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german text below -- deutscher Text weiter unten ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL 6-10 May 1998 in Osnabrueck http://www.emaf.de ---------------------------------------------------------- About this information : 1st part in English, 2nd part in German! ---------------------------------------------------------- INFO 2 '98 Between 6th & 10th May, the 11th European Media Art Festival (EMAF) will again be presenting innovative works from the world of film, video, installation, performance, CD-Rom and the Internet. This year we have received a total of 845 entries from 33 different countries for the various sections of the festival. Next to Germany, both the USA and Canada, as well as Great Britain and the Netherlands are traditionally well represented. In addition, and among entries from other countries, productions from Brazil, France and Russia will be seen, all representing a broad spectrum of creative ideas and visual aesthetics. Film & Video Some 135 productions will be presented in the international film and video programme; from animation film to video employing advanced electronic image processing. What is striking this year are the nearly equal number of films and videos that have been sent in: compared to former years where the number of video productions have always been predominant. This development and the trend towards longer works is reflected in this year's programme, which includes no less than eight feature-length productions. In the tradition of former years, the working circle of film journalists will be presenting the German Film-Critics' Prize for the year's best German experimental film or video production. Retrospective Over the course of the last 25 years, Pat O'Neill (USA) has made a name for himself in Hollywood as a leading specialist for visual effects and animation techniques (POLTERGEIST, RETURN OF THE JEDI etc.). However, he sees his own artistic focus moreso in the development of a personal visual language, the expressive power of which is created through the composition and layering of the broadest variety of image planes. In Osnabrueck, O'Neill will be presenting a complete show of his artistic works. This extends from his early films, which he made as a student at the UCLA, to his most recent piece of work HORIZONTAL BOUNDARIES. Pat O'Neill will be in Osnabrueck to present his films at the festival. Electronic Lounge New CD-Roms, Internet projects and technologically advanced productions are to be presented in this section of the festival. With THE LAST COWBOY from Nomad Productions (Potsdam), one of the first DVD productions will be shown which impressively demonstrates the artistic potential of this new medium. A virtual health resort visit is promised by the CD-Rom KYBERKUR from the Systema-Verlag (Munich). The Cologne Academy for Media will be presenting the CDs LOKI and KRYPTIC. With VIBRATORS OF THE HOUSE OF BRODSKY, a CD from the Australian Suzanne Treister, we set off on a journey in time into the 21st Century. David Blair (USA), one of the pioneers of the interactive media will be presenting his new project THE TELEPATIC MOTION PICTURE OF THE LAST TRIBES, which tells the bizarre story of the Manchu Edison Film Studios in Shinkyo (China), which planned the production of telepathic cinema films. 2B OR NOT 3D is the title of a new time+motion Production (Berlin) for the cultural television channel arte. On a trip through chosen virtual worlds, the innovative 3D visualisation technique INVISIBLE SHAPE from art+com (Berlin) is brought into action. InterNetworks Faces: grrl power In an open workshop, Kathy Rae Huffmann (Vienna), Diana McCarty (Budapest), Sabine Seymore (NY), Margarete Jahrmann (Vienna) and Vali Djordjevic (Berlin) will be offering guided technical information, organising Web tours, initiating Chats and providing information about a wide variety of female Web environments, including: the fe.mail.data-set; a server theory in the form of a SUperFEMper4MANce from Margarete Jahrmann (A), to take place at the festival as a live event. Special: Sweden In a country-specific special, filmmaker and curator Claes S÷derquist will be presenting experimental Swedish films from between 1950 and 1990. Recent film and video works will be presented by Monica Nickels, professor for video at the Stockholm Art Academy. Performances As a way of keeping memories of the dead alive, Buddhist monks float lanterns out onto water during the Japanese celebration of Spring. In Floating Memories, the Japanese woman artist Keiko Ichii carries over this ancient tradition onto modern media. Memories, impressions and visual experiences which she collected in her home town of Kobe, and during her stay in Osnabrueck, are to be stored on notebooks. In a ceremony these will be given over to the river, unfolding as a spectacle of softly flowing islands of light. The Dante Organ - Hot Hardware Staged using eleven computer controlled flame-throwers, Eric Hobijn (NL) will present an optical and acoustic firework display. The Dante Organ: a martial, seemingly threatening machinery belches out huge flames with infernal volume. Hobijn plays with the observer's secret wishes and hidden desires for spectacular images; his desire for kicks. The familiar security of the monitor screen is dissolved by the immediate intensity of the performance. Different than other media however, where violence and danger is concealed from the viewer behind the television screen, a form of technology called HOT HARDWARE has been used here which via an immediate intensity removes any sense of distance. Cut to the chase In the multimedia performance CUT TO THE CHASE, the knob- twiddler and composer Steve Gibson (CDN) brings a mixture of hard-core techno, warm ambient and cool classic onto the stage together with Bert Deivert 's (S) video animations"performed on MIDI giutar. Lectures Net-Culture In cooperation with the editorial department from TELEPOLIS- MAGAZINE FOR NETWORK CULTURE (www.heise.de/tp/) a series of lectures and discussions will take Net culture as their theme, critically reflecting developments in the area of networks and AV media from a variety of perspectives. Moderation: the curator and telepolis editor Armin Medosch (Munich/London). Participants: the artist Cornelia Sollfrank (Hamburg), sociologist Frank Hartmann (Vienna), and the Networkers Rena Tangens and padeluun (Bielefeld) have been invited. Media Bodies The role of the body in a world defined by the media is the subject of lectures by Gerhard Johann Lischka (CH) and Hartmut Winkler (D) respectively titled Everybody is a Mediator and Pain, Perception, Experience, Peasure. Here they examine developments in a society increasingly governed by the media in an art historical and media critical manner. With the presentation of their project 3 ROUBLES AND 62 KOPEKS, Tanya Moguilevska (RUS) and Gilles Morel (F) will provide us with information on and an insight into the development of the art and media scene in Russia, the Ukraine and Moldavia. International Student Forum THRUST, TECHNOLOGY, TARTS The Student Forum has discovered the recipe for life after death!! In the programme as well: In the face of the phantom! Birth (Day) of horror! Artificial creatures orbit the world! Imprisoned in immaterial space... An artistic menagerie of video, light and sound installations are to be presented in the Buergergehorsam Tower and the Haus der Jugend. The film and video programme at the Student Forum promises further stimulating high spots: burning hearts, roaring tigers and an electric panacopia of crashing encounters! Festival TV With his programme LOOP UND LITANEI, Egon Bunne - video artist and professor at the media academy in Cologne - and his team will be reporting daily from the European Media Art Festival. His 'paticipatory' TV event will provide up to the minute insights into the happenings at the festival. Exhibition