Brief History of E.V.I.L
Started in 2003 as a free community of video makers that wanted to produce and distribute alternative video works aside from the mass media agenda. In 2004 we made the first Video Workshop in Managua providing young enthusiasts, creative and technology tools to produce short experimental videos. From that workshop we finished producing eight videoarts and we screened them with other works of videoartists from Nicaragua and Colombia. We rent a local porn cinema called Cine July. The screening was successfull, it was the first time that a videoart public screening took place in Nicaragua.
After the first experience we organized more workshops (Documentary Photography for Video in 2005, and Sound for Video on 2006) that were taken by more young people that feels the lack of this kind of educational options in their academic scene.
New screenings were made on the Cine July (Homage to Cartier-Bresson and The Unknown Soldier, 2005) and we started to had works from different parts of Central America. At this moment E.V.I.L is a refference on Latin American Video production, having screened on global events as the 52nd Venice Biennale, Modern Art Oxford, Tester (www.e-tester.net) or in institutions as the Contemporary Art and Design Museum of Costa Rica (www.madc.ac.cr) among others. Information of E.V.I.L activities can be reached at www.ernestosalmeron.com or at www.marcaacme.com