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transmediale.03 - [play global!] Thursday 20 March, 8.30pm CCA 4 �3.50 (�2) In association with the Goethe Institute Outstanding works of media art from Transmediale, the international media art festival in Berlin. The screening will be introduced by organiser, Thomas Munz who will participate in a Q&A session. The selection is the very first best of 03 and this screening is the only chance to see it in the UK. The programme includes work by winning directors 242.pilots and a screening of afterlife by Glasgow based film maker Chris Bowman. Total running time: 80mins WHIR, Dir Bull.Miletic (US) 12mins The city is no longer a clearly localizable spatial unit, but has transformed itself into an "urban field", a collection of activities instead of a material structure. Cows, Gabriela Golder (AR) 4:30mins March 25, 2002. Rosario, Argentina. About 400 people slaughtered cows that some minutes before had spread on the asphalt when the truck transporting them fell down. Agent Orange, Mark Boswell (US) 5mins "The effects are only superficial" - Agent Orange is a toxic pesticide used during the Viet Nam War, the film is the toxic consequence of the current political crisis brought to head by the liquidation of the twin towers. La Tombola, Ximenia Cuevas (MX) 7mins Ximena Cuevas� infiltration of a hilarious live TV talk show. The artist is an unlikely (and uncooperative?) guest. Quadro, Lotte Schreiber (AT) 10mins Film portrait of a monumental 1960s apartment block built in the Italian coastal city of Trieste which embodies its period's ideas of a social utopia in a bold concrete structure without any scale. eurovision, Linda Wallace (AU) 19:30mins Glamour and kitsch are the main components of the Eurovision Song Contest, but underneath this thick layer of make-up we also recognize a 1950s interpretation of the 'European idea'. Video Poem 2909, Andrea Walter (au) 1:43mins Can 103 seconds really show a person? [EMAIL PROTECTED], 242.pilots (int) 6:30mins Utilizing their own custom software, 242.pilots expressively improvise rich, layered video works in real-time. A quasi-narrative exploring degrees of abstaction in a mesmerizing, immersive journey through diverse landscapes. Places without Engine, Juan Francisco Romero, Maria Ca�as (ES) 3:34mins A geography, both funny and disturbing, of neurosis, apathy, problems and desire, dominated by pixels and tense dialogues, which one becomes the lead player? afterlife, Chris Bowman (GB) 10:00mins "afterlife" consists of one photograph, three octaves and about ten notes of organised sound. Everything generates from the original image and resolves in it. Sometimes you don�t understand what you had until it�s -almost- gone. (Chris Bowman) > Biographies Bull.Miletic (us) Bull.Miletic is the name of the artistic duo Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic, founded in San Francisco in 2000. Synne Bull was Born in Oslo, Norway 1973, and currently lives and works in San Francisco, California. Synne works as an Assistant Manager at the New Genres Department at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she received her BFA in 2001. She studied History and Theory of Theater at the University of Oslo, Norway, in 1998 and Philosophy and Science Theory at the University of Oslo in Bali, Indonesia in 1997. Synne is a member of UKS [Norwegian Young Artist Organization] Dragan Mileticwas born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia 1970, and currently lives in San Francisco, California. Dragan works as a Web Coordinator at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he received his MFA in 2000. He received his BFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia in 1997. Between 1995 - 2000 and was a member of the art association Apsolutno. Individully and together Synne and Dragan exhibited in more then 150 solo and group shows, festivals, and symposia worldwide. Gabriela Golder (ar) Gabriela Golder (1971, Argentina) studied Cinema and Hypermedia at the Universidad del Cine of Buenos Aires, at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela and at the Universit� Paris 8. Her works won several prizes in international Festivals: Tokyo Video Festival Award 2002, Special Mention Locarno Video Art Festival 2001, First Prize Biennale Bridgestone 2000. Actually, she is the coordinator of the Centro Cultural General San Martin in Buenos Aires and curator in Art Video and Digital Art for the Government of Buenos Aires. Mark Boswell (us) Mark Boswell (1960, USA) studied Film at various international institutions inside Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Florida Space Coast from 1982-1992. Co-founded The Alliance Film/Video Cooperative of Miami Beach in 1993 and the Anti Film Festival in 1994. Recent works have been screened in the European Media Art Festival, The Videoex Festival of Switzerland, Slovenian National TV, The Wolfsonian Museum of Miami Beach, New Langton Arts and The Other Cinema of San Francisco. Ximenia Cuevas (mx) The cinema education of Ximena Cuevas (1963, Mexico) began at age sixteen, repairing old movies in the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City. Two years later, she worked as art assistant on "Missing" by Costa Gavras and then studied film at both the New School for Social Research and Columbia University in New York City. Cuevas is obsessed with the micro movements of daily life, with the border between truth and fiction, with the "impossibility" of reality. Her work relentlessly seeks out the layers of lies covering the everyday representations of reality and systematically explores the fictions of national identity and gender. Her videos have been shown in festivals such the New York Film Festival, Sundance, Berlin, and Montreal, and she was the featured artist at "Video Viewpoints" in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Lotte Schreiber (at) Lotte Schreiber (1971, Austria) studied architecture at TU-Graz and University of Edinburgh. She was technical director of the exhibitions "Selfmade, Fernbedienung" and "Need for Speed". In 2000 she founded the architecture and graphic design label "loma". Since march 2001 she is tutor in the architecture department of the University of Art Linz. She participated in various exhibitions and competitions. Linda Wallace (au) Linda Wallace is an artist and media specialist. She has curated new media exhibitions in Thailand, India, the UK, Singapore, Malaysia, China and New Zealand. She co-founded the magazine 21C in 1990 as part of the media unit of the Australian Government think tank the Commission for the Future. She is the director of the company machine hunger, which has co-ordinated projects in Sydney, Canberra, Amsterdam, Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Thailand, Austria, Hungary, China and the UK. Clients include: Digital Equipment Corporation, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Australia Council, the Australian Film Commission, CSIRO, and the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing. Andrea Walter (de) Andrea Walter graduated from Munich Filmschool and works as an independent filmmaker with her own label "Pink Shoe Productions". She is director, producer and editor of a series of short as well as feature films and TV productions. She has been working as a screenplay lecturer and freelance journalist. Her films were shown at international festivals, such as Women Filmfestival Ankara, Short Film Festival Munich, Filmfestival Karlovy Vary, International Filmfestival Ismailia, Egypt and others. 242.pilots (int) HC Gilje, Norwegian digital media artist working with video in a wide variety of ways: installations, short films, video integrated in dance and theatre performances, and live video improvisations. He got international attention through his pioneering VideoNervous project and the acclaimed video h.k.mark1. This lead to a one-year residency at K�nstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin where he produced the video installation Shadow Grounds, fall 2001. Recent works include the installation Split produced for nordic video art 1.0 in spring 2002, the video series spinal tapes 2001 and the Tokyo DVD collaboration with noise-impro-duo Jazzkammer. Kurt Ralske, Manhattan-based artist and composer. He created his work exclusively with software he programs himself in C/C++, Java, Max/MSP, and Nato.0+55. He has done live improvised audio-visual performances at Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, at the World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam. In February 2002, his performance Ur.02 was awarded honors at Transmediale.02 in Berlin. Kurt�s LYR is an interactive audiovideo application created for Sonar.02 festival (Barcelona). Kurt has created video in collaboration with musicians DJ Spooky, Tortoise, Vladislav Delay. As a composer, Kurt has released 8 cds on Sony Music and 4AD. The most recent is the audio/video CD-Rom amor.0+01 available on the Belgian label Sub Rosa. Lukasz Lysakowski, video artist exploring real-time video improvisation. He has collaborated with electronic musicians such as Kid606, Richard Devine, Kit Clayton , Tim Hecker, and Justin Bennett. Recent performances have been at the Montreal International Festival of Film and New Media, at Steim in Amsterdam, at Impakt Festival in Utrecht, and at Transmediale in Berlin. In 2000, the film Ellie, for which Lukasz was cinematographer, was selected for Top Ten Best Avant-garde Films by Film Forum NYC. A native of Poland, Lukasz is currently pursuing graduate studies at MIT�s Center of Advanced Visual Studies. Juan Francisco Romero (es) Juan F. Romero studied Fine Arts and Philosophy at the University of Seville. He took part in many art exhibitions in Spain and in Europe: Biennial Algarve-Andalucia (1999, Faro), Alacant-Video Festival (2001, Alacante, 1st prize), Beat - Portobello film festival (2001, London), Eurovideo (2001, M�laga, 1st prize). With the collaboration of Mar�a Ca�as, Romero develops since 2000 the artistic project Canal Retina. Chris Bowman (gb) Chris Bowman is a filmmaker and writer based in Glasgow, Scotland. Some of his work has been shown around Britain and in various European festivals. He is about to shoot a drama called "Paw" as part of the British Film Council Digicult short film initiative, then take up an EMARE residency at the Werkleitz Gesellschaft Media Lab in Germany. Among other things, he likes subordinating clean digital processes to the degraded aesthetic of old analog source material. ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive: http://www.mediascot.org/ambit info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
