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22/4/2008

European Media Arts Festival

Different Venues, Osnabrueck

The motto of the 2008 festival is IDENTITY, reflected in film programmes, lectures and specials. Positioning by the media and artistic self-definitions will be pursued; individual, social and global identities in a rapidly changing world will be explored and queried according to subjective and scientific ocalisations.

The EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. As a meeting point for artists, curators, lenders, gallery owners and an audience of specialists, the festival has had a great impact on the topic and aesthetics of Media Art. Each year the festival offers its visitors a current overview of experimental films, installations, performances, digital formats and hybrid forms, ranging from personal and political subjects or formal experiments to provocative statements.

Young Identities- Global Youth

This year’s exhibition is completely devoted to youth. It demonstrates attitudes towards and images of adolescent realities from a variety of continents and cultures. In their contemplations and subjective interventions, international media artists grapple with the world of youth in very different ways. They seek out small and global communities - whether online or on their doorstep. The communities of web 2.0, with its participatory offers, whisper corners for chatting, online games and reciprocal assessments in social rankings, often function in a similar fashion to the clique at break time in the school yard. What are western youth’s attitudes towards music and fashion, rituals and rebellion, consumption and clichés, which simultaneously provide self-identification and boundaries? Completely different realities determine the everyday lives of youths in the Ukraine or Mexico, some of whom have to eke out a living as thieves. The subject of everyday violence and racism in South Africa is also broached in the exhibition.

// 23 April to 25 May
in the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche

// Guided tours are offered daily at 4 pm and by arrangement during the festival

// The exhibition is part of the cultural programme of the German Catholic Day that takes place in Osnabrueck the 21-25 May 2008

The Congress takes up the subject of “Identity”, and reflects this in its lectures. The well-known media scientist Professor Norbert Bolz will talk about identity management. Digital identity – forms and consequences of the increasing capture of private data and their commercial exploitation are the subjects covered by Ralf Bendrath. In his lecture, Padeluun will explore the subject of data retention and will inform visitors about their actions, such as the “Big Brother Award”.

The lectures given by Ricardo Mbarkho and Sophie Ernst will highlight situations in other parts of the world. The artist and lecturer at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts in Beirut, Ricardo Mbarkho, will present the Media Art scene in Lebanon, in which artists reflect the identity crisis in the context of their sociopolitical and geographic environment. The Dutch lecturer at the Academy of Art in Lahore/Pakistan, Sophie Ernst, will talk about the Pakistani art and academy scene.

The Congress will be rounded off by a talk by Professor Birgit Richard. She will lecture on youth identities in web 2.0 and will show the creative works of adolescents – YouTube Favorites on the one hand, and game fan settings on the other. C. Cay Wesnigk of Online Film AG will not only explain how films are currently offered on the web, but will also show how the whole media landscape has changed because of it. In the Artist Talk, Martin Butler will report on the background to his performance “A Girlfriend Experience”.

// “Identity”, Haus der Jugend, Fri 25 April and Sat 26 April 2008, 1 - 6 pm

// University Day, Haus der Jugend, Thur 24 April 2008, 1 - 6 pm

13:00 h - Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel
Stephan Sachs and students present their degree programme and their exhibition in the Bürgergehorsam Tower.

14:00 h - Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach
Prof. Ulrike Gabriel, Florian Jenet and students from the field of Communication/Elctronic Media present themselves.

15:30 h - Sint Lucas Gent
Wim Lambrecht and students present themselves and their works.

16:30 h - Digital Sparks
Wolfgang Strauss presents selected projects of this year's competition.
"Mediaartbase.de"-Workshop

The importance of the subject of archiving Media Art is continuing to grow among international experts. The European Media Art Festival (EMAF), the documenta Archiv Kassel with the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival and the Centre for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe have joined forces for the “Mediaartbase.de” project. The pilot project, funded by the “Kulturstiftung des Bundes”, aims to electronically process selected works and to make them accessible to the public.
The technology involved in “Mediaartbase.de” should be mainly based on open source software, in order to create an inexpensive decentralised database and to enable new contents to be coupled with existing data material. A variety of models and possibilities of collaboration will be discussed in a workshop with specialists from media archives, distribution and research.

// Fri 25 April 2008, Haus der Jugend


Filmfestspecial

The new TV magazine on Buergerfernsehen will visit five film festivals in Lower Saxony this year, and will produce a live broadcast from each location. The festival magazine kicks off with the EMAF with a public recording on 24 April 2008.
The broadcast will include interviews, short films and excerpts of films, installations and projects. FilmFestSpezial will be screened on h1 in Hanover, oeins in Oldenburg, TV 38 in Southern Lower Saxony as well as on other citizens’ broadcast stations. The broadcast can also be seen on monitors on 26 and 27 April at the EMAF. The project is funded by nordmedia Fonds GmbH and Lower Saxony State Media Office.

// Lagerhalle, 24 April 2008, 18 h

Kurt Kren, born in Vienna in 1929, worked as a civil servant at the Austrian National Bank for 18 years. During this time, he edited the best films of his first phase using a magnifying glass and the most primitive tools. Kren started experimenting with serial editing techniques on 16mm in 1957. These films are among his major works. Together with Peter Kubelka, Kren is regarded as one of the fathers of Structural Film. In the 60s, he filmed the material actions of Otto Mühl and Günter Brus, which earned him a scandalous reputation. This made Kren a central figure of underground film, alongside icons such as Jack Smith and, in both senses of the word, a free film-maker. Kren lived in America from 1978 to 1989, sometimes without fixed abode, without money, sometimes living out of his car. Despite this, he is well-known and has become a cult figure – the Californian punk band “Really Red” gave a tribute concert for him, and Kren was able to continue living with 1000 dollars. After having worked as a museum attendant at Museum of Fine Arts in Houston for six years, he returned to Austria, where he went on to produce several more important films up to his death in 1998.

Cinema

This year, we return with parts of the film programme to a location that is rich in tradition for us – festival films were screened at the Hasetorkino in the first ever EMAF, back in 1988. This year, fresh winds will blow at this historic location – the programme being shown there is explicitly geared towards youths and others who are crazy about new, current and sometimes way-out cinema. In addition to the established EMAF programmes “Media Art for Beginners” and the MC programme “Clip-Klapp-BuMM”, we have selected brand-new motion pictures and art-house films that explore the emotions of modern-day adolescents. For instance, a preview will be shown of the Indie icon and Golden Palm winner Gus Van Sant’s new film “Paranoid Park”. As in his previous films, van Sant shines the spot light on a world of adolescent outsiders, in this case a group of skaters, all of them young lay actors cast by van Sant via the internet platform myspace! “The Tracey Fragments”, a wild collage of image scenes arranged as fragments of the story, tells the story of 15-year-old Tracey, whose father insults his children, calling them “accidents”. She sets off to escape. But her odyssey increasingly resembles a nightmare, and she ends up only just managing to escape, dressed in a shower curtain …

This year we will be playing the Zimmertheater for the first time. We envisage this location as a cross between a lounge and a living-room: a place where you can watch films and videos ranging from White to Black Cube in a relaxed atmosphere. This programme’s motto is “Displaced identity”. Here is just one example: Laurin Federlein sets out on an extremely obscure journey through the Scottish hill moor, to tender the idea of a mobile disco to the blokes enrooted there. On a budget of just 5000 euro, Federlein has managed to create an Easy Rider remake in which Vincent, as a modern Don Quixote, roams the countryside on a moped. Another example: In “I-BE-AREA” Ryan Trecartin, who also appears in multiple guises, has his whole circle of friends and acquaintances and his complete set of relations appear in a shrilly, colourful space soapera. Trecartin’s art involves saying no to a world that we think we know and yes to a crazy world, based on virtual and utopian possibilities. Ryan Trecartin can justifiably be called the grandson of the magical and unique performer and show-off, Jack Smith.

It goes without saying that the Lagerhalle is also the central point of this year’s international selection for the EMAF film programme. They are primarily short films, classified into programmes according to their subject. This year, however, many of the shorts are longer than usual, i.e. they exceed the usual length of 10 minutes and are now between 20 and almost 40 minutes long. This fact also has to do with the subjects they explore – they are critical, self-aware films on the environment, society, film and family history, located in the crossover between documentary and feature film. There is also a return to the different qualities of film material (super 8, 16mm, found footage, black/white), which is also expressed by the fact that there are numerous perfect cinematic montages and fewer computer-generated works. One of the absolute cinematic highlights is RR, the latest work by the doyen of composition, variation, structure and texture of (16mm!) film, James Benning, whose screenings were sold out at the Berlinale, Rotterdam and in Hof. Another highlight is Guy Maddin’s homage to his place of birth and home town, which is also the title of the film: My Winnipeg. The Canadian experimental filmmaker calls his work Docu-Fantasia, and arte is of the opinion that: “You simply have to have seen it.” Unfortunately, there is just one chance to do so – on Thursday at 8 p.m. Also, make sure you don’t miss the other 52 programmes and the awards ceremony. And for the late-comers there is still always (as in the last 20 years) the “Best of EMAF” on Sunday evening.

Performances:

The Girlfriend Experience

In “The Girlfriend Experience” by Martin Butler, second life is explored at close range. Actors are standing at the ready in the glass cage when avatars receive instructions from visitors, their ‘controllers’. Together with these ‘real’ avatars, users can discover what they can do for one another and the extent to which the avatars are willing to follow the needs, some of them intimate, of the anonymous players.

// Wed – Sat, 23 - 26 April, daily in the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche

Duocentric

The performance entitled “duocentric” by incite/ is a grating, pulsating stage setting of synchronous sound/image art. Fragmented electrical junk and fragile bursts of static hissing blend with fat bass sounds to groovy IDM beats. In connection with the abstract, precisely constructed grey-level videos, the edged rhythms gain an unusual intensity. The performances of the audiovisual electronic duo from Hamburg were awarded two international prizes last year.

// Fri, 25 April at 10.30 pm in the Haus der Jugend

@C+Lia

"@C+Lia", one of the internationally most renowned AV groups of artists whose performances are characterised by the aesthetics of art work and in composition by their balance between minimalism and complexity, will be presented at the EMAF. @c (Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela) and the artist Lia work together as an audiovisual trio. Lia focuses on the images, while @c produce the sound. Images and sound blend into an audiovisual flow of remarkable coherence and musicality.

// Sat, 26 April at 10.30 pm in the Haus der Jugend

Sozialpalast Mobil

A caravan as a peculiar, open, medial stage: the bourgeois holiday domicile is turned into a multidisciplinary art project, and confronts not only the audience but also the actors themselves with situational intervention in a public space. The performance takes place inside the caravan, while the exterior acts as a projection screen. At times we see spontaneous street theatre, at other times we hear rock music, then hip-hop or guitar pop.

// Wed 23, Fri 25, Sat 26 April, daily from nightfall at various locations in the Old Town of Osnabrück

Three awards will be presented at this year’s festival: the “EMAF Award” for a trend-setting work in Media Art, the “Dialogpreis” of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the promotion of intercultural exchange and the "Preis der deutschen Filmkritik" for the best German experimental film.

Venues:
* LAGERHALLE
Information counter, International Film-/Video Programme

Rolandsmauer 26, Tel. +49(0) 541-3387440
23 April 2008 / 3 pm-12 Midnight
24–26 April 2008 / 10 am–12 Midnight
27 April 2008 / 10 am-6 pm

* KUNSTHALLE DOMINIKANERKIRCHE
Exhibition »Young Identities – Global Youth«

Hasemauer 1, Tel. +49(0) 541-3232190
Opening Ceremony 23 April 2008 / 7.30 pm
24–26 April 2008 / 10 am–10 pm
27 April 2008 / 10 am–8 pm
29 April – 25 May 2008 / 11 am–6 pm
(Sa/So 10 am–6 pm, closed on Mondays, closed on 1 May,
Whit Monday 10 am –6 pm)

* HAUS DER JUGEND (HDJ)
International Student Forum, Congress & Performances

Große Gildewart 6–9, Tel. +49(0) 541-3234178
24–27 April 2008 / 11 am–11 pm

* FILMTHEATER HASETOR
International Film-/Video Programme

Hasestr. 71, Tel. +49(0) 541-23777
24–26 April 2008 / 3pm-12 midnight

* ZIMMERTHEATER
International Film-/Video Programme, Exhibition International Student Forum

Lohstr. 45a, Tel. +49(0) 541-123074
23 April 2008 / 7 pm-10 pm
24–26 April 2008 / 12 noon-11 pm
27. April 2008 / 12 noon-6 pm

* BÜRGERGEHORSAM
Exhibition International Student Forum

Hase-Tor-Wall
23 April 2008 / 7.30 pm–22 pm
24–26 April 2008 / 10 am–10 pm
27 April 2008 / 10 am–6 pm

* ARTSPACE
Exhibition International Student Forum

Heger Str. 30
23 April 2008 / 7.30 pm–10 pm
24–26 April 2008 / 10 am–10 pm
27 April 2008 / 10 am–10 pm

* STADTGALERIE CAFÉ
Exhibition International Student Forum, digital sparks
and Electronic Lounge

Große Gildewart 14, Tel. +49(0) 541-3574177
23 April 2008 / 7.30 pm–10 pm
24–26 April 2008 / 10 am–10 pm
27 April 2008 / 10 am–6 pm
28 April – 25. May 2008 / 11 am–6 pm (closed on Mondays)

* EINFAHRT ZUM ZIMMERTHEATER
Projection »identiSALE«

Lohstr. 45a

* ANDERE WELTEN
StuFo Party »Studentität«

Karlstr. 51, Tel. +49(0) 541-3309734
24 April 2008 / from 10 pm

* GLANZ & GLORIA
EMAF Party »Feierabend«

Neuer Graben 40, Tel. +49(0) 541- 7607780
25 April 2008 / from 11 pm
26 April 2008 / from 11 pm

Admission:
Festival Pass (incl. Festival Catalogue) 35.00 30.00
Set of 5 Tickets 18.00 15.00
Single Ticket 5.00 4.00
Exhibition 4.00 3.00
Festival Catalogue 8.00
Performances 7.00
Stufo-Party "Studentität" (for free with Festival Pass) 5.00
EMAF-Parties "Feierabend" (for free with Festival Pass) 5.00

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