EDUCATION:
1979-1984 Tartu University, Department of Psychology
1987-1994 Tallinn Art University, Depatment of Design
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Curated exhibitions
- Group S & K exhibitions in 1991, 1992 and 1993 in Tallinn
- Cristals of Darkness, exhibition of group Para 89, SsdertSlje Konsthall,
Sweden, 1993
- 3rdFrench-Baltic Video Art Festival, 1994, Tallinn
- French-Baltic-Nordic Video and New Media Festival in Tallinn, 1998, entitled
offline@online
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- Media Non Grata, offline@online media art festival 2nd edition, 1999,
Tallinn
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Publications
the book "Surrealism", Kunst Publisher 1993; since 1985 more than 200 articles
in main cultural and art magazines and newspapers in Estonia
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1985 Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
1991 Library of Ministery of Foreign Affairs, Helsinki, Finland
1993 Dark-Black, Sinimandria Gallery, Tartu
1995 Anima, video-surveillance installation in Tartu Artists' House, Estonia
1996 Video-triptychon, Tartu Art School Gallery, Estonia
1999 tokyocity.ee, Tallinn City Gallery, Estonia
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MEMBERSHIP
1993 Estonian Arists Union
1995 AICA
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AWARDS
1994 3rd French-Baltic Video Art Festival, Vilnius, Grand Prix ("Words")
1998 20th Tokyo Video Festival, Silver Award ("House")
2000 VIPER, International Festival for Film Video and New Media, Basel /
Switzerland, Special Mention ("Videoweaver", CD-ROM)
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1988 I have never been in New York, Tallinn, Estonia
1989 We-You-Muu, group exhibition of estonian, finnish and american artists,
BillnSs, Finland
1990 Beetween Stone and Body, land-art symposion of estonian and finnish
artists, VSSna, Estonia
1990 Surrealism in Estonian Art, Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
1990 republican youth exhibition, 2nd Pavillion of Estonian Exhibition
1991 Art 91, Blue Pavillion of Estonian Exhibition, Tallinn, Estonia
1991 Paraphrases of Paradise, exhibition of group Para '89, Tallinn Art
Hall
1991 S & K, group exhibition, Tammsaare Memorial Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
1991 Two-man-show with T. Johannson, Pirkkala, Finnland
1992 S & K - ARTMIX, 2nd Pavillion of Estonian Exhibition, Tallinn,
Estonia
1992 The Wax Academy, Tammsaare Memorial Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
1993 Noise, republican youth exhibition, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
1993 Estonian Art 93, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
1993 Crystals of Darkness, exhibition of group Para '89, SsdertSlje Konsthall,
Sweden (paintings)
1993-1994 French-Baltic Video Art Festival, Riga-Tallinn-Vilnius
1993 Substance-Unsubstance, 1st annual exhibition of Soros Center for Contemporary
Arts, Tallinn,
Estonia ("Measurings")
1994 Festival of video art and computer animation Wandering In Midnight
Darkness, Moscow, Russia
1994 S & K - Kind of Emptiness, group-exhibition, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn,
Estonia
1994 Estonian Art 94, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
1994 3rd French-Baltic Video Art Festival (grand prix) ("Words")
1995 Media Art Festival WRO 95, Wroclaw, Poland ("Messages", "Words")
1995 Self-Portrait, estonian artists exhibition in Moscow ("Words")
1995 Est.Fem, video-surveillance installation "Animus", feminist art in
Estonia, Tallinn
1995 Deuxieme Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique, Montreal
("Words")
1995 Two-man-show with T. Johannson, Bangkok, Thailand (drawings)
1996 IV French-Baltic Video Art Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania ("Paris en
trois mots")
1996 "Estonia as a Sign", annual exhibition of Soros Center for Contemporary
Arts, Tallinn, Estonia:
action on the air "News" (in collaboration with Sven Kivisildnik)
1996 Vienna-Tallinn, "Electonic Gallery" (digital images in collaboration
with Renee Kelomees)
1997 French-Baltic-Nordic Video and Electronic Art Festival, Riga ("House")
1997 "Interstanding 2", "Cybertower" http://www.artun.ee/cybertower/,
in collaboration with Tiia Johannson and Virve Sarapik.
1998 20th Tokyo Video Festival ("House")
1998 MuuMediaFestival, Helsinki (Cybertower), http://www.av-arkki.fi/mmf/the_set.htm
1999 Ars Electronica Center Mediathek, Linz (tokyocity.ee), http://web.aec.at/lifescience/indexv4.html
1999 International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia (tokyocity.ee),
http://pubwww.st.carnet.hr/split-filmfest/f99/fest99.htm
1999 4th Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique,
Montreal (tokyocity.ee)
1999 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES, ART AND COMMUNICATION,
Valencia, Spain ("tokyocity.ee")
1999 4th Festival Internationale di Architettura in Video, 9th-12th Dec.,
Firenze, Italia ("tokyocity.ee"), http://www.architettura.it/image/festival/1999/en/works/kelomees.htm
1999 VideoMedeja '99, FOURTH INTERNATIONAL VIDEO SUMMIT VIDEOMEDEJA, Novi
Sad YU, 3-5 december
1999 COMTECH art99, 3rd Exhibition/Festival for Computer Aided Art and Interdisciplinary
Media Projects, Dresden, Germany, http://www.body-bytes.de/
1999 Dream Centenary Computer Graphics Grand Prix 99 in Aizu, Japan, http://www.city.aizuwakamatsu.fukushima.jp/e/a100/cg/finalists.htm
2000 13. Stuttgarter FilmWinter, Stuttgart, Germany http://www.wand5.de/fiwi2000/files/cdrom.html
2000 "Through The Looking Glass" Beachwood, Ohio, USA (site: http://www.voyd.com/ttlg/physical.htm,
http://www.voyd.com/ttlg/physical/kelomees.htm)
2000 Urban Futures 2000, International Conference in Johannesburg, exhibition
at the University Art Gallery, South Africa
2000 VideoLisboa, Lisbon's International Video Festival, Portugal http://www.videolisboa.com/
2000 Ars Baltica, inside:inside. Hannover EXPO, German Pavillion, http://www.muthesius.de/~virtual/expo/program.html
2000 VIPER, International Festival for Film Video and New Media, Basel /
Switzerland, http://www.viper.ch
2000 ISEA Revelation, Paris, France, http://www.isea2000.com
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VIDEOGRAPHY
- Paper etude, 1990/1993, 4:00
- Measurings, 1993, 10:00
- Messages, 1993, 4:00
- A Road, 1993, 7:00
- Words, 1994, 5:45
- Gorgo, 1994, 2:40
- Messages, Words, 1994, 5:00
- Paris en trois mots, 1995, 7:48
- News, 1996, 2:00 (in collaboration with Sven Kivisildnik)
-"House", 1997, 6:40
- tokyocity.ee, 1999, 30:00
- Selfsearch, 2000, 2:00
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CD-ROM
- tokyocity.ee, 1999
- Videoweaver, 2000
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Projects for net and on the net
- tokyocity.ee http://www.tokyocity.ee/
- Web.Things http://www.artun.ee/~raivo/web_things.htm
- Cybertower http://www.artun.ee/cybertower/
- Lao-Li or Bunker-Twins http://www.artun.ee/~raivo/polar2/lao-li/,
mirror: http://students.llaky.fi/~raivo/
- Selfsearch http://www.online.ee/~offline/selfsearch
- Agoraa, E-Zine: http://www.online.ee/~offline/latera,
http://escape.to/latera
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WebDesign
- Interstanding2 http://www.artun.ee/center/i2/
- The Finno-Ugric Expeditions of Estonian Academy of Arts throughout the
years (under construction) http://www.artun.ee/sugri/
- offline@online--|french|baltic|nordic video and new media festival 1998
http://www.artun.ee/festival/
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Raivo Kelomees
Box 2663 Tallinn, 13802, Estonia
GSM: +372 56
235 191
e-mail: offline@online.ee
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Homepage: http://www.artun.ee/~raivo/