Festival and Exhibition
This Festival, the largest annual event of innovative/experimental works in the fields of FILM and VIDEO on a world-wide scale is accompanied by an exhibition presented in the art-gallery Dominikanerkirche. This extraordinary site, in a deconsecrated church provides the space for VIDEO INSTALLATIONS and computer-aided and interactive productions from September 6 to 24. Projects on CD-ROM and within the INTERNET, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, PERFORMANCES, and TV-ACTIONS will complete the concept of this markedly interdisciplinary event.
Entries may include
- experimental film & video productions
- video & computer installations
- artistic CD-ROMs
- Internet projects
- text contributions
In Osnabrnck, the Jury of the German "Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Filmjournalisten" (association of film critics) will award the prize for the best experimental work of the year.
The EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL is open to experiments, to the extraordinary, to all those working methods which, using the most diverse media, create intelligent, radical or ironic worlds of symbols and signs in today|s digital age.
The "second" digital revolution - elaborated in the concept of the "electronic superhighway", which will basically be a global network for huge streams of images and information within the power structures of dominant commercial interests - gives rise to utopian dreams and fearful hypotheses in the 100th year of cinematography.
Art and creativity neither ignore these technological developments nor the problems that arise from the progressive mediatization of perception and of the society as a whole.
Filmmakers, video artists, hackers, computer-graphic designers and TV artists express their personal views on "dominant" developments in a constant commentary - often parallel, sometimes contrary - by using celluloid or video tape, installations, performances and network projects or TV experiments. Whether they are being realized in the epic narration of a cinema movie or in the analytic dissection of experimental filmmaking, whether they are making use of the most advanced technology like satellite links and super computers or rather form their statements quite consciously as an "arte povere" of everyday media, the core means of artistic communication will, nevertheless continue to be animated images.
The EMAF is a forum for the productions of those creators who oppose the unidimensional commercialization of media with their own multidimensional visions.
International Student Forum
For three years now, Osnabrnck has also been hosting a student meeting in the course of the EMAF. Students from various universities and programs of media education and training will be invited to present their work in a competition. Additional technical and creative workshops will allow for an education -related exchange of experience on a European level.
Internet: http://EMAF.NDA.NET
In the course of a special project, the Festival will present program information on the Internet, i.e. on the Word Wide Web. This continuously updated information, along with a selection of Festival contributions, will later be transferred onto a CD-ROM to be published in early September.
Call for statements
The artistic discussion of New Media is one of the most exciting and most topical discussions within the broad spectrum of fine arts and visual design. The EMAF - always a venue of discourse and creative discussion - seeks the submission of thoughts, essays, viewpoints and discussion contributions on the state of media art, its topoi and future problems. Selected contributions will be published in the Festival|s catalogue.
The Festival will also include:
Authors Portraits,
Retrospectives, Specials,
Workshops and Open Air Events
Adress:
European Media Art Festival
Postbox 1861
D-49008 Osnabrnck
Germany
Tel: ..49 (0) 541 21658
Fax: 49 (0) 541 28327
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