NMP (art collective)
Encyclopedia
NMP is a multimedia
art collective from Skopje
, Republic of Macedonia
. The collective was first conceived as a movement rooted in applied philosophy in February 2002, but it did not have a specific form until 8 April 2005 when Version 1.0 of its official website (www.nmp.com.mk) was launched. NMP focuses primarily on digital art
(such as photomanipulation and vector
) and street art
(stencils, stickers, graffiti), but it also supports photography
and non-visual arts, such as poetry
and music
. Due to the specific nature of the medium, and the growing number of writers, a separate section of the site dubbed NMP Reader (NMP Chitanka) was opened at the end of 2006, featuring some “celebrities” from the Macedonian blogger scene. There is no set membership in the collective; all artists and project developers participate on a revolving-door basis. Works of the collective are made public online, as well as through collective and individual exhibition
s. As of June 2007, about 30 artists are associated with the NMP collective.
The collective also made a significant contribution to the Visual Noise group exhibition (November 2006, organized by Pogon), participating with nearly half of the exhibition’s artists, and with the design of the promotional material. NMP members have won awards: The Macedonian film “Does It Hurt? The First Balkan Dogma” by Aneta Lesnikovska was given an award for the best poster in the Rotterdam Film Festival, an award conferred by Screen magazine; the poster was designed by Slobodan Jakoski, NMP member and part of the team working on the graphics and advertising for the film. Also, NMP collective member Jovan Petrushevski has been Artist of the Month on the Reavel Wordpress site.
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
art collective from Skopje
Skopje
Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre...
, Republic of Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia
Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...
. The collective was first conceived as a movement rooted in applied philosophy in February 2002, but it did not have a specific form until 8 April 2005 when Version 1.0 of its official website (www.nmp.com.mk) was launched. NMP focuses primarily on digital art
Digital art
Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process...
(such as photomanipulation and vector
Vector graphics
Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon, which are all based on mathematical expressions, to represent images in computer graphics...
) and street art
Street art
Street art is any art developed in public spaces — that is, "in the streets" — though the term usually refers to unsanctioned art, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives...
(stencils, stickers, graffiti), but it also supports photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
and non-visual arts, such as poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
and music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
. Due to the specific nature of the medium, and the growing number of writers, a separate section of the site dubbed NMP Reader (NMP Chitanka) was opened at the end of 2006, featuring some “celebrities” from the Macedonian blogger scene. There is no set membership in the collective; all artists and project developers participate on a revolving-door basis. Works of the collective are made public online, as well as through collective and individual exhibition
Art exhibition
Art exhibitions are traditionally the space in which art objects meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is rarely true, it is stated to be a "permanent exhibition". In American English, they may be called "exhibit", "exposition" or...
s. As of June 2007, about 30 artists are associated with the NMP collective.
Exhibitions
So far, there have been three offline NMP-organized exhibitions:- The Beginning of the Collective Hallucination, Youth Cultural Centre, 8 April 2006;
- Pandora’s Drawer, ap-art, 30 December 2006; and
- Skopska Street, press to exit/Open Graphic Studio, 10 April 2007 (co-organized with Line I+M; a video detailing this exhibit can be found online)
The collective also made a significant contribution to the Visual Noise group exhibition (November 2006, organized by Pogon), participating with nearly half of the exhibition’s artists, and with the design of the promotional material. NMP members have won awards: The Macedonian film “Does It Hurt? The First Balkan Dogma” by Aneta Lesnikovska was given an award for the best poster in the Rotterdam Film Festival, an award conferred by Screen magazine; the poster was designed by Slobodan Jakoski, NMP member and part of the team working on the graphics and advertising for the film. Also, NMP collective member Jovan Petrushevski has been Artist of the Month on the Reavel Wordpress site.