//now/future
dal 2/5/2000 al 7/5/2000
Segnalato da
2/5/2000
//now/future
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck
From 3 to 7 May 2000 the EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL once again presents a
cross section of the variety of innovative and experimental media art.
Productions by internationally renowned artists will be shown as well as
works by creative young talents who stand out with their inventiveness and
their joy in creating unconventional images.
Around 1500 works from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia
were submitted to the different sections of the EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL -
more than ever before. The experimental and innovative aesthetic concepts of
the 230 films, videos, installations, performances, CD-ROMs and Internet
works selected for the festival give a fascinating insight into
the //now/future of media art. This year the main focus is on the thrilling
symbiosis of light (projections), movement and music, as well as the
discussion on our sample and remix culture.
film and video
The EMAF presents 134 productions in the international selection lasting
from one minute up to full-length films and videos. Apart from the classic
themes of love and death authors tend to orientate themselves on classic
avant-garde models. Image and sound can technically be considered equal and
the abstract visuals often go hand in hand with modern soundscapes and
samples. Thus, they form the connecting link between this years's
retrospective and the festival's VEEJAY-GROOVE.
Everyone is on tenterhooks awaiting this year's decision of the AG der
Filmjournalisten, the association of film journalists traditionally who award
the German Film Criticism Prize to the best German experimental film and
video production of the year.
retrospective
Len Lye born in New Zealand 1901, is known as a famous figure in
experimental cinema as well as a leading kinetic sculptor and innovative
theorist, painter and writer. He was a pioneer of `direct film´, made without
a camera or other technical devices by painting and scratching images
directly onto the celluloid-material. This retrospective gives a general
overview of his experimental film work, his life and his ambitious sculptural
work, which he worked on until his death in New York in 1980.
video-café and video-gallery
The video café offers the chance to watch all international works on video.
The video gallery presents a thrilling selection of European films and videos
that were selected from the cooperating festivals in Germany, Croatia,
Netherlands, Portugal and Switzerland and travel as a Travelling-Project to
each festival.
electronic lounge
Via numerous current CD-ROMs and websites EMAF's electronic lounge gives
the public the opportunity to keep up with the latest trends in digital art.
performance
The premiere of the performance Med Machine will be presented in Osnabrück
by Jessica Levy, Sean Tuan John and Bernd Terstegge. Med Machine is an erotic
laboratory, in which images from medicine, science, technology and
sadomasochism plus old computers will be deconstructed in a spectacular
fashion. With playful irony video images, computer animations, digital loops
and theatrical elements are manipulated live.
congress
european digital visions
The congress accompanies the festival and asks decisive questions about the
way our mediatised society views itself culturally. It gives insight into
the latest media developments and projects. The symposium Körperschnitt &
BodyScan focuses on the body's real and virtual dimensions while New Digital
Formats presents new digital media
projects.
Körperschnitt & BodyScan
With the overpowering victory of old and new mass media like television and
the Internet individual identity as inscribed in humanism is disappearing
rapidly. The individual happily immerses himself into the interface of global
virtuality and experiences himself as an oscillating variety: "We are
interfaces completely exposed to input and output", observes the Swiss
cultural philosopher and writer Gerhard Johann Lischka.
Together with the media theoreticians and artists Thomas Feuerstein,
Katharina Gsöllpointner, Ursula Hentschläger and Stefan Weber, Gerhard Johann
Lischka will discuss the liberating and captivating aspects of an extensive
media osmosis: Are we threatened to forget our real body because of all these
virtual experiences? How far are we into the age of technology and to what
extend is our body already dependent on technology? Are there no limits to
the deconstruction of our bodies? Where do we cross the line and only
indulge in what Stefan Weber describes as "the joy of immortality": "To
escape the current dialectics of hating our body and body fetishism I am
eager to discard my mortal body and to live as a sample, cut & paste body
forever"?
new digital formats
The digitalisation of the media opens endless possibilities to new formats,
contents and distribution. Thus, the EMAF has initiated the European Digital
Media Network (EDMN), a project sponsored by the EU, that will install a
European media chanel on web-television. The concrete realisation will be
discussed during the congress by members of ten European countries. In
addition, a series of interesting cultural projects will be presented, for
example i2TV, an interactive Internet telvevision project developed by Mars
Lab of GMD, Bonn, presented by Jasminko Novak and Wolfgang Strauss, the
online Encyclopaedia New Media created by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the
Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Centre of Contemporary Art in Geneva,
presented by Christine van Assche , or the web-project Digital Film-Festival
from San Francisco, introduced by Jonathan Wells.
David Guez and Anais Lemignan, Paris, will present the project TV-ART.Net,
which as a web-TV project has a special focus on arts and culture. New
projects of the Ponton Media Art Lab, Hannover will be presented by
Benjamin Heidersberger.
Cross plattform projects and the development of interfaces between
interactive media, the web and TV are the thematical focus of a presentation
by Susan
Kennard from the Banff Centre of the Arts, Canada.
Permanent Flux presented by the publishers Yariv Alter Fin and Bastian
Lips, Amsterdam, shows the perspectives of four multimedia insiders
Laurie Anderson, Siegfried Zielinski, Paul Garrin and Paul Evers on
past, present and future of multimedia art.
student forum
Do you prefer virtual reality? Or do you prefer the realistic reality?
In both cases this year's film and video selection in the
student forum is a good choice: refreshing and unusual productions ranging
from the Wild West to parallel worlds invite you to linger.
The exhibition of installations also offers an experience
between dream and brutal fact - is it real or isn't it?
Exciting new productions from German and European
students are awaiting to be discovered.
//fresh:
exhibition 3.-28. may 2000 The exhibition corresponds in varied aspects to
this year's festival motto //now/future. The exhibited works express their
vision of media art in a fresh and innovative way. They point to a future
that is influenced by infinite data spaces, biogenetics and spare time as
work and/or the purpose in life.
The interactive multimedia installation Text Rain by Romy Achituv and
Camille Utterbeck from New York will be shown as a European premiere where
the borders between reality and magic become blurred. Words and texts come
down like rain on the screen. Using his body as an "interface" the viewer can
catch the symbols, balance them on his head, arms or hands and create a new
order: in this installation "writing" becomes a physical act.
Arrival - Departure by Bjørn Melhus interprets the future body as an
androgynous double being that was conceived and animated in the sexless
cyberspace. "Raum-Möbel" Séparée by Stefanie Klekamp invites the viewer to a
very intimate but voyeristic observation of a female body.
The Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche will exhibit two exceptional works by the
French artist Pierrick Sorin called Title variable No.2 and Pierrick coupe
des boits, plus the installation Mother Mary by the American artist Gregory
Barsamian. In addition the following works will be exhibited in the
Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche: Wie heißt Du? - Ivana by Wiebke Grösch and
Frank Metzger, A Brief Flash by Theo Lenders, Metathesis by Ben Owen-Jones,
Statement by Robert Hutter, Electric Shrom by
Antenne Springborn and the ZKM produced work Small Fish by Kiyoshi
Furukawa, Masaki Fujihata and Wolfgang Münich.
With the project Die Luft über dem Toaster Norbert Schliewe presents the
interface of analog and digital recording media in a temporary media lab.
Optiballs by Heiko Hansen can be seen as a consequent development of office
health balls in the last ten years. The balls start to glow when you use
them, and depending on the movements of the person sitting on them the
colours change.
Together with Osnabrück's EXPO-Kultur-Sommer the EMAF will realize
Wartesignale by Mina Hagedorn and Heiko Hansen, an interactive light
installation that will be installed in the bus terminal in front of
Osnabrück's central station.
OLB-Medienkunstpreis
For the first time the EMAF will award the OLB-Medienkunstpreis. This
media art prize is worth a total of DM 8000. Two exceptional works from the
sections video, computer and multimedia installations will be chosen.
The criteria are first of all the
inventive artistic approach and the seismographical feeling for new
developments in our mediatised society. Monika Fleischmann (GMD, Bonn),
Katharina Gsöllpointner (Uni Salzburg) and Heiner Holtappels (Monte
Video/TBA, Amsterdam) will be on the jury panel.
veejay-groove
From 14 April to 12 May the EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL presents the
innovative crossover of media art and dance floor projects in a series of
events held in Amsterdam,
Osnabrück, Wilhelmshaven and Berlin. VEEJAY-GROOVE picks up a trend that is
clearly taking shape in the capital club scene: the expansion of conventional
DJ club culture to a multimedia event. The virtuoso use of video tapes and
computer animation create constantly changing visual spaces and make the club
audience the oscillated centre of a digital piece of art.
After the starting event on 14 April in Amsterdam's legendary Melkweg, an
especially redesigned warehouse in Osnabrück's harbour will be the central
meeting place for the international DJ and VJ avant-garde on 6 May. For the
first time, DJ Spooky from New York and Alec Empire will fight a DJ-VJ battle
with their VJs Art Jones and Philipp Virus. Further party highlights will be
the London formation The Herbaliser from the independent label Ninja Tune, as
well as Erobique who is famous for his bombastic home organ sound and DJ
Koze, recently nominated Best DJ by Spex readers.
The VJ group Lichtsport will design the Osnabrücker Hellmann-Halle using
wide screen projections, as well as numerous video projectors, mixing desks,
turntables and live cameras.
Simultaneously with the event in Osnabrück, a Parisian Night will be held
in Wilhelmshaven's Pumpwerk. The French techno star Kid Loco and the DJs Lab
Insect and Automat will perform live. The VJ association Skwa'x & Larsen-
Family, the found footage artists Labs as well as the rave dance group Les
Asteroides will make sure the night will be a visual spectacle.
For now the last VeeJay-Groove event will be held in Berlin's Maria am
Ostbahnhof with the Terranova DJ Set, FM Einheit/Gry and the VJs monitor
automatique, Rainer Remake, Dura Lux and many more.
On the website www.veejay-groove.de the whole event can be experienced live
as interactive Internet video stream.
On 29 July a three hour festival documentary can be seen on the German
television programme N3-Fernseh-Night, which will be produced by the European
Media Art Festival in cooperation with the College of Art and Media in
Cologne.
Other programmes yet to be finalized will be listed in the festival
programme (appearing 16. April 2000), which will be sent on request.
A catalogue will be published at the beginning of the festival.
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