Marcelo Forte is a Brazilian visual artist who currently lives in Portugal where he is pursuing his post-doctoral research in Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon. As a practicing artist he was asked to participate in Sottovuoto, a curatorial digital project which aims to give space for artists during times of quarantine. During his confinement, Marcelo did not stop producing art, he instead worked upon the exceptional condition he suddenly found himself living in, and commented: 

INTRODUCCIÓN Y CONTEXTO

24th Japan Media Arts Festival | Call for Entries
https://j-mediaarts.jp/en/contest/

Deadline: 4 September 2020 (18:00 Japan Standard Time)

FOREWORD

Spanish

Introduction

In March 2020, the confirmation by the World Health Organization that coronavirus had become a pandemic led to the widespread adoption of a series of prevention and mitigation measures that affected the daily lives of citizens around the world. Among these were the closure of museums and cultural centres of all kinds, regardless of their collections, size, or ownership.

Ideaborn has organized its International Online Fine Arts Contest every year since 2012. The Contest has the aim to select and purchase an artwork that will reflect our values among the future year. The winner artwork will also be printed as a New Year's greeting card and sent worldwide to our friends, donors and partners!

Lezli Rubin-Kunda, Tree-library for Libraries as Gardens in Athens, 2018

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero