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14/3/2004

Transmediale.04

Deluxe Gallery, London

Fly Utopia, international video selection 04

Presented by Andreas Broeckmann, artistic Director at Deluxe Gallery

The Transmediale in Berlin is Germany's biggest media art festival. Once a year the festival presents new and significant projects of digital culture and offers reflections on the role of digital technologies in contemporary society, chosen from thousands of international entries.
The theme of transmediale.04 (31.1.-4.2.04), Fly Utopia, explores the utopian potential of contemporary art practice in the field of digital culture.

Following the festival, a video selection of transmediale.04 is being shown at Deluxe Gallery, Hoxton Square, N1 6NU

The TM.04 international video selection and festival is being introduced by transmediale's artistic director, Andreas Broeckmann

Monday 15th March 6.30pm, Places are limited, (seated 40, standing 100) Admission: £3 on the door.

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List of Films being shown:

Bernard Gigounon [ be ]
Starship, 6:00

Ships as spaceships: you never saw them so beautiful before. Starship shows an enormous symmetrical axis, stranded on a North Sea beach. For the last fifty years, new technologies and impressive means of transport have awakened our imagination on the silver screen, in science-fiction films like Star Trek and Star Wars. Gigounon shows that alien objects landed on earth ages ago and that we do not even have to look that hard to find them.

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mylicon/EN [ it ]
20 ml, 40 ml, 1:00

Water, liquids, fluidity are the common elements of the two clips, created using images taken from recordings of past live sets."20 ml" and "40 ml" emphasize the peculiarity of Mylicon/EN production: images that seem to be very elaborated have been created by simple actions - such as placing everyday objects (glasses, bottles, coloured plastics and water) in between a camera and a TV set. The editing has been reduced to a minimum, while a new soundtrack has been created. Clips titles, as the name of the duo, remind Western biomedicine, dosages and names of common medicines against depression and anxiety.

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Silberstein, Guli [ il ]
Schizophrenic State, 6:00

Two images on my TV screen: An Israeli soldier being lynched in Rammalla. A Palestinian child and his father being fired at in Gaza. How can horror be constructed in words? It's a schizophrenic situation - two sides trapped in a cycle of violence. And I`m in a schizophrenic state of my own, watching this in New York - not here nor there. Are these images real?

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Gilles Delalex, Thomas Wessel-Cessieux [ fr ]
Statiorama, 12:00

Statiorama is a web/video installation compiling 4000 photos of gas stations taken in 11 countries. It is conceived as dynamic and interactive slide-show recounting an 8000 km and 3 months photographic survey of the European highway network. It takes the form of a web site and a 12 min video catalog. The web site provides texts relating the photographic survey and different video loops. A mixpage allows to play the different video loops simultaneously, thus turning the slide-show into a ever-changing digital landscape.
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HC Gilje [ no ], Blind [no/de/cz ]
Shiva, 8:00

Cyclical evolution, rephrasing, paraphrasing and constant re-modification of temporal-spatial structures. The video is based on improvised material from several performances with BLIND.

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Bucher, Francois [ co/us ]
White Balance [ to think is to forget difference ], 32:00

White Balance (to think is to forget difference) is an effort to uncover the geographies of power, the frontiers of privilege. It revisits this problem from different angles, creating short circuits of meaning which are hosted by improbable audiovisual matches. Media and internet footage is intermixed with images shot in downtown Manhattan before and after the September 11th attacks. The video presents a question that needs to be visited over and over, a question that is always and necessarily larger then ourselves. Yvonne Rainer asked this question in her film Privilege: "?is 'permanent recovering racists' the most we can ever be?" In this sense, offering a meta narrative that would pretend to describe the issues at stake is a failure to understand the layers of unspeakability that are hidden in the question of whiteness. The piece opts for a poetic language, an address that seeks to arouse thought by concentrating on the openings of the audiovisual experience, in the short-lived moment of the in-between.

COMING UP:

St Martins College of Art, Illustration course exhibition
Private View 12th March Exhibition: 13th March - 17th March
Quick Flik Films
March 8th, 8pm
Social Enterprise London
23rd-24th March - 2 day Conference

The shape of clouds
Private View 26th February, Exhibition continues until 10th March
Photographic exhibition of the work of Lorena Krause,
Gloat
Saturday 27th March 8pm
Transmediale from Berlin
15th March, Andrea Broeckmann, will be talking about the Berlin Transmediale Festival, and features "Transmediale.04 international video selection".
iCapture
A photographic exhibition by Kirsty Mackay consisting of 365 images taken on the digital camera of a mobile phone.
30th March till 16th April 2004
Sponsored by VODAFONE

SUPPORTED BY GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE AND THE GOETHE INSTITUT

Deluxe Gallery,
Hoxton Square, London, N1 6NU. Tel: 020 7729 8503

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