e-fagia visual and media arts organization

mandate:

e-fagia is a Toronto-based organization of artists and writers created to produce and disseminate electronic art projects with emphasis on contemporary Canadian and Latin American artists.

We provide a space for artists’ visibility in the national and international communities, while advancing theoretical inquiry through exhibitions, digital and print publications, and lectures by local and international artists, curators and scholars.

We have a trans-disciplinary approach towards the complexity of contemporary arts: we foster encounters between new media artists and people of other academic disciplines to develop aesthetic and socio-communicational projects under the net of relations enabled by new technologies. 

Our publications and presentations help us to expose the public to different types of contemporary artistic production. Today, our programming projects are composed of:

new media projects: creation and production
curatorial: new media exhibitions and lectures
education: workshops
arts network: web news about local and international context
publications: web and print

history and activities

The name of the collective, e-fagia, stems from the word "phagia" which means, "to eat", or consume ideas in order to transform them.

e-fagia is a Toronto-based collective of artists and writers created in 2004. As a collective we have undertaken several projects. During the past years we have organized a number of exhibitions, lectures and web initiatives created by members of our collective. These initiatives include: Disfagia Magazine, 2005, Subversion Project 2006, and Digital Event 2006, 2007 and 2009. In addition, we have participated in other local and international exhibitions as invited curators and artists. In the international context we have participated in the 2007 Ushuaia Biennale in Ushuaia, Argentina, the Interactiva’07 Biennale in Mérida, Mexico, The Friends of Latin American Cinema Festival in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA (2008), The 10th Havana Biennial in Cuba (2009) and the Interactiva Biennale ’09 in Mérida, Mexico. In the Local context we have presented works with the Salvador Allende Festival for Peace and aluCine Media Festival in Toronto.

participants and collaborators

e-fagia is a space of connection for their members, in spite of physical and professional distances. This has nurtured the project, integrating experiences that have been acquired in different societies, as well of bringing together contrasting opinions about artistic practices. The group of contributors is as follows:

board of directors:

chair
Oscar Ordoñez,
documentary filmmaker

treasurer:
Elvia Saenz

editor director:
Jorge Marulanda,
scholar and visual designer,
universitat autonoma de barcelona

Ricardo Rozenthal,
curator

Susan Douglas,
scholar and curator

staff:

general direction:
Julieta Maria
visual and new media artist,
contact@e-fagia.org

curator & administration:
Arlan Londono
artist and curator,

contact info:

contact@e-fagia.org
phone: 1 - 416 - 588 - 8171
178 jameson avenue, apt 5
m6k 2y8, Toronto, on

invited artists and curators:

Eugenio Salas
visual artist

Guillermina Buzio
visual artist and curator

education and workshops

Diana Cadavid
new media artist

Alvaro Girón
filmaker

web & media developers:
Jorge Marulanda, Julieta Maria and Arlan Londono

Bogotá, Colombia.
Mercedes Angola,
visual artists,
professor of visual arts department
at national university of colombia

Heliumen Triana,
professor of visual arts department
at national university of colombia