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23/4/2002

European Media Art Festival

Different Venues , Osnabruck

24.-28. April 2002

Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche
Osnabrueck

EMAF stands for the European Media Art Festival, one of the most extensive media events world-wide. This year's motto is "New Images - New Stories - Art in Modern Media".

>From 24 to 28 April 2002, Osnabrück will be the most important meeting place for specialists from the fields of art, culture and the media economy, as well as for wide interested audience. As a forum for international media art, the EMAF shows films, videos, performances, multimedia installations and digital media such as CD-ROM, DVD and the Internet. Besides productions by internationally renowned artists, the works of young innovative new talents will also be presented. Including quite a number of world- european- and german premiers,

The programmes:
- Int. Film and Video selection
- The Virtual Actor
- New Asian Cinema
- Underground Zero - 9.11.
- Exhibition: "It. The nature of machine"
- congress
- Electronic Lounge
- Student Forum
- Performances

To accompany the festival, we are showing a gripping exhibition entitled "It. The nature of machine: robotic and machine art by Louis-Philippe Demers & Bill Vorn (Québec/Canada)", from 24 April to 20 May in the art gallery Domenican Church.

The cinematic framework of the festival is the international film and video programme, an author retrospective, as well as exciting extra programmes. A total of approximately 200 films and videos will be shown, including experimental short and long films, poetic videos, videoclips and entertaining flash animations. A wide spectrum providing extensive insights into contemporary art and media production.

The geographic emphasis is placed on the media scene in Asia, and in China and Korea in particular. The film scene in these countries is currently in the process of changing fast, in part as a consequence of political liberalisation and economic development, leading to the emergence of a new, self-confident art and cultural scene.

Our special subject deals with the "Virtual Actor" - films in which computer-animated figures or'human' actors, rather than people, act in a virtual environment. The differences between thereal and the virtual worlds are increasingly blurred. Theoretical aspects related to this subject will be discussed at the congress.

An extensive retrospective is dedicated to the Canadian Al Razutis, whose oeuvre range from experimental films to media-theoretical texts. At the beginning of the nineties, he also started working with 3D videos.

"Underground Zero" is the title of a tense film documentation on the events following 11 September, which the EMAF will be showing for the first time in Europe. A week after the terrorist attacks, the American film-makers, Jay Rosenblatt and Caveh Zahedi, called over 150 experimental and documentary film-makers, in order to request them to contribute to a film project concerning this event and its aftermath.

This issue, among many others, is also dealt with by the congress in the form of thecontribution entitled "Urban Collisions: New York", in which the visual representation of the events after 11 September are analysed.

In collaboration with German universities and academies, the Student Forum presents brand-new productions from all over the world. EMAF's cooperative partners this year include the Bauhaus University of Weimar, Mainz University of Applied Sciences, as well as Hannover University of Applied Sciences.

The award ceremony promises to be full of suspense. The Deutsche Filmkritik prize for the best experimental film and video oeuvre will be awarded during the festival. The OLB Media Art Prize of the EMAF will be awarded to future-oriented media installations.

We warmly invite you to experience an exciting and multifaceted programme with us.

Concept and festival board:
Alfred Rotert, Hermann Noering, Ralf Sausmikat

The EMAF is supported by:
Nord Media, Hannover
Stadt Osnabrueck
Auswaertiges Amt, Berlin
Bundesministerium fuer Bildung und Wissenschaft, Bonn
Lottostiftung, Hannover
Oldenburgische Landesbank, Oldenburg
EU Commission, Brussels
Botschaft von Kanada, Berlin
Kulturbuero von Quebec, Berlin
and contributions made by other supporters

The EMAF is member of the ECFF (European Coordination of Film Festivals)

European Media Art Festival
Lohstrasse 45a
D-49074 Osnabrueck
Germany
Tel: +49(0)541/ 21658/25779
Fax: +49(0)541/ 28327

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