/ ABANDONED 01 Abandoned is a visual art exhibition highlighting the concept of "art is fun, art is easy". The exhibition features a number of artists from various backgrounds e.g. graphic designer, illustrator, video maker, VJ, fashion designer, web designer, new media artist and so forth. This enabled Abandoned to display a wide array of artworks yet indicated art as a part of life. Something that is very close, almost private, to someone's existence. The exhibition incorporated painting, illustration, video, and installation explores the sense of avant garde scheme while seeking the mutual relationship between individual and collective. Abandoned set them out in carefully calculated randomness before being displayed in preparation for the next broader art celebration.

Documentation by joy of bub

Documentation by urbanspace

/ VIDEO:WRK is the largest biennial video festival in Surabaya. Started in 2009, the event encompassed screening, workshop, lecturing, artist talk and public presentation.

The event was initiated through the efforts of some local video artists. It has been a forum of artistic creativity and innovation for both national and international video artists.

/ NO:WORK National Observation Work is a periodical event focusing on education. From workshop, seminar, presentation, and forum, anything that's educating is in.

We invite practitioner from various disciplines to share and teach for the benefit of knowledge development.

/ VJ / VISUAL JOCKEY / creates or manipulates visuals in realtime through technological mediation in synchronization to music. It implies realtime processing material from storage media such as tapes, disks, video, still images, live camera input, or computer generated visuals. The idea of VJing came from art forms that deal with synesthetic experience of vision and sound. It created a certain challenge that audio and visual have to relate together in each section as well as the whole set.

People used to think video as decorations. However, the rise of visual performance in the new century has brought new dynamics to its practice. The availability and affordability of new consumer-level technology allowed many more people to get involved into VJing. This sense of collective then translated from the virtual world onto physical spaces and becomes apparent through numerous festivals with strong focus on VJing.