video art festivals to curate screening programmes.

art:screen started in 2005 under the name Art Video Screening which changed to art:screen in December 2010. Art Video Screening was the initiator and head co-ordinator of Örebro International Videoart Festival 2008 and 2010 in co-operation with the art institutions in Örebro, Sweden. From 2012 art:screen will be the head co-ordinator for art:screen fest, a festival whose main concept is to invite curators from different video art events and video art festivals from around the world, to curate screening programmes, and to provide an international platform for networking and co-operation possibilities between curators.

art:screen offers single-channel screening programmes to Swedish art institutions, art galleries and art associations who wish to broaden their art activities, but don't have access to, or possesses video works and moving images.
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