About Neu/Now

The NEU/NOW Festival provides an innovative platform for talented graduating artists – emerging from Higher Arts Education Institutions and Universities across Europe – to present themselves to wider European audiences in the NEU/NOW online festival and in the NEU/NOW Live festival.

The European League of Institutes of the Arts received hundreds of nominations from art institutions from 28 European countries from which an international jury selected 145 projects to be part of the NEU/NOW online festival. In a second jury selection, 30 projects were selected out of those 145 to be part of the NEU/NOW Live festival. This first iteration of the NEU/NOW online and the NEU/NOW Live Festival includes projects arranged across the following five broad arts discipline categories:

• Design
• Film
• Music
• Theatre and Dance
• Visual Arts

A word from the artistic co-directors

The selection process

The NEU/NOW Festival is:

• an opportunity for selected young artists to show their work, meet each other during the LIVE Festival and create new international partnerships;
• a place where audiences, producers and curators can see the most excellent artists and innovative projects emerging from the art schools and universities across Europe;
• a forum where emerging artists, producers, curators, cultural operators and policy makers can discuss future developments for the arts and share views on the cultural role of higher arts education institutions;
• a means of presenting an emerging generation of professional artists, drawn from across Europe, to the attention of a wide audience.

The NEU/NOW Live festival, as a showcase of young creative European talent, will take place between 19th and 22nd November 2009 in Vilnius as part of Vilnius – European Capital of Culture 2009.

The Steering Group:

• Gerald Bast

  ELIA Vice President, Rector University of Applied Arts Vienna

• Paula Crabtree

  Dean Bergen National Academy of the Arts, ELIA board member

• Anthony Dean

  Dean of Faculty of Arts, University of Winchester, Chair of Steering Group

• Carla Delfos

  ELIA Executive Director

• Lars Ebert

  ELIA Deputy Director

• Eduardas Gabnys

  Rector Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

• Arunas Gelunas

  Vice Rector Vilnius Academy of Arts

• Ieva Skarzinskaite

  Representative VECCS, Vilnius – European Capital of Culture 2009

Organisation:

• Ute Kohlmann

  ELIA Project Manager

• Mantautas Krukauskas

  Director Saltinis Foundation

• Adina Luncan

  ELIA Trainee

• Ada Paukstyte

  Artistic Director, Druskininkai Theatre Festival

Design:

• Itamar Ferrer

  Design of the logo, website and catalogue cover, 2009

jotta.com for the development of the www.neunow.eu website:

• Tony Miller

  Managing Director, jotta

• Ben James

  Joint Founder, jotta

• Anthony Mizon

  Developer, jotta

• Millie Ross

  NEU/NOW Blog editor, jotta

Jury member list:

Design

• Audrius Klimas

  Vilnius Academy of Arts. Vilnius, Lithuania

• Liam Doona

  School of Creative Arts, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. Dublin, Ireland

• Norman Cherry

  University of Lincoln. Lincoln, UK

Film

• Jeanneret Delphine

  Zinéma and Cinéma d'Oron, Université de Lausanne. Lausanne, Switzerland

• Ingo Petzke

  University of Applied Sciences. Würzburg, Germany

• Janina Lapinskaite

  Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Vilnius, Lithuania

Music

• Luis Madureira

  Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa-Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. Lisboa, Portugal

• Adrian Democ

  Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts. Brno, Czech Republic

• Ruta Staneviciute

  Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Vilnius, Lithuania

Theatre & Dance

• Andrea Brooks

  Zygo Arts. Brighton, UK

• Levan Khetaguri

  Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University. Tbilisi, Georgia

• Maarten Soete

  Bâtard Festival. Brussel, Belgium

• Jacques van Meel

  Fontys University. Roosendaal, The Netherlands

• Rita Marcalo

  Instant Dissidence York St John University. Leeds, UK

Visual Arts

• Christine Pybus

  CIT Crawford College of Art and Design(CCAD). Cork, Ireland

• Simeon Saiz Ruiz

  Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Cuenca, Spain

• Gediminas Urbonas

  Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, NTNU. Trondheim, Norway

ELIA-European League of Institutes of the Arts
Beulingstraat 8
1017 BA Amsterdam
The Netherlands

http://www.elia-artschools.org

Ute Kohlmann
Project Manager

[email protected]

• ELIA. European League of Institutes of the Arts
• Vilnius European Capital of Culture
• Jotta
• European Commission
• Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
• Vilnius Academy of Arts
• Sponsors