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11/4/2000

Thaw 00

Institute for Cinema and Culture, Iowa City

Thaw 00 is an international festival of video, film and digital media that features new work by emerging media artists. This year's festival will take place on April 12-15 in Iowa City, Iowa. Thaw is open to all artists who challenge the conventional standards of video, film, or digital media.

Why "Thaw"? Our name was chosen for its implications of emergence, movement, transition and change. Appropriately, the festival occurs at the time of Iowa's seasonal thaw, when students are preparing to graduate and residents of Iowa City are once again reminded of their location's dynamic intellectual, social and artistic fluxion.

History: The Thaw festival of video, film and digital media began in 1996, in an effort to promote emerging, independent productions which challenge the conventional language of their media through innovation in both form and content. The festival was organized by Rene Seuppel, then a student in the Intermedia department in the School of Art and Art History, and by Lloyd Dunn (also a founder of the seminal experimental recording group the Tape-Beatles), a graduate of the same program. Thaw's organizers hoped to enrich both the university and the local community by providing a venue for work which would otherwise not be available in the area. The festival gave Iowa's student producers a chance to have their work shown and judged along side exciting new productions from around the world. After the first year, the organizing committee expanded to include students of film and interactive multimedia. Every member of the Thaw committee is a volunteer.

Since its beginning, Thaw has maintained three principles which set it apart from other festivals. First, it is organized by media artists and students. Second, there are no restrictions based on content. Finally, Thaw celebrates what we call the impermeability of media -- the idea that artistic expression is never bound to a single format. Accordingly, Thaw presents film, video art, websites, and CD-Roms in the context of one festival. Each year we invite a panel of media artists and critics to attend the screenings, share their work, and to select work from each category to receive awards.

Previous Thaw jurors include: Craig Baldwin, Hans Breder, Mindy Faber, Ebon Fisher, Vicky Honeyman, G.H. Hovagimyan, Anne McGuire, Christiane Paul, Leighton Pierce, Thad Povey, Tennessee Rice Dixon, David Gatten, and Sally Shafto.

This year's Thaw jurors will be Brian Frye, Kathy High, and Norie Neumark.

Institute for Cinema and Culture
Iowa City, IA
USA United States of America

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