Chris Joseph

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http://www.thyes.com/flag-metamorphoses/

Flag Metamorphoses is an ongoing participatory and collaborative art project curated by Myriam Thyes. The concept is simple - the flags of every nation in the world transforming into each other through flash animations. It’s a great example of an idea that opens up a wealth of possibilities for artistic political comment, and the relationship between two flags/countries as realised through (meta)morphing animations can be understood quickly by viewers in any country. My contribution (by far one of the least accomplished animations in the project, I’m not ashamed to admit!) was the UK Union Jack to the flag of Barbados, representing both the 1966 independence of Barbados from Britain, and my own maternal Barbadian heritage.

There are 26 animations so far, and Myriam has done a wonderful job of getting the project seen at festivals and other screenings (see below), the latest being a showing this month in Tehuacán, Mexico.

Visit the site for more about the project and how to enter your own work.

Screenings:

10/2007: URBAN SCREENS, Manchester, UK
10/2007: Festival Animatu, Beja, Portugal
09/2007: Pixilerations [v.4] media art festival, FirstWorksProv, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
08/2007: One Minute Film & Videofestival, Kunstraum Aarau, Switzerland
07/2007: Centro Comercial, Tehuacán, Mexico
06/2007: TACTICS OF RESISTANCE, Constantin Brancusi Exhibition Centre, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
03/2007: Victory Media Network, 3090 Olive Street, Dallas, USA
03/2007: FLEFF (Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival) , Ithaca, NY, USA
03/2007: DUTA Visual Arts Biennial, Douala, Cameroon
03/2007: Traverse Video, Toulouse, France
01/2007: ‘Projected Weekends’ , The Digital Hub, Dublin, Ireland
10/2006: Canarias Mediafest, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
10/2006: Dialog Festival Winterthur, Switzerland
10/2006: relate art, Meilen and Zurich, Switzerland
09/2006: FLAG METAMORPHOSES ON THE BIG SCREENS, central stations of Zurich, Basel, Bern and Geneva, Switzerland
09/2006: Paraflows 06, Vienna, Austria
09/2006: Square Eyes Festival, State of the Image interactive media festival, Arnhem, Netherlands
07/2006: Multimedia Prize winner, AVANCA 06 , Avanca, Portugal
06/2006: Eighth International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium, Havana, Cuba
06/2006: Festival of Nations, Ebensee, Austria
05/2006: Pixeldance, Thessaloniki, Greece
04/2006: D>Art.2006, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
04/2006: Independent Arts Festival, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium and Eindhoven, Netherlands
03/2006: FILE-RIO (International Electronic Language Festival), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
03/2006: AniMOweb Festival, Modena, Italy